Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 is a 12-minute, black and white animated movie by Paul Laurence Robertson, featuring music by Cornel Wilczek,[1] also known as Qua. It depicts a fictional side-scroller video game, "heavily influenced and inspired by anime, cult 1980s platform games such as Double Dragon, Bubble Bobble and R-Type, and Australian popular culture"[2] in which two male characters must fight their way through a building full of zombies, humans, giant grubs and octopuses to rescue a woman being held captive by the main antagonist, a pirate baby. The animation was created with Autodesk Animator and Adobe Flash.[3]
Sponsored by Melbourne's Living the Arts program, it was first shown at the 2006 Next Wave Festival. It was released on the internet as a 113 MB MPEG video on April 20, 2006.
Synopsis
The fictional game begins with an introductory title sequence. There are five play levels, each with a boss at the end. The two heroes each have a preferred fighting style; one primarily uses a baseball bat, though he also uses Uzis at one point, and the other utilizes a variety of kicks. Numerous special attacks are used, including three which are specifically named:
- Datsun 180b Monster Truck
- The Ghosts of a Billion Dead Mosquitos
- You are Entering a World of Pain
It ends with credits and stills depicting events after the pirate baby is defeated.
Legacy
Robertson later made a second movie, Kings of Power 4 Billion%, also featuring music by Wilczek. Robertson later became involved in the art direction for the videogame, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, based on the Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels, which was released on August 10, 2010. He was also involved in the creation of the official music video of Architecture in Helsinki's 'Do The Whirlwind'.
References
- ↑ Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006, PopMatters, March 15, 2006
- ↑ Press Release from the Next Wave Festival
- ↑ Paul Robertson Interview on Sunday Arts