This was a multi-animator project that spanned nearly 6 years from 2017 to 2023 with over 150 participants! The video covers an edited version of episode 4 of The Adventure Zone: Balance running about 34 minutes long.
Link to participant credits
The video currently lacks official subtitles. When those are added, a post will be made on this blog to announce it.
Meet Bink, the Warforged OC created by tumblr user @kelcasual as well as rigged & animated by the amazing Caeh, while being modelled and textured by yours truly.
I got permission to model the character after stumbling across some artwork of them and deciding they were too cool not to model and kelcasual was kind enough to give me permission.
Taliesin, as the cat puppet: “[evil laugh] Hello, children. You all know who I am. But for the sad mortals in the back, listen up: I am Bast’alar, the Ascended One, Destructor of the Gameverse, Shatterer of Realms. [evil laugh] And I’ve come bearing condolences to you all. Your precious little cowboy wasn’t feeling well today. Boohoo! [evil laugh] I guess it doesn’t matter how much you can bench if you can’t get out of bed! Looks like my spell worked after all! [evil laugh] I guess the rift will just have to remain open, and the wheel will come to a screeching halt. You moronic hillbillies have no idea whom you are messing with. When my owners abandoned me years ago, I swore to never be domesticated again. I am no longer a cat, a pet, Critter or a slave, but a god! [evil laugh] Are you prepared to see my true power unleashed? Then come and join us next Tuesday on twitch.tv/criticalrole at 4pm Pacific, and I hope to see you there so you can watch it all burn. Toodle-loo! [evil laugh]”
i have rocks and crystals and i like them and i like to buy them and i’m always afraid ppl will be like “oh u must kno something about Witchcraft or Spirituality” but i don’t know dick about shit i just like shiney rocks, i’ve got a Crow Brain
I came up with the characters and story solely for this project; they are not “from” anything, just this! The nun’s name is Sanga, the demon’s name is Ashivon, and you can find more of them here.
An animatic is, by its nature, a planning stage for animation. But since I wasn’t sure whether this one would ever end up being fully animated, I put extra care into it. So now it’s in that animatic/animation gray area. While making this video, I was torn between the thought “well this is some melodramatic middle-school bullshit” and “actually it’s pretty good”. In the end, I’d like to think it’s both things. :)
Song: Church by Fall Out Boy
Program Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6
This took me eleven months to make!
Friendly reminder that Dreamworks created a character who not only displayed everything that’s wrong with Nice Guy Syndrome, but also turned into a supervillian when he was friend zoned.
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