Sean’s Valentine Blowout

Sean’s Valentine Blowout is an American animated short film in celebration of Valentine’s Day. It is Sean Malin’s second animated short produced and had debuted on the original TAGD Productions YouTube channel.

The film is about Sean coming to school finding out it’s unfortunately Valentines Day. He goes to class trying to ignore the agony but ends up getting distracted. He comes outside and sees Johnczz attracting all the girls who want to be his Valentine. As the day continues, Sean keeps ending up in a reminder that he doesn’t have a Valentine and tries to get away from it all.

This film had introduced the appearances of Illusion and the cheerleaders Aimee Brittany and Ziyah. Characters started to improve with Sean showing a bit of emotion and feeling depressed, Jaylyn had become more relaxed, and Johnczz even gets a bigger role showing that he is a popular ladiesman. The cheerleaders also appear as one-shot antagonists that shortly shame Sean in a way they find humorous.

Unlike the first short Sean’s Christmas, this film was directed by Sean Malin instead of Selena Baker since she had retired from the video-production class Sean had took in high school. He had moved on afterwards to create this short independently as this featured an improved yet time-saving production process (mostly regarding the animation).

Synopsis
Sean wakes up as he tells his cat Sam to get up as well. He sees his calendar (offscreen) and noticed it’s Valentines Day. As lonely as he feels he decides to hide in the bushes in front of the school campus noticing all the couples standing there. Jaylyn suddenly startles him wondering what he’s doing and Sean tells him he’s single as a pringle. Later on Sean is working on math problems in algebra class. While the teacher isn’t around at the moment, Sean witnesses Johnczz outside asking the girls for who to be his Valentine. Soon he finds a way outside and thinks of an idea which fails. He comes back to class starting to feel more depressed than before. Later during lunch, a guy asks Sean if he wants his chocolates since his girlfriend doesn’t like them which unfortunately he is allergic. Jaylyn even points out Sean’s in a crappy mood as Sean goes to the restroom until he sees a poster on the wall of Johnczz giving advice. He goes to his promoted office and Johnczz tells him to just be yourself, he then has to go as Sean goes back to the restroom. He then says how the day has become the most unpleasant hideous agonizing day of all. Then it’s time for dismissal as he walks into the cheerleaders who verbally make his day worse. It starts raining and he walks home with his umbrella. He gets his keys and sits in his living room tuning the radio. He tunes into a song about love that suddenly puts him to tears when the house phone rings. He picks up the phone and a female voice is heard saying “Roses are red, violets are blue, I heard how lonely you are, so I’m excited to meet you.” At that moment Sean went into shock as it ends off the plot.

Characters/Voice Cast
Sean (Sean Malin)

Jaylyn (Jaylyn Dickens)

Johnczz (Jeff Wheeler)

Illusion (Ian Gallegos)

Aimee the Cheerleader (Alyssa Cruz)

Brittany the Cheerleader (Dylan Plank)

Ziyah the Cheerleader (Brianna Quinn)

Classroom Kid (Devin Bevil)

Chocolates Dude (Mikey Bennett)

Additional Voices (Mason Adams)

None of the CNTV people have reprised in the film since they have all left. Sean was starting to continue his own thing in film and animation creating his own characters and making their animated personas. Shrill and Dylan also did not appear in the short since Sean wanted to give other characters a chance onscreen for this time.

Production
After the manager of Sean’s high school video production program retired, his semester had also ended. But since his work in that class impressed everyone at the school, he was given a second semester there, but with a new teacher and crew. Sean was not happy with his new crew who were nothing like his original, so he decided to make a second short film independently with his original friends. The idea came once the new semester started in early January 2020 after the success of the first film Sean’s Christmas. He also had the idea because of an incident from a Valentine’s Day incident he had before where he never had anyone to love and was tortured by his surrounding atmosphere at the school he went to. He decided to improve on his writing skills and give the film some emotion.

Since the previous film took forever to animate, Sean decided to switch to animating in stop-frames all through Ibis Paint as planned from the original feature film that was canceled as well. At the same time Sean also started to add shading to the project but very little. Mikey Bennett from the new CNTV crew joined the cast to voice the chocolates dude since Sean found him quite fit for voice acting. After editing the entire animation together, the film was pre-released in just a week. It was fully released on February 5, 2020 9 days prior to Valentine’s Day. Viewers found this film even better in terms of writing and actually didn’t mind the stop-animation style. Some have even called the film relatable.

The film re-released on July 29, 2021 altered in a compilation celebrating the one year anniversary of Remarkable Toons (alongside National Girlfriend Day). All four of the original copyrighted tracks were replaced, there were some small editing tweaks, and slight re-dubbing.

Trivia
- Sam appears in the very beginning of the short, but does not make any noise.

- This was the second but last time Johnczz had an appearance, this is because of an unfortunate situation in real life.