Kilian Goes Steampunk – Fair Game Series Announcement - video Dailymotion

Kilian Muster

Quick update on Shadywoods, and what's coming next!  About PIXELBLAST: Pixelblast is an independent studio founded by Kilian Muster.  https://pixelblast.net/fairgame  Full Episodes & Merch (once ready): =================================== Amazon Prime (US/UK/JP/DE): https://www.amazon.com/v/pixelblast Trickfilm: https://trickfilm.com/creators/pixelblast Gumroad: https://app.gumroad.com/pixelblast Sell App: https://pixelblast.sell.app Pixelblast Shop: https://pixelblast.net/shop   Due to the series being produced entirely as a one-man operation, production pace is slow. Check out the “Sneaky Peak” production blog to see how the next episode is coming along https://kilianmuster.com/fairgame  Connect with us online: ======================= Pixelblast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pixelblast Twitter: https://x.com/PIXELBLASTanim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixelblast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pixelblastanimation  Series Creator Kilian Muster YouTube: https://youtube.com/@KilianMuster Twitter: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Instagram: https://instagram.com/kilianmuster

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00:00Hi there. So it's been a while. I wanted to update you on what's going on. First of all Shadywoods.

00:06So Shadywoods is making the rounds through the festivals which takes a while and

00:12most of them will be done in autumn. And Shadywoods has already won one award at a very tiny

00:19Japanese festival and made finalists at a London TV film festival and some other place I forgot

00:27about. And so that's what you have to kind of live with if you're doing festivals is basically a lot

00:34of rejections. This is Film Freeway which is a portal that allows you to quickly send off all

00:39the assets that you need to enter a competition or a festival. So you upload your main video and

00:46posters and direct the statement and then you can just basically register certain festivals and

00:52it'll automatically be sent there. So if you look at this you can see Fungus and Mold first, second,

00:59third episode and Shadywoods and Fungus and Mold. You see this here, this black thing here, 31 not

01:05selected. This is the reality of going to festivals and this was with minor festivals. I got six awards,

01:13actually I got seven awards. One was from a festival that is not using Film Freeway.

01:19So that was fairly successful. Second episode, I didn't really do many festivals, so I didn't really

01:27read much. Same here, I tried again with the third episode, 22 not selected, one finalist, one nominee,

01:34no award whatsoever. And with Shadywoods right now it's 30 undecided, still pending. So 16 already ditched me

01:43and two finalists, one selected. It's a bit weird because the selected was actually the one where I got an award,

01:51but I think on Film Freeway they just said, I'm selected. This is so much about festivals. And you know,

02:00doing the festivals again felt to me like I'm a bit tired of it. Because eventually if you want to win a prize at a festival,

02:09you have to actually be very psychological. I mean, normally you only go to the festivals where you know

02:16the people, the jury, like the kind of contents you make and the kind of topics and the kind of style

02:23you have. And it's kind of strategic. And I feel like you're just catering to some people with a very

02:30weird taste in videos often. And if you are commercial and not artsy or fancy or kind of deep

02:40meaning filmmaker, then you're not going to win much. That's the thing. And I'm kind of tired of

02:47that. And I'm tired of asking for permission to be creative and asking for permission to make the

02:53series. And I also don't have to budget to keep on doing Shadywoods. Because as I said, the two main

03:01characters are voiced by two professional voice actors. Richard did a fantastic banging job, you

03:08know. But the harsh reality is without any kind of funding or budget, I cannot go on with Shadywoods. So

03:17I guess unless a miracle happens and somebody picks me up and says, let's do a whole season and I'm

03:22gonna hear is a few million dollars. Shadywoods will end with a pilot and just hang there in limbo

03:28forever. Having said that, I was aware of that. And I was clear, it was pretty clear to me that it's

03:35not going to go anywhere, probably. And so I really plan to do a reboot of Fungus and Mold. Because,

03:43well, this one is showing its age, you know, it's the first animation I've ever done. I can't really

03:49watch it anymore. It's kind of really just so many things that are just bad, wrong with it,

03:53especially the other pilot. And I thought if I'm going to continue Fungus and Mold because I like

03:58the characters, I'd have to reboot it. I have to kind of draw the line and say, okay, that was the

04:03first attempt. Let's just redo this thing. And so I thought I tried to rewrite the story. I tried to

04:10slightly massage the characters into something else. But it never felt right. It never felt like this is

04:16where Fungus and Mold should go. And it really didn't have any good ideas for any new stories

04:21because I had written so many stories for the old Fungus and Mold that it's so ingrained in me now.

04:29This is what Fungus is. This is what Mold is. This is what the world is. That everything,

04:33changing anything too massively about that felt like destroying a legacy. It just felt wrong. It didn't

04:39feel like this is something I should be doing. And so then I thought like, okay, let's just think

04:47about, can I do a different sci-fi? And I was into kind of retro stuff and I was researching into the

04:53German empire and I thought, Hey, what about some, some steampunk thing? And I had this idea. And then

05:00I was working with my son on a logo with, with, with deer and stags. And I thought like hunting,

05:05that could be maybe something, you know, steampunk hunting that fits the whole narrative. And then

05:11I created a character, a bunch of characters. I had a few ideas. So there was this hunter guy

05:16and he would be hunting all kinds of fantastic beasts and monsters throughout the galaxy. That was

05:21the first idea. And, uh, it first looked like this. That was the main character I had initially.

