Looking through my Dilbert “Shave The Whales” compilation, there are very few strips which would animate well, most would only work as sequential art.

The reason Dilbert keeps getting animated is because it is one of the few which could be described as a household name. Publishers, networks, whatever, are not interested in exploiting a property no-one has ever heard of, but will do to death anything with a “name” or brand.

It’s what I call wine bar cred. Execs gather in the wine bar after work, and ask each other what they’ve got coming up.

You HAVE to hit them with something you’ve heard of. No point in saying “we’re developing an original concept” because that (to a pinhead suit) is like saying “we’ve got nothing”.
As an animation producer wannabe, I had a great portfolio of excellently drawn, excellently written concepts and had doors slammed in my face when I travelled to Europe. I learned the hard way that if I had the rights to Harry Potter The Animated Series in my pocket, I wouldn’t even need to get out of bed, the phones would be running red hot and the funding would fall into place as if by magic.

Neither The Simpsons nor South Park would have got up if they’d been pitched in the time-honored fashion. Put not your trust in commissioning executives, at least not in their judge of horseflesh.
Upon examination there seems hardly a top rated concept, from the Beatles to Seinfeld, which was recognized at its inception by a smart suit.

In addition to the short-lived TV series, there was a series of flash shorts that was posted on shockwave.com in the late ’90s. There was also a 3D CGI version (no kiddin’) that ran on dilbert.com (one thing I remember about these is that they let the viewers change the camera angle to whatever they wanted it to be).

1) Your mind has created a voice for these characters. To hear them is jarring and, I think, unpleasant.

2) The animators pace may be way different from your pace, which is again unpleasant.

3) His exaggerated form of humor works well on paper, but as it becomes “more real” it becomes more stupid than funny.

4) Scott Adams relies a lot on his reader filling-in-the-blanks of action between frames. You can’t do that in animation. What are they going to do, show an empty screen while you’re thinking and then give the last punchline??

Bottom line is, I didn’t think these were funny. I think they’d stand a better shot at being funny if they were read and absorbed by your own mind, in your own time and with your own imagination.