(Scene starts out as we zoom into Panel 1; there we find Eggman’s fortress on the right. Then we cut to the Egg Robos in the Surveillance room. We then find one of the Robos staring at the large security screen while standing on the patio until a familiar voice gets the Robo’s attention.)
Egg-Robo 1: Umm...Sir?
Egg-Robo 2: What is it, soldier?
Egg-Robo 1: You do recall me telling you that we uncovered an island just north of the ocean perimeter three minutes ago, right?
Egg-Robo 2: Uh...No.
Egg-Robo 1: Well, we’ve already found one, sir.
Egg-Robo 2: You’re really a simpleton. You know that, don’t you?
Egg-Robo 1: What can I say, it’s in my programming.
Egg-Robo 2: Any news from Robotnik yet?
Egg-Robo 1: Yes, sir. I’ve already managed to make contact, he’s on his way right now.
Robot Anouncer: Make way for our grand designer!
Egg Robo 2: All rise in the presence of Dr. Ivo Robotnik!
(Egg Robos line up, hatch opens, elevator spins out of control, then reverts, enter Robotnik)
Dr. Eggman: Ugh, I have got to do something about that elevator…
Egg-Robo 2: We’ve uncovered the location of the Emeralds’ whereabouts, sir.
Egg-Robo 1: And we’ve found out who’s been hiding them.
Dr. Eggman: Excellent. I shall contact the rest of the Egg Armada and tell the commander to begin preparations immediately.
Egg-Robo 1: Already done that, sir. The commander read the whole thing.
Dr. Eggman:(Turns to Egg Robo 1 with shock and disbelief) You did WHAT??
Egg-Robo 1: Well, not specifically, sir. But--less than unexpected. It’ll never happen again, sir. I’ll always make it up to you, always---
(Before Egg Robo 1 can finish, Eggman pulls out a device which is somehow connected to a laser beam.)
Egg-Robo 1: Ohh, *Bleep* No no no no, No, please, please, no, no, no, anything but that!
Dr. Eggman: Yes, that.
(presses the button, vaporizes Egg Robo 1 instantly.)
Moto Bug: He’s DEAD.
Egg-Robo 2: Yeah, I know.
Dr. Eggman: You. Clean that up.
(Surveillance bot enters, cleans up burnt rubble, then exits.)
Dr. Eggman: Computer!
Red Eye: AWAITING YOUR ORDERS, SIR.
Dr. Eggman: Show me the map coordinates to the island at once.
Red Eye: I AM REDIRECTING YOUR COORDINATES TO THE RADAR SCREEN, SIR.
Dr. Eggman: Nevermind, I'll find it myself. (checks the monitor screen, then clicks on a program that reads “Dr. Coffee”.) You call this a radar screen? There’s nothing but lousy background static! Not to mention all that churning & bubbling…
Red Eye: MY APOLOGIES, SIR. WE HAVE A PROGRAM WE LIKE TO CALL, “DR. COFFEE” WHICH IS UPLOADED TO THE LEFT ON YOUR SCREEN. CARE TO TRY SOME, SIR?
Dr. Eggman: Yes, yes. Of course! I always have coffee when I'm watching radar, you know that!
Red Eye: AFFIRMATIVE.
Dr. Eggman: Everybody knows that!
Egg-Robos: (All line up and salute in a state of panic.) Of course we do, sir!
(Waits for coffee to fill up, then he reaches out for the handle, then grasps it for a while.)
Dr. Eggman: Now with that out of the way, let us see what we have on the radar screen, shall we?
Red Eye: UPLOADING COORDINATES TO YOUR BROWSER, SIR.
(Screen switches on to a large scale 3d map of the unidentified floating island, then switches to reveal their current location.)
Dr. Eggman: There’s our destination; Angel Island! The Chaos Emeralds must be on that island somewhere, but where to look?
Moto Bug: Is that a ziplining area?
Egg-Robo 2: Shut up, Moto Bug.
