11-21-2023, 10:42 AM
I had a thread like this over on RpgmakerCentral and was surprised to see I hadn't made one here. This is a thread where I will share my labors of animation, cinematography and video editing.
First, I feel it's important to scoop you all in on what i mockingly call the Remi "Psyche Avengers Universe" based on the marvel slapfight.
This started as far back as mid 2020 when i hit the subscription goal of 100 on my youtube.
In the midst of this video and at the end we see the first IRL appearance of my Remi-Chan brand in a video, back then wearing a much less pastel version of my scarf. The thing to note of this entry is that at the time i had no idea i would expand upon the idea later thus Angy, Sadgy and Ego Remi all have the same outfit. The main way to differentiate them is their text-boxes, a gimmick that has continued until present day.
here we see Ego Remi disconnect Angy and Sadge Remi from the influentia that drove the writing, given that this subscriber milestone was what prompted a large re-write to be done, blaming parts of myself for the blunder felt appropriate. Making it into a cinematic mind-battle felt perfect since i do have a lot of battles like this in my own head.
Granted, the budget for this sequence is low because it wasn't something i thought would be largely built upon. How wrong I was!
For almost two years, the psyche avvengers universe rots in stasis until a certain Simian Scandal which shows the follow up of what happened with Angy and Sadge Remi.
A revolution is made against Ego, with only a new character "Optimism Remi" showing up to warn them it will go poorly.
it goes precisely as poorly as imagined, with Ego Remi electing to lock both of them within the cage so they could cause no further disruption. Ego Remi at this point is a fairly unknown character whose motives seem mainly in makign the writing for my games as good as possible, believing that the excess of emotion sadge and angy Remi bring to the table instead conflate the games writing with too much conflict. This is a response to the somewhat fair accusations that my characters and their interactions had conversations that were too vitriolic or based in trauma to a degree that it was losing people.
As the beginning shows, Ego Remi had succeeded without Sadge or Angy Remi's influence, Anhy Remi decides to begin a one-man coup, and Sadge joins him. To absolutely nobody's surprise but theres, Ego Remi is able to quickly show them the reason she is in charge.
"I let Ego-Remi run the show because she can appreciate the writer's balance" I say after the mini-movie is over. This denotes that I'm consciously aware of Ego Remi and am letting her run the show.
However, in my next Simian Scandal is where we finally get some of the heavily implied but still necessary context, we also meet a bunch of new Remi's!
It is made clear that before Ego Remi came along, my mind and psyches were running around in utter chaos. Ego Remi reformed the energy of the majority of the different psyches to be more organized and enforce some manner of productivity. We also get to meet a lot of new Remi's in this one, including.
Perseverance Remi: (Red white kimono with two laser pistols.
Apathy Remi: Wears a big coat and weird a single handgun. Very carefree personality who serves as a close aide to Ego Remi.
Sadist Remi: Identifiable by nasty looking knife, she gets no lines and is more just an embodiment of the chaos she once thrived in, but is also seen bowing to Ego Remi's new order.
Goofy Remi: Very colorful outfit and is recognizable by a strange red pistonbat she uses as a weapon. It appears to have some sort of phasing tech that activates on hit.
Warden Remi: Recognizable for using a combo of machine gun and an Uzi, while during the times of chaos she was seemingly an ally of Perseverance Remi, she now serves as a Warden for the cage. it's possible she too was interested in creating the order that Ego-Remi finally brought about.
Goddess Remi: Essentially the self-insert (which is hilarious because all of these fuckers are me) that serves as the person that even Ego-Remi answers to. She wears the closest thing to the brand i wear, albeit with some fancy additions.
In this cinematic we learn a lot about the state of my mind before Ego re-ordered things, we also get to see the scene shown in the 100 subscribers milestone video realized with this new tech and up-to-date outfits, Angy Remi has a hammer now, where as before she just had a big stick. But it's likely that the hammer was always angy Remi's weapon and it was confiscated by Ego after fracturing them from their position in the writing. Helped further show this is that Angy Remi is unarmed during the confrontation with Apathy, perseverance and Goofy Remi meaning the hamemr and later the firestick were likely confiscated.
The basic plot is that Angy's rage is causing wildfires in the neural pathways, blocking off access to various quadrants, making Ego's job to make the deadline nigh impossible, this is a literal metaphor for burn out. There's also Sadge's mourning which is causing rains to flood certain areas making work both miserable and difficult. In response, she sends Apathy to try and convince Angy and Sadge Remi to rejoin the fold, knowing Apathy would not be bound by the hang ups she is.
