What do you want to know more about? - Dying Light Behind-The-Scenes

camera angles always come first, then details are filled out after layout. big picture first, small details later

Noodle

what was the forbidden "that's so jon" episode?

Really curious about the process for a sponsored video. Like do you reach out to them or vice versa? How much control do the sponsors have over the content (like a honey sponsored video vs this techland one)? etc. I've tried looking it up in the past and found very little on the topic.

What's the process you go through for deciding what the backgrounds are going to look like for your videos?

i wanna hear more about your scripts! like desperately, I’m so curious as to how half of the stuff I see is written down on paper

What do you think of animate I spent 6 months studying and recently got certified in it through my school. I hate it and find it outdated, but as a professional what do you think?

But still really cool to hear. Thanks for the insight! When is the crab video

Ben

Man I sure hope so. Hearing Nintendo striking down PointCrow’s videos that fell well within Nintendo’s guidelines for content involving their games is really worrying and frustrating. Not every company is Nintendo but they all watch each other to an extent…

Ben

Oh yeah, huge departure from most brands. It's starting to become more common to let creators do things like this though, which is exciting

Noodle

Files are uploaded to Google drive, and we have a discord server with relevant information pinned in the relevant channels. I did my best to keep the Google drive organized

Noodle

The main video will answer this question

Noodle

If techland wants to pay me again sure lol

Noodle

will we get more updates to the story (like a mini series?)

What software do you guys use and how do you share files without having to have to relink tons of images?

How long did each stage of the process take to work through? when was the video idea first planned? Also how hard/easy was it to coordinate that size of group for a project

You said at the end of the video that it "isn't canon". This implies the existence of Noodle lore that I'm unaware of and I must know all of it. What deep and intrinsic pieces of lore have you been hiding from us? I will only accept the answers in a Game Theory style video essay

Ahh okay. That’s pretty neat. Also just read your comment above saying that Techland was mostly hands-off. Would you say that Techland’s approach was more of an exception compared to others?

Ben

well thankfully the sponsorship didn't impact the writing process on a micro scale. The video wasn't written with Dying Light in mind most of the time; we just borrowed the setting and a few tropes to make our own thing. The only thing that the video being sponsored directly impacted while writing was that we avoided making direct references to other IPs (you'll notice the DDR machine is intentionally ambiguous, for example)

Noodle

I’d imagine most companies don’t want jokes at their expense built into what they’re sponsoring 🤔

Ben

Went back to rewatch it to think of some questions… big one for me personally though: how is writing jokes and gags different when the video is a directly sponsored one like this? As opposed to the company paying for what is essentially a commercial in a creator’s otherwise unrelated video.

Ben

I'd love to see more behind the scenes on animations and story-boarding.

Kat Kingsley