Heeey this thing is finally done! :D I recognize the first couple segments of it, but all the rest... there's so much new stuff! Also, Tom actually voiced his character? :O Nice work fitting in all the trademark submissions at the end there, entertaining Tank Man chase in particular, even that inescapable cock joke and appropriate wordplay. Seems like 2013 was that one year when things seemed to be crumbling down, but since then everything's going uphill again! As in, downhill, well, you get what I'm saying. In the end it feels like there's been a ton of effort and time poured into this one work, it turned out great! Happy belated Pico Day! (and btw.... what's missing? O_o)
Hey, I've been waiting to see a review from you, 'cause I knew you were looking forward to it. Yeah, the first two scenes are pretty much the same as the ones that were already submitted though the first scene had some things improved and added, plus all the dialog was re-recorded! Also there's like 10 or so minutes of new stuff!
Yep, Tom Fulp voiced himself. Sometime last year I thought to myself "I just HAVE to have Tom Fulp cameo in this somehow" so I thought "why not have a hologram of him to greet people coming to Newgrounds?" so I reached out to him to record the line and he was happy to do it!
I made sure to make it feel like the fake submissions in the montage felt like stuff that could actually be submitted to Newgrounds, and yeah, I had a lot of fun making the Tankmen bit. I had been wanting to animate that since 2013! There was even a trhowback to Tankmen 2 with Pico thrusting the tank, like Captain did in it ;3 And yeah, cock jokes are the best.
Yeah, things did seem pretty bleak in 2013, which is what initially inspired me to make this. Things did get slightly better though in 2014 aside from the closing of the NG store (which I managed to work in since it still wasn't finished by then), but things are looking pretty great now!
And yep, there was tons of time and effort put into this. While I didn't work on it straight through, it was still probably a solid year of work. I'm glad it turned out great! ;3
And yeah, the whole "something's missing" thing was just a jokey attempt to get a daily feature (indicated by the daily feature trophy under the tree in the last shot) and it turns out that it is truly missing forever, 'cause i got 4th! Ah well, the reception's been great so that's all that matters!
A good bit of this was animated in 2013 and 2014, so yeah, those parts are pretty rough, and I did rush some of the animation near the end because I was running out of time, so yeah. I do think I spent a good bit of time trying to make a lot of the animation look as good as possible though. My drawings are shit though so maybe that's why it looks rough. I'm still working that :p
I put a good bit of effort into the audio editing. I even went back and re-recorded all the lines for Pico because I got a better mic during production of this.
I'm glad the storytelling was good at least; getting the message across was probably the most important thing.
It took a long time but I learned a lot during the making of it and I seem to have gotten faster at making things and being more efficient with technique, so I could probably do this in less time if I were to do it again.
I'm always wanting to make long cartoons, but this is the first one I've actually completed since I started animating properly, and after the experience of this I think I prefer working on shorts since they don't take as long to make, but the final product is always so worth it with long stuff, 'cause it feels more lasting. To me anyways ;3
I uploaded an outdated version of the first scene in 2013 because that's all I had done at the time. Then in 2014 I uploaded an outdated version of the 2nd scene. This is the full film with some things redone and added to the scenes that were already uploaded previously, plus like 10 more minutes of animation. Of course that would be pretty obvious if you had actually watched it though, which I'm assuming you didn't, 'cause otherwise you wouldn't be asking that right now.
This space is supposed to be for REVIEWS, not asking stupid questions. Thanks for making no sense with your score too, as well as not saying anything about the actual film!
