tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72853337799823576482024-03-13T21:59:09.797-07:00PK Flash! An Animated Earthbound TributeProduction blog for an Earthbound music video set to Catherine Warwick's "Pollyanna".PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-22249742091082495222013-08-04T11:12:00.000-07:002013-08-04T11:12:48.738-07:00New Video, New Production Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The completion of the Summers segment brings the amount of finished animation up to about the 1:36 mark, which is more or less exactly halfway. In the screenshot above you can see a bit of my work process in Flash; I would kill to be able to re-compose everything in After Effects, but that would probably set me back another three years, so I'm going to concentrate on what I've started.<br />
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As for the Kickstarter idea, it's still a possibility, but I have upcoming work in the fall and I couldn't set that aside even if PK Flash was being crowd-funded. However, the fact that so many people were supportive of the idea was encouraging, so I'm going to try my best to soldier on for now. At this rate, perhaps I'll be able to post the final video in time for Earthbound's 20th anniversary!<br />
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PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-4869814793086178732012-07-19T10:31:00.001-07:002012-07-19T10:31:46.353-07:00*Blows off dust*Wow, it's been almost a whole year since I touched this thing. What a waste of time, you might say. Not so! I still receive every bit of feedback posted to this blog and my Youtube account, and every time it happens I feel a little pang of guilt that I'm not working on the video. But guilt is not the best state of mind in which to work, and I had my reasons for putting it aside. That being said, a large part of the reason the video is taking so long
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Intriguingly, someone in the comments suggested I start a Kickstart/Indiegogo campaign and just get 'er done. As leery as I am about asking strangers for money for something so frivolous, it might be an idea worth entertaining. If the video was funded by fans, the video could be done in as little time as 4 months or less (with the additional bonus of some shiny new After Effects wizardry). I may put a poll up on this blog and see what the response is. In the meantime, I'll keep chipping away at my usual glacier pace...<br />
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I don't want to spoil too much as I go along, but suffice to say these elements are now all fully animated. You might be able to pick them out from the rough sketches in the animation test I posted last year; the Runaway Dog, for example, has only two frames of movement. Orange Kid, Liar X. Agerate and Everdred have substantially more action involved.<br />
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Also, someone mentioned to me the absence of Saturn Valley in the animation test; never fear! Although PK Flash depicts events from the game in rough chronological order and features as many characters as possible, I took many liberties and so some elements may not show up in exactly the way you remember them from the game. Think of it as how an animated TV show would go about adapting the game. Also, the test is only about a quarter of the way through the story- Still a long way to go!PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-37100021128891641472010-10-02T18:29:00.001-07:002010-10-02T18:33:57.924-07:00HiatusProject PK Flash! is going on hiatus while I finish my last year of school. This is more of a personal note to myself so I don't forget, but I have a good feeling I'll return to finish it. Ha ha ha... I hope I didn't jinx myself there.<br /><br />In the meantime, you can check out my newest endeavor, <a href="http://planetredwood.webs.com/">Planet REDWOOD</a>. It's a fansite dedicated to my other favorite cult classic video game, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Deadly Premonition</span>. It's a very different game from Earthbound, but no less deserving of the close following it has begun to garner.PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-82394150942961251172010-08-27T18:04:00.000-07:002010-08-27T18:07:36.529-07:00Welcome to Threed! Desktop wallpaperI got a request from someone to turn this screenshot into a wallpaper, so here's a quickie version I threw together from the Flash file.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T8SeA-m0OkM/THhgqA51wYI/AAAAAAAAAEA/3be96RS7ev8/s1600/threedwallpaper.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T8SeA-m0OkM/THhgqA51wYI/AAAAAAAAAEA/3be96RS7ev8/s400/threedwallpaper.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510260419001172354" /></a><br /><br />You can also download the image from DA <a href="http://animagess.deviantart.com/#/d2xf6u1">here</a>.PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-12551162583251870002010-08-22T12:22:00.000-07:002010-08-22T12:31:16.868-07:00A Taste of Things to Come...