Status updates for "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" were posted on Satomi from real life's YouTube channel, under the community tab. After TPOT 2 has entered post-production and was released on June 18, 2022, there are no more updates.
Storyboard screenshots[]
Screenshot 1: Two[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Two
On January 27, the finished TPOT 2 storyboard was approved, so we moved from pre-production to production! I'll be posting regular progress updates here starting in March (potentially earlier).
Additionally, measures are now in place to prevent pre-production from being this much of a bottleneck in the future!
Stay tuned! This'll be where you can see how TPOT 2 is going! I'll also include some storyboard screenshots, like I used to, but don't expect them to reveal too much 😅
Screenshot 2: Two[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Two
Audio is going swimmingly; almost all lines are in, and 28% of characters have their audio processed! You can see in the pie chart how much scene audio has been produced so far. As for assets, that's going really well, so take a look at those pie charts and see for yourself!
I also included another storyboard screenshot. I'll be making a habit of that. Stay tuned!
Screenshot 3: Gaty, Basketball & Nickel[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Gaty, Basketball, & Nickel
Audio is plugging along at a decent pace! And we're well over half way done with assets!
Also, as of a couple days ago, animation has officially started! So hooray for that!
As always, there's a new storyboard screenshot to tide you over. And, well, notice how the title says "weekly" status update? Yeah, that's right. I'm going to try to get you guys a status update every week or so, starting now! So, look forward to that! See you next week, and feel free to comment any questions!
Screenshot 4: Pin[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Pin
Check it out guys! Look at that! Animation is moving along so well! Look at that pie chart!!!!1111 And, well, audio? Hooh, wow! Let's just say this has been an incredible week here at the TPOT crew headquarters*!
You might be wondering why it's sideways this time. The answer is pretty simple: I wanted to make it fit better into a square and the Pin storyboard screenshot is portrait-shaped. So yeah. What do you guys think? Maybe I should instead rotate the individual pies, so they remain upright? That probably would've been easier to read, huh? Well, I'll keep that in mind next time I have a portrait-shaped storyboard screenshot. Unless of course I forget. I forget things a lot. Anyway yeah, leave a comment if you have any questions! See you next weekendish!
*the TPOT crew does not have headquarters. we are all so far apart :0
Screenshot 5: Pen & Eraser[]
Steady progress all around!
Over the last week, I moved into a new place! So I live somewhere else now! That's not really relevant to production, I guess, except it sort of is, because I had to take apart my computer to get it on the plane and then put it back together and stuff. Shoutout to Dunkyl for helping me understand and do all that. Also I seem to be allergic to something in this new town. I won't let that bog me down, though! Full steam ahead!
This week I want to thank our audio MVP, whimsy, who's in charge of preprocessing this episode! He's doing an epic job, and audio prep is now up to uhhhh 78% done! You got this, whimsy! You're almost there!
Screenshot 6: Golf Ball[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Golf Ball
Audio processing is completely complete!!! :tada:!!!
As for audio itself, I mean, look at it! It's, like, nearly 50% done! The audio team has been on fire, oh my gosh.
Also, it may look like BG / Props hasn't budged, but yesterday I got like most of the way done with a major bg/prop, and i just have to add the finishing touches. So it's not marked as done, but rest assured, it's coming close.
This week I want to thank COAL BONES for being an audio beast! You should see them go!!! Unrelenting!!!
Screenshot 7: Price Tag[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Price Tag
Hey guys, what's new? Oh. Oh, this is where you find out, from me, what's new with TPOT? And, and not, uh, okay yeah okay that makes sense. Anyway so basically here's the new set of pie charts! Look at em all sliced up as usual. Hope they're doing okay. And there's another screenshot!
This week, Allen finished a scene in just three days! Wow! So yeah, looks like everything's on track! Nothing much to report.
Thanks also to everyone getting BFDI on Place though, it's so cool seeing Firey standing there, and we have Leafy and Bubble over in that other spot! Maybe an Algebralian next? Who knows what's to come in the future...
Screenshot 8: Winner[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Winner
Some good progress here! As always... I'm, uh, running out of ideas for the flavor text of these messages, t-b-h. Comment if there's any sort of thing you'd want me to mention in these! Hee-hee! But yeah.
Wow. I just shivered a little bit! Just a little twitch! Anyway, all-around great work from the team this week. The animations coming in have been so incredibly epic... I'm not exaggerating. TopHat's scene came in today and everybody laughed. Because the scene is funny. Lol.
See you next week for more picture and circle and talking! Bye-bye!~
Screenshot 9: Bell[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Bell
Thing are moving! I think today I will *checks notes* finish up the last background and do layout for Yellow's next scene! So, uh, hold me to that! Lol! I think BG/Props should be 100% at the next update! It better be!!!
