My custom animated logo variant starring Kiki and Lala

My custom logo animation variation stars Kiki and Lala stylishly inspired in part by Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater and some other 80s-90s DiC cartoons.This short project was originally made using Photoshop back then. After my workflow years, I've shifted over to something more open-source friendly just to complete it all, including the special Multiplane cam of OpenToonz. Link(s):<a href="https://www.deviantart.com/stash/011elh2dsul3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DeviantArt</a><a href="https://youtu.be/0tOXkOQG4ww" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">YouTube</a> Presented in Traditional Cel Animation Style Emulation (T-CASE) in HelloColor.Software/Device(s) used:Microsoft Surface 7:Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Layout and first part Animation)Krita (Hand Drawn Animation in Chars, Logo and BG)Tahoma2D (OpenToonz Based) (Animation in Layers and Camera, Special FX)Kdenlive (partial Special FX, Title, Sound Edit and Composition)© '76 Sanrio ~ Little Twin Stars; Kiki &amp; Lala© 1990 WildBrain ~ DiC Logo Production dates: 9.29.2022-2.3.2023, 2.15.2026-4.1.2026

Little Twin Stars star in the DiC logo

Dr. Robotnik demoted me to Assist Trophy duty, me, Coconuts! Why, I should be a promoted fighter! He’s giving them my job! I’ll show them, wait until he sees this, then he’ll for sure get me out…

Lawl Retro (01) Coconuts (The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog : DIC)

DIC Green Vortex Logo Remake

The villainous Dr. Robotnik confronts Sonic about his frustrations.

