Disney's Influence on Broken Sword 🗡️
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2020
- There's a reason Broken Sword looks so good, and it's because it had lots of passed down Disney skills.
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What an excellent video, we absolutely loved it! ❤️ from the Revolution Software team
Oh wow, thanks for the kind words!
That means a lot! I'm glad you liked it!
Hey , people from Revolution team , we are people and we are waiting for new Broken Sword : Parzival Stone😁🙏
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Yep, its realy wonderful and stylish work you have !!🙏
the original animation is a big oart of why i fell in love with the first two broken sword games, it was a hugh part of teh appeal along with the characters and story! i hope one day we can rget a real broken sword with original hand drawn animation the same, im sure it takes longer maybe thats why you move to computer aniumation, but for me its just not the same, my two cents hahaha i love you guys, the only games i held onto all these years later are the first two broken sword games and the oddworld games hahaha you di a great job!
you guys will probably never see this but thank you so much for making these incredible games that I have sunk literal hundreds of hours into. I was a young boy growing up in a house going through a divorce and Broken sword 1 and 2 helped me dissapear into another world of magic and adventure when things werent so happy at home. I still go back and play through these games every Christmas and they never lose their charm, wit and beauty, possible my favourite games of all time. I loved Broken sword 5 and well and the return to the hand drawn art style! I hope you guys always have success with your projects you really deserve it.
This video is proof you don't need to play a game to understand it's beauty. The retrospective was great and meaningfully crafted to showcase your thoughts. It was wonderful to take time out to appreciate the subtle nuances and genius of the animation. Sláinte from Ireland! 🙂
Hey thanks a lot!
WOAH. My favourite game and I'm a big fan of OSW Review as well.
theres something truly magical about those first two broken sword games.
I love Broken Sword so much! Played the series so much growing up, was a very big influence on me. Extremely happy to see someone giving it this much attention. I've always loved the way Broken Sword has that classic Disney style exaggerated character movement but with that dark touch. Makes sense there's a Don Bluth connection. That car crash scene always stayed with me as a kid. I also just love the background art and music so much. It's so relaxing.
And I love the way you fit the footage onto those CRT screens. That's the most convincing way I've ever seen that done. Feels really warm.
Also, please tell me that is THE Neil Breen.
Thanks! Ha, no not _the_ Neil Green, unfortunately 😆
I love the retrospective/documentarian approach of this video. I'd love to see more things like this that examine the historical influences and context of the animation!
Re: 5:45, having motion of separate objects animated on 2s but alternating is a trick I've seen used by artists before and may have been deliberate here. Interweaving the animation like this produces the illusion of the movement being smoother than it actually is, since something changes every frame despite the animation being on twos.
That's interesting, thanks for that!!
Speaking as someone who has played all of Broken Sword games and knows quite a bit of Revolution Software’s history. You done a great job here... (Shed a light on a few things, even I didn't know 😉) And I know that the people of RS both past and present will love this too... 👍
Oh interesting! Revolution did just like my tweet about it actually. So that's good!
2:20 It might interest you to know that there is an absolutely mental independent filmmaker in California also named _Neil Breen_
Ha, well, no, I don't think it's him who did painterly backgrounds in Ireland.
Though, I will double check it. That slipped my research.
THE NEIL BREEN ?!? The world's most feared hacker, world's activist and alien God ?!?!?
At first I thought he was talking about THAT Neil Breen.
I had to immediately pause the video and make sure that this coincidence(?) was addressed in the comments, because I just BARELY managed to not do a literal spit take when he said that name.
Okay yeah it's definitely not that Neil Breen
It’s funny: I feel like I usually only hear of the sequels for Broken Sword, with the goat scene being the exception.
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Templars is my favorite advernture game of all time
You used to play Darkseed and Phantasmagoria _before_ school!? Behind that angelic pimply face lies the most metal of teenagers 🤘🤘
I love the Broken Sword games. Helped Kickstart the 5th one (which returned to the original art style after a messy foray into 3D) and looking forward to the 6th in 2024.
So many good scenes and lots of very expressive animation, but I think the one I remember best is the first one in the PS1 demo of Broken Sword 2, where George is sneaking around the security hut of a dockyard and ends up setting fire to the hut and dunking the guard dog in the water before scrambling over the fence.
