Archaeology by Rabid Squirrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbqvUWBjKjY

too busy to type a description, read it on youtube

It's in HD, so watch it in that if you can! and once quality permits

EDIT: I should say that the ground was scened with the pencil tool, adding 10,000 lines in about 3 hours of work So 34,000 lines sounds more impressive than it is.

MAN

That was great high speed scenery. I loved the shards of the pillars in the highspeed parts... Like framebyframe animation there actually.

Great stuff, RS.

And, ToC?

and great scenery. Love it.

--HG42

Intense, that's the word. You're absolutely right; simple scenery can look amazing.
I love 0:42 where he flies through that squeezed part. (It reminds me of trying to sled between some trees irl, going 'ohnoes am I going to make it?!?!') And holy crap at 0:52. That's abrilliant idea. I really felt like he just busted through those pillars. The rolling around 1 minute was awesome as well. And I love how you continued to break through those pillars. It's unfortunate that you didn't have enough time to make the tree more epic. I liked the tumbling at the end. Pretty original imo. Not technically good, but I liked it.The squirrel statue was awesome though, although I have a question; Why don't you ever seem to double line stuff? Is it just because you ran out of time? Or maybe it's just a personal preference.
You're a beast for scening or even attempting to this track in 10 days. I hope you're proud of this because it's really cool and enjoyable. I'm sure you're relieved you're done with it though. Anyways, love the name, love the track, love the scenery, love the music, love the idea. Excellent work Rabid.

Great, i loved the shading.

Well that was increadibly fun it watch. The scenery seemed sloppy and uneven at the start, maybe because it was a a slow speed a suppose. Anyways when you started picking up speed the scenery started looking more impressive Also at 0:57 when you started that huge nose manual...there were like...so many bricks O.o So many pilliars...so many of those hill things...Then when your so to super fast mode at 1:04 it's kinda unbilievable that you could scene that many pilliars and lines and hills. Then from 1:09 it really does look like he is actually smashing through those pillars, great idea for high speeds! Then you get to the huge tree. Eventhough it is really simple scenery on it, it looked impressive at that speed. Shame you couldn't have done more with it though. Then it's the end, I liked the rabid monument. So well done for finishing this, the track was really awesome too. Perfect music choice. Only problem is the scenery at the start, should have been more perfected as it's the most noticable scenery.

this was a really fun and inspiring track, i loved every second of it

oh and i thought the tree turned out good ^^

thanks for putting me in the credits :3

i loved it!

I s*** brix.
Wow rabid, you made it really hard to choose between GhostY and you now Awesome work! I was really impressed by your highspeed. I haven't seen any highspeed like that since Goliath. Really well-balanced stuff. There are few people who can do that that well. And the scenery was simple, but really awesome. I'm glad you finished it.
Good luck in ToC3! This beast will come far.

pretty sweet, deff fun to watch

Nice work Rabid!
The simple scenery worked really well with that track.
And when did you get so good at highspeed?

Now go and scene Goliath.

(BTW this reminds me of The Narrow Cave by Hkay and Solidus Snake.)

Watched it on Youtube.

Gosh dang Rabid. I really liked this track. I liked the speed you had, the tricks were cool. Ending was a bit slow though compared to the rest of the track. But it's a nice track.

Scenery was good. I like the fact that you sticked to a basic style with it, and you managed to pull it off really well.

Anyways, cool track. This has got to be one of my favorites

*waves back in cute fashion* ;3.

Ktk wrote:MAN
That was great high speed scenery. I loved the
shards of the pillars in the highspeed parts... Like framebyframe
animation there actually.

Was awesome. I always love your song choices too x3.

I was supportive, wheres my part in the credits .

that was amzing man every time i watch u guys it motivates me to try to get better so keep it up lol

woow rabid! I love how you make with relativ less lines such an amazing scenery! at the beginning i thought: mmh...just bricks and pillars, not very impressive. but then there was the highspeed part and i was amazed! especially the pillar breaking was cool. but from where u got the motivation to draw all these pillars?

Woah, Very basic, yet effective scenery.

It reminds me of Namtlade on those high speed sections near the end.

The track was great too, and I see that you have learned to have even manual pressure

This is better than BTTW imo, and it will get pretty far in ToC3 I think (at least farther than mine )

gj, +rep

always sexy rabid squirrel :3

I just love the pace of this track. it was so fun.

