Uzuri
Post subject: 10 years with Wolf
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 12:29 pm
Joined: Sun Jan 18, 2004 2:54 pm
Posts: 19520
Location: In my lair, where I gnaw the souls of disobedient posters

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It came to me as a bit of a shock this morning that I (Uzuri) have been with this project over 10 years.

Now my official date would have been sometime in January of 2014 -- I could probably figure it out exactly by looking at my forum join date, but I'm lazy, so I won't.

I applied as a story-board artist, weaseled my way into script work, started animating just for the hell of it, and then somehow ended up taking on a good bit of the administration. Pretty sure that if you did the forensic work it comes down to me having a big mouth, way too much confidence, and rather too much time on my hands.

Anyway, what triggered the thoughts was watching the scene 2 rough cut... mostly because I'm utterly shocked at how much better an animator I am these days. I guess doing something repetitively really does improve your skills. Some day I'll have to figure out exactly how many frames I've drawn for this project.

On the other hand, maybe I don't want to know.

Wolf has been a huge part of my life for these last 10 years; there's not a single day that goes by that I don't think of it in some manner (even if it's just because I spotted one of the doo-dads I brought home from AC or the character magnets on my fridge or I deal with a contract or a crit or fight with YouTube). I expect it to remain so for another 10 years; I'm not sure what I'd do if I stopped working on Wolf, to be honest. Probably drop dead in my tracks. I've become one of those people who do something all their lives and then can't retire.

But I guess if there's something that I had to take up in that manner, I can't think of anything better than this.

Fuck, now I need a drink.

So.. this is the same as the Ghost Dongs one, right? Honestly I would've preferred a CGI movie than an animated one (although the animation's pretty good) with the same sense of humor as the original. It probably would've been easier to make too.

Yes. A bunch of poe-Red guys made their own scenes from leaked Wolf: TAF storyboards, and Ghost Dongs/ Eagles Are Sneaky Birds was arguably the most popular one.

Fucking hell, I've been on some variant of PoE for at least 15 years. How is it possible?

"Wolf has been a huge part of my life for these last 10 years... I expect it to remain so for another 10 years"

Ok I feel better now.

IZ, Ghost Dongs and any other humor was entirely PoE as described above. The Wolf team has been serious business from day 1.

Ghostdongs:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=17016

Let us not forget that brilliant work of art where some user that I totally forgot (I want to say Portaxx, but I am not sure) took the actual Wolf comic book (or at least, part of it off of deviantart or something) and then re-did the dialogue into pure awesome. I seem to remember someone from the Wolf project eventually finding out about it and doing the usual LAWSUITE threat.

Wow. All this time I thought it was a real CG storyboard that got leaked!

I can't remember whether the leaked storyboard was just pencil drawings or whether it was an actual animatic made with pencil drawings, but I do remember that from a purely technical perspective it made the PoE CGI video look like a Pixar feature.

@StanleyPain I think I know what you're talking about, but it was a different wolf comic called Blackblood Alliance, although Portaxx did redo it. You can find it here https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Kay_Fedewa

I'm completely serious when I say that animation, and the long-lost source of "BONK", were the best things to come out of this whole affair.