Great War Archives (2022 Unfinished Animation Stuff)

REAALLY OLD STUFF from my years in college, this is a companion video to my Behind the Scenes of We Love Cold War (watch it here    • Behind the Scenes - We Love Cold War!...   ) since this was the stuff I was working on in my last 2 years of college. I was debating whether or not to post this stuff, but figured I'd just compile them into a quick retrospective and dump them on my channel for archival reasons =p I'll write up a quick retrospective essay but:

On the Marne! was basically a complete de-construction of my previous attempts to make a more serious and grounded WW1 "anime" as silly as that may seem, because I wanted to create a really overly ambitious melodrama set during WW1 with these characters you see at the end, but ultimately I decided to forgo taking the era more seriously because almost every piece of WW1 media feels the need to (with the exception of Blackadder). I was inspired by shows like Danger 5 which were set during WW2 but complete parodies of the genre itself and I decided so here, logically, goofy spy chase animation with a British officer chasing a German was more fun =p, but ultimately it was still something very "weird" and oddball for this niche, so it was changed to a setting that was more immediately palatable as "spy vs spy", hence Cold War. The character designs were largely ported over and the car chase remained the core of the short and the rest was all history.

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