The brief cut scene after has some very funny doggy paddling animation 😂
I feel like The Adventures Of Willy Beamish deserves a mention here, talking about animation coming to adventure games. It came out in 1991 and had similar ambitions have film (or at least TV) quality presentation. And they did a surprisingly good job for a game that initially targeted *floppy disks* and was undoubtedly under insane space restrictions. But, of course, it wouldn't be until CD-ROM became standard that you'd really start getting that film-like animation quality.
I love the broken sword games so much, I hope they make a 6th one in the future!
By the way, there is a fan game called broken sword 2.5 which is set between 2 and 3 and its just as good
Fab video! Really interesting to learn about the Don Blyth influencd in this game; I knew his team was involved with Dragon's Lair but I didn't know they did Broken Sword too!
Awesome work, Dan. I absolutely loved that! You know how much I've been looking forward to a Damaged Dagger video. Perfect. Massive kudos for not following the trend and bucking the hell out of it with content like this. Thanks man!
Thanks you sexy minx! Glad you enjoyed it! I'm looking forward to giving Knackered Knife 2 a go!!
Great video, great analysis. This is my favorite adventure game of all time and the graphics are a big reason why. I have the Hotel Ubu exterior as my phone wallpaper. My previous one was the yard of Villa de Vasconcellos. Beautiful stuff. People often complement it and ask what it is.
I grew up after these kinds of games but they sure are neat. I love the older animation style. The strict models and methods used in most modern games don't quite have the same charm.
Great video! Glad to see a game like this that's often overlooked receive some recognition. I didn't get a chance to play this one until the early 2000s when ScummVM added support, and was quite impressed. I wasn't aware of the industry connections this game had.
It's too late to fix this, but it seems like the aspect ratio of the captured footage is slightly off. It makes everyone look somewhat squished, though thankfully it's not as noticeable in the scenes without closeups.
I remember interviewing Tony Warriner in an article about this because the Official Playstation magazine did mention something about how Disney was involved with the development of the original game, but Tony denied this.
That's really interesting! Oh yeah so I don't reckon Disney was directly involved, just that the high quality skills were there.
Great video with very beautiful production values. Thank you for bringing "The Little Acre" to my attention, I added it to my Switch wishlist right away. :D
Just found your channel because of a facebook post. Broken Sword series is something more than a point and click game for me. It changed my life, i fell in love with games, literally learned how to speak english through it and fell in love with Revolution Software! Thank you for this video and thank you for your kind words for Revolution software - Broken Sword and Charles Cecil and his team
Hey thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed this game series too, it certainly meant a lot to me, too.
May I ask where you saw it on Facebook?
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Yes sir. I saw it on a Broken Sword Fanpage called Hotel Ubu.
I love everything about this video.
I've grown on PnC games like Broken Sword.
My first job straight out of Ballyfermot college. Glad to see they kept my ledge walk and hale bay climbing animation in 😊
No way, you worked in this??
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Yeah for about 6 months. I did go back to Dublin to work for Bluths in the end, but I'll always be grateful to Charles for the opportunity he gave me.
Great series btw. Theres not enough of these studies around really and you go into great depth. Keep it up! (You should do a study on Luigis Mansion 3 for......reasons ;)
Thanks for the info! I hope my insight did the game justice!
Yeah I've had a few requests for Luigi's Mansion actually! I'll have to give it a go!
That was a great video. I am glad I found it. I am also a fan of hand-drawing animation specially found in japanese animation (of the 80's and 90's). Great channel!
I haven't heard this game but now that it's here on ur channel I'm looking it up asap. The first few minutes gave me such nostalgia even though I don't play many games as a kid ❤
you won't regret it ;)
That was a nice nostalgia trip.
I loved the first two games back in the day and had a lot of fun with them. I was also quite happy to see them make a new one a couple of years ago.
I didn’t really know what you were talking about, but I thought I’d give this video a few minutes and then leave. Before I knew it, I was at the seven minute mark, so I just stayed all the way. Nice video 👍
Fantastic episode! So many memories of this as one of my all time fav games ✌️
I see the title, I already know I'm gonna love this video
Wow. How come I'm only being suggested this now? Can't wait to watch it 😀
2:20 Not... not THAT Neil Breen, surely.
The character in the thumbnail look like a less nerdy version of Milo Thatch from Atlantis.