05:29And then, uh, I felt, yeah, but if it's all too, if I, I, while I like steampunk, if it gets a bit too

05:39steampunky too, it also almost looks like some weird S and M fantasy thing. And it gets kind of like

05:45off putting to me personally. So I thought it has to be a kind of a clean sci-fi future with some

05:51speampunky elements, but not too dark cogwheel steam level of kind of thingy. And anyway,

05:59so I, I, I did this guy and he felt a bit too antiquated with that beard, you know, that, that

06:04goes all the way to the, what do you call these parts here? And then I redrew him again with a

06:09normal mustache. Where is he? And that, that didn't feel right either. And then I thought like,

06:15this guy kind of that hair, if you shave the sides off a bit, you know, played with that. And then he,

06:22I had this kind of slightly hipster look, you know, suddenly he has this, this, this,

06:28all the hair shaved off here. He's got those glasses and he wears this, this, this, this very

06:33German hunting clothing, you know, lederhosen, the knee length pants, knee length socks

06:39and the gumsbad, whatever you call this, the tuft of a, what's, what's it again, chamois, chamois tuft,

06:47the gumsbad, the gumsbad, you may. And, uh, yeah. And I thought like, oh, I'm going to do this.

06:56And I don't really recall how this happened, but I had this epiphany then where, where I thought like,

07:02oh, I want to bring in more modern elements, like, like social networks and phones. And, and then it kind

07:07of struck me like, wow, how, what about if that guy, that hunter wasn't a hunter, but some social

07:13influencer dude who just poses with guns. He's just this poser. He's completely hopeless.

07:19And then I had this, it went on and the idea was like, oh, he comes from a legacy of Hunter. So all his

07:24grandparents, great grandparents, like, uh, this is his great, great, great granddad was a big hunter.

07:31And then there is the original main character became then an ancestor. Where is he? So there's

07:38another ancestor of his, another ancestor of his, another ancestor of his. And now that the main

07:44character became this hip hipster dude who inherited all that gear, all the clothing, some trophies,

07:52uh, and he himself is useless. And so what he did then essentially was maybe he, he, he dyed the

08:02clothing into some more hip colors, like this purple stuff here. And what he does then, uh, is he just

08:08poses on social media with this stuff. Like, like he's manly, he's doing the, like the Sigma kind of, uh,

08:15thingy and, uh, gets very popular, has millions or billions or trillions of followers and becomes super

08:21famous as the hunter influencer dude. And that's where it struck me again with the names. I want to,

08:27I want to give these characters like German names. I want to go like, like, like, as I said, German

08:31empire. So the emperor in that world is called the Kaiser. And I thought the dude is a Sigma dude.

08:38And I thought, oh, there is a German name Sigma. I think you have the same in, in, in Sweden or something.

08:44It's, it's a Nordic name Sigma. And I guess that is the perfect pun. This guy's name is Sigma

08:49or American English. You should say Sigmar. There's an R, which you in British, in British

08:54English, you wouldn't pronounce much. Uh, and, uh, he is a dude. He, he invented the Sigma look,

09:00the Sigma look with an R, mind you. Uh, and that was that. And then the idea was, okay,

09:06so what happens now that now there is this, this emperor who then might call him or, um,

09:11um, give him the post of imperial huntsman or whatever. And so he has to now start hunting,

09:19although he has no idea, never handled a gun in his real life. And, uh, that would be the funny

09:24thing that he is a complete poser and he's very concerned about his appearance and to look good,

09:29but he has no idea about hunting, but he has to hunt now, because of course,

09:32if the Kaiser asks you to hunt, not doing so naturally means treason and you don't want to

09:39go there. Right. And, uh, that, that is the setup basically. He also, of course, gets a,

09:45gets a character with him. Originally I had an alien. I started off with fungus as the initial

09:50idea. So I had this alien here. Uh, then I gave him a different, um, that's a different outfit.

10:00There's another outfit, but I felt like it was, yeah, yellow, yellow is a harmless color.

10:04And I always thought like if they, if he's yellow, he looks cute and kind, nice. Uh,

10:09didn't really click. And I don't know how I got to this again. Yeah. I was thinking mollusks,

10:14mollusks, which basically all the animals like, like slugs and snails and octopuses and

10:19squids are all mollusks. And somehow he had to be a mollusk because I just didn't think

10:24mollusk is the most alien creature on earth as we know it. It's got like seven brains,

10:29one brain for each damn tentacle almost or something. And, uh, and so it has to be a mollusk.

10:35And so I thought, what if I make him look a bit more mollusk like, you know? Um, and then I had this

10:41idea, where is that? Can I hide this guy here? Yep. So this would be the natural state of the mollusk.