... needs more bricks

very simple scenery always looks good!! nice work. i loved the highspeed and the change in scenery. especially when u got bosh into that really big squishy backriding and the cavern that he was in narrowed with him. i thot that was really ingenious actually. the tree too, very nice looking, fit in alot better then i thot it did when i watched the second time through. also in change of scenery you didnt just make all the pillars the same size, like there were two or three huge ones in there too, made for alot more variety then you would expect it to.

all in all that was a dirt track (yes thats a good thing, consider it im saying dirty but too lazy to say a two syllable word). much respect to ya dude, +rep as well.

good luck in tocIII too

EDIT: also cool choice in music, break away from somewhat of a cliche genre we seem to have made for ourselves over the years

also you spelt achaeology wrong in the title screen of the video missing the h

Damn, the video doesnt work on my ipod. Ill edit later.

lolhugepost

Ktk wrote:MAN

That was great high speed scenery. I loved the shards of the pillars in the highspeed parts... Like framebyframe animation there actually.

Great stuff, RS.

And, ToC?

Thank you! the pillars looked a LOT better at highspeed than I was expecting them to! (I was scening them while it was running at about 10 fps as opposed to the 40fps of the video)

And heck yes ToC3

Commandercoke wrote:Intense, that's the word. You're absolutely right; simple scenery can look amazing.
I love 0:42 where he flies through that squeezed part. (It reminds me of trying to sled between some trees irl, going 'ohnoes am I going to make it?!?!') And holy crap at 0:52. That's abrilliant idea. I really felt like he just busted through those pillars. The rolling around 1 minute was awesome as well. And I love how you continued to break through those pillars. It's unfortunate that you didn't have enough time to make the tree more epic. I liked the tumbling at the end. Pretty original imo. Not technically good, but I liked it.The squirrel statue was awesome though, although I have a question; Why don't you ever seem to double line stuff? Is it just because you ran out of time? Or maybe it's just a personal preference.
You're a beast for scening or even attempting to this track in 10 days. I hope you're proud of this because it's really cool and enjoyable. I'm sure you're relieved you're done with it though. Anyways, love the name, love the track, love the scenery, love the music, love the idea. Excellent work Rabid.

I'm glad you liked those parts, I liked them too! Actually 0:42 was a mistake so I just made a tunnel, and it turned out really well And as I said above, didn't think the highspeed would be that awesome until I sped up the recording to full speed, you remember that on msn right? I'm also VERY glad people are noticing the tumbling, I was proud of it and wasn't sure anyone would notice it

I agree about the tree, I was eventually just like "screw it, just draw!" - I'm actually not sure it would have blended into the track had it been much more detailed, but I could have spent more time on it if I had had it (was finishing the tree around 9:30 on the 14th lol)

I'm not entirely sure why I don't like double lining stuff, I guess it's just my personal preference too

Kohuded wrote:Great, i loved the shading.

I lol'd

wolf_spirit wrote:Well that was increadibly fun it watch. The scenery seemed sloppy and uneven at the start, maybe because it was a a slow speed a suppose. Anyways when you started picking up speed the scenery started looking more impressive Also at 0:57 when you started that huge nose manual...there were like...so many bricks O.o So many pilliars...so many of those hill things...Then when your so to super fast mode at 1:04 it's kinda unbilievable that you could scene that many pilliars and lines and hills. Then from 1:09 it really does look like he is actually smashing through those pillars, great idea for high speeds! Then you get to the huge tree. Eventhough it is really simple scenery on it, it looked impressive at that speed. Shame you couldn't have done more with it though. Then it's the end, I liked the rabid monument. So well done for finishing this, the track was really awesome too. Perfect music choice. Only problem is the scenery at the start, should have been more perfected as it's the most noticable scenery.

The bricks in the highspeed were scened in one 4-hour sitting It was a grand achievement! The pillars in the last highspeed bit I scened on the 13th They were pretty simple (maybe 15 lines for each one) so it didn't take too long. I'm glad you liked the tree too, that was the bit that suffered the most from running out of time.

I didn't make the starting scenery more detailed because I wanted to keep the scenery consistent, but I must say I agree the highspeed looks so much better

GhostY wrote:this was a really fun and inspiring track, i loved every second of it

oh and i thought the tree turned out good ^^

thanks for putting me in the credits :3

no problem and glad you liked the tree, even though I'm sure it wasn't what you were picturing

Rafael wrote:I s*** brix.
Wow rabid, you made it really hard to choose between GhostY and you now Awesome work! I was really impressed by your highspeed. I haven't seen any highspeed like that since Goliath. Really well-balanced stuff. There are few people who can do that that well. And the scenery was simple, but really awesome. I'm glad you finished it.
Good luck in ToC3! This beast will come far.

