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parappa project conceptual breakdown
🕑 Added 2021-08-08 21:33:33 +0000 UTCokay so if you're seeing this, the video is out in the world!!!! and I am excited to say yes... it was Parappa inspired. There are other fun easter eggs in there too so I wanted to make this post about the design influences and then another post in the next few days about how tf I did it lmao
TURNS OUT making a paper flat 2D character move around in 3D space is actually difficult...
1-2. All the junkyard/spinning piles of stuff were a nod to an anime dom and I watched last year called Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! It's a story about these 3 high school girls who start an anime club that PRODUCES anime. It's a short 12 episode series but each character has her strengths and the OP song/visuals are forever engraved in my brain (easy breezy~!) so I was heavily influenced to draw like 100 random doodlebobs to put this together :)
3-5. Parappa toaster lmao. Dom actually was able to finesse one of these iconic grailed kitchen appliances for less than $100 (they go for like 300 I think) but yeah! It makes real toast with 3 different templates for toast designs. Naturally if we were going to make a Parappa aesthetically inspired video I HAD to make a reference to it.
6-8. Okay the chess part was super spontaneous, we had to put together more scenes to make this look like a video game movie trailer and I had purchased this Karim Rashid chess set (same designer as our iconic couch) for Dom. He originally showed me in about 6 months ago? saying he wanted it but the prices were always over $100. Luckily my ebay notifications are fire and an auction popped up for a STEAL...
so the chess game is an actual game that I replicated (yes I am a crazy person) from the 1997 match #6 between chess grandmaster Gary Karparov and IBM's computer Deep Blue. This game is iconic because it was the first time in history that a computer beat a grandmaster chess player. If anyone is crazy enough to slow it down and knows a lot about chess games... they should actually recognize it. As a bonus, I had Clio's online chess username show up as "deepblu99" :) ... because he's a robot dog and all that
9-10. Other easter eggs include the sonic I made for Julian's strayrats x sonic collab and the High Fructose design is actually a logo flip of the Fujiya logo. as usual, all music is by the one and only domsolo & I pray I see an EP bc I don't think there's anything as tortuous as constantly hearing these fire beats and... not having anyway to play them ever. Yes, not even I have access to the beats lmao
OKAY so that was the breakdown... conceptually. I'm going to make a video doing a technical breakdown for you nerds that want to see what's going on under the hood~
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seriously one of the most inspiring anime of this decade for us nerds HAHA also a stellar soundtrack
Yβall went BRAZY on this one! And shoutout to Keep Off Eizouken!! I think my favorite scene was when they went biking searching for sounds for their anime. The soundtrack (24. Borderland) really fit that scene
Excited to see whatβs under the hood!
this is so sick!! the video looks amazing π€©
I love this project so much!! Another great release and as usual helps me with a lot of inspiration too :)) this was so well done!!
