WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.229 --> 00:00:01.229 Heh. 00:00:01.229 --> 00:00:02.229 Heh. 00:00:02.229 --> 00:00:03.229 Heh. 00:00:03.229 --> 00:00:04.990 I didn’t think much of today’s animation in the first few seconds. 00:00:04.990 --> 00:00:06.000 But then. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.019 But then… ha ha ha ha! 00:00:09.019 --> 00:00:10.870 Watch it below. 00:00:10.870 --> 00:00:16.529 Oh man, just wait until you see how deep the rabbit hole goes here. 00:00:16.529 --> 00:00:24.840 Let’s start with how Guy Collins animated Kaizo Trap in the old 2007 Adobe Flash CS3. 00:00:24.840 --> 00:00:29.120 At first glance, it looks like the characters are puppets, but in reality there is way too 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.509 much complexity in their movements for them to be. 00:00:32.509 --> 00:00:35.500 Look at how many perspectives this right arm is moving through. 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:38.370 So most of the characters are hand drawn one image at time. 00:00:38.370 --> 00:00:43.149 Once we get into the game part, each of these movements is a looping cycle of hand drawn 00:00:43.149 --> 00:00:44.149 frames. 00:00:44.149 --> 00:00:48.011 By that I mean this hair isn’t one image posed differently, and this arm isn’t one 00:00:48.011 --> 00:00:49.680 image posed differently. 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:53.630 Guy Collins redraws the hair and arm each time they move. 00:00:53.630 --> 00:00:59.190 The result looks much more natural than a pure puppet, which would be more stiff looking. 00:00:59.190 --> 00:01:03.670 Especially with something like hair, a single puppet piece would look awful. 00:01:03.670 --> 00:01:08.050 Not to mention there are tons of non-repeated movements in here, but you only see them for 00:01:08.050 --> 00:01:09.050 a split second. 00:01:09.050 --> 00:01:13.080 (I actually didn’t realize how brutal these deaths are until I slowed it down for you.) 00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:15.310 That’s just the characters. 00:01:15.310 --> 00:01:19.050 Meanwhile there are tons of assets flying around, literally enough stuff to make a real 00:01:19.050 --> 00:01:20.050 game out of. 00:01:20.050 --> 00:01:24.670 Monsters, weapons, traps, effects, stage settings each of which has foreground environments 00:01:24.670 --> 00:01:26.470 and background environments. 00:01:26.470 --> 00:01:28.620 They all have a pixelated look to them. 00:01:28.620 --> 00:01:32.880 In the old Flash CS3 you used to be able to download pixel tools to make pixel art like 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:33.880 this. 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:38.160 These days animators either export the final animation and apply special effects then, 00:01:38.160 --> 00:01:49.890 or they dump a grid onto the Flash canvas and use a paint bucket to draw. 00:01:49.890 --> 00:01:54.210 The corrupted assets as the animation nears its end are awesome. 00:01:54.210 --> 00:01:57.370 Blocks with cut up repetitions of the same asset float around. 00:01:57.370 --> 00:02:02.900 The blocks change which character is displayed every few frames, or a change position of 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:04.970 the repeated art. 00:02:04.970 --> 00:02:09.579 The backgrounds start to flicker between places, with blocks missing from them. 00:02:09.579 --> 00:02:20.490 But what really impresses me about Kaizo Trap is not even the animation, it’s the choreography. 00:02:20.490 --> 00:02:24.739 The sheer amount of experience you’d need to have in 2D platform games to make this 00:02:24.739 --> 00:02:25.739 up is overwhelming. 00:02:25.739 --> 00:02:30.689 I mean, what would you have to do to know what makes a moment intense, what could possibly, 00:02:30.689 --> 00:02:32.030 how… oh. 00:02:32.030 --> 00:02:33.030 OHH! 00:02:33.030 --> 00:02:34.040 Oh god. 00:02:34.040 --> 00:02:37.390 Is he actually playing this? 00:02:37.390 --> 00:02:42.930 A kaizo game like Kaizo Mario World is hacked to make the levels just barely possible. 00:02:42.930 --> 00:02:47.109 The only way to win is through massive amounts of trial and error, memorization, and muscle 00:02:47.109 --> 00:02:48.109 memory. 00:02:48.109 --> 00:02:49.109 Kind of like Undertale. 00:02:49.109 --> 00:02:50.430 But, you know, worse. 00:02:50.430 --> 00:03:00.159 A Kaizo Trap is when you think you’re safe, but then the game 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:03.349 does something to kill you because you let your guard down. 00:03:03.349 --> 00:03:08.299 The only way to win is to die the first time and be ready for it the second. 00:03:08.299 --> 00:03:15.620 Now you see why Guy Collins’ animation is called Kaizo Trap. 00:03:15.620 --> 00:03:19.030 And this is where things get really interesting. 00:03:19.030 --> 00:03:21.620 Kaizo Trap isn’t just an animation. 00:03:21.620 --> 00:03:24.110 It’s a maddening kaizo puzzle game. 00:03:24.110 --> 00:03:51.269 And if you finish this animation with a score of 0/5, it means you haven’t seen all of 00:03:51.269 --> 00:03:52.269 it yet. 00:03:52.269 --> 00:03:53.269 *requires YouTube annotations to play 00:03:53.269 --> 00:03:54.269 Hi post-credits pack! 00:03:54.269 --> 00:03:55.980 Check the description for a link to all of the Kaizo Trap endings if you don’t want 00:03:55.980 --> 00:04:02.640 to solve the puzzles yourself. 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:06.379 If you get stuck at any point there are people in the comments with hints, and who typed 00:04:06.379 --> 00:04:10.109 up all of the HEX codes so you don’t have to.