It’s a shame that many people aren’t interested in point and click games anymore. Sure, the puzzles can be moon logic-y, but the stories and animations are really great. Machinarium and the Syberia Trilogy are good modern point and click games that I would personally recommend to anyone who is interested
I went to Ballyfermot College for animation, which was was working with Don Bluth at the time. Animation roles was you draw the characters separately plus if one character was moving the other one kept still.😁 so it would not distract from the order one. I love this video brought me back to college and the studio🥰👍 Plus I did do some classic animation on a few games. animed left right turn walk cycle. So that can be used anywhere
Oh awesome, thanks for leaving a comment! What games have you worked on?
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy work for a company called brown bag films n Dublin a game where ultimately forgettable Mouse Math and a really weird Robin Hood one😆 back in the 90s
Brown Bag Films?? As in *Bing* and *Octonauts??* If so I watch those with my 3-year old a lot. That's cool!
The Robin Hood game sounds interesting 😆
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy yeah I got to say was a cute little game .And I was cleaning up on it to. One of the characters, think it was blacksmith. I put little frilly drawers on him. Do look out for that😁
Great series and fantastic video mate
Thank you!
Just recently played these again. There really is something special with these, and Broken Sword 5 really captures that magic again
I just could never get into Monkey Island or Day Of The Tentacle...i like that Broken Sword in that its humour is peppered throughout but rarely overwhelming
Love the Broken Sword games, mostly 1 and 2 for the animation style.
Nice video :)
Was that deliberate to have a bomb blast at start and end of game. Never thought of it at the top.
To this day my favourite games to play!
Broken Sword is legit one of my favourite games of all timeq
Thanks for the video Dan! I miss you from EC. Still not used to Not-Dan narrating.
Thanks, though that's the Other Dan 😅
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Darn it! You Dan's are prolific! Nonetheless, you're the man, Dan!
5:40: I recall a Mother's Basement video about one of the Konosuba OPs where Geoff points out that alternating frames like that means _something's_ changing every frame, giving the scene as a whole some of the liveliness of animating on ones with half the frames. That alone is reason enough to alternate frames when you can.
Yeah that sounds right actually! Interesting tactic!
Just replaying this!
The Animation of Metal Slug || VGAS can we pls get a part 2? i love this game and the animations as well. love your work by the way XD
It was definitely cool to see a dramatic point and click at the time and especially with a Disney-ish / Don Bluth styled art-style in which is mostly associated with happy children movies. It's a contrarian in the clothes of a point and click and that's what makes it so unique. It also fits in with Dragons Lair and thus it does not seem like a questionable art choice and may give players of Dragons Lair back from the day some nostalgia and this similarity contrasts the uniqueness of the rest of the game in which fits the contrarian theme.
Revolution adding the older versions of the first two games on steam was the best thing they could have done.
Absolutely!
Not gonna lie, I got a little panicked for a second when you mentioned “Neil Breen”.
I think everyone did
Great insights!
The game kinda reminds me of Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Perhaps their character design looks similar? Not sure. Anyways, love the video, as always. Stay safe! :D
Thanks! Yeah it's probably because it's all Disney-similar designs.
Titan AE too, maybe it’s that floppy 90s hairstyle
There was definitely a floppy 90s hair cut we all had
With this corona going on every month feels like 2 months so when I saw that you uploaded a new video I’m sitting here thinking “dang, it’s been awhile since Dan uploaded last” but no, 😅
Yeah, the remaster was... interesting. It was nice to play on the iPad, but boy... it started really badly shoving in a prologue chapter with Nico and completely altering the opening and ruining the mystery.
Exactly! And also, I cannot stand the "revised" character look that looked blander than a boiled potato.
Well luckily the new Reforged remaster is the original Broken Sword with completely redrawn artwork!
Was trying to think of games that my girlfriend may be interested in playing. I put this on and she loved it. Spent a great week of evenings together. It's been on of my favourites since I was a kid
I was born in 91' this came out in 96 I played it when it first released on ps I grew up playing this game it taught me alot and I'll never forget when da Vinci code came out I said "they copied broken sword!" Boy did I have it backwards
Great video! I'd love to know what the music at the very end is
Hey there! Sorry for the late reply!
That's just some royalty free music that RUclips provides. Canne remember precisely the name.
Best game ever TuT
It's very evident, and gave the first, second and fifth game their charm, and also what makes the 3D games feel so underwhelming with their lack of it.
This game changed my childhood
I heard a Neil Breen in there!
need Broken Sword 6 i love all parts
Never heard of the game before. Really interesting
One of the most beautiful games ever made.
