So, I fucked up.
I just spent a solid day and a half of my weekend assembling a bloated .fla file to try and cram the entirety of Season Too's finale into one file.
Like the last attempt at this, I had the rap beat and text overlayed, and that's what I spent the most time on. To find out that the file exceeded 1600 frames and it wouldn't export them in one shot.
So I started trimming and trimming and trimming. Eventually deciding to discard all of the text and narrative, so it was almost entirely the episode's worth of animatics by itself.
I double-checked the initial upload, Part 1, to discover that I already had the Ghost of History's Past in it, and I could've just deleted that and probably would have been fine.
...It's only going to get better from here, folks. This is worthwhile practice. For what, I'm not sure yet, but I'll know it when I see it.
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SO! This is all of my shots for the finale of Season Too of The Cyanide & Happiness Show. C&H has actually started to upload the finished product of these on YouTube, so be sure to watch the actual episode here!
I had started with Explosm in October of 2015, and by the time they had me working on these shots, it was getting closer to Christmas time. I distinctly remember the holiday party at that office, and being really stoked that I was finally getting a hang of things around the Ghost of History's Future segment.
Though it came with a huge learning curve, especially since this was my first professional animation job ever. As I mentioned in Part 1, Elizabeth Del Rosario swooped in and helped me a LOT with the Ghost of History's Past and Present sections.
Be sure to check her stuff out, she's worked on all kinds of stuff! Hire her! She's fast as hell.
https://www.elizabethdelrosario.com/
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Moving forward, I'm going to do uploads like these a little different- just to ensure I don't make a mistake like today and accidentally overlap/duplicate shots from Part 1 onto Part 2. But also, do something more engaging and entertaining than the "Adult Swim" model of black background, white text, to ambient samples.
At the time that I had uploaded Part 1, I hadn't been hired by C&H to work on more shorts. However, last year, I actually got to work on quite a few shorts again! They're already out, so see if you can spot them.
But they're also starting to upload stuff that I worked on from Season 3. And the Season 4 stuff is sure to closely follow. My motivation now is to practice for speed in my ability to edit and compile large files like these accumulated shots and scenes together. And just to simplify things, I may make them Newgrounds exclusives.
So stay tuned for more behind-the-scenes glimpses on The Cyanide & Happiness show! Where as my supply of archival uploads dwindle, I'll be further pressurized and relieved to work on bigger and more original things for your enjoyment.
See you soon, Vote 5, and be sure to subscribe to my Youtube channels as well! I got a little race going on against my oldschool original YouTube channel (Phobotech) versus my new one (Galneda). Who will be first to reach 2K subscribers? You could decide!