Red Eye: ACCORDING TO MY CALCULATIONS, I’VE MANAGED TO SPY ON ONE OF THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS FROM ANOTHER KINGDOM NOT FAR OFF FROM THE NORTH SEA. IF WE CAN OCCUPY THAT TERRITORY WITHOUT LOSING THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE, WE’LL MANAGE TO CONVINCNE ITS GUARDIAN TO PROVIDE US SOME INFORMATION ON THE REMAINING CHAOS EMERALDS, THEREBY COMPLETING THE DEATH EGG AND RIDDING THE WORLD OF THE BLUE HERO SONIC, PERMANENTLY.
Dr. Eggman: Did anybody catch that? Excellent! Where do we start?
Red Eye: ABOUT A QUARTER TO SIX SHOULD BIDE US SOME TIME.
Dr. Eggman: Well, I sure hope this’ll be a small errand to run, because he’ll be in for a big surprise! (Chuckles, drinks the whole cup down, then spits it out.) Ack! This coffee’s stale!
Le Moto Bug est un ennemi qui apparaît dans la série Sonic the Hedgehog. Il s'agit d'un modèle de Badnik produit en série, à base de coccinelles, créé par le Dr Eggman.
Ce modèle a été inspiré en grande partie par une illustration de Stevie Cole sur Twitter.
New Sonic the Hedgehog-themed LEGO sets have been unveiled. These sets will feature characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, such as Amy Rose and Miles "Tails" Prower, and will allow fans to recreate iconic scenes.
Sonic’s Speed Sphere Challenge (76990)
3 characters and accessories: The set comes with Sonic the Hedgehog, the iconic Moto bug Badnik, Sonic’s Flicky friend and lots of accessories for role play
$34.99 USD, £24.99 GBP, €29.99 EUR
292 pieces
Tails' Workshop and Tornado Plane (76991)
4 characters and accessories: This action playset comes with characters Sonic, Tails, a Clucky, Buzz Bomber and lots of toy accessories for role play
$39.99 USD, £37.99 GBP, €42.99 EUR
376 pieces
Amy's Animal Rescue Island (76992)
6 characters and accessories: The set comes with characters Amy, Tails, Crabmeat, Picky, Pocky and a Flicky, plus accessories for creative play
$49.99 USD, £46.99 GBP, €52.99 EUR
388 pieces
Sonic's Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge (76994)
9 characters and accessories: The set comes with Sonic, Amy, a Flicky, Becky, Pocky, Pecky, Dr. Eggman, plus Badniks Chopper and Newtron and lots of toy accessories for role play
$99.99 USD, £94.99 GBP, €104.99 EUR
802 pieces
Quotes
Ivo Gerscovich, Sonic chief brand officer at SEGA of America:
"At Sega, we strive to create memorable experiences with our licensing partners that fans will cherish for years to come.
The Lego Group is the leader in play, and the perfect partner to bring exciting stories, iconic characters and environments from the Sonic universe to life in fans’ living rooms globally.
Through our creative collaboration with the Lego Group, Sonic fans of all generations can use their imaginations to play out their favourite Sonic moments, and we can’t wait to see their awesome creations."
Frédéric Roland Andre, LEGO Group designer:
"It really isn’t like anything else: the sets offer an entirely new, action-packed play experience.
I’m especially proud of the Speed Sphere, as it was quite a challenge to figure out how we would get Sonic to speed up and interact with each course.
Sonic is known for his speed and how he runs and jumps through courses, so for Lego sets inspired by him there was no way we could create a static set, we simply had to be creative and make them as action-packed as possible."
The sets are scheduled to hit retail and digital storefronts on 1 August 2023.
EJJEEKRKKR RARARA SO LIKE I JUST FOUND UR ACCOUNG AND IM INLOVE WITH THE WAY YOU WRITE FOR DOE,
Can I get a doe x schizo reader who has a breakdown everytime they hallucinate something:33
A/n: y’all make me smile sm with your silly lil requests ily all
by the way, i am not schizophrenic, so i apologise for being very generic about it in this fic, but i don’t want to get things wrong or stereotypical, so the reader will experience auditory hallucinations
John Doe with a schizophrenic S/O!
