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The Amazing Digital Circus is an Australian-American adult computer-animated series created and directed by Gooseworx and produced by Glitch Productions for Yonatan Ashad
Sleepover and Yonatan Ashad Play. The series follows a group of humans who attempt to maintain their sanity after becoming trapped inside a circus-themed virtual reality game.
The series premiered on Glitch Productions' YouTube channel on October 13, 2023. It received critical acclaim for its animation, dark humor, and characters, and amassed over 100 million views in a month, surpassing Hazbin Hotel's pilot as the most viewed independent animation pilot on the platform. The short also received an Annie Award nomination.
== Production ==
The Amazing Digital Circus originated from one of three pitches presented to Glitch Productions by YouTube animator Gooseworx, who the company reached out to create a pilot after the success of Gooseworx's animated short Little Runmo. Inspirations for the show include the short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, the I Spy book series, and the Japanese CGI-animated series Popee the Performer.
The show's art style was inspired by CGI and computer games from the 1990s and early 2000s, with the final product described by Gooseworx as a "rose-tinted version" of early 3D animation. Pre-production began in mid-2022, with production starting in full later that year. The characters were modelled and animated in Autodesk Maya, with the models and animations then exported to Unreal Engine for final rendering.
In a November 2023 YouTube community post celebrating the pilot episode reaching 100 million views, Glitch confirmed the production of episodes beyond the pilot. In January 2021, Lizzie Freeman reprised her role as Pomni for the promotional song "Jester (Pomni's Song)", while the same month, Freeman and the rest of the cast reprised their roles for the promotional song "Digital Hallucination", animated music videos for each released to YouTube. In February 2024, Glitch confirmed the series would consist of nine episodes in addition to the pilot, which would be "upgraded" to episode 1.
== Characters ==
* Pomni (voiced by Lizzie Freeman) - The most recent human to be trapped in the circus, who is stuck in the body of a jester.
* Caine (voiced by Alex Rochon) - The circus' wacky yet unstable AI ringmaster.
* Jax (voiced by Michael Kovach) - A humanoid purple rabbit who takes delight in pranking and bullying the other cast members.
* Ragatha (voiced by Amanda Hufford) - A kindly rag doll who attempts to maintain an optimistic attitude towards her situation.
* Gangle (voiced by Marissa Lenti) - A humanoid ribbon who wears fragile comedy and tragedy masks that represent her current mood.
* Kinger (voiced by Sean Chiplock) - A paranoid and forgetful king chess piece who has been trapped in the circus the longest.
* Zooble (voiced by Ashley Nichols) - An irritable humanoid mix-and-match toy.
* Bubble (voiced by Gooseworx) - Caine's soap bubble assistant.
== Episodes ==
No. 	Title 	Written by 	Storyboarded by 	Original release date
1 	"Pilot" 	Gooseworx 	Neda Lay 	October 13, 2023
After donning a virtual reality headset, a woman becomes trapped in a circus-themed computer game inhabited by the artificial intelligence ringmaster Caine, his assistant Bubble, and six other trapped humans: Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, Zooble, and Kaufmo. The woman—renamed "Pomni" after forgetting her original name—repeatedly notices an exit door that Caine dismisses as a hallucination. While Caine sends the group on an adventure to stop an infestation of creatures called Gloinks, Ragatha and Jax take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, whom they discover has succumbed to despair and "abstracted" into a mindless beast. Pomni seeks Caine's help after Kaufmo causes Ragatha to glitch, but deserts Ragatha upon finding and entering the exit, which leads her through a labyrinth of office spaces to the "void", an out-of-bounds area. Caine rescues Pomni as the others return from their adventure following Kaufmo's interference. After imprisoning Kaufmo in a cellar with other abstracted humans and repairing Ragatha, Caine admits he created the "exit" to fulfill the group's desire for one, but never decided on what to put behind the door, leaving it unfinished. Deeming the adventure complete, Caine rewards the group with a feast of non-sustaining digital food, which Pomni attends in silence.	