To be fair, I can't unsee Ariel either.

I was watching Third Life, and heard the words "bling bling." This brought me back to the Cursed Fairtytalesthemed Guess the Build video (   • Guess That Cursed Fairy Tale!?  GUES...  ). I had always planned on making an animatic of it at some point but this encouraged me to do it much sooner. I tried looking for Guess the Build animatics & animations for a while back, and there were a few, but not as many as I'd have hoped. So I decided to make one of my own. My holidays were a bit longer than usual, so I took the opportunity to work on this. I finished it in fifteen days, beginning August 27th and working in chunks until today.

At the start, I was very excited for the smallest form of progress. Then I lost some of that enthusiasm as I became slightly critical of the animatic, but that pessimism dissipated as I got closer to being "free" from it. I would tinker the parts I wasn't happy with so I could at the very least look back with little regret. I'm very pleased with the end result, my only issues being the timing feeling slower compared to how it was in the video editor (might just be me) and the odd quality (that also existed with my previous animatic—I guess it's the price I pay to have it not look pixelated).

It feels like I experienced an entire era making this. It did make me question whether I even ought to try any more long nonmusicoriented animatics like this, considering how much that one was for me. Yet it felt somewhat surmontable. It'll likely be less so since school is back now, and not only will I have less time to work on longer animatics but I'll have to be more careful with my hands and wrists. I'm looking forward to working on more of these though, regardless of the amount of time it takes. Shorter ones especially!

Funnily enough, another batch of Guess the Build videos got uploaded while I was making this. I've yet to watch them: I decided that it would be my "reward" after I complete this animatic. By that point there were three scenes that needed to be done: Joel reading Impulse's guess, Impulse's final words, and... yeah, the 0:060:11 clip. I didn't have any precise idea of what to do with that part of the audio, so I decided to cut the audio shorter to make it simpler, then I kept working on the other scenes and... well, it was the last scene left. Thus officially making it the most rushed part of the video (with one redeeming quality, fortunately—one frame made me chuckle). Even the "bare minimum" scenes had more work put into it, either because they got reworked to look better or because they included Skizz whom I changed the color of the lines twice (dark red brown made him look too similar to Impulse, then the light red I first picked was too bright). Not to imply there was a ton of effort put into this, just that compared to the previous animatic, I went back and made a lot more changes than I would've before.

While I did film myself for the final part, I did not rotoscope it: I just used it as a reference for the key frames and then did the inbetweens without it. For the lipsync I winged it, much like the entire animatic.

Through drawing this, I also found out that there was a widelydisliked Snow White liveaction remake. Huh.

Clips used:
   • Guess That Cursed Fairy Tale!?  GUES...  
   • Guess That Cursed Fairy Tale!?  GUES...  
   • Guess That Cursed Fairy Tale!?  GUES...  
   • Guess That Cursed Fairy Tale!?  GUES...  
   • Guess That Cursed Fairy Tale!?  GUES...  
   • Guess That Cursed Fairy Tale!?  GUES...  

Softwares used:
Bandicam (audio recording)
VideoProc Vlogger (audio cutting)
Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 (drawing)
Windows Movie Maker (editing)