He didn’t know what it meant
You see things? Shadows? People that are not there? Bugs? Whatever you hallucinate? Oh no it’s normal, you’re living in Uncanny Valley after all!
“I see those things all the time too!”
You had to sit him down and have a long talk with him.
Tell him how before you moved to Uncanny Valley you’d still see and hear these things that weren’t there in reality.
Poor boy doesn’t understand anything, but he’s trying his best.
After showing him some more visual simulations you found on the internet (and explaining how hallucinations are different for each person) he could grasp the concept of it enough to try and help you
“SHIT MY MEDS-”
“Oh, I bought more yesterday!”
“What.”
“What? :3”
He makes sure you never run out of your meds, so, since he’s got quite nothing to do (apart from adoring you, of course), he makes sure to buy more one day before they run out, so you’re never lacking them!
He’s also your personal reminder to take them.
“Darling, did you take your meds yet?” - Doe’s just standing there with the pills in one hand and your favorite drink in the other. He doesn’t care if you take them dry, he wants to at least cheer you up.
He’ll also do more research while you’re at work, looking into side effects for your meds, just in case. Will also look for therapists, psychiatrists, and anything that might help you.
This guy’s moto is “It’s the least I can do!”
One day you come home from work, where you had already struggled enough. At least your home is a safe place, and today couldn’t get any worse anyway. Unfortunately, you were wrong about that.
You started hallucinating, hearing voices un hushed whispers. They didn’t necessarily say bad things, but it was just too much noise to handle. Like you couldn’t even hear your own thoughts or distinguish them. Torture.
“Love!”
Along came John, smiling all giddy, ecstatic about you being home, already wrapping his arms around you.
You bumped your head repeatedly against his shoulder, covering your ears, and he immediately understood, having you stop the harming action you inflicted upon yourself and holding you gently.
“What’s wrong? What are you seeing?”
“I’m not really seeing anything right now, but there’s too much going on and too much noise and-”, you explained, hyperventilating and tearing up as you did.
He didn’t exactly get the hang on how to help you, but Doe tried his best to ground you. He went to the kitchen and came back with some ice, making you hold it to ground yourself.
“I read online that this could help, since it’s so cold it distracts you.”
You weren’t quite sure if it would work, but the fact that he looked this up just to help you already made you feel a little better.
Prepare for an afternoon where he’ll be basically your servant, ordering your favorite food and drink, putting on your comfort shows, cuddling you, painting your nails, and hugging you as he hums little tunes so you can try and listen to him instead of all the voices in your head.
Doe was better for you than any of the meds you take.
I'm not getting this but I love how horrible Matt looks like boy is giving them Moto Moto eyes
This is all in good fun tho I hope these are funded and I hope those that want them get them. Also shout out to that poor bug on Matt's shoe, it's been suffering for 15 years
Hey everyone. It's Animation Night again. We aten'nt dead!!
Huge apologies to European viewers that I couldn't stream this one earlier. Still, I'd like to get back into the swing of things, so we're back. (Bros. We're so back.)
So. tonight we're gonna be checking out Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire. This is a collection of scifi films created by studios from five different countries across the length of Africa.
The impetus came from the South African studio Triggerfish - originally a stop motion studio, but they switched over to CG a few decades ago. We saw some of their work back on Animation Night 166 in Star Wars: Visions, which came close enough to the stop motion feel as to leave me in doubt. There's no question they have a ton of talent.
Like Visions, this short film collection has the financial backing of the Mouse; it also has another American, Spiderverse director Peter Ramsey, serving as executive producer. But there's no monolithic franchise involved this time - the individual directors and studios were given considerable creative freedom. Styles range from anime-esque to Hanna-barbera; stories span aliens in high speed races through near future dystopias to apocalyptic stories about gods.
