The Gathering Storm - A 'Battletech Animated' remake
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024
- ▶ Hi, I'm Vux and I produced a video :)
▶ This is a machinima remake of introductory scene of episode 1 of the "Battletech Animated" cartoon from 1994. The concept I had was a shot-for-shot remake of the cartoon, with adaptations and additions as appropriate. I adapted certain tricky features (such as the 'Enhanced Imaging' scenes) with the resources I had available.
▶ This project was about ~5 months in the making, involving quite a few people. I wanted to keep the script and dialogue very faithful to the original, with the intent to mirror the style/attitude of the original cast as well as we could. I opted for the more classic "slow lumbering battle robots" feel featured in the cartoon, instead of using MWO's much higher speeds. We also tried to match camos and loadouts as well as we could, with as few changes as possible.
▶ Hope ya'all like it! Please thumbs-up if you did 👍 ^_^
This just makes me want a full remake of the series
While it certainly would be EPIC with all Caps, I fear it would be unlikely...The Mechwarrior Games have yet to figure out a good way to handle Melee (Like the Axeman's Hatchet) or Battle Armor...
Still though, one can dream...
Likewise, I have wanted this for a long time, and not a fan-made creation like this one.
Lovely re-enactment of one of the running jokes of the Battletech Universe! ^^
I love how the animated series also exists in-universe as a kids cartoon and propaganda piece. Apparently it flopped in the Inner Sphere, but really took off in popularity in the Clan occupation zones and the homeworlds, being seen as a kind of slapstic comedy!
In one Technical Readout(I think it was a TR...), we can read a conversation between 2 Warriors of Clan Coyote, one joking about how over the top and ridiculous Nicolai Malthus was portrayed and if the spheroids really think that Clan Warriors talk like that, the other then aping the "YOU DARE REFUSE MY BATCHALL?!" line, and both literally going LOL. xD
Oh man, I forgot all about how they retconned the cartoon D: I had no idea about that last part with the clan Coyote warriors, that's awesome! :D Let me know if you find the source for it, won't you.
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YOOOOOOOOOOOU DAAAAAAARE TO RUH-FHJOOOSE MY BATCHALL?!
I was looking for "Trial Mech Tribulations" and found this...
This looks like it was a lot of work!
Yep, lots and lots (and lots) :D
You DARE refuse my batchall?! this is an awesome video! I remember this show from my childhood, and still love it, even with the inaccuracies and "acting". I love how precisely you
preserved the awful acting in this remake. It's awesome!
the voice actor really did sound like Nicolai Malthus, awesome project!
Thanks, that's very kind of you :) I did my best to mimic his style and manner of speech (I played Malthus, the other actors are listed in the credit roll)
That was, AWESOME. I sat through the entirety of the original run of the animated series and I have to say, even the purposeful reenactment of the original dialogue was well matched to the new animations. Wicked job man. I look forward to the continuation of your team's project.
Thank you so much! I was indeed a challenge and a tricky choice when I made the call that we would try to mirror the style of the original cast, since this meant intentionally doing the lines in the same, somewhat cheesy and over-the-top style as in the cartoon (especially for the 'bad guys'). Not everyone will appreciate what we were aiming for with that. We could have had people do the lines in their own style/register, which would have sounded much more natural, but I feel that something would have been lost in the process, as the over-the-top villains and cheesiness inherent to these early 90's cartoons are part of their nostalgic essence.
I always planned this as a one-off thing, but a surprising amount of people have been asking for another episode. In practice, most everything is done by me, and the massive amount of work involved, and great difficulty of getting people to help with the recordings does make me hesitant to start a new one. It's not completely out of the question though :)
Well, I can say that, personally, I would most definitely follow this for as many as you're willing to produce. I look forward to any work you do in the future, whether it be this of something else related to the franchise.
Thanks, I really appreciate the support! :)
Any word lesser than Awesome! does not do this piece justice. Thank you for creating this piece of art!
Wow! Thank you very much, I am humbled by your kind words. Reading this commend absolutely made my day. I'm really glad I was able to bring you something so enjoyable! :)
I WANT MORE!!! MORE!!
