It’s a fun little hobby and I hope people enjoy it as much as I do.Īside from the website, there are definitely some big things on the way for Nyan Cat, but I can’t really talk about most of them right now! I will say though that we’re currently working with 21st Games, the studio behind Techno Kitten Adventure, to release the popular “Nyan Cat Adventure” Xbox indie title to mobile devices. I already have a few variations of characters with their own Nyan Cat song remixes set for release during different dates of the year. My goal is to have something that stays true to the original formula, but incorporates other ideas for different characters to keep things fresh and fun (via the “choose flavor” button). It was honestly just a split-second decision to combine the two, much to the delight of everybody in the chat room.Īt this time I’m working to make nyancat.cat a fun experience for Nyan Cat fans. I began drawing random things for my own benefit, when two different people suggested I draw “a pop tart” and “a cat”. A little background on this, that night I was drawing commission doodles for people on Livestream for The American Red Cross but not many people were contributing. Haha, this is honestly my favorite question because of just how random its creation was.
So Nyan Cat was kind of an accident, but what made you think a pop tart and a cat plus rainbows would blend so well? You can choose a number of different versions of Nyan that all have their own special musical accompaniment. Basically, all you do is watch Nyan Cat fly across the screen in tune to the music for however long you can handle it. I reached out to my friend Brandon Green to create a website dedicated to Nyan Cat based on that idea. Marty has been the star of many of my comics. Marty, the driving force behind Nyan Cat.The cat itself was based off my very own mischievous cat, Marty (as in Marty McFly from Back to the Future).
By tradition, most of our comics were done in 4 square panels so we had to learn how to create comics that would fit big stories into such little space while still making sense and being humorous. By the end of high school we had created a small cast of characters based off of real people or inside jokes. My friends and I would always be in different classes so we would draw silly notes or comics and exchange them in the hallways as a means of communication. How did that come about?Ĭhris Torres: My drawing hobby actually goes back to when I was in middle school. GeekTech caught up with Chris to discuss his comics, the creation of that eight-bit cat, and all things memes.Ĭhris Torres and Nyan Cat!GeekTech: You draw a lot of comics and create gifs on your website. Since its first appearance in April 2011, Nyan Cat now appears on merchandise, DIY costumes, and progress bar hacks, and it’s all thanks to Web comic creator, Chris Torres–or as he is better known online, PRGuitarman. Oh, and it’s extremely popular–it was one of YouTube’s most watched videos of 2011. The cartoon is paired with a repitive high-pitched tune, involving just the word “nyan”. For those who have avoided YouTube and social networks for the past year, Nyan Cat is an animated cat that flies through space, wears a Pop Tart, and emits a rainbow trail. Everywhere you look on the Internet, if you aren’t bumping into a lolcat, you might come across a variant of Nyan Cat.