Weekly Updates #3

Blender File available for 'Big Shot' Tier Members

Episode 2 will be entering the editing/sound design stage over the next couple days with aims of releasing for you guys on patreon by the end on the week if everything goes to plan. In the meanwhile I thought I'd drop another blender file for this episode.

This scene originally featured an old 3d model I made of a Sony PVM CRT for one of my first ever 3D commissions back in 2022. The scene kinda felt a little off and low effort so I decided to make my own TV. It was mostly inspired by the Divers 2000 cx-1, a TV with a built in dreamcast and cool little antennae.

The TV really tied together this simple scene to give it personality and make it feel like a recognizable part of the Big Shot universe instead of just a random TV. It got me thinking about ways in which I wanna incorporate technology and products into the show moving forward, taking a more deliberate approach to designing things for this world instead of copying real life counter parts. I wanna try take more inspiration from the ways Akira Toriyama would create vehicles and gadgets that would never be manufacturing in real life but make sense in the context of the world in which they belong, not focusing on functionality or practical design but instead leaning into the fact that this is a cartoon at the end of the day.

I also originally had a video game playing on the TV but decided against it in the end. At first I went through a bunch of real life video games to see if any fit but I didn't manage to find one that gelled with the style of Big Shot. I then tried to make a very very basic looking fighting game with stick figures but the amount of effort and time I had available to put into it wasn't enough for a good looking video game screen, it looks like a rly shitty place holder asset. At the end of the day I went with just having static on the screen and I think this better matched the themes of the episode and Big Shot in general.