Squared Media – Songs of War: Ep. 7 BTS! Minecraft Adventure!

This is the point in season 1 where everything just seems to be going bad for all the heroes Dalia’s is dead San Darya destroyed and immediately after all that the necromancers destroy nica’s tree fort i think it’s important for the protagonists to lose there needs to be higher stakes there needs to be

That desire to see them succeed and after so much defeat only then can you really get those dramatic moments which would have been dull otherwise hey everyone David here director of songs of war and welcome to another behind the scenes video episode 7 opens with with the

Zarya I wrote with the Zarya discovering Lukens identity and then the fight breaks out this was one of the very first fight sequences zilean worked on when we brought on animators I only laid out a tiny section for the fight but when zilean showed me the the draft I

Thought it was super cool watching Nika go up against Aria in front of the burning backdrop in hindsight I wish I had extended this fight a lot more but I didn’t really worry too much because some of the best fights were still yet to come I got to mention the weird little green

Optical illusion and how much time I spent trying to solve a non-existent problem it looks like he’s wearing a green little bowtie or something and I couldn’t tell what was causing it so then I did a color comparison and I realized it wasn’t actually green at all

It was just this weird color illusion having Lukens robe pulled back was actually surprisingly difficult I considered many different ways to make it happen and each seemed to come with their own problems such as having a cloth simulation or something eventually the solution was actually quite simple

Although a bit tedious which was to make 11 different versions of that hooded skin so would transition into a pullback state if I changed between one skin per frame you wouldn’t really notice it being a stop motion they would just seem smooth there’s a nice scene here where

We start to see Luke and Nico’s relationship evolve although neither of them wanted to work together at the start now they’ve kind of become comfortable working together and don’t really want to go back to working alone and welcome to hog town hog towns a city that exists just outside the borders of

Concord we imagine that it’s one of those towns that it wants to be in the kingdom for protection and other advantages but the but Concord it isn’t really what hog town because it’s a little more poor rundown so there’s kind of a lot of resentment from the people living there building it was

Surprisingly difficult because how do you make a place look nice when it’s supposed to look like a dump so we’re down in the Commonwealth down and dirty with people outside kingdoms they’re fearful of outsiders and don’t really like or trust the other species is not necessarily that any

Other species too racist or anything but they have genuine reasons to be concerned about when some of these more dangerous species show up since our down you can use songs it’d be like if someone was walking around with a bunch of dynamite in the shopping mall or

Something that could blow up and you wouldn’t even know they had it you don’t know they are known he has a song or not or a Magna Wright would be like if it’s on parked out in front of your house and like an armored SWAT fan or something

This was the episode where we decided to make a lot of pig loops to really portray the pig industry that’s here there are pigs and pens pigs roaming around we even had a little piggy boy randomly walk up to sin try to give us attention during the conversation you

Kind of like nudged him a bit like get pad or something and at one point we see when sin raises his arm up the pig kind of like follows his hand to see if he’s like holding food or something this was something that Jude oh man made the

Scene had a lot of fun with I even made these mud puddles that were going to go on the ground to make the place feel even more nasty after spending a while making a really nice material for them I realized they they just didn’t look as

Good once you brought the rest of the environment and also when the feet stepped in the puddles it didn’t actually create a ripple so it kind of broke the illusion luckily I ended up using this exact same effect later in the series well for episode 1 during the walls of time and then

Adjusting it slightly to make it a little more like frozen water puddles and since it was ice it didn’t need to actually ripple when they stepped on it and finally we meet igneous he’s a magnetite which we we thought we already knew a bit about but we see the

Igneous is nothing like the magnets everyone’s worried about I think this helps him Stan a lot more but it also makes us start questioning other species and factions that we might have been generalizing the voice actor Jackson Trent used to voice the villain firelight my old halo machinima series what evidence do you

Have to con your word isn’t as valuable as if elite so we thought we’d give him a villain role in songs of war we let him try some of the ville tourists in Episode six like Lucy Dias and ina but it just wasn’t working out and it didn’t

Feel right after that you know after we after we went through that you know attempting to get those two characters most the characters for the season had already been fulfilled there’s only a few left and none were really villains so we were like well you can just try

Covers laughing you know giving us a try if you want or something oh hello there I hope you don’t mind if every year oh hi hello there I hope you’ll mind if I breathe here oh there I hope you don’t mind if I read here oh I hope you don’t

Mind if I read here turns out you know the Ignis audition was just perfect it fits so well and it was just great because then igneous ends up having much more of a leading role than those two well Vultar skies did Endermen or woke and Enderman are woke that’s what it

Says my script I don’t think I really previewed the script before I’m rented I realized at this point I couldn’t just keep doing a random assortment of ender particles every time another night teleported for example in Episode four during the dream I just did some random particle burst initially I needed

Something much more efficient and easier to set up when they teleport a lot so I ended up creating this little array of 2d planes which gives the illusion of this kind of spherical energy blob that appears during the teleports looked really good and it worked wonders from an animation standpoint but something

Felt missing would he be missing which is when we gave the Enderman himself this kind of bright texture for a frame or two just at the teleport point to make the flash seem even more intense even after all this though his initial reveal seemed to be too abrupt we wanted

His arrival to be a bit drawn out and let gel car can’t detect it first so the lure we came up with was that when the under man would teleport between dimensions such as from the end to the overworld they had to do this kind of longer charge up teleport but

When they just do you know quick and short movement it does the the basic flash I did go back and actually in the episode for for the dream sequence go back and use this effect there so you can see it looks better now so then another fight breaks out here it’s

Difficult to animate Enderman fighting when they don’t really have any weapons but zilean managed it somehow he gets his arm chopped off yo and okay yeah I definitely didn’t finish editing the script oh well and if you’re looking carefully you can see that he is one of

The Enderman in that final shot after the fight it might seem like the action is over but we do get one final fight Chow car leaves Grimm that moment that the sorry that that was my bad Chuck our leaves Grimm the moment he starts to feel that Crimmins usefulness has expired

Which really proves just how little he cared for Grimm normally in this fight Grimm would have easily been able to take Abigail but since he was injured from the previous fight with the Enderman injured from the arrow injured from the fall it made sense that he

Didn’t win this one also Abigail had the help of Sam and on top of all of that yeah but y’all didn’t really beat Grimm but instead Grimm kind of made a mistake in not knowing that his electric sight there’s gonna have problems by you know getting like heated in the water and

Finally at the end we see the under men are still consciously following the egg but are backing off a bit now now that they’re starting to realize abigail is after the egg to protect it thanks everyone for watching if you want to support the series and help make

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Patreon promotion this month anyone who is pledged to our patreon at any level during the month of March will have their name featured in songs war episode 10 full credits well assuming your pledge before that episode comes out so thanks for watching see you next video