@connormclernon26 Yes!! I tell people about how this is brought up in TechManual (they specify controlled conditions like a mechbay, but still) and people are so influenced by MechWarrior, a spinoff that doesn't reflect canon, that they reject the point entirely. Same thing happens when you talk about the _size_ of mechs. I actually did a scale comparison once where I showed that a 45 ton Medium mech, listed at nine meters tall in a novel, was only slightly lighter than the original M1 Abrams configuration, which is nine feet long... I stuck the Abrams on its butt at scale to do a proper size comparison. One of the most frustrating things in BT to me is how they don't enforce some level of scale consistency among their artists. It doesn't help that the cockpits are sometimes described as extremely cramped to the point where only the pilot's torso is even in the real cockpit section, and other times described as entire little rooms with storage and a toilet.
I gotta say, i wasn't really feeling this at all at first. And then i saw the Raven's running animation and giggled like an idiot for the rest of the episode. Well done.
I fucking love it. perfect blend of niche battletech details and endearingly janky animation, that's actually objectively better than what professionals were doing a couple decades ago. Subbed and hoping for more.
And all the jankyness wasn't able to dillute the beauty that is the RAVEN! That Mech looks so great and I love the fact that it's the first inner sphere ECM mech. It's also the first one I completed in Mechwarrior Online.
I fucking love how some of the mechs use the PGI/MWO designs, but the Atlases are just the old ugly look from the early days. It's truly a thing of beauty.
The atlas explosion being a single gunshot *chefs kiss* This is how you deal with a scout lance. These are just the right amount of unhinged, keep it up!
I can't help but get bad-early-90s-CGI vibes from this. But I assume that is simply from learning the craft. The intro, however, REALLY capture the classic art, and bring it to life, extremely well! Keep it up, I do hope to see more.
That blade on that Banshee’s arm… That mech becomes a lot more formidable with such a modification. Would make them much more threatening if they had similar equipment in MW5.
It was the design of the Banshee 3E that made me choose that mech, with it's one arm just hanging by it's side in MW5, only acting as a side shield I could see more potential for it.
You used not only the sound of Duckula Castle teleporting for a hyperjump, but completely rolled with it and animated it accordingly. This. Is. Brilliant! :D
Imagine being a small time merc and getting hired to take out some pirates. You and the rest of the lance think it’ll be an easy payday cause it’s just a few pirates until you get jumped by a trio of Atlases. Must but one hell of a piracy operation.
@@MrTooncat No kidding about that creativity. Those whack-a-mole machine guns were a stroke of genius. Makes me wonder why we don’t have something like that.
Your efforts are much appreciated by this nerd/mech enthusiast. All of you are truly talents that need as many laurels as possible lauded upon them:-) The style of animation is not the 'ritzy, glitzy cgi for certain. But do not take it as an slight. I like the ritz/glitz style of animation very much, but yours here is paramount to time travel for geezers such as myself. It has an appeal I find iresistable. As with your last episode your efforts are just.....super duper:-)
I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be funny or not. I felt bad for laughing like a moron when the Atlas slowly descended from the heavens before exploding with perfect comedic timing. Then I saw the pirate captain's running animation toward the end and determined that comedy was your intention. Well done!
Sir we're arriving at Twicross. Why? Well...weĺl you asked us to er go there. No I didn't ! When did I EVER say that? Sir? You said it tomorrow. Tomorrow ? You'd better get to the med bay stat. ( love the animation though, tops in the style it's done. )
@@MrTooncat oh I will, but I can see a group of mercs finding some lost tech Naval weapons and strapping them to a jump ship only downside is that they now have to deal with Comstar as they have an unfair advantage over the rest of the innersphere. I recommend looking up the BlackPantsLegeon videos titled Tex Talks Battletech for an intro to the setting if you need help with the world setting.
This is so good! Love it :). The movements, the animation it's so clunky, cringe and fits battletech so good. Like the gameplay of the tabletop! Continue the work :) And you should definitley add some female voices in there ;) *hint *
Episode 3 has a battle scene that was played out on tabletop to see how it could go. About to start making that last part of episode 3 soon. As for more voices, episode 4 might need quite a few so the doors always open on that.