You have won your trial of position for the rank of Star Remaker Commander.
Brilliance! Thank you for the amazing treatment of what is still, sadly, the only Battletech show to be had . . .
Thank you very much! It brings me great pleasure when fans of the cartoon give great feedback like this! If I was able to do the original show justice, then I've achieved my aim :)
That Nikolai Malthus reminds me to Rattache Ossis from MW3 for some reason
Great job! I definitly enjoyed watching it. Hopefully we will be able to see the rest of the first episode as well. Keep up the good work!
That was really nice! I recently bought battletech and have been reading over old lore and watching the old series. I can see the love you guys put into this, thank you! Excellent credits music!
WOW! Please continue through the whole series, I've been wanting this and praying for this for YEARS. great work!
Well done! I really enjoyed that bit of updated nostalgia.
Thank you very much, sir. Always nice to hear feedback like this from folks who watched the cartoon :)
You and your friends did an awesome job!
Wow! THis is so very good! Great job!
I loved it! The voices were great (especially Malthus). Let me know if you decide to splice some live action bits. We made a FedCom coolant vest and uniform, and I am working on the neurohelmet and a FedCom dress uniform for GenCon Indy 2017. Also, check in with Bravo Whiskey Charlie for info on their BattleTech film.
You nailed it, I really enjoyed this (Just wished there was more to watch you got me hooked) I hope you continue to do great work.
Worth the weight
:))))
That was an exceptional piece of work. Congrats and hope to see more one day
Epic job on reenacting the scenes of the first ep.
Wow that was really good, nice idea
Thanks again, you always leave such nice feedback, appreciate it :)
I'm really glad people seem to like the vid, so much time and effort went into it, that it's a relief to have this nice of a reception. The video was indeed quite a departure from my usual stuff, and I had to learn quite a lot of new skills just to do it (Like how to work with, texture and animate the 3D models in the vid). It was quite a challenge, but I've been wanting to do a machinima for some time, and to test my skills as a content creator. The voice acting was quite a challenge too, since we had to imitate the original voice actors' performance. I hope I/we did a decent job D:
That was a fun watch. You folks really hit all the notes.
Cool :) Sounds like we accomplished what we aimed for then 👍
Ah, there's the super catchy theme song at the end. Great work man. I bet it took a lot to make this.
IMPRESSIVE WORK. Movement and scenes were dead-on accurate and highly faithful to the original. The dialog was too, and I was especially impressed with your Enhanced Imaging trick, that was superbly done. I also noticed you included some footage of what I assume was the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO as certain scenes in the Somerset Academy barracks.
Your voice work does need improvement; but I doubt you're professional voice actors so that can be overlooked.
The only flaws I could see, other than the aforementioned voice work, was your use of pulse-lasers for the mechs on both sides. I don't think they had those in the cartoon, with both sides using the longer-duration beams. But as you said yourself, you used what you could. It's quite passable.
Other than those two nit-picky flaws, you did a VERY impressive job of this re-enactment. You just earned yourself a sub!
Awesome! I absolutely love it! I sure hope there will be more!
MORE please!!! great great work will have many fans im sure
This is AMAZING! How am I just now seeing it?!?!? Great job guys!
Thanks a lot, Kristian, and a happy new year to ya ^_^b
Amazing work, enjoyed watching.
High praise coming from a skilled video creator like yourself :) Thanks!
good work... loved how you mixed all kind of things together like SWTOR :D
Nice Work, i enjoyed watching this. hope to see more of this!!!!!
Can't say how amazing this is, encore please.
Wow man, this is awesome. Great work!! It looks really cool!!!
Wow, so great to get feedback like this :) Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic work! :) Would love to see the series remade!
Excellent! Reminds me of the first time I watched the original series! Well done!
This was quite the pleasant surprise RUclips pointed me to today!!!!
Thanks! Seeing comments like this always makes me happy :)
Excellent work!
Thanks! There was indeed a lot of said work, I'm glad the finished vid turned out well :)
Freaking bad ass.. I tried watching the originals.. painful, but this is just amazing. Great job!!
Yay! So good! Can't wait 4 new episodes!
