BF and The Comekrons is my greatest and longest animation yet. At 3:38 minutes, it's all a lot of stuff I genuinely had fun creating. Could it win an award? I don't know, I feel my work pales in comparison to anything more talented people make. But it's work I'm happy to know some enjoy. And now I'll share you some interesting info about the making of it.
Originally, a Sequel?
Initial drafts of the animation were meant to continue from a structure similar to FRIDAY NIGHT FLUNKING including more characters like Mom and Pico. The story would be Pico and BF putting aside their differences to beat GF's parents in a battle for basically calling them zoomers. However I decided to abandon this after realizing it felt VERY unoriginal. Having watched Scott Pilgrim recently did not help. Here's what the title art was for it though!
It was a little funny to know that an artist I recently discovered here and enjoy DID make a submission with that name. There's either some spooky brain power sharing going on or we both suck at coming up with titles.
Conquering the Audio Domain...!
Past animations of mine frequently relied on Public Domain/Creative Commons licensed music for background tunes, however this animation had a whopping 4 ORIGINAL TUNES created by myself utilizing MilkyTracker, my go to music makin' old-skool thingamajig. 1 of these was a whole music made from taking a remix of the Comekrons' theme too far and it's my best work to date. The only music I did not make was obviously kawaisprite's Pico, who I gave a small share to within music credits. I don't know fully what that does but I hope it's beneficial to them.
The instruments come from kiarchive, a popular pack for use in trackers. From what I know, it was used in the Petscop OST! Hooray to Trackers.
Pico == Dave Strider?!?! (DON'T CALL AT 3AM!)
"How can this be?! Pico is older than Homestuck!" you exclaim, and well, the gist is that many coincidences happened.
- My voice for Pico was the same one I used to voice Dave in past HS reading streams.
- Pico's Comekron, Dany, is red and posesses glasses. (alongside the unique machine gun stamp that looks at first glance like the scratched record iconography)
- Pico's face's shape keys possess 'HEE HAA HOO'-like names.
Could be my subconscious, could be fate, whatever it is, for some reason this shooty kid became a subtle reference to the sword-wielding brother-issue-having troll-kissing time-mastering cool dude.
A look into the render for the thumbnail. There's the boys!
The final result was done with paint.net. Cooler than photoshop I'd say... I utilized a few plugins and native features to make it rock.
Where's GF?
I decided not to include GF due to it being too difficult to juggle 3 concurrent characters in an animation I couldn't even tell how long would go for. However, I did put her in... A cardboard cutout, I mean.
She also went with her dad to get cigarettes.
The dithering was done with a plugin in paint.net. It's meant to look like a character cutout from TF2.
ENA and Moony's cameo :0
I had previously created a model of ENA a while ago which I posted renders of...
Though Moony's pixel art was a creation first seen as an easter egg in FRIDAY NIGHT SLEEPOVER!
A fairly nice one for my skills back then at that. However since then, I've sharpened my blade, and raised the steaks. I gave her an anti-aliasing pass, different palette and a funny little skater hat.
"UGH. Can you believe they can just break tables without a permit?!"
Original Originalities
Outside of the ones obviously NOT mine, all other characters featured in the animation are! In no particular order:
- Jim Jimson from Jim's Challenge
- Beeb Calhein from Legend of Beeb
- Isaria Ocula from Legend of Beeb 2 (coming some day!)
- The Puncher from Incredible Punch (WIP! Devlog at TIGForums)
- Ratatan from Ratatan/Ratatan X
- The Minister from Ministry of Sight (coming some day!)
- Barley from Legend of Beeb 2 (yep, soooome day!)
- Signdude is my author self-insert...
Everyone is here!
Closing Note
I must thank you all for the support you give me in any way as usual. Be it by sharing my work, playing my games, giving it reviews, noting funny things, or even giving me money, you keep giving me more will to go above and beyond what I already could achieve. I hope you've enjoyed this look into this animation I loved doing. Have a good time!