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https://remuslab.co/ The new Remuslab website is now live.

It's kinda barebones at this moment, but I'm planning adding some new features to it, like an archive or merch store. Any feedback is welcome!

Also, this will be the final post on Tumblr - all the news will be coming on the website and the YouTube community tab. This blog is now an archive of older posts.

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Coming soon: Paper Half-Life 1/2 Remastered

Hello again! I hope you're safe in these troubling times.

I've been scanning my old paper cutouts and working on the PHL remasters. They're coming in 1080p with new animations and some new backgrounds (PHL1's backgrounds all had to be redrawn since they didn't survive, PHL2's ones are mostly intact) with as much of the original style as possible.

Paper Half-Life 1 Remastered coming on it's 11th birthday, June 15th, with its sequel some time this summer.

After that... you can probably guess by now. 

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Remuslab Discord

https://discord.gg/SbETCzd

Due to some demand, I’ve made a Remuslab Discord server. Come chat about stuff!

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New video: Paper Hotline Miami 2 Animation Timelapse

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Paper Hotline Miami 2 is coming July 18

There is a short teaser for it which you can see on my twitter (https://twitter.com/styurov)

All the animation is done. There's music that needs to be finished and SFX to be added, but all in all the video is almost complete. I'm going to try and set up a premiere for it earlier next week, we'll see how it goes. After that, there is going to be a timelapse video covering one of the scenes.

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Coming soon: Paper Hotline Miami 2

I worked on it on and off in late 2015-2016 and then kind of put it on hiatus, due to work and overall weariness from these paper animations. But a couple of months back I thought, "hey, I've got that video that's about 50% done that just sits there, why don't I finish it?"

Paper Hotline Miami 2 is focused on the group of masked individuals called The Fans. The whole video is basically one big action scene. It will be much more violent and hopefully better paced than the first one. As previously, I will be doing music for this one, which will be available online.

The video is on track to release in July.

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Paper Half-Life is 10 years old today

Damn, has it really been that long ago?

I was still in high school when I was making this, and I still return to these series from time to time. I guess if it wasn’t for PHL, I probably wouldn’t have gone to animation college to ultimately become a motion designer by trade.

And this is all thanks to you, the folks who’ve been morally supporting me throughout the years, and your wishes for more of that content speaks volumes.

I’ve recently restarted production on some of the projects of mine, and I’m aiming for a new release pretty soon, so keep your eyes peeled for announcements.

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Are you alive boi?

Indeed I am. I’ve been too busy with this “life” stuff, but I really want to make something new for you folks

At least for the past year+ I’ve made some stuff here and there on the internet and tv that you’ve probably seen and didn’t know it had my mark, at least there’s that

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Remuslab’s 10th anniversary

https://youtu.be/pv03PHmvDW8

Remuslab is turning 10 around this time, so we’re celebrating this by dusting off the channel a bit.

More stuff is in the works, although I can’t specify what/when right now!

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Update 2017

Perhaps I should explain the almost complete absence of original content from my part in 2016 - the short and boring answer is 'real life'.

While I did help out with other people's projects last year, I had to kinda sort out my life. There's no way I can do this thing full-time, so Remuslab is not in my top priority. While I am working on Paper Hotline Miami 2 on and off, other more important things gotta take place sometimes.

Last October I joined a local video studio called Lava Media as an editor/occasional sound operator. While it is the most badass job I've ever had, I got in just in time for the pre-new year frenzy, staying overnight either editing or filming, leaving no time for personal projects. I'm not complaining, and it's nobody's fault, but I still feel awful about not delivering anything for such a long time. But now that I hopefully will have more time now, I will continue working on my projects soon enough.

So the plan for now is simple: finish PHM2 at least this year and see how it goes from there. It's not going to be a huge video and it no way should've taken so long. Sorry!

P.S. Considering I never promote the things I'm actually making for a living now, here's some of the shows I've worked on so far (all in russian whoops)

https://youtu.be/eJNT6ozwbBw

https://youtu.be/C5n5bARpn7Q

https://youtu.be/ffHSDsXZSQI

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Paper Hotline Miami 2 - Coming eventually

It's been a while, hasn't it?

I'm working on another installment of the Paper series - this time it's about Hotline Miami 2, a fun for all the family! The original game has so many plots going on (a little too many if you ask me), so in this one I'm focusing on the Fans - a group of masked individuals going for killing sprees on gangs and junkies. While the video on the first game was mostly an experiment with digital paper animation, 3D environments and custom music, this one has more of a cinematic approach, plus having a higher body count and overall brutaluty, if that's your thing.

But when is it coming out? I don't know! I started working on it December 2015, picking away at it whenever possible. I've got literally a million other things going on right now which all need attention, and making paper cartoons was never more than a hobby (a pretty rad one, that is). So instead of jinxing it and telling a release date, I'm just gonna say it will be finished at some point and sorry for the wait!

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Newgrounds Pico Day Collab

Hey! I’ve animated a part of the video that some of the boys from New Wave (animation group) have cobbled together, go give it a big ol looksey! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/674308

There’s also a timelapse of me animating a bit of it for 5 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcMVIHKbHoU

I wanna make more timelapses, but most of the scenes i animate aren’t too interesting to watch i think, but we’ll see what we can figure out!

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Twiglings postmortem

Welp, there we are! This series is finished, and the whole thing can be watched in this nifty little playlist.

It was really fun to do. 99% of it was shot in 10 days in August and the ending was shot in an hour in December 2015 (and by that point we didn’t even know how to end it, and it probably shows).

Originally the plot was going to be about a little town, the vast majority of which was involved in a secret cult, and the cop protagonist was going to uncover the big conspiracy, so it had a little Hot Fuzz vibe. We filmed the first episode before we were writing the script for the future episodes one night, when suddenly we wanted to involve the woods in a bigger degree, so we entirely rewrote the whole thing and added more creepy and mysterious elements, still maintaining that comedic and whimsical tone.

Sooo that was good, I’m still working on a few animations here and there, although I’m not entirely sure when I will be able to show them, but I’m not going to jinx it like before and say something not entirely realistic and fuck it up! Until next time!

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Here’s the first part of our short live-action series, Twiglings

All the dialogue is in russian, but there are english subtitles available under the lil CC button

It will be updated every 2 days, so the next episode shall be live this Friday, February 12th