Behind the Scenes - We Love Cold War!! (Unused Scenes, Animatics & More)

My three favorite three pieces of Cold War media: The spy who came in from the cold, red storm rising, and this.

There's something oddly endearing about the story of two depressed and bored as hell rival operatives finding joy and purpose in their efforts to kill each other.

bro got his work declassified :0

The extended ending is toutching; Naomi choosing to return to Earth to reclaim her meaning. Thank you for showing it to us.

Hey y'all! I was debating whether or not I even wanted to post these rough sketches and junk that I scrounged from my old harddrives, but figured i'll just dump these works here for posterity and to get sort of a glimpse as to how creatively WLCW came about. Although to be frank, there's alot about the creative process that I wrote up as part of a proper script that would just be impossible to fit into a 12 minute video and without taking like a week to edit guh. So i'll just summarize: WLCW spun off from my "more serious" attempts to make a melodramatic WW1 genre anime short, but those attempts never came to fruition as I sorta lost focus on the reasons why I got into animation in the first place. Conversely, I realized I didn't even want to lean more into cinematic styles of boarding or character animation and just wanted to make something that was fun and fun to watch, fun for me to animate, just something that I could sink dozens of hours into working with. So I made the very goofy "On the Marne!" short that is attached to this video as a companion piece =p (check it out here https://youtu.be/1bay09b8DpY) The storyboard animatic at 2:50 is what came next, but there was still no reason to get attached to the characters if it was just the car chase, everything from December to January was then also scrapped as the version I hated and the synth music wasn't working for me either. I just completely stopped taking things seriously by February as I thought of the most ridiculous possible ways to segue from shot to shot and think up of fun things to animate inspired by the media that got me into animation the first place lol =p So that's the version you get for most of this video, there were actually scenes and sequences entirely made in like a week as additions to the animatic like the CIA Miami boat chase, inspired by a comment by my old story prof Bianca lol. If there is a central thesis to WLCW, well I say there's two, it's to just like drawing and have fun animating, and also that from limitations, comes creativity, as you're really just forced to come up with solutions to problems, like the bichromatic colour palette and comic book graphic stylistic choices were all things that were not intended from the start, but just made sense as I realized my limitations to creating a full-fledged film. Well that took too long, and frankly it's a bit silly to have a 12-15minute podcast about a 4 minute film, but that's what I wanted to say, because I think with my lack of experience then, it was a huge learning experience that I just needed to learn how to do this stuff by doing it myself, and with that there's quite alot left undone that I wanted to do with WLCW, that hopefully will come to fruition in the upcoming months =)

i love when people making art pay attention to historically accurate details. you didn't have to have the British person in your alt animation pulling the trigger for the 1 frame, but not only did you, you also made them use their middle finger which is accurate to fast firing techniques of the time

The extended Moon ending finally clears up something that bogging my mind as to why Naomi suddenly drop down onto post-apo Earth! Nice. Also the alternate 'Valerie summoned/Batman signal' seems to make little bit more sense as in the final version I was perplexed as to what happened to her fishnet stockings during the underground concert scene. 😅 Great archive. Hoping to see more in the future.

We were robbed of bunny girl Naomi???

I never understood the ending was taking place on the moon until now. Cool.

Can’t ignore the absolute BANGER of a soundtrack this animation had 🔥🔥🔥

That introshot at 11:00 with the rifling of the barrel transitioning into a turning wheel is goooood

Bunny Naomi is making me feel things

HECK YEAH WE DO LOVE COLD WAR!!!!!!!

well, i guess i found new art style inspiration, AI can't replace this sheer effort, great job!

This project is absolutely amazing, I really hope you do more of this in the future. Personally I love the Cold War aesthetic and you NAILED it.

"idk dude I wasted 2 years at college doing nothing lmao" Damn dude, as current Federal Aviation Administration Commercial pilot I gotta say: SAME. EVEN FOR US. I just had to get my license to start my career and I was not even required to have a f*ing diploma

my favovite part on w e love cold war is def the "eagle eagle mceagle face"

This is frickin amazing. May the algorithm gods pick up your videos, they truly deserve it.

as a gun nut (soviet firearms are neat! win 1895?) thank you for putting time into those details. it shows.

Hours and hours of work for seconds of animation. You are truly great at your craft.