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Smashbits #19-20: Overwatch RELEASED ANIMATION
🕑 Added 2018-04-02 23:48:13 +0000 UTC Remember those two episodes of an unreleased Smashbits Overwatch cartoon I hated and quit before I completed? Well, the studio apparently had somebody else finish them as quickly as possible and combined the two bad cartoons into ONE bad cartoon to release this past weekend. Now for your schadenfreude, I present this cartoon!I recommend you watch my new Overwatch music video instead, which I uploaded last week. Now that's an animation I'm actually proud of: https://www.patreon.com/posts/smashbits-21-one-17808250
I couldn't bear to watch this whole thing, the changes they made are questionable and none of the updates to the jokes or voices are improvements to me... But I got a laugh out of that credits sequence where the owner of Smashbits forgets to credit me and almost forgets the name of the new animator. Then the new animator, looking unwilling to appear in the video, reminds him that I was the original animator and the owner acts like he never knew that, even though he had to email me last month to get the video files. They should really consider getting a good take for those live action behind the scenes videos...
Here's a synopsis of what I had to say about these episodes when I uploaded them here and here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/smashbits-19-ep1-16516347
https://www.patreon.com/posts/smashbits-20-ep2-16516631
This is my least favorite Smashbits thing I've done... Basically, they had me start on this after the hurricane in September 2017 and set it up as a really simple project with good pay because it was for Machinima. By the time I was done (and it was a struggle to produce on top of everything else that was going on those months, including a funeral), the director who gave me the project had left the company and the owner of Smashbits finally got in touch with me for the first time in a while and admitted this script wasn't funny, the material wasn't suited for my style (they kept asking for funny faces and I kept pointing out most of the characters don't HAVE faces, which is why I attempted to use the Hello Neighbor style again), and most importantly, I don't know ANYTHING about Overwatch, did not get any of the jokes, and very little was explained to me.
I completed all of Ep 1 and even started an animatic for Ep 2 because they were planning this to be a series. The writing for Ep 2 was so weak that I gave up and quit the project-- The writers ended up being unable to come up with enough material to even fill their runtime and were looking to me to extend bits, which is hard to do at my stage of the production, but I was having enough trouble just trying to understand the action scenes they'd padded the script with. Ultimately it was too much responsibility for me alone to be trying to make this look good, especially because I had clearly set this up for a sillier jankier style and not all the faux-drama ep 2 employs.
I had no idea if these were even gonna be released anymore, they seemed to be considering the whole endeavor a loss before I even started ep 2. But here it is!
