"Twins are weird." That's the name of the MySpace home of 24-year-old animators Joy and Noelle Vaccese, Long Island-born sisters whose first collaboration is an inspired, weirdo spin on coming-of-age high-school shorts. A cross between Tim Burton and Bill Plympton, "Scritch Scratch" took about a year to make with 500 individual drawings, each one inked and scanned into a computer and then colored in Photoshop. For the first eight months, they actually worked in a completely different style, but then started anew taking inspiration from their favorite animators, including Plympton, Don Hertzfeldt, Patrick Smith, Jamie Hewlett, and Ralph Steadman. "What all these filmmakers and illustrators have in common is that their work can be very dark, raw and funny," the pair told TDR. "They are sometimes distorted and strange, but beautiful at the same time." Since June 2, the film has been seen over 81,000 times on the duo's MySpace page, according to Vidmeter, helped by hundreds of links from fans. The pair recently graduated from the Pratt Institute's animation department and are currently in pre-production on a new short, "though we're just sketching out ideas for right now," they admit. "We're getting a lot of requests to bring these characters back, but we're still not sure where we're gonna go yet."