<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mhgk22EaD4k?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mhgk22EaD4k?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Here's the first couple minutes of what I've done so far, complete with music. Scene transitions have yet to be implemented and the animation is still in the rough stages, but the backgrounds are pretty much finished. I'm guessing this is a little under half of the whole thing, so progress is being made, slowly. The rest of it is still just a bunch of scribbles, which I will be posting later.<br /><br />I finally figured out the export settings for Premiere, so crank that sucker up to 1080p and fullscreen it, baby!PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-15475300933235049042010-07-19T19:36:00.001-07:002010-07-19T19:42:43.855-07:00Meteor ScreenshotJust posting a little something to assure myself, and whoever is reading this, that I have a lot more done than what's displayed here.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T8SeA-m0OkM/TEUMkV7HV5I/AAAAAAAAAD4/sLYYuTFp4Nw/s1600/touchmeteor.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T8SeA-m0OkM/TEUMkV7HV5I/AAAAAAAAAD4/sLYYuTFp4Nw/s400/touchmeteor.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495812738775472018" border="0" /></a>YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS<br /></div>PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-23774366046882223672010-07-01T10:14:00.000-07:002010-07-01T10:24:47.779-07:00Colour Reference<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T8SeA-m0OkM/TCzNejnCByI/AAAAAAAAADg/CC6d0zCHvc0/s1600/colorcodes.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T8SeA-m0OkM/TCzNejnCByI/AAAAAAAAADg/CC6d0zCHvc0/s400/colorcodes.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488987970696513314" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Colour codes for the four protagonists. This is basically what the final colouring style will look like, but with cleaner lines; these are just rough blobs of tone I threw together for reference. Also I decided to go with the completely filled in dot eyes, rather than the more cartoony eyes shown above in which you can see the whites. It was easier, and seemed to fit better, although it does give the designs more of a unique feel. The overall look I'm going for has a bit of a pastel, children's book quality to it, lots of flat layers to give the impression of depth. I'll put up some examples later.<br /><br />ALSO: Happy Canada Boing!PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-522670837329783072010-06-28T06:06:00.000-07:002010-06-28T06:13:20.757-07:00Ness rough walk cycle<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bQfSGp22_z0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bQfSGp22_z0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br />Rough animation for Ness's walk cycle, as seen in the title image of this blog. I'm still getting used to the presets on my copy of Premiere CS4, so the encoding is pretty janky, but I'll figure it out eventually.<br /><br />I'll update this blog periodically with any new animations I put up, but if you want to check out the Youtube channel anyway, head over to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ProjectPKFlash">ProjectPKFlash</a> and subscribe. Or whatever it is you're supposed to do there.PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285333779982357648.post-16180189053331036952010-06-26T16:54:00.000-07:002010-07-01T11:47:56.462-07:00The year is 20XX...Welcome to the world of <span style="font-weight: bold;">PK Flash! An Animated Earthbound Tribute</span>. A couple months ago, I decided to try out my new-found Flash skills by making a music video for Catherine Warwick's rendition of Pollyanna. I have decided to create a production blog, documenting my progress. The entire 3:43 minutes of the song have been fully storyboarded and timed out, so all that needs to be done is the background colouring and actual animation (a walk in the park, right?).<br /><br />The following images are screenshots from the opening scene, depicting the meteor crash. As you can see in the third image and the title of this blog, I'm roughing out the animation over the clean BGs and will colour them in later. I plan to post some rough-to-clean boards to show my process. If I can swing it, I'll put up some Youtube links showing the actual rough animation before I cover it all with paint. PK Flash spans the entire game story, with some necessary edits for length; as of this writing, I'm halfway through Ness and Paula's misadventures in Threed. 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This is a side project for now, but who knows what will happen. Hope you all enjoy! (Also, I just set up a Youtube account, so check that out as well.)PKFlashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750560340289327340noreply@blogger.com0