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Standoff (Animated)
 
  1st/348   Σ31.515   Feb 19th 2024 3:55pm
 
 
A high-stakes snowball fight anime NES cutscene. Although the entry is just this animation, it was designed to accompany Standoff at Icy Point which I wrote in collab with mioh. Contains nods to a few favorite old school game cutscenes (Ninja Gaiden, Flashback, TMNT, X-Com UFO Defense.)

If you want to hear it synced as intended, the animation should start right after the audio starts. For reference, the sweep towards the beginning should go along with a gust of wind.

Synced up version on YouTube
for convenience so you can see what I was going for.

Drawn in Pixaki, sequenced+edited in Aseprite. 1745 frames in the NES palette at 180x120, optimized and scaled up. I wanted to see how much animation I could fit into the 2.5MB limit. Getting the speed to sync up was horrible, Pixaki and Aseprite and the OS all treated speeds differently and I kept having to make changes at each stage to get it as close as possible.
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In grade school, my best friend and I had an elaborate plan to carry out a snowball ambush on a school bully. It involved setting up a snow fort and pre-made snowball piles strategically placed outside school grounds, and then unleashing our assault when he was on the walk home. We did all the prep work but never actually carried out the plan!

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post #185017 :: 2024.02.19 4:34pm
  
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this is godlike
 
 
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post #185021 :: 2024.02.19 4:39pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
daaaaang so good! always marvel at pixel art creations like these. felt the classic text on black was a great way to give it "game intro / ending" drama
 
 
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post #185040 :: 2024.02.19 10:49pm
  
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omg the montage with the panels getting shaded as they're stacked on top of each other... aahh, there's so much wonderful detail here. the second half is pulled off so smoothly, the panel twist at 56 seconds in is just... god this is such a well-composed animation. amazing stuff!
 
 
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post #185048 :: 2024.02.19 11:47pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
Woah this is impressive work, how long did the full animation take you?
 
 
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post #185050 :: 2024.02.19 11:57pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
Oh now this is a certified banger. Leave it up to kilo to take a different approach to the bitpack. like the other comments above stated, this is amazing! This is some top level pixel art cutscene work.
 
 
185054
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post #185054 :: 2024.02.20 1:54am
  
  SnugglyBun, KungFuFurby and kilowatt64 liēkd this
KILO WINS
perfect!!
 
 
185077
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post #185077 :: 2024.02.20 6:32am
  
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Thanks for the comments.

@Prestune I’m not sure. A good amount of time in the evenings over the last three weeks. I’m pretty slow at this kind of stuff, it takes me a lot editing back and forth to get something more or less where I want it. I used a spreadsheet to time out how many frames I thought would belong to a given scene lol
 
 
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post #185084 :: 2024.02.20 8:43am
  
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holy shit
 
 
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post #185291 :: 2024.02.21 2:24pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
insanely high effort, and it pays off! you animated a whole short! oh my goodness!
 
 
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post #185770 :: 2024.02.26 10:52pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
WOW!! This gave me a huge grin on my face. Amazing work!!
 
 
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post #185771 :: 2024.02.26 10:56pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
whoa
the spritework here is amazing
love it!
 
 
186398
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post #186398 :: 2024.03.06 10:34pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
awesome work my dude! u pulled it off so good
 
 
187022
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Tex
 
 
 
post #187022 :: 2024.03.17 8:08am
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
This is phenomenal. Great animation. Well storyboarded. Balanced story pacing. Spot on parallax. The wind changing directions with the scarf was a special touch.
 
 
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post #187057 :: 2024.03.17 3:18pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
@big lumby your prediction was on point
 
 
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post #187078 :: 2024.03.18 11:25am
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
A well-deserved gold if I ever saw one, given you've effectively made a full motion picture with that submission.
 
 
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post #198713 :: 2024.10.08 2:47pm
  
  kilowatt64 liēkd this
This is legendary. The backstory makes it even better. Thank you.
 
 

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