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Bolts4Brains Update 1/6/25

New poses unlocked! (1 normal frame and 2 smears)

This scene requires the "camera" to move from a distance behind Circus Baby, to in-front and up close. The background of this scene is only that of a spotlight and few other rays of color, so giving the scene a sense of rotation was quite difficult. Luckily, I took the "I was covered in glitter" part of Circus Baby's storytime to my advantage, and added falling glitter as another object to be affected by this motion. I did paint different backgrounds (underneath the pink light) individually, even if you'd hardly see them.

Since the camera movements are a bit more complex, I put each background frame together first, and then I plan on layering each Baby on top of them, rather than one fully baked image that might have a mix up, taking a whole new jpeg to fix. (If anything, this is actually closer to cel animation.)

I really hope this bit won't be the new "Foxy Fatigue." It's around the same length, and meets the points of what made that scene so tiring, but there's more movement, which should negate a lot of tedious work. Otherwise, I'll call this one 'Baby Burnout.'

Three aforementioned poses used in the animation. (Slowed for easier perception) (lipsync will be added later. "Teeth-sync," I guess.)

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HARK! SNIVELY SATAM HAS SPOKEN NEW WORDS.

The audio is from Charlie Adler's Instagram, where he reads a Trump quote as Snively. I imagined it as him mocking Robotnik while he's away. (I also added the music. It's a recreation of SatAMs ost with Genesis sounds.)

Bonus: A Robotnik I drew today.

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Happy New Year! Here's all the motifs I heard in the YeeHaw track in Help Wanted 2!

These were either direct motifs, or very similar chord progressions. In order they go:

Where Dreams Die (UCN)

Drag Me to the Crusher (SL)

Crumbling Dreams (SL)

Forbidden Nocturne (SL)

Watch Your 6 (SL)

The Forbidden Nocturne bit ALMOST sounded like a part from Fnaf6 credits, but it was the last couple chords before it went back to home that were different.

There are reoccurring instruments throughout the series. This track makes use of the "submarine radar sound" that shows up a lot in UCN. In a part of the song not shown here, there's a low sine wave that slides to its next note. Iirc, this instrument was last used in Drag Me to the Crusher. Pianos are also commonly used throughout this series soundtrack, but this one puts on a nice western spin. Personally, I'm quite fond of the low bell sound heard best in SLs trailer.

I also noticed how there are a number of tracks in general with the titles being about dreams and/or sleep.

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What is the song you used in your FT Foxy walk cycle for Bolts4Brains?

(I’m sorry)

Bolts4Brains is the song. I wrote it, and I'm animating a music video for it like I did with Paranormal Powerhouse.

Dw about it, I can't remember how many update posts I've made and what they all say, so I kinda just stopped elaborating on the idea every time. I keep forgetting I can use tags to sort things, so maybe if I do that, it'll be easier to access information on the project. 🤔

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Annual SrPelo Tattletail watch

I miss this goober. 2017 was really the year for other indie horror games while Fnaf was on The Big Content Drought. Tattletail, Bendy, and Hello Neighbor were the big three, from what I remember, but mammalian furby hardly even lasted a year. It might be better as a late 2010s relic though, considering. Bendy turned out fine, but eeauhdhh you know what happened with the other one.

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GUYS do you remember THIS post???

Well. Do I have a story for you.

When I was a wee young lass, I was on the Pony side of doll enjoyers. This was like 2008, so it was G3. I had several DVDs of the cartoon, but I had one of a live performance called "The World's Biggest Tea Party." It's exactly what you expect.

One day, I decide to go through all of my DVDs and re watch some that I haven't in a while, this being one of them. It's barely reaching feature film length, but the pacing makes it feel like it's well over an hour.

But I'm not here to critique an Mlp musical meant for 5 year olds, I'm here to show you where part of my Sister Location synesthesia probably comes from.

LOOK.

It was hard to find exact visual parallels, because like I said in the linked post, pink light is used when the Funtimes are preforming, which you see very little of in-game.

There were even similar plot concepts!!! Don't be alarmed, it's not what you think!!!

The movie is available for free on YouTube, but I'll summarize it since the dragging was stronger than my nostalgia goggles.