Choose between GhostY and me? what do you mean? And wow, thanks about the highspeed, means a lot coming from you

IGLima wrote:Nice work Rabid!
The simple scenery worked really well with that track.
And when did you get so good at highspeed?

Now go and scene Goliath.

(BTW this reminds me of The Narrow Cave by Hkay and Solidus Snake.)

I haven't seen that track before but it definitely resembles mine!

Did you know I reserved you a ToC3 spot? I'll PM you your recording tonight and you need to upload by Saturday

RayquazaKid wrote:Watched it on Youtube.

Gosh dang Rabid. I really liked this track. I liked the speed you had, the tricks were cool. Ending was a bit slow though compared to the rest of the track. But it's a nice track.

Scenery was good. I like the fact that you sticked to a basic style with it, and you managed to pull it off really well.

Anyways, cool track. This has got to be one of my favorites

I'm glad I pulled it off well

Purtle wrote:*waves back in cute fashion* ;3.
I was supportive, wheres my part in the credits .

lol

I-Ride wrote:woow rabid! I love how you make with relativ less lines such an amazing scenery! at the beginning i thought: mmh...just bricks and pillars, not very impressive. but then there was the highspeed part and i was amazed! especially the pillar breaking was cool. but from where u got the motivation to draw all these pillars?

I have discovered over the years that I have a crazy ability to do repetitive tasks for long periods of time (administrating has a lot of that, and so does scening) But I must admit, the bricks on that nose loop were absolutely brutal, I was kind of burnt out the next day

Cereal wrote:Woah, Very basic, yet effective scenery.

It reminds me of Namtlade on those high speed sections near the end.

The track was great too, and I see that you have learned to have even manual pressure

This is better than BTTW imo, and it will get pretty far in ToC3 I think (at least farther than mine )

gj, +rep

I'm not sure what to think about that, because I don't think I've ever been as proud of soemthing as Bolted, but I guess that's a compliment so thanks Glad I reminded you of namtlade, I probably should have put him in the credits for trance

chaomocha wrote:... needs more bricks

very simple scenery always looks good!! nice work. i loved the highspeed and the change in scenery. especially when u got bosh into that really big squishy backriding and the cavern that he was in narrowed with him. i thot that was really ingenious actually. the tree too, very nice looking, fit in alot better then i thot it did when i watched the second time through. also in change of scenery you didnt just make all the pillars the same size, like there were two or three huge ones in there too, made for alot more variety then you would expect it to.

all in all that was a dirt track (yes thats a good thing, consider it im saying dirty but too lazy to say a two syllable word). much respect to ya dude, +rep as well.

good luck in tocIII too

EDIT: also cool choice in music, break away from somewhat of a cliche genre we seem to have made for ourselves over the years

also you spelt achaeology wrong in the title screen of the video missing the h

fixed the title with an annotation (sort of) I had to edit in about 15 minutes so no time for proofreading

Thanks about the tree, the squishy (I was so excited when I made that in the naked track) and the music.

I was honestly just looking around for music that would sync and I hit this song and it was ridiculously perfect, and so I synced the track to it from 0:40 on

The simple scenery was amazing. I enjoyed just as much as some very detailed scenery pieces. I loved the bricks and pillars, especially at your highspeed parts. Your naked track wasn't bad at all. I hate poorly made tracks thats make me not want to watch the scenery. Btw I loved the ending monument Anyways, great track Rabid

+rep

oh and rabid, raf means to chose between me or you for the spot in MBF

"..,but also because I'm tired of people thinking scenery track have to be uber-detailed in order to be 'good'."

I could virtually hug you for that sentence I'm pretty sure that's one of the reasons scenery track became rather rare nowadays..

I loved the whole video.. especially the originality mixed with a breeze of old school feeling

Seriously, I just adore this creation!


edit: ..and I feel honoured that I was an inspiration for it

GhostY wrote:oh and rabid, raf means to chose between me or you for the spot in MBF

oh right, I kinda forgot about that too busy scening lol

Georgio_jc wrote:"..,but also because I'm tired of people thinking scenery track have to be uber-detailed in order to be 'good'."

I could virtually hug you for that sentence I'm pretty sure that's one of the reasons scenery track became rather rare nowadays..

/virtual hug back

and I agree. It's too bad, really, that so many people think they have to be a TD or a Sorvius or an LRG to be a good scener, but they can make any quirk with flings and small amounts of airtime and be a good trackmaker.