Doom: Shish Kebab (Full Episode)E

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This is an animated short based on a fan art comic I made in the early 2000s. I was speculating on how the Pain elemental would gain the ability to spit lost souls, then I noticed there were these skulls and heads impaled on poles, and could be spotted in some levels of the game. The original sprites were gorier, so for this animation I drew clean skulls instead.

I’m not updated on the current game lore, so I don’t know if an official explanation for his abilities has been added yet.

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About the animation:

It took me more than expected...I was working it by bits during “free time”,

I learned a lot!

Planning and setting the scenes was easy, it was the inbetweening and clean up process that ate up most of the time X_X, so much that I constantly delayed the video release...and I did cut a lot of corners X_X. I’m not quite satisfied with the flames on the lost souls... I’ll consider new techniques for future animations.

I used Clip Studio, Videopad, BlastFX, Audacity,

PD howler was used for the creation of some of the mountains, other bits of the background are actual photos of mountains and clouds, and I also drew and painted some of the sky and the floor traditionally with colored pencil and gouache.

I used some sound effects from the original game, I used some of the clips to convey the demons’ different emotions (even though they weren’t lore accurate and were originally assigned to different demons) I edited the speed on some of them for extra comedic effects, and some others were made by me (the white noise for “the Mars ambience” which is just a recording of a spinning fan in slow motion, the cracking of the skulls which are originally pecans being crushed, wheezing and sputter sounds, and a frog squishy toy)

I crammed as much as I could, and I still have a lot to learn XD. Hopefully it’s a watchable story for you!