I've never seen an Invader class JumpShip that had armaments strong enough to destroy a Union Dropship in one attack before. Still, not bad. Pirates deserved it for killing that poor defenseless Urbie in Episode 1.
It feels like it's an in in universe low budget show. The atlas trio are designed from old school designs but the raven, commando and even banshee are designed from the more modern Aesthetic. It feels like it's kind of the set design has seen the other mechs but only heard about the atlas but in an in universe way.
I'm all set for episode 3 (currently in production) Episode 4 will be next year. Leave another message after I post episode 3 and I will get back to you. Probably around xmas time.
The theme song only has to last for the intro / credits. I do have an old 90's Yamaha synth, and with all the sound editing software available today I might give it a go but music is not really my thing, so if episode 3's intro sounds even more janky than the stretched out version I've used on the first two episodes you'll know why.
@@MrTooncat cartoon theme songs now a days are lacking the punch they used to have back in the day. like now it just a few notes and thats it, and given that the artist of older work are showing off the full version of the show music now its geart hearing the full version of it then the chop up bits of it.
@@zsewqthewolf1194 So many great intro's from the 80's & 90's. I don't know how a new singing BattleTech intro with 90's synths in the background would sound. Or what the words would be. I was thinking about calling this mini series - Adventures Of The Inner Sphere. So that's a start at least :) Like Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers that was actually a proper over 3min long awesome song just cropped for the intro. It would be pretty cool to have some sort of rocking track to kick off the next episode, I don't know if you've seen the video of the guy recording the original Pokemon cartoon theme, while playing air guitar and check out his facial expressions as he sings it, really gives it his all. Great stuff. What do we get nowadays, Regular Show, two farty sounding notes and that's it :(
Can't really do worse than that now can I? Time to dust off that Yamaha Synth I think it had some sort of foot pedal with it, I'll try to find it and play with that for a bit see what sounds it can make.
@@MrTooncat the regular show did that for having more air time to tell a story, given that shows now want to tell a story and not just sell toys all the time. this in turn make it hard for them to pick of "should i give up 3 mins or 2 to tell more of the story better?" or "should i have a theme song that will be rememeber for 40 or 30 years?"
Episode 3 will hopefully be finished by XMAS I have all the voice overs I need for that. However Episode 4 will need quite a few voice overs so when I post episode 3 (somewhere around end of this year) Then send me another message.
Great, but should have spend some extra time with some Aerospace Fighters to destroy the Dropship. (besides where could it have run off to) A Jumpship equipped with with NavalLasers isn't worth it. As losing the entire Jumpship due to some misunderstanding or ComStar shittery is expensive.
this a kids show YASH thay just killed all the colnes WHY ? just dumb its more lave the gun take the canlois hare YASH WELL NOW eye KNOW I MIST THIS ONE eny ITS OK FUN SEE THE GESS MINIS Go at it a look in the vid game nest
@@MrTooncat it is the correct kind of terrible. Most projects are too terrified they'll look terrible to be creative. I'd rather have a bunch of this than multimillion dollar soulless corporate crap. Bring on the soulful jank.
www.patreon.com/user?u=63406675 I have started a patreon for this Battletech animated series.
This has the makings of being retconned into an in world low budget animated series that became popular on periphery worlds.
Would not even be the first time that happened.
The way that JumpShip entered and exited hyperspace had damn well better be canon now.
