Michael Ropple

CG Generalist, formerly at Nickelodeon.

Loves making games on the side.

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

And yes, as a joke, for Bubble I just traced over chain chomp.
Also, if you're wondering why Jax has 4 colors instead of the usual 3, it's because the two, 8x16 sprites that make up his head use one pallet, while the rest of him uses another. This is why his gloves are red.

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

I was surprised to see there wasn't that much 8-bit art of The Amazing Digital Circus... so here you go:

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Spent 2 hours trying into get a horse in Zora's Domain (BOTW). I wanted to do it without the internet's help, but it turns out I should have just looked it up, because imagine my disappointment when all my hard work ended with an invisible wall right at the finish line.

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

April Fools Day may be over, but I think misinformation about Sonic the Hedgehog is something we can enjoy all year round!

I laughed at my own jokes way too much while making it. I dunno if that means it's good, or just that I had fun, but... here you go!
https://t.co/wRTsepDc8X

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

https://t.co/wRTsepDc8X

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

The spirit of Sam E. Sega visited me in my dreams and bestowed me with some stupendous, FANTABulous, ABSOLUTELY INCREDulous Sonic trivia to share with you all!
(Link below)

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Ok, so, as soon as I saw that Nvidia DLSS 5 demo (and specifically Digital Foundry talking about how great it was), I felt compelled to make a short about it. It was genuinely embarrassing:

https://t.co/tNOLQD0LgE

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Ok, so, as soon as I saw that Nvidia DLSS 5 demo (and specifically Digital Foundry talking about how great it was), I felt compelled to make a short about it. It was genuinely embarrassing:

https://t.co/tNOLQD0LgE

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

I made another short, this time pointing out an interesting quirk in Portal 1 that I didn't see too many people talking about.

It possibly hints at an older draft of a joke, or maybe a mistake on the developers' part.

https://t.co/yH9qtsL8dG

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Oh, and happy 20th Anniversary of Kappa Mikey!

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

WE NEED TO CUT THROUGH THE POWER CABLE!

https://t.co/ogrcdxMzaE

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Do you remember Kappa Mikey, the obscure Nicktoons Network show? Probably.

Do you remember Kappa Mikey's even more obscure spin-off show, Dancing Sushi? Probably not.

https://t.co/11K2yst7QZ

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Don't ask me how, but I found the scripts for several early season 2 episodes of Kappa Mikey.

I watched each episode side by side with the script to find any changes that were made between writing and final product.

https://t.co/XpkA70fabh

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Trivia most people already know is that Kappa Mikey was originally going to be an teen/adult show on MTV.

As a lifelong fan, it was SURREAL to be scrolling one night and suddenly see Kappa Mikey be relevant again, when the MTV pilot leaked in 2017.

https://t.co/5Li9QfaIzd

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Kappa Mikey's pilot is called "The Lost Pilot."

This is because they attempted to make the pilot first, but there were issues, so it had to be delayed and redone.

Clips from the original version of the pilot can be seen in the sizzle reel:

https://t.co/AP3HnTiPYE

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

Kapa Mikey was such a unique show, and in a lot of ways, it was ahead of the curve.

This snippet from my 8 hour video is from the episode where Mikey and Guano are upset that they BUTCHERED the English dub of the anime they work on:

https://t.co/jZEY97mdtM

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

The best part of art is the human element.

In an interview, Carrie Keranen (Mitsuki's voice actress) recounts a blooper in the recording booth. I made an animatic to illustrate it:
https://t.co/dx5OiyU51Z

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This is the silliest of all the shorts I've made, but you know how it is when there's some small, strange detail in an animation and you wonder why it is the way it is:

https://t.co/gBNGb5XvxI

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

I love seeing ideas that go unused, so I was really excited to find a storyboard in Travis Cowsill's portfolio with so many changes from the final that it's almost unrecognizable.

https://t.co/Ogi7npW6pQ

[Michael Ropple @spacepig22]

And I only had to pull the same pack 200 times!