Terminal Montage Parodies: Pokemon Battle Royale, Legends Arceus, Mystery Dungeon (Adobe Animate)

A screenshot of Jeremey's Animatic. This is what the Arena looked like before I fleshed it out. Jeremey animated the water and lightning! He gives direction via text in-file and provides references. We work separately/remotely and share ideas on Discord.

My rendition of the Background. I added the giant Tera Crystal! We wanted the sphere to "glow" from beneath the arena and change colors to compliment elements used in the battle! I made it visible by adding a transparent gradient every frame of the water!

I changed the palette of the arena to yellow to compliment the electricity! I animated the glows, changed gradients, and even modified all the reflections in the water. Even though the shot looks simple, it's a lot of work to edit every single object!

For this shot, I changed the palette to a cool blue. I added a gradient to create some atmospheric depth and make the scenes feel chilly! I was very pleased with how it turned out.

On the final shot, I made purple the dominant color and added broken glass to look like dead trees! I add little details like this to compliment the battle!

I'm particularly proud of an effect I included to this scene. This shot was jarring because it cuts to itself to reveal Miraidon is gone! For visual clarity, I added a small but visually helpful detail- a shine spark!

The animated spark is there to keep the viewers eye focused on the area where Iron Bundle will appear! It's hardly noticeable while watching- but your brain will register it without realizing it! It helps the shot transition into itself!

This is the invisible work that I contribute to help the animation flow smoothly!

Isn't that neat?!

Jeremey has really strong compositions and I like to add to them. I hid Scream Tail from Iron Valiant with a little gradient.

For this shot, I recreated the punch animation/effect from Hajime No Ippo (Takamura Vs David Eagle fight). It involved lots of layers and transparent gusts of air to communicate the intense impact of the punch!

My background for the final shot of Professor Oak's lab. For night skies, I like adding blobs of color and blurring them to give the sky some texture and cosmic energy.

I added effects like this colorful "gem" overlay when a crystal bursts out of Steelix! I make good use of Animate's filters and blending modes.

I like to progressively destroy environments throughout the animation. Here's a shot of the ocean before it gets blasted by Sceptile!

Here's the same ocean after the blast. I added several layers of clouds/gas/smoke, and a crater.

Sometime's I'll add small gags to the videos. In this shot, I decided to color the coffin purple because--

-- it's a Koffing.

Here's a standard background. Green grass, blue sky. Nothing too special. I'll still add details like gradients and glows wherever necessary or if it helps guide the eyes where it needs to focus.

I colored a lot of characters. It took a long time because all the outlines had a reddish/brown gradient that needed to be applied by-hand.

I added a texture to the ocean, similar to "Zelda: The Wind Waker"-- and a baby blue glow which helped give some atmospheric depth to this scene! It looked nice with the pink sky!

This animation was very filter-heavy and some effects had to get baked into BMP's to help Adobe Animate render properly. The windows glow, charizards flames glow, and the sky has blurs. So many effects in one shot!

Another space background. I added sparkles, stars, and put a gradient over them to keep the focus on Charizard entering the portal!

For this scene I made the lightning pink and added star effects whenever they struck the ground. I like to change things up!

I animated the aurora borealis and changed the color of this sequence to blue, to compliment Lapras. This involved editing a lot of existing assets and creating new ones! These buildings are different than the ones in earlier shots- and they're damaged!

Changing color palettes on existing assets can breathe new life into them. Reusing background elements like scrolling floors is my favorite way to work smarter not harder!

By the end of the cartoon, everything is damaged! So many buildings were drawn! I add scratches, debris, and other details to enhance what's happening. Here comes the ICE AGE!

I recreated the "Travel Through Time" scene from "2021: A Space Odyssey" in Adobe Animate using the 3D tool to tween shapes in perspective.

I really like this shot. I added gradients to the outlines, a glow to the crater, and some smoke!

Even the most mundane backgrounds take a lot of work! I made the river glow, added gradients to the trees, layered two different sets of bushes, some mountains, and gradient to the sky for some depth!