v1.0 — Initial release. Used chroma key to separate animation from backgrounds.v.1.1 — Used alpha channel instead of chroma key. Green line art artifacts removed.v1.2 — Added SWF version. Fixed minor color mistakes for SWF version only. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eZM3_aK-9eM#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649#ngq:1154:649" width="1154" height="649" data-smart-scale="1154,649"></iframe> COMMENTARYI started this project thinking, “Oh, yeah, I know exactly how to draw AoStH Robotnik; I don’t need to use reference!” And then every frame looked like shit. So, I went online and referred to the show itself and these two pieces of concept art by character designer Milton Knight. A good lesson in humility. <img src="https://uploads.ungrounded.net/tmp/img/397000/iu_397394_4226168.webp" width="764" height="317" alt="iu_397394_4226168.webp" data-smart-scale="764,317"> I accomplished a good chunk of animation on a livestream, but the stream was struck down because I played episodes of Adventures of Sonic for my friends to watch thinking nothing would come of it. Maybe I should stream on Twitch or Picarto, accounts where I don’t really care whether they live or die. It’s a darn shame because that stream was a lot of fun! DoodleDemon and I started calling each other “blithering buckets of bolts” and watched Robotnik do a Nazi salute and that was absolutely hilarious. <img src="https://uploads.ungrounded.net/tmp/img/397000/iu_397346_4226168.png" width="446" height="708" alt="iu_397346_4226168.png" data-smart-scale="446,708"> The show itself is a lot of fun. It’s stupid fun. Every moment Robotnik is on screen is a good time. Scratch and Grounder are great, as well. The team that worked on it—including Milton Knight, the voice actor Long John Baldry (1940–2005 R.I.P.), and the storyboard artists (including Scott Shaw! From the early Archie Sonic comics)—did a fantastic job given the limitations they worked with. Overall, I definitely prefer SatAM over AoStH, but they are both very different genres of animation. While I was working on this project, Milton Knight leaked on Facebook that Diskotech would be doing an Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog complete series release on Blu-ray and that it would contain new interviews with him. I had hoped that the release would be in HD given that it is Blu-ray and not DVD, but it was very unlikely whoever owned the rights to the show kept the film masters and only kept the master tapes, which inherently have a lower resolution. Later that year, Diskotech officially announced the complete series on Twitter. I am absolutely going to pre-order it. It comes out February 2022. If they ever release the SatAM complete series on Blu-ray (in full HD, knock on wood), I will die a happy man. Now that I think about it, I’m known by all my friends for being a huge Sonic fan, so it’s weird that it took until now for me to make a proper Sonic cartoon. This project started as a gift for MatterBoar. I felt bad that <a href="https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/771051">the previous animation I made for him</a> was released in November 2020, 13 months ago, and I hadn’t made any new ones in that time. So I secretly started this one and originally intended to give it to him for free. He asked me if I was available for new animation work and I told him about this side project and he said he’d buy it! The deadline was Christmas Day. The night before, I promised myself I would work on this cartoon until it is 100% ready to release. I thought it would take maybe three hours. It ended up taking 22 hours straight. I only took three hour-long breaks to rest my hands and get a half-hour of sleep. A single cup of hot chocolate coffee got me through it! The thing that took the longest in this particular long stretch was the shot of Robotnik running in place. That took forever! I probably could have done this quicker, but I wanted to make sure each and every frame was cleaned up. I do not envy the animators of the original show. Despite how simple Robotnik’s character design looks, animating him takes a long time, especially compared to Sonic. Robotnik’s mustache and yellow jumpsuit straps in particular were very troublesome, as well as layering the different body parts. The most frustrating thing with Sonic was doing his baby blue highlights. Thankfully, Sonic hardly moves in this cartoon. (That’s kinda uncharacteristic of Sonic, but hey I’m not complaining!) I wanted to add some traditional paint-like motion blur to some of the snappier movements, but due to the deadline—and me just wanting to move on to something new—I could not do it in time. The tight shot of Robotnik’s face at the end was also supposed to be painterly, similar to the gross-out shots in SpongeBob and Ren and Stimpy, but after I took a crack at it in Clip Studio Paint, I couldn’t do it. Also, I felt that a rendered painting of a character wouldn’t fit a parody that tried to match the art style of the original show. Pre-production began in August 2021 and post-production ended on Saturday, December 25th. Normally, a 26-second-long cartoon wouldn’t take that long, but due to a myriad of continuous financial problems and setbacks, it took four months to complete. It probably would have had a better start if I had started by making storyboards. I run-and-gunned this whole cartoon and I definitely regret it. I ended up making last-minute changes to the character poses, facial expressions, etc., which isn’t something you really want to be doing a lot with deadlines involved. You want to make confident decisions in the beginning so that the changes later on will hopefully be few in number. Ordinarily, I would not do this slapdash approach with a commission. But this started out as a gift and turned into a commission later. Regardless, even quick, shoddy storyboards would have gone a long way! Lesson learned. Originally, I was going to commission my friend Dyoudi Mitimasa (<a href="https://epicfunnyhahajokelol.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@epicfunnyhahajokelol</a>) do the background art. He is a natural at this kind of sharp, abstract art style. However, I did not have the money to commission an artist, especially at the time. So instead, I leave you with a huge recommendation to go check out Dyoudi’s art! He’s a wonderful artist and a wonderful person! Additionally, Milton Knight is still an active artist and has a Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/miltonknight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Go support him, too!</a> I made this background art by referencing two screenshots from the show, shown in the timelapse video. At first, I was very happy with this art, especially since it was my first real attempt at abstract art. The reference really helped! But once I put it in the cartoon, something was wrong. Robotnik’s design is mostly warm colors. The background is mostly warm colors. I feel this leads to a lot of Robotnik’s movements being less readable than they should. Sonic is fine since he’s blue, orange’s complement. If I had to do the background art again, I would divide the composition into two sections: a cool section for Robotnik and a warm section for Sonic. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HgFCB4l9Vv8#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649#ngq:865:649" width="865" height="649" data-smart-scale="865,649"></iframe> CLIENT<a href="https://youtube.com/c/matterboar" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">MatterBoar</a> ANIMATION / BACKGROUND ART / EDITINGAlexander Emenheiser <a href="https://ade-syndicate.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@ade-syndicate</a> BACKGROUND MUSICDr. Robotnik's ThemeComposed by Reed Robbins and Mark SimonCover by <a href="https://youtu.be/j9GpekZhhkI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Turret 3471</a> Main Title ThemeComposed by Clark GassmanIncludes motifs fromSonic 2 Title Theme and Emerald Hill Zone composed by Masato Nakamura,In the Hall of the Mountain King composed by Edvard Grieg,and Flight of the Bumblebee composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov AUDIO TAKEN FROM<a href="https://youtu.be/1kCWA4gwOT0?t=1391" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">OneyPlays Sonic Robo Blast 2 - FINALE</a>with <a href="https://oney.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@Oney</a>, <a href="https://patreon.com/wanwangames" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ding Dong, and Julian</a>Edited by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/DexTheSwede" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Dex the Swede</a> FONTSPedro SPECIAL THANKS AND PATREON SUPPORTERSAnimation stream viewers,including <a href="https://twitter.com/doodledemon_art" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DoodleDemon</a>, for keeping me company<a href="https://www.patreon.com/miltonknight" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Milton Knight</a> for being nice when I talked to him :)<a href="https://suprdee2.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@SuprDee2</a> for being supportiveand giving me a new version of Toon BoomDyoudi Mitimasa <a href="https://epicfunnyhahajokelol.newgrounds.com" rel="nofollow">@epicfunnyhahajokelol</a> PATREON &amp; KO-FI SUPPORTERSAleahAshleyFroggyDuwudeViktor Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog © SEGA, DIC Entertainment 1993 P.S. — I’m working on a new project right now! Consider becoming a member on Ko-fi and you’ll get access to previews, WIPs, shoutouts, and more AND support my work! There are options for one-off donations and memberships. Thank you! OH, and Merry Christmas! <a href="https://ko-fi.com/adesyndicate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><img src="https://uploads.ungrounded.net/tmp/img/506000/iu_506236_4226168.gif" width="427" height="240" alt="iu_506236_4226168.gif" data-smart-scale="427,240"></a>

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Sonic SatAM_Shot_48

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Sonic X: The Last Resort_Scene 156 Comparison

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Sonic SatAM Shot 324 [Comparison]

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