The Warden gives Apathy a warrant but warns that once inside, the Warden does not interfere, Apathy accepts this and goes inward, it isn't long before she finds herself being flung around and slammed into the ground repeatedly by an Angy Remi, who reveals the point of their coup was that it might inspire the others to action, but instead all it did was shift the focus to Ego Remi's abilities, that they'd made it all about her. While Apathy is largely unworried by Angy's blustering and beatings, Goofy and Perseverance Remi show up to help out. This ultimately leads to Angy Remi being beaten down.
THE MISSING SEQUENCE
There's a chapter I never got to implement due to time constraints that shows the reconciliation of Angy and Sadge Remi, explaining their reasoning for never wanting to be a part of Ego's scheme. This was to be reflected in the first scene where Angy scoffs and Sadge looks uneasy while the rest of the Remi's are kneeling. It's revealed that Angy's motivation for defying her came from a belief that she in her ignorance was weak. That any who cross the Goddess should be witness to a tirade of abuse, while Sadge noted that it was her lack of apparent sadness over what happened over the past years that made her worry. Apathy would then go to remind them that she fully intended to crush any who got in the way, using both of them as shields, but because of that zealotry, they almost lost a good friend that no amount of crushing enemies could ever replace. Angy and Sadge conceded they might have been wrong and agree to give this another go. With both seeming relieved they don't have to fight anymore, the rains ceasing and the fires subsiding.
Then we get to the final scene, which shows Ego Remi revealing to Apathy that it was unlikely they would make the deadline even with Sadge and Angy back, however, Goddess Remi shows up, informing them that despite the rains, the other Remi's continued their work meaning all that was left was to put the pieces together. This is reflective of how I got my drive back a mere month before the deadline I'd set for myself, and managed to get it done despite going through some shit the past year.
Now, the story is ultimately just a bit, and while production values slowly went up, and then spiked up when i got a green-screen, it is for all intents and purposes, just a silly inner monologue that I somehow decided was worth dignifying with a parody of "Marvel Avengers Universe" in a very mocking fashion.
I of course, regret nothing. It was a blast to develop! But I will not pretend it's quality cinematic theater.
No no, if you want quality cinematic theater that's what this is for:
My first really long-form video which delves into my past and history as a game developer. I imagined this would take 2 months, but because I'm insane it only ended up taking two days, entirely book-ending one of the jokes I made in the video.
I will post cinematics in the next post. Just wanted to get my live action and big projects out there first since these have their merits to watching. There's also no real game spoilers in them which makes them very safe and easy viewing!
First, I feel it's important to scoop you all in on what i mockingly call the Remi "Psyche Avengers Universe" based on the marvel slapfight.
This started as far back as mid 2020 when i hit the subscription goal of 100 on my youtube.
In the midst of this video and at the end we see the first IRL appearance of my Remi-Chan brand in a video, back then wearing a much less pastel version of my scarf. The thing to note of this entry is that at the time i had no idea i would expand upon the idea later thus Angy, Sadgy and Ego Remi all have the same outfit. The main way to differentiate them is their text-boxes, a gimmick that has continued until present day.
here we see Ego Remi disconnect Angy and Sadge Remi from the influentia that drove the writing, given that this subscriber milestone was what prompted a large re-write to be done, blaming parts of myself for the blunder felt appropriate. Making it into a cinematic mind-battle felt perfect since i do have a lot of battles like this in my own head.
Granted, the budget for this sequence is low because it wasn't something i thought would be largely built upon. How wrong I was!
For almost two years, the psyche avvengers universe rots in stasis until a certain Simian Scandal which shows the follow up of what happened with Angy and Sadge Remi.
A revolution is made against Ego, with only a new character "Optimism Remi" showing up to warn them it will go poorly.
it goes precisely as poorly as imagined, with Ego Remi electing to lock both of them within the cage so they could cause no further disruption. Ego Remi at this point is a fairly unknown character whose motives seem mainly in makign the writing for my games as good as possible, believing that the excess of emotion sadge and angy Remi bring to the table instead conflate the games writing with too much conflict. This is a response to the somewhat fair accusations that my characters and their interactions had conversations that were too vitriolic or based in trauma to a degree that it was losing people.
As the beginning shows, Ego Remi had succeeded without Sadge or Angy Remi's influence, Anhy Remi decides to begin a one-man coup, and Sadge joins him. To absolutely nobody's surprise but theres, Ego Remi is able to quickly show them the reason she is in charge.
"I let Ego-Remi run the show because she can appreciate the writer's balance" I say after the mini-movie is over. This denotes that I'm consciously aware of Ego Remi and am letting her run the show.
However, in my next Simian Scandal is where we finally get some of the heavily implied but still necessary context, we also meet a bunch of new Remi's!