There's several particles on different layers panning at different speeds to give a sense of depth as Kartana flies across the sky. I also used spherical gradients to make the bubbles! All this ON TOP of a regular scrolling background.

Sometimes it's great to keep things simple with some glows and subtle tweens. The background is just a gradient I threw together with some action lines- but the shot is still very energetic!

I recreated the Smash Ultimate K.O. Kill Screen in Adobe Animate! Even though it lasts only a second, I'm very proud of it!

I made the effort to give portions of the animation their own color palettes. When the island was flooded, a lot of Pokemon were K.O'd and absorbed by Hisuian Typhlosion. So I made this shot purple to compliment the ghostly whisps!

After the forest is extinguished, Instead of coloring everything a charred gray, I kept things interesting by adding little singed tips to the trees and orange smoke reflecting the embers.

I wanted to compliment the fire pokemon dominating the landscape by adding some glowing fissures to the ground.

When Swampert comes in and uses Muddy Water/Mud Shot I added trees in the mud that littered the landscape. The trees helped break the horizon line in future shots! It's fun "destroying" the landscape in new ways!

For this shot, I heat up the boulder with glowing outlines to emphasize Blaziken's efforts to destroy Pikachu.

I also animated the boulder breaking and flying toward the screen.

Added debris floating up in the air after the explosion.

And the glowing outlines to this crater.

I like the tranquil dark colors in this shot. I don't make the water glow EVERY time--

-- but I did here because I like it.

I colored the snow pink due to the ominious red sky.

I inked and colored this background- and worked on all the animated background elements like the portal, and shiny fissure in the sky.

I often edit the color palettes of the backgrounds to fit what's happening in the scene.

Terminal Montage outlined and colored this shot to provide an example of what he wanted this particular scene to look like. I used the color palette on several shots and then changed the palette during the long Pokemon battle.

For this scene, I used a teal/light sea green because I liked the starry sky used for the Spear Pillar stage in "Super Smash Bros. Brawl"

I wanted to replicate the Spear Pillar stage with the awesome galaxy in the background. I put it together using brushes in Clip Studio- then imported it into Adobe Animate.

The battle goes on until morning! I created a nice warm pink/yellow palettte and applied it to all the backgrounds.

Peace is interrupted when Giratina appears! I made another palette based on the DISTORTION WORLD from the alternate dimension in Pokemon Platinum! (Giratina's home world!)
I wanted to include it because I like small details like this.

THE EVIL IS DEFEATED. I went back to using the morning palette- everything is peaceful once again.

I used the sun glow to keep the focus on Volo.

Lapis cave! I was able to make objects stand out thanks to my understanding of value. Saturation and hue shifts play a huge role in being able to make objects readable even though they're all different variations of blue!

I had fun designing the Slowking logo in the background of this stinky fast food restaurant. (It's a Shelder and Slowpoke tail! They become Slowking/Slowbro when combined!) I made some good choices here with desaturated colors to show how Marill feels.

I drew and colored the ominous fissure in the middle of Pokemon Square. The Cacodemon was included by Jeremey. He adds a lot of easter eggs to the finished project and I enjoy spotting them once the video is released!

I enjoyed drawing this Magma Cavern! There's a little bit of perspective used in this particular shot. It was difficult making the lava feel "goopy." I added different textures and variations of reds/browns!

I used lots of glows and layering to give this bridge DEPTH. Used different variations of orange/yellows/red with glow overlay to project HEAT from below! I made the bridge dark so its value on the background can bring focus to the characters.

Don't fall!

Pokemon Square! The layering is more complicated than it looks! I used a lot of layers to put the little buildings in their place and some overlapping to make them a part of their surroundings.

I animated the giant meteor and changed the color palette of Pokemon Square to portray the incoming disaster.

Sometimes I'll use color palettes from their respective games. For this scene, I used the orange sunset from the final scene of the game.