Perfect mix of "Mechs are big rock'em sock'em robots" and "Mechs literally have muscles and can do handstands, though"
Even the Atlas if the Pilot is good enough
@connormclernon26 Yes!! I tell people about how this is brought up in TechManual (they specify controlled conditions like a mechbay, but still) and people are so influenced by MechWarrior, a spinoff that doesn't reflect canon, that they reject the point entirely. Same thing happens when you talk about the _size_ of mechs. I actually did a scale comparison once where I showed that a 45 ton Medium mech, listed at nine meters tall in a novel, was only slightly lighter than the original M1 Abrams configuration, which is nine feet long... I stuck the Abrams on its butt at scale to do a proper size comparison. One of the most frustrating things in BT to me is how they don't enforce some level of scale consistency among their artists. It doesn't help that the cockpits are sometimes described as extremely cramped to the point where only the pilot's torso is even in the real cockpit section, and other times described as entire little rooms with storage and a toilet.
I love how the generator just looked like a regular generator in a shed hahaha
The animation is so unsettling and I love it.
I gotta say, i wasn't really feeling this at all at first. And then i saw the Raven's running animation and giggled like an idiot for the rest of the episode. Well done.
TACTICAL WIGGLE, TACTICAL WIGGLE!
what
LOOK IT'LL THROW OFF THEIR PREDICTIVES, JUST DO IT
I fucking love it. perfect blend of niche battletech details and endearingly janky animation, that's actually objectively better than what professionals were doing a couple decades ago. Subbed and hoping for more.
And all the jankyness wasn't able to dillute the beauty that is the RAVEN! That Mech looks so great and I love the fact that it's the first inner sphere ECM mech. It's also the first one I completed in Mechwarrior Online.
I fucking love how some of the mechs use the PGI/MWO designs, but the Atlases are just the old ugly look from the early days. It's truly a thing of beauty.
The atlas explosion being a single gunshot *chefs kiss*
This is how you deal with a scout lance.
These are just the right amount of unhinged, keep it up!
I can't help but get bad-early-90s-CGI vibes from this. But I assume that is simply from learning the craft. The intro, however, REALLY capture the classic art, and bring it to life, extremely well!
Keep it up, I do hope to see more.
"Hope I don't step on a MuH-AHHHH!"
That blade on that Banshee’s arm…
That mech becomes a lot more formidable with such a modification. Would make them much more threatening if they had similar equipment in MW5.
It was the design of the Banshee 3E that made me choose that mech, with it's one arm just hanging by it's side in MW5, only acting as a side shield I could see more potential for it.
@@MrTooncat
I’m glad you did. Just like the Champion LAM, this design seems like a natural evolution that completes it.
Starting June 8th, they will.
You used not only the sound of Duckula Castle teleporting for a hyperjump, but completely rolled with it and animated it accordingly. This. Is. Brilliant! :D
I don't think many people know that reference so well done 😄
I love the Macho Man Randy Savage call-outs on the Cauldronborn. 10/10
Imagine being a small time merc and getting hired to take out some pirates. You and the rest of the lance think it’ll be an easy payday cause it’s just a few pirates until you get jumped by a trio of Atlases. Must but one hell of a piracy operation.
But just think of the salvage potential!
that landmine part had me laughing along with the voiceactor
Wish I put a bit more emotion in to mine but I loved it! Thanks for letting me be a part
Thank you. It's so funny and cool. Please do a whole series..
Bruh the commando running like a toddler is 10000% better than any other commando animation ive seen
There's some genuine creativity here
Hey your Farseer! I've watched your mech animation for years it's ace :)
@@MrTooncat Glad you enjoy them! Keep up the good work!
@@MrTooncat
No kidding about that creativity. Those whack-a-mole machine guns were a stroke of genius. Makes me wonder why we don’t have something like that.
Your efforts are much appreciated by this nerd/mech enthusiast. All of you are truly talents that need as many laurels as possible lauded upon them:-) The style of animation is not the 'ritzy, glitzy cgi for certain. But do not take it as an slight. I like the ritz/glitz style of animation very much, but yours here is paramount to time travel for geezers such as myself. It has an appeal I find iresistable. As with your last episode your efforts are just.....super duper:-)
Thanks so much for making another episode!
Never stop making animations. You are epic. :)
Warp jump had me ready to throw my phone.
Loved it. These are so charming, I hope you have more for us soon enough.