Pinkie Pie wants to plan an event with her friends where they "have the most fun in one day." So the whole movie is them preparing for a tea party that happens at their friend's house outside of PonyVille. Subplot with Spike trying to find a "how-to" book and the Ladybugs trolling him. Pinkie was so focused on making sure her friends didn't forget their responsibilities, that by the time they got there, she realized she forgot the tea. She feels super bad, but some encouragement from Minty and the screaming child audience summons an oversize teapot. Happy ending.

Text-to-text comparisons I drew:

Main character is a shade of red, and likes parties.

"The most fun in one day"

Main character being overly aware of what everyone else is doing. Super attentive, or if exaggerated, you could call it being bossy.

Main character has a big oopsie.

One of the ponies who is SO adhd coded keeps subconsciously putting off preparing her decorations. She "just wants to have fun." (Character does a thing, doesn't know why, only wants fun.)

Giant kitchen utensil.

The Ladybugs and Minireenas. They share similar design features, and pester a character associated with the color purple.

Those three fairy ponies? Bidybabs. Ones of em's even yellow, it can be Electrobab.

"Bounce Back-Ability"/Adapting from the oopsie.

The aforementioned synesthesia was all visual. I hardly remembered anything of the plot until I watched it recently. I wanna say the last time I put that DVD in, I was like 6. So like the synesthesia was coming from a near 14 year old memory. That's nuts.

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A piece of evidence used for the Molten MCI theory is that Ennard and Molten Freddy have a blotted out eye on the same spot as the bad ending in Fnaf 3.

I thought that was a good point, and I don't even like this theory. But then I noticed,

Mimic's Gregory costume and Nightmare Chica have the same feature. Both examples have either a "working" blue or red/orange eye.

Other animatronics with this "one good eye" design are Mangle, Lefty, and all the Pirate Foxys. The first two have their unique eye on the left, and the Foxys on the right, although they're still completely functional with the patch lifted.

I think in actuality, it's just a subconscious design trend, but it was intentional for Molten in order to connect him with Ennard. As for the bad ending eyelights all being on the same side, look at the render as if it's an art piece. It could've been done for the flow of the "painting." Consistency 🤌

Side tangent, Chica's inner eye has a different pattern because her eyes are set further apart on her endoskeleton than the rest.

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Bolts4Brains Update: 12/13/24

Opener

The synesthesia I have for certain parts of Fnaf (and other things) get so specifically niche, and I know this, because I'm the only one making DVD select screens for Sister Location, as if it were some forgotten animated movie.

You should definitely play this in reverse if you have a means of doing so.

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Bolts4Brains update 12/09/24

Where's the dinner triangle, I HAVE COOKED. 🗜💥🗜💥🗜💥

Walk cycle loop

...Yeah this is why I was studying the VR 2 animations.

I have one drawing of Funtime Foxy I did a few years ago I really like, that I'm going off of for the music video.

My favorite thing about drawing the variations of characters is styling their hair tufts differently. Og Foxy's is a lil messy, Mangle's is curly, Withered's is three scraggly wires, haven't drawn Nightmare Foxy in a while, and Funtime's is slicked back. I don't think I've ever drawn Rockstar Foxy, but he'd have a tiny bun with three pieces of hair jutting out from underneath.

Another thing I noticed upon further inspection of her model, the top of the snout is curved upward in the back, like a built in smile. The bottom jaw starts wider, and thins out at the end, and the top jaw the opposite.

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I was studying the walk cycles from Fnaf VR2, for completely normal reasons, and found something that backs up a couple guesses I made in this post.

Ennard's right leg is Ballora's, and the chest piece is Foxy's. (The second one is still a little iffy.)

Observe:

In all official animations of Ballora dancing, her left leg is the one that stays grounded. Even in the Funko figure of her, the peg to her stage is for the left foot. In Ennard's walk cycle, he tends to kind of toss his right leg around by the upper half, and all below the knee drags along with it. This would also confirm the boioioing leg being Ballora's. If we had a Scott render or model to go off of for her endo, that would make a lot of things easier.

Conclusion1: Ballora is used to dancing as a means for traveling upright, so when she's part of Ennard, that leg automatically wants to move as if they were.

