DitherEmotion

i didn't even realize at first but ofc the thumbnail is AI slop lmfao

no

The main menu of the Taiwanese DVD, with a single render of Jack (from the cover) against a lazy blue Photoshop spray tool background.

The chapter select menu, with a render of Ginger (also from the cover) and small screenshots from the different chapters, many of which are odd and don't do a good job at representing them.

The subtitles menu, with the same Ginger art as the previous images and odd metallic Impact font text for the selections.

Shout out to the menus in the Taiwanese DVD btw, they're truly a work of art.

A scene with the characters from a puppet show in the foreground, while Eddy, Ginger and a robot dog look in the background. Footage is from the Taiwanese DVD.

The same shot, but from the French DVD, which has colors much more saturated, with the puppets' skins turning almost or completely white as a result.

I wanna bring special attention to this shot because its one of the more notable instances of the French DVD looking like total shit compared to the Taiwanese one.

And this is my version, with the French DVD footage.

And the final comparison (for now). I didn't mess with mixing of the parts that only play music (this and the opening and ending credits) all that much aside from the busted panning but this scene shows very well the color differences between DVDs. This is the Taiwanese version.

And here's my version:

Another video comparison, here's the original:

The previously shown Jack and Milly talking scene where she gets cropped, from the Taiwanese DVD. The background is a dark blue wall with some lines on it.

The same shot in the French DVD. The background has become almost completely black aside from the top left and bottom right corners, and the lines across the wall can barely be made out.

That said though, the French DVD has its issues. That saturation can lead to some detail to be lost. Look at this shot again. In the Taiwanese DVD the wall is all dark blue and you can see some lines on it, while in French its almost totally black and the lines can barely be seen.

A scene with Milly and Jack, from the Taiwanese DVD.

The same scene (although a different frame), from the French DVD.

A scene with Cenzo, Ginger, Eddy and a ghost character, from the Taiwanese DVD.

The same frame, but from the French DVD.

The Taiwanese footage is also noticeably more muted, with more subtle color, compared to the French DVD's more vibrant and saturated look (which, when compared to promo art, seems to be more correct). Some scenes even have noticeably different color hues depending on the version.

A ghost frame showing Ginger's face transition between expressions.

Another ghost frame, showing two completely different shots on top of each other.

Another issue with the Taiwanese DVD is that it appears to have been poorly converted from PAL (25fps) to NTSC (30fps), which added ghost frames in between proper frames.

A screenshot of a scene where Milly is talking to Jack. Only part of Milly's face can be seen due to the crop to 4:3.

The same exact shot, but in the French DVD, with the original 16:9 aspect ratio. Here, much more of Milly's face can be seen, along with her upper torso, which was completely hidden behind the crop in the Taiwanese DVD.

Now, you notice that this is using different footage in widescreen.

This is another issue with the English copy, it was cropped to 4:3, despite the movie being made with 16:9 in mind. Some scenes have characters talking who get cut-off in 4:3. The 16:9 footage is from the French DVD.

And this the same scene, using my own audio mix.

The ratio of music tracks compared to the single VA track is the reason why the dub as is sounds so bad, the music tracks completely drown out the voices, and it doesn't help that some of the delivery (specially from the female characters) is quiet and reserved to begin with.

Here's how it sounds:

All the audio tracks from the English dub, seen in Audacity.

The cover art from the Taiwanese DVD, using the brick wall artwork but with a different logo.

As it turns out, the copy we have of the English version (sourced from a Taiwanese DVD) has its audio separated into different tracks, 2 for the main music, 2 for the music reverb + some SFX, 1 for very bassy SFX and, most importantly, 1 for the voices and most of the SFX.

A poster for Carnivalé showing the main characters in front of a brick wall with a picture of the titular carnival. From left to right: Cat, Jack, Cenzo, Milly, Eddy and Ginger. Their names are written in the wall.

Aother poster for Carnivalé showing the main characters in front of the titular carnival. From left to right: Milly, Jack, Cenzo, Ginger, Eddy and Cat.

Been thinking about this little known animated movie named Carnivalé for the last few days. Its English dub was only found recently.

However, said dub is VERY badly mixed, to the point of being unwatchable. Messing with it though, I found out that it can be fixed, which is what I'm doing RN!

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La gran corrIA

I'm thinking of doing another media thread this year just because i'm prob not going to play or watch a lot of stuff since i'm so hyperfocused on getting a demo for Blutkapelle done rn

Like we're in February already and I've only played/watched a single piece of media in full so far

teta de gordo te cura el cancer

I haven't heard crunching like this since Mario Time at Shigeru Miyamoto's house

sip

Screenshots since Bsky likes to murder video quality

Bowling Alley level opening, with it's proper graphics I'm working on now that the level design is done.

Fun Fact: This level (along with most ones in the game) is set on a real life location!

#Blutkapelle #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Game: Elite Beat Agents
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Uploaded on: February 24th, 2009

bring back the term "bedroom coder" to define the former

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