Dude I love this
This is the kind of thing I'd expect from my early 90s cartoons. Well done 🤣
I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be funny or not. I felt bad for laughing like a moron when the Atlas slowly descended from the heavens before exploding with perfect comedic timing. Then I saw the pirate captain's running animation toward the end and determined that comedy was your intention. Well done!
the pilot running to the dropship at the end lmfao
That Banshee is badass
More. I want more (please).
Damn, love it. Your style is interesting and unique
I have a feeling this man played all the mech warrior games.
What me? I've played MW2, MW4 Mercs and MW4 Vengeance, currently playing MW5 Mercs (using models from that for these cartoons)
what soundtracks you use man ? They sound great ! Also amazing videos man really unique in style and animation.
The commanders running animation was the funniest shit ive seen all week.
Now I just keep imagining two battlemechs running in circles doing the Team America "Secret Signal" in a field of flowers.
Mission Failed! 😄 So much fun, good job!
Those mechs coming out the drop ship walk like they are freezing lol
I really like the style of this, this is great haha, keep the Atlas uncanny valley movement
Love it so much ! Well dione!
Amazeballs!
Keep it up! Liked!
Sir we're arriving at Twicross. Why? Well...weĺl you asked us to er go there. No I didn't ! When did I EVER say that? Sir? You said it tomorrow. Tomorrow ? You'd better get to the med bay stat. ( love the animation though, tops in the style it's done. )
Thanks, honestly that dropship got too cute
Loved the episode, just a bit shocked that the Jump ship had weapons, big Battletech fan.
I don't really know what I'm doing lol. Episode 4 will have a writer. So yeah episode 3 is my own guesswork too so get ready for more wtf.
@@MrTooncat oh I will, but I can see a group of mercs finding some lost tech Naval weapons and strapping them to a jump ship only downside is that they now have to deal with Comstar as they have an unfair advantage over the rest of the innersphere. I recommend looking up the BlackPantsLegeon videos titled Tex Talks Battletech for an intro to the setting if you need help with the world setting.
This is so good! Love it :). The movements, the animation it's so clunky, cringe and fits battletech so good. Like the gameplay of the tabletop! Continue the work :)
And you should definitley add some female voices in there ;) *hint *
Episode 3 has a battle scene that was played out on tabletop to see how it could go. About to start making that last part of episode 3 soon. As for more voices, episode 4 might need quite a few so the doors always open on that.
@@MrTooncat That sounds great and I am glad you continue on the cartoon :). If you ever need one I am open (but probably have a little accent lol) :D
this is great? thank you for sharing
Episode 3 should be ready by Xmas.
Fucking nailed it!!! 10/10
This was great
Currently making episode 3. Should be ready in a couple of months.
This is the beat anime I have ever seen!
lol it reminds me of those weird indian made cartoons when i delve deep into youtube too much
but this is actually coherent
Keep em coming.
*Blast* Youu! xD
Great video!
I love that I tro so much.
Yay!
Nice style!!
You definitely improved!
Great stuff. Entertained 10/10
Now I want to see the flea
this is fucking great, what did you use to make this?
It was cobbled together using several different software programs. 3DS Max, Blender, After Effects, Photoshop, EBSynth.
the intro with urbie murder was disturbing. They were good boys. it did not need to come to this.
could we get a sound track list for all the white bat audio songs you used? they are very hard to find as they have SO many tracks to chose from
love the music
I've never seen an Invader class JumpShip that had armaments strong enough to destroy a Union Dropship in one attack before.
Still, not bad. Pirates deserved it for killing that poor defenseless Urbie in Episode 1.
GREAT WORK, what is the software you are using for the animation ?
Blender, it's also great for 3D explosions, space nebula and water effects.
It feels like it's an in in universe low budget show. The atlas trio are designed from old school designs but the raven, commando and even banshee are designed from the more modern Aesthetic. It feels like it's kind of the set design has seen the other mechs but only heard about the atlas but in an in universe way.
Btw i like it
Is this totally indie? Really super stuff. Most entertaining.
Made by just me, with voice overs from other's.
