{"id":118126,"date":"2020-09-17T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/video_fan_spends_300plus_hours_on_lovely_pokemon_silver_opening_animation"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:15:00","slug":"video-fan-spends-300-hours-on-lovely-pokemon-silver-opening-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/video-fan-spends-300-hours-on-lovely-pokemon-silver-opening-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Fan Spends 300+ Hours On Lovely Pok\u00e9mon Silver Opening Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8c97b790f4be3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8c97b790f4be3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8c97b790f4be3\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nostalgia&#8217;s a beautiful thing, but trying to beautifully recreate it with a modern coat of paint is a painstaking endeavour, it turns out.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Rafferty, an animation student from Ireland, has been hard at work recreating the opening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gbc\/pokemon_gold_and_silver\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Silver<\/strong><\/a>, a game from Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s second generation of titles which launched for the Game Boy Color back in 1999. The opening scenes have been completely reanimated, starring a number of different Pok\u00e9mon across a variety of scenes.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the project took a whopping 300-400 hours. &#8220;I wanted this to feel like a living, breathing world, as opposed to just an animation,&#8221; Rafferty says. &#8220;And I think it turned out alright, it&#8217;s still far from perfect though. Personally I really like the underwater bit where you can see the surface of the water from underneath, thought that looked well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>Pretty, huh? For the sake of comparison, here&#8217;s the original:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>Why Charizard gets to take centre stage in an animation for a new generation of Pok\u00e9mon is beyond us, but there we are.<\/p>\n<p>If we ever do get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/the_pokemon_lets_go_series_could_progress_to_johto_if_players_enjoy_lets_go_pikachu_and_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon Let&#8217;s Go Johto<\/a> game on Switch, we sure hope it gets treated to a nicely redone opening like this. Let us know what you think in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgia&#8217;s a beautiful thing, but trying to beautifully recreate it with a modern coat of paint is a painstaking endeavour, it turns out. Darren Rafferty, an animation student from Ireland, has been hard at work recreating the opening to Pok\u00e9mon Silver, a game from Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s second generation of titles which launched for the Game Boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}