(The other leg however could still be Freddy's, since they only have a 2 inch height difference. It would also make sense, since Ballora doesnt move the other leg all that much. The peets I'm more confident are Freddy's, because the extra talons Ennard has splayed to the sides are present on Freddy. They're just normally held together by a couple bands.)

As for Foxy, this one is more of a stretch. The after images for the video are really bad, and there's only 2 videos of the animations like this. But, from what I can work with. Foxy turns this corner very sharp. His head turns first, and the rest of her body follows suit. His run is very bouncy. For Ennard's case, I took note of the snappy nature of that turn Foxy did, and compared it to this forceful jolt Ennard does with his right shoulder.

Slowing Ennard's walk really helped see what each glitchy movement was actually for. He tends to sweep his feet and skid, like wearing shoes too big for you. It also seems that limbs get stuck for a second. That's what that big jolt I mentioned was about. They're trying to pick up that leg, (the Ballora one,) but it sticks for a moment. They then jerk the rest of their right side to help propel the leg forward. This all happens very fast.

Conclusion2: Ennard's level of amalgam goes by the appendage, and the animatronics help eachother move. Here, Foxy was likely helping Ballora walk.

From Ennard's walk in general, he simultaneously moves like a toddler learning to walk, an old man with arthritis, and someone's first time in heels.

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tables turning upon turned tables.

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For some reason I thought this released on the 7th.

This game is like the frosting on a pack of those themed cupcakes you bring to class on your birthday. It tastes plasticity and leaves much to be desired...and food dye. But hey! Cool ring!

It's the narrative direction I never liked here, not the presentation.

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I’m a chronic “what if they were nice and also my friends”-er 😔💔

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My uber retro gamer knowledge got persnickety about the accuracy of Circus Baby's Minigame for the time frame CBPW takes place.

Re did the OST and everything.

More details about my thought process are in the description of that video. However, here's a clip of the game I based most of this on.

(This is how new arcades looked and sounded around the 1986-88 time frame.)

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I still think about them. :]

There are a few old drawings and clips I made years ago that elude to a Coconuts-centric "episode." When the trio work together in Aosth, they put all their braincel halves together to make a whopping 1.5. Since they're a bit smarter in this AU, their traps would be somewhat challenging.

Here, in the context of the environmentalist Sonic show, the theme the kiddies are supposed to get is recycling and making fun with what you have.

Since his robotization, Coconuts has been on scrap cleanup. If you know anything about Robotropolis, you'd know how littered it is with junk metal. His tasks are very mundane, so that gives him a lot of time to think about how he'd capture Priority One.

Bonus content: More of that one concept I had.

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Re-analysis on what comes from who.

I know about the whole thing about Scott modeling on a whim, but some things are easy to trace back to, so that means there was some intention.

My current consensus is that the body is the amalgam, but the head is unique. The mask fits it perfectly, so who is it? I'm sticking with Coils for now.

In order for this to be concrete, I'd need to know what time they formed Ennard and how long it took. I'm assuming they had to hastily be put together, and the reason the have a different head is because none of theirs were making the cut.

I've thought about the two extra blue eyes being Baby's old ones, but we don't know exactly how the color change happened. Was it paranormal or physical? Paranormal could be a cool way for William to figure out Liz is in there, but physical would be an interesting way he addresses it. Either way, the head is completely different than Baby's, and wouldn't you think the other Funtimes would've had this happen too? If it did, Ennard would have a lot more eyes. And if Funtime Freddy and Baby can have blue eyes at the same time, why not another animatronic?

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It's weird being the decider of tricks and treats.

I'd normally prefer going by house, but my area is very stagnant for trick or treating. So trunk or treat it was.

2 kids thought I was a dinosaur, a number of them wanted hugs, another number of the same age group did not want near me, I scared a dog on accident, a few adults thought I was an actual animatronic until I had to adjust something. (The payoff of marching band.) Some kids offered high fives, which I thought was funny, considering, yknow.

The Cupcake is a bucket, and I put candy in there. So when someone came over, I'd open it up for them to take. However, I knew there'd be other chickens afoot, so I had an exotic butters basket alternative. The handle to the Cupcake eventually broke off, because I wasn't intending it to carry such weight originally.

This was like a test wear for later use at cons.