The creators are a little hands off towards the term 'afrofuturism'; in an interview with Skwigly magazine, producer Tendayi Nyeke asks us to interpret it just as scifi more broadly:
We don’t use the word Afro-futurist! Part of that is we are seeing science fiction, but through the context of Africa, and trying to demystify Afrofuturism. It’s not a genre for us. Because, you start to raise questions like can a French person do an afro futurist movie? And what does that even mean? So it’s an African filmmaker using science fiction as a medium to communicate. Science fiction allows them to imagine big futures. I love when a lot of Western science fiction is looking at a dystopian context, we’re looking at hope. It really comes from trauma in some ways, though we have a rich heritage prior to the trauma. And then we’re like, hey, technology is evolving. We’re evolving as human beings. If there was hope, what could that look like? Science fiction as a medium allows you to explore that just by its design.
Among the filmmakers, there is considerable ambition to change the general layout of the animation industry. Raymond Malinga, director of Herderboy, remarks:
But somehow, because of all these things like colonialism and everything, it’s almost like our creativity was stifled by that and we just keep on accepting the fact that we are supposed to tell mundane things, you know? Mundane. Normal. So with “Herderboy”, I just took one of the oldest professions of the whole continent. And I said if I can update that and Ugandans watch that, they can start saying, you know, if cattle herders can look cool, then what else can look cool?
It's a cool interview, he's very charmingly down to earth when he talks about how after working on the film for a year he has no idea what's funny or not. Isn't that a mood...
Of course, until fairly recently there were a lot more animated films about Africa, such as the French Kirikou series, than animated films created in Africa. Which is nuts when we're talking about an entire continent, right? Thanks, "legacy of colonial extractivism". But things are really moving now! African animation was the subject of Annecy 2021, and in the online version of the festival I got to see the impressively varied Mshini TV collection of the edgier end of the spectrum, which carried all sorts from Newgrounds-esque flashes to South Park-like comedy skits. And this year at Annecy 2023, I got to see the first feature-length animated film from Cameroon, The Sacred Cave. A bug is spreading!
With this field, Kizazi Moto stands out for its startlingly high level of technical polish. And of course, I just like scifi. From the Mouse's perspective, they have their eye on the long game - trying to capture an 'emerging market' and all that. But, I would far rather they spend their money this way than having animators add yet more weight to the sinking Star Wars boat, you know?
So let's go take a look at what they've put together! In total, Kizazi Moto comprises 10 films, typically about 10 minutes long each. You can get summaries here or just watch along tonight, and I'll be posting my thoughts on each one later~
And. For a dose of the heavy along with this fun stuff - the ongoing genocide has put Palestine and specifically the Gaza strip in the front of everyone's minds. While there have been a few animated films touching on the occupation from the Israeli side, like Waltz With Bashir, a celebrated psychological drama in a realist style in which a former Israeli soldier reflects on whether he did a warcrimes, and Seder-Masochism, in which Nina Paley attempts to lay out a story about how the patriarchical Abrahamic religions suppressed an ancient matriarchal religion (she is a terf, how did you guess!), which includes the undeniably conceptually effective but highly equivocating This Land Is Mine segment... there is less available from the Palestinian side for the obvious and sad economic reasons.
But, a couple of weeks ago, Animation Obsessive wrote an article to celebrate Fatenah (2009), a short film animated in the West Bank about a woman in Gaza struggling to get breast cancer treatment. It's available free on Vimeo:
It's directed by Ahmad Habash, a native of the West Bank who came to study animation here in the UK, and secured WHO funding after they saw his student film. But the film is not a one-note activist project, it's a careful character study trying to give a convincing portrait of the different facets of its title character's life. This film was completely new to me and I'm grateful to AniObsessive for highlighting some Palestinian art in my favourite medium. So I'd like to slot this into my little Twitch show as well!
I have a bunch of other short films I'm excited to show, between recent Gobelins works and another AniObsessive piece highlighting their favourite short films from the festival circuit which have become available online. But given the ludicrously late start, I don't want to pack too much in to this one. We'll save that for another week!
I know Animation Night has been very spotty recently. I've been going through it with the old brain a bit ('a bit' she says). I'm trying to get things back on track with sleep and stuff, thank you for all the kind things people have said, and for bearing with me.
So! Let's go! Animation Night 177 will be going live in just a moment in its usual home, https://twitch.tv/canmom!