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Спасибо :)
Very nice fan made mix for Battletech fans ;J
A most excellent remake. I know it may be too much to ask, but will we see more?
I always planned this as a one-off thing. However, so many people have requested more that I will consider it. There are several reasons why that's not likely to happen though; The massive amount of work involved, the months of time needed, the incredible difficulty of getting people to do the machinima recordings (and show up when planned) and do voices ect. Another major issue is that while the mech-y scenes are mostly doable, most of the show is in fact focused on the character dialogue and action, and I simply have no way of doing the character scenes in any decent manner.
Fair enough. As a hobbyist animator and as a member of a gameing guild, I understand exactly where you are coming from. Still, I can dream. Good luck in all your further endeavors!
holy shit, great work vux!
Thank you very much for your kind words! I'm Really glad you liked it :)
Excellently made! It must have taken a lot of time to go through the maps and then add the effects on top. Especially with the Aerospace fighters.
Thanks! And yeah, those scenes with the 3D models (fighters and dropships) took weeks to get right, I hope the end result was decent :)
I think Malthus should have piloted an orion instead of the hellbringer, the orions shape matches the one seen in the animated series
In the animated series he refers to it as a thor /summoner, but it's a weird variant without the signature missile rack
i always wonder what Malthus had on his mech, wiki says he likes the M comfig
but thats not what he had in the show
omg! I'm young again, i remember seeing this in saturday mornings! Great reconstruction! I wish i could leave a million likes!
Thank you very much :) I'm glad I could recreate some of that nostalgic magic for you.
Great work! Hope you do more!
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Great work. Cannot wait for the next episode. +1 sub
This made me feel as impressed as the kid who originally watched the cartoon all those years ago. Well done! 😊
nice, very nice, like allways. looks great.
now i really want a battletech movie
Awesome! Excellent job!
Thank you! I appreciate the support :)
Swotor! Hahah I love this amalgamation. Brilliant
I saw the thumbnail and thought it was a Cloud Cobra Mad Dog for a second, then I realized it was just a lime parakeet being weird and stealing our color scheme.
Did that dropship drop a dropship?
Fekkin' Clanners!
Silence, you filthy inner sphere stravag!
Just you wait, until i liberate my Scorpion mech from Russ's Circus!
I'll fight you Clanners all the way back to your homeworlds!
now the right dropship ;) very nice
Yeah, thanks for pointing that out so quickly. Somehow, not one of my assistants or previewers spotted that mistake :P I was able to quickly pull that version to fix that problem and some other stuff that bugged me while I was at it. So it's all good :)
Hey Vux, Finally the new Video which you promised to us! Please Keep going with the next episode!
Hey :) Sorry I never replied to you on the Battletech (pc game) forums. This is propably a one-off though, I don't see another episode happening, just too damn much work. May be some other kind of machinima in the future though, never know...
I like how video games today have better graphics than animation back then.
Very Cool! Nice work.
Vux and cast, you all did a great job on this. Any more planned?
nice job! Can you do the entire series? I know, massive undertaking!!
Awesome work very well done.
This is amazing!
Now we just need a series that isn't based on the Somerset Strikers. Like the new turn based strategy BATTLETECH that came out a couple years ago, but perhaps for the fall of the Star League.
Love this! All though I would have let some casaulties happen. Like the two mechwarrios with Steiner should have perished since this is a remake. A good remake too!
Very nicely done :)
Nice one! Are you looking for some extra hands for that?
Much better then the crummy Saturday morning cartoon!
Nicely Done! 👍🏻
I kinda wish you had used the original voice actors, but this was good! Any chance of more?
Please tell me how I can be a part of this? I'm sure that there are others that-d like to know as well?
Very well done.
Thank you very much mister classy owl :)
Nicely done
please tell me you guys plan to make more from other battle scenes of the cartoon! this was awesome! xD wish i could hit the like button more than once.
3d battletech cartoon? aewsome remake ,especially like the music. is there anyway i can get an mp3 of the remade Battletech theme, it sounds awesome
Pretty cool!
with what you had to work with that was damn good! hey if you ever need any help with voice acting or Mech pilots I'd be glad to hop on the bandwagon!