This is fantastic! If you're ever interested in another VA, let me know, I'd do it for free! :)
If you need some native German to speak a Steiner squad, call me!
I'm all set for episode 3 (currently in production) Episode 4 will be next year. Leave another message after I post episode 3 and I will get back to you. Probably around xmas time.
@@MrTooncat Yeah, thank you for your great work, i love it :)
Nice work. Dang lol
What song is at the end?
Btw every thinking of making a full version of the theme song
The theme song only has to last for the intro / credits. I do have an old 90's Yamaha synth, and with all the sound editing software available today I might give it a go but music is not really my thing, so if episode 3's intro sounds even more janky than the stretched out version I've used on the first two episodes you'll know why.
@@MrTooncat cartoon theme songs now a days are lacking the punch they used to have back in the day.
like now it just a few notes and thats it, and given that the artist of older work are showing off the full version of the show music now its geart hearing the full version of it then the chop up bits of it.
@@zsewqthewolf1194 So many great intro's from the 80's & 90's. I don't know how a new singing BattleTech intro with 90's synths in the background would sound.
Or what the words would be.
I was thinking about calling this mini series - Adventures Of The Inner Sphere.
So that's a start at least :)
Like Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers that was actually a proper over 3min long awesome song just cropped for the intro.
It would be pretty cool to have some sort of rocking track to kick off the next episode, I don't know if you've seen the video of the guy recording the original Pokemon cartoon theme, while playing air guitar and check out his facial expressions as he sings it, really gives it his all. Great stuff.
What do we get nowadays, Regular Show, two farty sounding notes and that's it :(
Can't really do worse than that now can I? Time to dust off that Yamaha Synth I think it had some sort of foot pedal with it, I'll try to find it and play with that for a bit see what sounds it can make.
@@MrTooncat the regular show did that for having more air time to tell a story, given that shows now want to tell a story and not just sell toys all the time.
this in turn make it hard for them to pick of "should i give up 3 mins or 2 to tell more of the story better?" or "should i have a theme song that will be rememeber for 40 or 30 years?"
Lmao this is EPIC
Say, are you looking for an additional voice talent?
I'd love to read some lines if you need them.
Episode 3 will hopefully be finished by XMAS I have all the voice overs I need for that. However Episode 4 will need quite a few voice overs so when I post episode 3 (somewhere around end of this year) Then send me another message.
@@MrTooncat Sure thing, man!
My DMs are always open.
Great, but should have spend some extra time with some Aerospace Fighters to destroy the Dropship. (besides where could it have run off to)
A Jumpship equipped with with NavalLasers isn't worth it. As losing the entire Jumpship due to some misunderstanding or ComStar shittery is expensive.
Whats rhe musi used for the intro and ending?
It's a distorted version of the one used in the actual TV series from the 90's.
I love how awful this is. Keep them coming!
Episode 3 is now ready ruclips.net/video/0jvQ8lY9fU4/видео.html
Just found these cartoons. First, they are what we need. Second, I'm a little slow on the uptake. The Atlas' are a pirate scout lance?
Episode 3 will continue the story and reveal how this came to be. Aiming to finish that episode by Xmas.
Atlas were defeated... :(
ha ha ha * robotic sounds *
NOT bad though. animations need some work.
This atlas doesn’t look like Atlas at all these pirates must have had a bad deal in getting their atlas If they it from discount Dan mech Emporium.
this a kids show YASH thay just killed all the colnes WHY ? just dumb its more lave the gun take the canlois hare YASH WELL NOW eye KNOW I MIST THIS ONE eny ITS OK FUN SEE THE GESS MINIS Go at it a look in the vid game nest
This is terrible. Yet. There’s nothing else 😔
Ha. Well good for me there's nothing else then, that means mines the best. By technicality YES! :) Any win's a win lol.
@@MrTooncat it is the correct kind of terrible. Most projects are too terrified they'll look terrible to be creative. I'd rather have a bunch of this than multimillion dollar soulless corporate crap. Bring on the soulful jank.