Out of the blue, we just released a brand-new short film – A Boy and His Blob Episode 1. Loosely based on the events of the Nintendo Wii game by the same name, this movie was an experiment film we shot back in the summer of 2010. We wanted to do a video that was quick and easy, to cut our teeth on the new modeling software that we were going to use for the immense amount of modeling required for Earthbound Episode 5. Needless to say, A Boy and His Blob got pushed, half-finished, onto the back burners once work began on Episode 5 that same summer, but now that Earthbound Episode 5 production has wrapped, we finally got around to finishing this film.
This is also the writing debut of Alex Ridgway (probably best known as Cato from Shadow of the Pink Panther), who is the only one of us who’s actually played the Wii game A Boy and His Blob.
One other thing – at this moment, we’ve got no plans to make more episodes. We’re looking at this as a short test film we made to experiment with making computer models and putting them into a video, nothing more. One episodic series based on a video game is quite enough for us right now.