history of japan reanimated
me and 16 other artists (music, narration, and animation) have been spending the past couple months on a recreation of bill wurtz's legendary "history of japan" to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his release. i contributed two animation sections. the canonical release is on LunaPogi's YouTube page, but i am providing this ad-free video player.
the wonderful souls who worked on the project, in order of appearance.
- Kappacap - thumbnail artist
- atamai - animation (0:03-1:02)
- moxley - music and narration (0:03-3:10), animation (3:51-4:03)
- TheJustinator - animation (1:03-1:33, 2:02-2:33), music (3:11-6:04)
- chaosyumi - animation (1:34-2:01, 5:34-6:05)
- LunaPogi - animation (3:36-3:51, 8:01-9:10), music (6:05-9:10), narration (8:01-9:10)
- zeccet (bgongo) - animation (2:23-3:10)
- TheRealTinyWorld - animation (3:11-3:35)
- Fred French VA - narration (3:11-4:35)
- rqfirqfo - animation (4:04-4:35)
- krispykarim - animation (4:36 - 5:04), narration (4:36-8:01)
- SimplyDoodled Studios - animation (5:05-5:33)
- paper clover (me) - animation (6:05-6:38), credits animation (9:11-9:35)
- Coffee - transcription (6:05-9:10)
- harjjw - animation (6:38-7:03)
- yellowmarkers - animation (7:04-7:36)
- TheNothingGuy07 - animation (7:37-7:59)
the music during the credits is an instrumental by bill wurtz: hey mom i beat the scale!
what's next
from the success of this project, a much more ambitous project is being planned: the reanimation for 'history of the entire world, i guess'. while some planning between co-hosts is in progress, i am putting out an interest form if this project is something you're interested in working on. by submitting the form, i'll be able to reach out when it's actually time to start cooking.
behind the scenes
here is a 55 minute dive into my process, as well as nearly every little trick i used on this project. additionally, for one of the first times from me, a free download for all of the project files.
more links
paper clover q&a page
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