SONIC METAL - Animated Flipnote Movie by Xario (UNFINISHED)
13Welcome to something out of the blue from me. Okay, so there is some history to this animation, so bare with me for a bit if you are interested in some backstory. If not, just skip this description completely and watch the film as you please.
First off, if you don’t know what Flipnote Hatena is, it was an online service provided for Flipnote Studio users on the Nintendo DSi, where people could animate and share their flipnotes via the Flipnote Hatena service. The service started around the beginning of 2009 and I was one of those members.
Now, I wanna point out that I am NOT the animator of this film. This was made by one of my oldest friends back in the Flipnote Hatena days many years ago: Xario (aka ApolisCity on DeviantART). I have lost contact with him after I left DeviantART around 2016, and we haven’t spoken since. He had a project series he was working on called “Sonic Metal”, and he held a contest for three lucky winners to have their OCs as part of the series. I was lucky enough to be picked, and to have my Sonic OC, Spike the Hedgehog, into the series as a main character, along with other OCs (Dezaray, Amethyst, etc.). It lasted a good two or so years, and it was in the middle of its second act, until the news hit of Flipnote Hatena was planned to shut down in March 2013, canceling the series. Now after almost ten years, I was so happy to finally be able to rewatch my old friends’ animations with the help of the Flipnote Archive team on Twitter.
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Obviously, it’s not the the greatest Flipnote series out there, as it was unfinished and the story, dialogue and characters are all over the place (can’t fault the guy; he was like 13-14 when working on this project lol), but it’s something that I’ve held dear to my heart as a youth, and nostalgia hit me in all the right places rewatching this little series I used to watch over and over again. A fun fact about the film is that some of the fight scenes are referenced from The Boondocks, which is a show Xario and I absolutely adore.
I take no credit in this film, obviously. I just wanna share this little film with you guys and hope you all enjoy the film as much as I did growing up. ♥
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