It is made clear that before Ego Remi came along, my mind and psyches were running around in utter chaos. Ego Remi reformed the energy of the majority of the different psyches to be more organized and enforce some manner of productivity. We also get to meet a lot of new Remi's in this one, including.
Perseverance Remi: (Red white kimono with two laser pistols.
Apathy Remi: Wears a big coat and weird a single handgun. Very carefree personality who serves as a close aide to Ego Remi.
Sadist Remi: Identifiable by nasty looking knife, she gets no lines and is more just an embodiment of the chaos she once thrived in, but is also seen bowing to Ego Remi's new order.
Goofy Remi: Very colorful outfit and is recognizable by a strange red pistonbat she uses as a weapon. It appears to have some sort of phasing tech that activates on hit.
Warden Remi: Recognizable for using a combo of machine gun and an Uzi, while during the times of chaos she was seemingly an ally of Perseverance Remi, she now serves as a Warden for the cage. it's possible she too was interested in creating the order that Ego-Remi finally brought about.
Goddess Remi: Essentially the self-insert (which is hilarious because all of these fuckers are me) that serves as the person that even Ego-Remi answers to. She wears the closest thing to the brand i wear, albeit with some fancy additions.
In this cinematic we learn a lot about the state of my mind before Ego re-ordered things, we also get to see the scene shown in the 100 subscribers milestone video realized with this new tech and up-to-date outfits, Angy Remi has a hammer now, where as before she just had a big stick. But it's likely that the hammer was always angy Remi's weapon and it was confiscated by Ego after fracturing them from their position in the writing. Helped further show this is that Angy Remi is unarmed during the confrontation with Apathy, perseverance and Goofy Remi meaning the hamemr and later the firestick were likely confiscated.
The basic plot is that Angy's rage is causing wildfires in the neural pathways, blocking off access to various quadrants, making Ego's job to make the deadline nigh impossible, this is a literal metaphor for burn out. There's also Sadge's mourning which is causing rains to flood certain areas making work both miserable and difficult. In response, she sends Apathy to try and convince Angy and Sadge Remi to rejoin the fold, knowing Apathy would not be bound by the hang ups she is.
The Warden gives Apathy a warrant but warns that once inside, the Warden does not interfere, Apathy accepts this and goes inward, it isn't long before she finds herself being flung around and slammed into the ground repeatedly by an Angy Remi, who reveals the point of their coup was that it might inspire the others to action, but instead all it did was shift the focus to Ego Remi's abilities, that they'd made it all about her. While Apathy is largely unworried by Angy's blustering and beatings, Goofy and Perseverance Remi show up to help out. This ultimately leads to Angy Remi being beaten down.
THE MISSING SEQUENCE
There's a chapter I never got to implement due to time constraints that shows the reconciliation of Angy and Sadge Remi, explaining their reasoning for never wanting to be a part of Ego's scheme. This was to be reflected in the first scene where Angy scoffs and Sadge looks uneasy while the rest of the Remi's are kneeling. It's revealed that Angy's motivation for defying her came from a belief that she in her ignorance was weak. That any who cross the Goddess should be witness to a tirade of abuse, while Sadge noted that it was her lack of apparent sadness over what happened over the past years that made her worry. Apathy would then go to remind them that she fully intended to crush any who got in the way, using both of them as shields, but because of that zealotry, they almost lost a good friend that no amount of crushing enemies could ever replace. Angy and Sadge conceded they might have been wrong and agree to give this another go. With both seeming relieved they don't have to fight anymore, the rains ceasing and the fires subsiding.
Then we get to the final scene, which shows Ego Remi revealing to Apathy that it was unlikely they would make the deadline even with Sadge and Angy back, however, Goddess Remi shows up, informing them that despite the rains, the other Remi's continued their work meaning all that was left was to put the pieces together. This is reflective of how I got my drive back a mere month before the deadline I'd set for myself, and managed to get it done despite going through some shit the past year.
Now, the story is ultimately just a bit, and while production values slowly went up, and then spiked up when i got a green-screen, it is for all intents and purposes, just a silly inner monologue that I somehow decided was worth dignifying with a parody of "Marvel Avengers Universe" in a very mocking fashion.
I of course, regret nothing. It was a blast to develop! But I will not pretend it's quality cinematic theater.
No no, if you want quality cinematic theater that's what this is for:
My first really long-form video which delves into my past and history as a game developer. I imagined this would take 2 months, but because I'm insane it only ended up taking two days, entirely book-ending one of the jokes I made in the video.
I will post cinematics in the next post. Just wanted to get my live action and big projects out there first since these have their merits to watching. There's also no real game spoilers in them which makes them very safe and easy viewing!