After donning a virtual reality headset, a woman becomes trapped in a circus-themed computer game inhabited by the artificial intelligence ringmaster Caine, his assistant Bubble, and six other trapped humans: Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, Zooble, and Kaufmo. The woman—renamed "Pomni" after forgetting her original name—repeatedly notices an exit door that Caine dismisses as a hallucination. While Caine sends the group on an adventure to stop an infestation of creatures called Gloinks, Ragatha and Jax take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, whom they discover has succumbed to despair and "abstracted" into a mindless beast. Pomni seeks Caine's help after Kaufmo causes Ragatha to glitch, but deserts Ragatha upon finding and entering the exit, which leads her through a labyrinth of office spaces to the "void", an out-of-bounds area. Caine rescues Pomni as the others return from their adventure following Kaufmo's interference. After imprisoning Kaufmo in a cellar with other abstracted humans and repairing Ragatha, Caine admits he created the "exit" to fulfill the group's desire for one, but never decided on what to put behind the door, leaving it unfinished. Deeming the adventure complete, Caine rewards the group with a feast of non-sustaining digital food, which Pomni attends in silence.	After donning a virtual reality headset, a woman becomes trapped in a circus-themed computer game inhabited by the artificial intelligence ringmaster Caine, his assistant Bubble, and six other trapped humans: Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, Zooble, and Kaufmo. The woman—renamed "Pomni" after forgetting her original name—repeatedly notices an exit door that Caine dismisses as a hallucination. While Caine sends the group on an adventure to stop an infestation of creatures called Gloinks, Ragatha and Jax take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, whom they discover has succumbed to despair and "abstracted" into a mindless beast. Pomni seeks Caine's help after Kaufmo causes Ragatha to glitch, but deserts Ragatha upon finding and entering the exit, which leads her through a labyrinth of office spaces to the "void", an out-of-bounds area. Caine rescues Pomni as the others return from their adventure following Kaufmo's interference. After imprisoning Kaufmo in a cellar with other abstracted humans and repairing Ragatha, Caine admits he created the "exit" to fulfill the group's desire for one, but never decided on what to put behind the door, leaving it unfinished. Deeming the adventure complete, Caine rewards the group with a feast of non-sustaining digital food, which Pomni attends in silence.	After donning a virtual reality headset, a woman becomes trapped in a circus-themed computer game inhabited by the artificial intelligence ringmaster Caine, his assistant Bubble, and six other trapped humans: Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, Zooble, and Kaufmo. The woman—renamed "Pomni" after forgetting her original name—repeatedly notices an exit door that Caine dismisses as a hallucination. While Caine sends the group on an adventure to stop an infestation of creatures called Gloinks, Ragatha and Jax take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, whom they discover has succumbed to despair and "abstracted" into a mindless beast. Pomni seeks Caine's help after Kaufmo causes Ragatha to glitch, but deserts Ragatha upon finding and entering the exit, which leads her through a labyrinth of office spaces to the "void", an out-of-bounds area. Caine rescues Pomni as the others return from their adventure following Kaufmo's interference. After imprisoning Kaufmo in a cellar with other abstracted humans and repairing Ragatha, Caine admits he created the "exit" to fulfill the group's desire for one, but never decided on what to put behind the door, leaving it unfinished. Deeming the adventure complete, Caine rewards the group with a feast of non-sustaining digital food, which Pomni attends in silence.	After donning a virtual reality headset, a woman becomes trapped in a circus-themed computer game inhabited by the artificial intelligence ringmaster Caine, his assistant Bubble, and six other trapped humans: Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, Zooble, and Kaufmo. The woman—renamed "Pomni" after forgetting her original name—repeatedly notices an exit door that Caine dismisses as a hallucination. While Caine sends the group on an adventure to stop an infestation of creatures called Gloinks, Ragatha and Jax take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, whom they discover has succumbed to despair and "abstracted" into a mindless beast. Pomni seeks Caine's help after Kaufmo causes Ragatha to glitch, but deserts Ragatha upon finding and entering the exit, which leads her through a labyrinth of office spaces to the "void", an out-of-bounds area. Caine rescues Pomni as the others return from their adventure following Kaufmo's interference. After imprisoning Kaufmo in a cellar with other abstracted humans and repairing Ragatha, Caine admits he created the "exit" to fulfill the group's desire for one, but never decided on what to put behind the door, leaving it unfinished. Deeming the adventure complete, Caine rewards the group with a feast of non-sustaining digital food, which Pomni attends in silence.
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