Paint Gal Goes BowlingE

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I don't know why but I was inspired to make an oldschool bowling alley animation that looks vintage to the best of my abilities.

Getting it to look janky was a challenge. All the keyframes are animated linearly rather than using Blender's default bezier motions, this makes movements feel more mechanical and stiff since everything is moving from one point to another at a continuous rate with no easing.

The outdated animation in combination with the primitive lighting and harsh shadows of Blender 2.79's scanline renderer (not cycles or eevee, looks too modern) gives it a very strange vibe that a lot of 90s bowling alley animations have.

I rendered the video in a low resolution (640x480, blown up to HD in nearest neighbor) and animated at 12 FPS to make it feel even more outdated. I still think it looks too modern but going any further would involve video post-processing which I'm not knowledgeable of.

This took about 2 hours to make and that's fine. Not everything needs to be a masterpiece that wows you. If anything it may have became less funny if it was animated well.