So around this past september I was fishing around online to get a team together to work on a trilogy of music videos. Five months later, here they are!
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(bitly’s make for a good marketing tool, if you haven’t tried them )
Below is the playlist of the 3 Acts of the production, plus the intro motion graphics. Each video/song is a parody of an original song from Dr. Horrible’s Singalong blog. What makes this production unique in vast sea of Minecraft parodies is that it is as much a story as it is a music production, and that it spans over several videos to form an integrated storyline.
I will also be doing a much more intensive behind the scenes collection for this production. People have been wanting me to do tutorials, but I already have limited time to make animations – so I hope this will be a good compromise.
Just to be clear, I was the producer/animator/lyric writer. All the visuals were created in blender except for the motion graphics credit roll, which was created in After Effects. The other people involved developed the individual songs, plus another person who made most of my minecraft sets in the game itself.
It would mean the world for me if you watched or shared this! And of course I wouldn’t be on blenderartists if I wasn’t looking for feedback.
Thank, and I am glad you found it entertaining!
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In other news, “Act 0” has now been released on my music director’s channel, another fun entry alongside this trilogy production:
I will start producing the behind the scenes stuff in the coming weeks, starting with “whirlwind BTS”'s that cover specific content for each individual act in about realtime.
Don’t forget to pass it along if you find it entertaining!
This is amazing! A real treat for every Minecraft lover that also loves Minecraft lore. It was interesting, very well animated and excellently sung! me likes! wait, likes? ME LOVES!
Really great work, Patrick! The quality of your videos continues to increase. I will be sure to share this on my Classy Dog page!
Personally, I would say my favorite video is Act III, because it felt the most cinematic, and that’s often the style I gravitate towards (if I can call that a “style”). But all of them had very good camera work, and most importantly were FUN to watch! I thought that the transforming of one creature into another (cow to mooshroom, pig to zombie pigman, etc), was a great idea.
If I had any critiques, it would be that the ending of Part III felt a little abrupt. I feel like I missed something (which is possible as I don’t keep up with all the happenings and additions made to Minecraft), which would explain why the ending seemed a little jarring. But in any case, a really fantastic series you’ve created here! I do have a question, was the city in part III based on a Hunger Games map? I’ve never seen the films, but I’ve watched a Hunger Games PvP match with the Yogscast, and the map they played on looked very similar to the city in your video.
Looking forward to the BTS videos! By the way, nice beard, it looks good on you!
I’m also really glad to hear you liked act III so much I do also like the more cinematic style, but it’s more difficult to pull off; if it takes itself too seriously or it relies on generating some emotion in the viewer that it fails to build up, then it would end up being almost awkward to watch and would more extremely disengage the viewer than another style might. For this reason, I spent a lot of time finding a way to lead the viewers to that stage, making it fun (with things like the mooshrooms, transformation, but also developing both Notch and Herobrine to relatable people, so that by act III (as least I hope!) there’s a genuine interest/concern about what takes place.
I understand your critique of the end of act III, and I appreciate the critique. The parody song chosen also ends in a sort of abrupt way, but I wanted to make it ease out slight more – which I did not communicate well with my music crew. The animation probably could have done more to ease the transition, but at that stage I was too close to publishing for Friday prime time, doing any more would have delayed it another week.
The city itself was not explicitly based on any Hunger Games map, it was actually built by one person in a combination of survival and creative mode in spare time, and to my knowledge this has been its only use outside of his personal youtube showcase videos of it.
Indeed, I hope to really get going on the behind the scenes soon – and thanks, I’ve grown it out a little
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I do also like the more cinematic style, but it’s more difficult to pull off; if it takes itself too seriously or it relies on generating some emotion in the viewer that it fails to build up, then it would end up being almost awkward to watch and would more extremely disengage the viewer than another style might. For this reason, I spent a lot of time finding a way to lead the viewers to that stage, making it fun (with things like the mooshrooms, transformation, but also developing both Notch and Herobrine to relatable people, so that by act III (as least I hope!) there’s a genuine interest/concern about what takes place.