#Lord Peter Feathering-Walthamstones

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 67 [First-Class FLASHBack] - Weebl & Bob: FF7 / Scampi

Easter is this month, so the obvious choice for this installment of First-Class Flashback is going to be Jonti "Weebl" Picking. However, I did all of his Easter themed content last year. So my next thought was to cover some Weebl & Bob episode to get some egg related content, and then talk about Weebl's animation trilogy titled "The Lord", a series of animations in the style of old Black & White Edwardian films, narrated by Lord Peter Feathering-Walthamstones. His attempts to show you his drawing room are thwarted by the fact that he's high off his mind on various illicit substances. However, it appears that "The Lord" trilogy is now only available for viewing via Weebl's Patreon. So I'm just going to be flying by the seat of my pants for this, with some Weebl content that I haven't covered yet, at random.   Perhaps not entirely at random, as I am going to stick with my plan of including a Weebl & Bob episode, after all this is the season for eggs. And while I've covered these eggy boys before, the ones that I have have all been Weebl-centric. However for a small handful of the Weebl & Bob shorts, the art style changes, with the premise that Bob made those episodes. Bob's shorts are characterized by a red-orange background instead of the usual purple, and a hand-drawn line-art look with an excess of "line boil". Line boil is that look that you get in hand-drawn animation where it's clear that the artist was not able to accurately and smoothly draw the same outlines from frame to frame; Originally considered to be an animation defect, it became a style choice for professional animators in the 90s when a method was developed to automate its addition to digital 2D animation.   And if I'm going to talk about one of the Bob-animated toons, the obvious choice would be one known for making its players think about resurrection -- originally because of the fact that Phoenix Downs don't work in cutscenes, but more recently because its publisher is finally getting around to the high definition remake that fans have been begging for for the last few console generations. Posted on 10 December 2002, FF7 is the 25th Weebl & Bob Short. In this animation, the role of Cloud is played by Weebl, and Bob is Sephiroth (or possibly Aeris -- when you get down to sketches the two have similar hairstyles). The main points of satire are the aggressive random encounter system (a topic also touched upon by Legendary Frog), and excessively long in-battle cutscenes.

  So next, we're going to look at Scampi (I've Seen Things), released on 14 September 2003 ... *Listens to Voice From Offstage* ... What do you mean I already mentioned Scampi? ... *Listens Again* ... In the Savlonic post? Argh. But I didn't drop a link to a 10 Hour Version, as is customary for covering Weebl's Flash loops here on FLASHBack. And I know I didn't mention the Scampi Remix posted on 15 July 2009 where Weebl asked ZekeySpaceyLizard to re-animate it in his own style, nor the Christmas version of Scampi from Weebl's 2015 Advent Calendar. So this isn't entirely a re-hash.   Next week on FLASHBack, more eggs.