This is one of the few point and click games I played. Now I know why I did not appreaciate others so much. Got spoiled by this great animation and bg work.
Wow I can't believe famous director, producer, actor, writer and publisher Neil Breen worked on this!
Not that Neil Breen
Video Game Animation Study You sure? Neil Breen is so massively powerful he could have time travelled back to the 1990s just to work on this masterpiece!
I look forward to every upload 😫😫😊😊😎😎😎😭🙏🙏🙏
Does anyone know the music that starts at 9:12?
I still have the original PC box in my house. One of the best 'streamlined' adventure games. It's fantastic even today.
Ah man, jealous!
Many a child would like to have a word with you regarding the loathsome goat puzzle, leading many into psychotropics.
Charles Cecil said the goat puzzle would fulfil hardcore puzzle fans who found it too easy and give casual players something of a challenge!
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Interesting. Unfortunately, it only led to frustration all across the board seeing as it suddenly demanded an actiony sequence halfway through a typically unhurried P’n’C experience. It broke its own rules, so to speak.
That's exactly what he said. I never felt like it was unfair, just really challenging, but it didn't put me off playing the game.
Oddly enough, my first experience with BS was the GBA version, so I missed out on all these cutscenes. D=
Oh man, what a lost experience!
I'm sorry 2:20 Did you see Neil Breen? Like THE Neil Breen?
Not that Neil Breen
You deleted your survey about notifications before I could respond to it. The "no" results might be misleading. I don't have notifications enabled because I don't like a cluttered notification area. But I check my subscription a few times a day and did see your video posted. Broken Sword isn't in my wheelhouse; so I hadn't watched the video. I don't technically fall into the yes category by the letter, but I feel like I belong there.
Sorry yeah, I'd got a basic idea from the poll so didn't want to clog up my notifications with that. It'd served its purpose.
Thanks for your response though!
Hello there! I am a big fan of broken sword and also a content creator on twitch I was curious if I Could coerce you to create an short animated intro perhaps ?
Hey there! I'm afraid I'm not taking on commissions right now, sorry!
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy I see no worries
Yeah, just like the Animaniacs PC games in the late 1990s.
How's the Last Temptress?
I'm really hoping the Neil Breen who worked on Broken Sword is the same Z-grade filmmaker who keeps churning out hilarious, bizarre, sub-Wiseau-level films these days...
Ha, it isn't
Wait... Did he just say Neil Breen?
Not that Neil Breen
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy awww
Ive forgotten about this channel lol
Thanks I guess?
Video Game Animation Study i realized the that comment was pretty rude just now, really sorry! I didnt mean you guys are not worth remembering or anything, in fact i love the content so much it inspires me to animate
Thanks. It's RUclips stupid algorithm, it only sends out some notifications to see how people respond, then send out more if it does well and then pushes it to the Home Page.
The Algorithm has killed this channel.
Video Game Animation Study you know social media doesnt make actual hardwork and useful information famous, however I've never thought of that until now but some of my game lover friends and even one teacher would find you videos very intriguing, i know its hard to remain willing to post more content with less appreciation, please know fewer viewers who watch to learn are better than so many people watching to fill their spare time,I appreciate your work, pretty sure most of your viewers do too! Dont let youtube make you feel like what you share is unimportant!
This game's animations feels more like "Titanic: The Legend Goes On" than "Dragon's Lair," and I can't put my finger on why that is
Awesome video, but please - Play the games! At the very least 1 and 2..
I've played 1. I just haven't played 2.
Why is your intro like that
Like what?
So really it's Don Bluth's influence, not Disney's.
Well, who influenced Don Bluth?
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy At that point, while you can't deny there is influence, it is several layers removed, and with new layers added. Bluth's house style does differ from Disney's in important ways, and these folks clearly have their own style on top of that. :)
Which ways does Bluth's differ? I tried to study and ask for advice from other animators but couldn't settle in a particular thing which distinguishes them. Could you try to list them?
Did you say Neil Breen? Like the guy who makes those awful movies, as featured on Red Letter Media?
No, not him
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Makes sense, it'd be strange for him to be competent I suppose
Definitely
I didn't play the game but make a video about it. People are getting lazier every day
Do you think that *I* haven't played Broken Sword but have made a video about it? 🤔
Because I have _no_ idea where you've got that from.
4th comment!