Mijares-Gontes Studios is an indie animation studio founded by my friend Yaakov Mijares and I in 2025.
Yaakov Mijares began his animation career at a young age, creating characters for a series called 'Funny!' which would eventually make it's debut on YouTube in 2022. Ulysses Gontes began his animation career in 2020, uploading BFDI scene reanimations to YouTube in October of 2020
This is Yaakov Mijares at age 12, along with his characters Eric Puzihed (Left) Victor Serajim (Top) and Jake Balllhed (Right). These Characters are the same used in Funny! (2022), and this image was formerly used on his IMDb page!
Ever since he was a little kid, Mijares was fascinated with the field of animation and hoped to make a cartoon of his own some day. For a contest in elementary school, he came up with the earliest ideas for 'Funny!' and in 2019,
production for an early pilot began. Now, there were many revisions of the Pilot for Funny! Even going through different animation styles. One of the earliest being stop motion claymation
This here is a title card for the earliest known pilot made for Funny! dated June 2020