Michael Ropple
208 posts

Michael Ropple
@spacepig22
CG Generalist, formerly at Nickelodeon. Loves making games on the side.
Katılım Haziran 2012
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April Fools Day may be over, but I think misinformation about Sonic the Hedgehog is something we can enjoy all year round!
I laughed at my own jokes way too much while making it. I dunno if that means it's good, or just that I had fun, but... here you go!
youtu.be/exl1Qj1v7pg

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Ok, so, as soon as I saw that Nvidia DLSS 5 demo (and specifically Digital Foundry talking about how great it was), I felt compelled to make a short about it. It was genuinely embarrassing:
youtube.com/shorts/oxTtmvo…

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I made another short, this time pointing out an interesting quirk in Portal 1 that I didn't see too many people talking about.
It possibly hints at an older draft of a joke, or maybe a mistake on the developers' part.
youtube.com/shorts/OkhQxIh…

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Do you remember Kappa Mikey, the obscure Nicktoons Network show? Probably.
Do you remember Kappa Mikey's even more obscure spin-off show, Dancing Sushi? Probably not.
youtube.com/shorts/TZq1caw…

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Don't ask me how, but I found the scripts for several early season 2 episodes of Kappa Mikey.
I watched each episode side by side with the script to find any changes that were made between writing and final product.
youtube.com/shorts/RRmcf4Y…

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Trivia most people already know is that Kappa Mikey was originally going to be an teen/adult show on MTV.
As a lifelong fan, it was SURREAL to be scrolling one night and suddenly see Kappa Mikey be relevant again, when the MTV pilot leaked in 2017.
youtube.com/shorts/mf4EpoN…

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Kappa Mikey's pilot is called "The Lost Pilot."
This is because they attempted to make the pilot first, but there were issues, so it had to be delayed and redone.
Clips from the original version of the pilot can be seen in the sizzle reel:
youtube.com/shorts/sNKcU3M…

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Kapa Mikey was such a unique show, and in a lot of ways, it was ahead of the curve.
This snippet from my 8 hour video is from the episode where Mikey and Guano are upset that they BUTCHERED the English dub of the anime they work on:
youtube.com/shorts/r-SobrW…

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The best part of art is the human element.
In an interview, Carrie Keranen (Mitsuki's voice actress) recounts a blooper in the recording booth. I made an animatic to illustrate it:
youtube.com/shorts/n2WY86p…

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This is the silliest of all the shorts I've made, but you know how it is when there's some small, strange detail in an animation and you wonder why it is the way it is:
youtube.com/shorts/bfSuc0c…

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I love seeing ideas that go unused, so I was really excited to find a storyboard in Travis Cowsill's portfolio with so many changes from the final that it's almost unrecognizable.
youtube.com/shorts/5LPHRTx…

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