Very neat I like it. However, why have a dropship leave the dropship? And why not just use the voice clips from the episode? Not criticism, just curiosity.
Thanks :) In the cartoon it starts with the egg-shaped dropship descending on the planet, the remake also starts with that. Then there was a need for some kind of transition from that ship to the Leopard dropping Malthus in the field. I used some creative freedom to come up with this solution :)
Regarding the voices, there's a bunch of reasons; Firstly that material is copyrighted, and I wanted to do as 'clean' of a remake as possible. By recording our own versions we don't use any of the original footage and only re-interpret the script/lines. Also there's no high quality versions of the cartoon that can be found, and separating the spoken lines from background music&audio is practically impossible. Also, doing them was an interesting challenge and damn fun :D
@@ShadowKittehRawr It is copywrited... by who actually owns the show now? Saban?
More episodes please! :D
Maybe a "meme version" would be nice, where no Centurion or wolfhound comes, but one atlas one Banshee and one zeus.
btw shouldnt the summomer have been a huntsman huntsman looks more like the mech nicolay used in the original
NO URBY, NO WIN!
hi...nice work, man. just a little too much "standing still", but i guess it´s tough for one person to make more dynamic fights. just something to consider for later work, this one was cool, keep it up :)
The amount of standing still is the same as in the original cartoon this scene is based off, as it's largely a scene-for-scene remake.
yea okay... i haven´t seen the original in years, so appologies ;) ... but i am sure this bugged me back then as well :D
as mentioned, good work... good luck for future projects :)
^_^b
WHAT IN THE NAME OF KERENSKY... actually that's exactly who they are!
You need to make more!!!!
as a kid i watch the Battletech animated series, but i forget what was the title of the show until quite recently and i just happen to rewatch all 13 episodes. Holy cow you def nailed the invasion of Clan Jade Falcon. Those IS light and medium mech have no chance against the Clan heavies.
If the IS side had a Atlas, King Crab or the Annihilator, the Clan Jade Falcon will have a hard time bringing it down and the Atlas will prob lay waste to Malthus's Thor.
The Clan Jade Falcon are the bunch of A-holes and they do kinda like Nazis taking Jews as prisoners
Its too bad it ended with Adam Steiner taking back his planet but not his people. And the whole production end there too
YOU DARE TO REFUSE MY BACHAL!? X3
This was pretty awesome, but you made one mistake.
YOU ATTACKED MY HOME PLANET!
YOU'RE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah :D I hope it was worth the wait :o I did my best to bring ya'all some quality entertainment. Many long nights spent on this one, with extra impetus to finish it due to your nice shout-out video a few months back ^_^b
I miss battletech
I guess I'm the only one who thought meh. I can see some development of your animation skills, hoping to see it further progress and hopefully take queues from the mw2 intro.
MY HOME PLANET!
Haha nice, using SWTOR and MWO machinima among other things (by the looks of it :3)
Why not use Mechwarrior: Living Legends? Battle armor and aerospace and tanks all included in one game. At best MWO would be better put to use as a reenactment for some of the clan on clan fights from the novels.
Vux, if I do a Battletch Abridged would you be willing to voice Malthus? I got to warn it will not be a paying gig as I don't want to deal with the legal bs of monetization.
Well, I must say that you have piqued my interest :) Do you have any more details on the project? Also, is there any place where I could see some previous projects or videos of yours?
@@ShadowKittehRawr I have never done anything like this before. 😟 So yeah, nervous as all get out. I finished script 1. You have an email I can privately send it to you on, or Discord, etc?
@@dubuyajay9964 Sure, you can slap it to my gmail, shadowkittehrawr (@ the usual ending). I'm extremely busy IRL now but I'll give it a proper look-through when I get some time :)
@@ShadowKittehRawr The usual ending? Gmail? Yahoo? AOL?
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AWESOME FUCKING SAUCE!!! Esp if one has watched the original episode before! Exactly the same lines! LOL!
Thank you very much! Always makes my day when I get feedback like this! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Good animation ... but a few of the voices seem a bit off and use "the wrong emotion"/sound as if they just read a script instead of being in the middle of a fight.
The clan boss has the same voice as Cell in DBZ lol