You might've noticed that today's update is on a Sunday, as opposed to the usual Saturday. Sorry about that! But I've set my goal to put these out every "weekend", so I usually do Saturday, but I was busy yesterday, so this is coming out today today. Anyway, here's Bell! Make sure to leave a silly comment saying that Bell is the one sharing the pie charts with us! Haha!
Screenshot 10: Pillow[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Pillow
Check it! .`.` We got the backgrounds and props DONE!!! Just like I said. :cool:
Now that I've finished my background, I'll be doing some animation starting today! But, that will be a mere drop in the puddle of all the animation that the crew's been up to! I mean, just look at it! They're working so hard on really hard scenes, so, um, so those really hard scenes are taking them longer than a week, in some instances. Also they have lives outside of animating for Jacknjellify! But rest assured we are getting the episode to you as quickly and as awesomely as possible. It's goign to be awesome (in my opinion).
I've been enjoying answering questions about production in the comments, so feel free to keep asking! See you next week! Here's Pillow with the weather report.
Screenshot 11: Yellow Face[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Yellow Face
OMG! Look at that! All the audio scenes are at least part of the way finished! And most of them are actually finished. Today, I'm going to contribute to audio by helping with a scene, a tiny bit, and then I think I'm going to do a bunch of layout to prepare for all the animators' next scenes! Two of the animators just got off of breaks, by the way, so maybe that'll pick up pace slightly. We'll just have to see!
Today I ate some chicken nuggets. Winner and Loser would be proud(?)! Ok, that wasn't really true, actually, I ate like, chicken tenders. In case you didn't know, those are like chicken nuggets but bigger and typically (hopefully) more crunch'y. Thank you for listening! Leave any questions you may have in the comment's[sic]!
Screenshot 12: Coiny & Barf Bag[]
Ooooh! Audio's really getting there ..! And look how happy! they are.
Yesterday, or, maybe it was two days ago? Well, whatever day it was, ttguy turned in a really epic scene! It was really epic, and it looked, like, exactly how I'd imagined it, except better in every way. It's really awesome. I was in awe. Had chicken again today...
Screenshot 13: Bell[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Bell
Sideways again...
Audio's really finishing up! I can just say this outright- there are only two scenes of audio left to be completed!
Anyway sorry the update is kinda late today. I went to the movies and only just got back from them. Well, it. Huh, so, is "the movies" singular? That's kind of weird. Share your favorite quirk of the english language in the comments below!
Screenshot 14: Golf Ball & Tennis Ball[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Golf Ball & Tennis Ball
Feast your eyes! Audio is done!!! And I've been spending more hours in my day to accelerate layout to go a lot faster from now on. Also, I'm going to be doing a lot of animation this episode, in order to make sure it comes out faster. For example for the past couple of days I've been animating a really climactic scene. I figured, you know, I should get that out of the way now instead of saving it for later!
Well basically the point is the crew is working extra hard to get this episode done faster! So we can move on to the next, shorter, faster to release episodes, that come after this one.
See you next week!
Screenshot 15: Eggy[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Eggy
Guess what guys!!! Guess what!!! Guess what guess what guess what!!!
"What" <-- you
All the scenes have officially been assigned! That's right, we now know who is animating all 100% of the scenes this episode! And we have this epic plan all laid out for how it's going to all get done in a timely fashion! It's great, and I'm really excited, and I'm in a good mood! It... it also means I don't have to push myself to animate 1 scene a day lol. For a moment I thought I would have to do that. But no, this episode is like, soooo doable now. It's a miracle!!!111
Let me know what your favorite shape of fries is! Because that's what's on my mind today. Personally, I'm a big fan of curly fries, but that's because their shape semantically actually defines a flavor (they taste different from normal fries, traditionally). Isn't that weird? Well anyway yeah. Have a good week! I know I will, when I *checks notes* lay out four scenes today? Hooh. Better get going! XD
Screenshot 16: Book[]
Storyboard screenshot depicting Book
Wa-pow!! Ok so uh this is awkward... I kinda got really really busy over the past weekend so I wasn't able to do the update. But here it is today!
I think, this'll probably be the last update! Starting this week, I'm going to be finishing up my last bit of animation and starting on post-production! So I'd rather focus on that than try to figure out how to do more updates after that.
Now, keep in mind just because I'm starting post production this week doesn't mean the episode is coming this week. I'll deconfirm that right now. There's still plenty of animation left to finish, and the team'll be working to push it to completion. But what this *does* mean is that the editing process for this episode is going to be a lot healthier and likely require zero all-nighters! Talk about efficiency!
Plus, I can't really promise this, but this increases the odds that the episode will be able to release with full english closed captions the second it comes out. That's been a goal of mine this time and I hope to make a habit of it (but really, because of the way the videos are produced, sometimes we just have to drop the episode in its wobbly, barely held together state in order to, you know, get the episode out.)
Basically though, here's the takeaway- entering the home stretch, no more updates, everything seems to be going smoothly, look forward to it!