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Nabiu - 1/22/2025 (Pilot Production Insights Part 1)
🕑 Added 2025-01-22 15:44:10 +0000 UTCThere was a lot about Nabiu's Pilot that I wanted to share during production, but I didn't want to spoil much. So once a week for the next few weeks I'll be sharing some production insights! Episode 2 is still in production, it's something I work on in between Something Series videos (which is still my primary focus).
The ‘original animatic’ and most of its rough animation was done in 1 month!
The backgrounds were far more detailed than the Something Series BGs and were completely original. Some of them took me an entire day to make:
Buildings and interior backgrounds are a weakness of mine and this was mostly indoors.
^^^(I don't know if you noticed in the episode, but the floating coffee cup in the bottom right was still dripping coffee!)
There was one day that I spent over an hour making Wizzro's Diploma. After I finished it I realized it was too detailed; it wasn't even a background; it was one element of a background and I thought if I kept up that level of detail I would never finish the project. So I deleted it and made this one in a few minutes:
Comments
TerminalMontage
Thank you :) I do typically save my unused content, wish I saved that one!
Anonymous
For some reason what you said about the diploma that you scrapped due to the level of detail it took, reminds me an occurrence that Leonardo da Vinci had with his painting of the last supper. Originally, he made Jesus’s cup look like it was silver and bedecked with jewels, like the goblet of a royal King of kings. It was so magnificent that someone who looked at it said that his eyes were immediately drawn to the cup. Leonardo quickly drew over it a very plain wooden cup. He was upset that the main focus was on the cup and not on his Lord. 😊
Nomp
"So I deleted it and made this one in a few minutes" Hot tip. Save these things and offer completed versions of them as merch down the line.
Andrew Fleming
Nabiu is 100% worth all your effort and you should be very proud of your work. Being an animation guy myself, I love seeing this kind of stuff! More is good. Can't wait to see what you give us next. You've got something special! Keep it up 💪
Warmitchine
'Spending hours drawing something only to realize at the end that it was inconsequential and never sharing it' is a mood that burns my soul.
LawfulFlicks
I love how detailed and creative this is
EpochGD
I’m still impressed with how efficiently you’re able to make those assets, even if they take you up to an entire day. The fact that they’re original makes it all the more impressive :)
Scott Martinez
Nabiu is my fav totally in love with the art and rpg style