10:47Of course, this one only having six arms. I just did that actually six arms because I was too lazy to draw

10:52eight, four, five, six. Yeah. And, but, uh, he somehow completely digs

11:00these kind of old fashioned uniforms. And to assimilate more with humans,

11:06he normally slips his arms into a uniform and he looks like this. Where is he?

11:10And that worked perfectly because now he has two arms, two legs, and the two other arms at the back,

11:18they look like tails from his tailcoat. So he blends in as looking more human.

11:24And that is the other character. And then there is, of course, a robot, which is very heavily based on,

11:31on, on Alice. So instead of a ball, it's just this kind of pressure portal. It looks like a, like a

11:38Japanese, an old Japanese rice cooker, actually. And I wanted him to look kind of kind of really old,

11:43because he is really old. He's hundreds of years old, because it's part of the inheritance that the

11:48main character got when he inherited all that gear from his great, great, great grandfather,

11:54including this guy. And his name will be Eisenhardt, which is a nice wordplay. It's, it's German.

12:00Eisen means iron and hard, of course, as in English means hard. So it's, it's, it's a kind of a perfect

12:08name. And that's the setup here. And oh, here's the emperor, by the way, yeah, who is a jolly nice fellow

12:15who loves the hunt. That's why he has a hunter to bring all these trophies to him, because he has,

12:21of course, being an emperor is too busy and cannot really hunt himself, but he loves to hunt. He wants

12:26to hear every detail of every hunt that Sigma does. And he kind of lives through that hunt then,

12:33by hearing these tales and looking at the trophies he's got on the wall. That is the setup. And

12:38what I have now is I've been very creative. Yeah. Can you see this? This

12:51is one full season of scripts. Yeah, you can see the titles. I'll, it's fine. Once the first one's

12:59called Meister Jäger, it's of course, a bit of a punny nod towards a certain alcoholic beverage.

13:04Peranormal inactivity, one shell of a hunt, die hardly, hunt for the red octoberon, shell shock,

13:12the broly grail, Eisenstein, mission insufferable, the pasta stratagem, the trouble with nibbles and

13:19competition. And I know, I mean, you should know what, what I'm punning there. And then silent

13:25night violent fights so that the episode 12, of course, will be seasonal and will be a holiday

13:30one. And you already get the hint. The plan is to release this once one episode a month.

13:37And the episodes will be short. The, the pilot is about 11 pages. So that's about eight,

13:45nine minutes. It's a longer one. The rest is all around six pages. So we're talking four or five

13:49minutes short episodes. What's 12 of them? This time around, I will publish this stuff on YouTube,

13:55on X, on Insta, maybe, uh, whatever other platforms are out there, you know, the, what's this thing

14:03called with the blue sky and threads and I don't know, it's out there, let's get it out. I even have

14:09made, um, pages already. So this is for pixel blast with all the characters introduced and stuff.

14:16And, uh, this is on my, my, my blog page. It's not published yet. It's not out there yet. This is still

14:22a draft. Uh, as soon as I start posting, um, maybe snippets of the first episode or something,

14:30then I probably will put this out. Then it's kind of the official launch in a way, because then I can

14:35put out proper vlog episode and everything for this series. And as, as I mentioned, this thing will be out

14:41there entirely. You will be able to watch it once it's done. I will make merchandise in case you want

14:46to have a t-shirt, uh, or phone case or something. Well, that is that finally something to put out there

14:54once it's done and not just put into a festival just for them to ditch me.

14:59And, uh, yeah, it's great. I'm, I'm looking forward to it. I think it's really funny. I think you will enjoy

15:04it. And finally, I can have a final product where I feel like this is presentable. Plus I can put it in

15:10front of you as is a no nonsense. However, having said that, I'm still thinking of like,

15:18I will release one episode a month. That is the plan. I might put only 720p versions on YouTube.

15:24And if you want the full HD glory, you might have to purchase them. Or maybe the other idea could be,

15:29I will release the 12 episodes once one episode a month over the, the, over a year. If you want to

15:38binge watch it and have everything right away, you can maybe buy the whole season in one go or half

15:43a season in one go, uh, that these are options I could still do. Maybe so could do a little bit back,

15:48you know, for the effort I put into it. We'll have to see how that goes and whether people are even

15:54interested in shelling out any money for that, you know. But anyway, this is, uh, all I have to tell

16:00you for today and, uh, stay tuned. Uh, you might want to check out my blog every now and then because

16:06sometimes I just might do a blog post when doing a vlog is a bit too much work or there's not that

16:13much to talk about. Um, stay tuned, stay, check out my, my different threads feed, whatever. I'm pretty

16:20active on X and mostly YouTube as well. Uh, and then my blog, uh, although I know it feels like a,

16:27an anachronism who, who's blogging these days anymore, but I still do. And I just want to keep

16:32that on the site. And if you want to know how things are going, the blog is one of the first

16:37places to check out how far production has come. See you. Bye. Bye.

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