Unfortunately, I could only upscale this to 720p if I wanted to keep the individual pixel size perfectly square. I tried a 960p version, but YT just crunched it back down to 720p anyway. Check the description if you wanna download the individual files for yourself. Also, I do plan on putting together a making-of video at some point in the near future.
Oh yeah. This was definitely the dark age of the Gwimbly series. I wouldn't be surprised if this is why the company stopped making games for him. That cdi deal really killed the franchise.
Man, you just can't imagine all the suffering behind that smile...Mr. Milipede needed help and so do so many others around the world in his shoes...fuck Fentanyl.
@@Meemaster334"Barney looking guy"? That's Gwimbly's iconic arch-nemesis Count Groxia! Don't worry though, he just plays a villain in the games. He's actually a really nice guy in real life. I met him at the cafe on 158 Meep Boulevard.
Man i rememeber gwimbee destroys the krusty fuck and free sample geddon man free samplegeddon was a bop song man i wished they where not copyrighted by gwimbly
@@cloroxguy496 It was this collad with a bunch of the old King of the Hill YTPers about Gwimbly and Mr Millipede with the KOTH characters. There was this bit where they sentence-mixed Mr Millipede doing the Ezekiel 25:17 speech from Pulp Fiction, it was awesome!
Such an interesting piece of Gwimbly history. The fact THIS is the reason why the Playstation exists, because Johnathan Station got into a fistfight with Gwimbly himself due to disagreements between them, will always be fascinating
Gwimbly himself had disagreements with the CEO of Insane Groundbreaking Games, the creator and owner of the Gwimbly franchise. Which prompted him to leave the company, that being the CEO was more concerned with making money than passion. And then they replaced the cute yellow guy with that scary looking Troglor! I mean, don't get me wrong, the game mechanics of Troglor are awesome, getting to shoot space aliens and stuff. But nothing beats the childlike innocence of collecting cans of creamed corn. Gwimbly was even going to be a skin in the next Troglor game, unfortunately there were some complications with the negotiations. At least Gwimbly's in Insane Groundbreaking Games Battle Royale!
I really find it stupid how you needed to get the secret creamed corn item to even defeat this boss, like how would a kid know they need to fire out of the corngun 3 times against a wall in under 2 seconds and press the combination ⬆️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️➡️➡️➡️⬆️ immediately afterwards, which I may remind you is in a secret level in a hidden room! But the creamed corn is definitely worth the struggle, even if there wasn’t any guide for this in the game’s manual.
@@Kogotom123 You have to unequip the Creamed Corn Garnet, which is counter intuitive, and the shop keep assumes you're uneducated and speaks really slow. Ruins speed runs but for a first run it reveals all secrets. It even revealed that the FBI had Kennedy Assassinated.
Not surprisingly, psychicpebbles / Zach Hadel has a huge fanbase in the RU-vid community who happens to be inspired by his animations over the years. I wasn't his biggest fan but I do appreciate how much he and Cusack contribute to the resurging boom of online western cartoons, which the likes of Justin Roiland and JQ Quintel precedes them. The series however managed to bring in many online animation content creators from Newgrounds and RU-vid as guest voice actors and animators for their show, which is their own feat that I am very proud of.
I still can’t believe that you’ve come so far from the YTP community to actually help animate game cutscenes based off of those crappy CDI animations. Sometimes I feel like memes really do have more of an impact on us than I thought
@@therevenger259 That's what I meant! It's good that you enjoyed the animation, because Gwimbly never EXISTED. Everybody else keeps saying "I wish we could've played that" when it was a meme to begin with. You, out of all people, are the one to acknowledge that Jimmy Davis made this animation. That means that Gwimbly never existed OUTSIDE of Smiling Friends, thus further proving my critical point. People need to be more like you. That's what I'm basically saying.
I love the fact that Jimmy Davis worked on [as] & now has made an actual cartoon in the style of the old cdi games using on of the most iconic [as] mascots of 2024. Amazing work!
Mam, its been so long since we've had a proper Gwimbly game (as in collectathon, none of these crossovers or cheap mobile games) that I'm almost nostalgic for this. At least it had jumping and item collecting.
While I never played the Gwimbley games myself, My Dad was always a hardcore gwimbley Fan, even though he never owned a single game. at school, he and his friends would constantly talk about Gwimbley, and so imagine the Excitement in his eyes when on his 16th birthday, he got a new game console, The Phillips CDI, and the newest gwimbley Game, "Gwimbley: Cream if the crop". Of course, as any true gwimbley fan would know, Thinks got Ugly real fast. the Gameplay was slow and generic, plus it played nothing and looked nothing like the games he played at his friend's house. The Disappointment hit him so hard, that he never played a gwimbley game again. However, the story did have a Happy ending, as I managed to find an emulator online for the original Gwimbley and Gwimbley 2: Count Groxia's Revenge, and he played his Heart out to both of them. I've only seen some All Bosses compilations of the original gwimbley trilogy, But thanks to this, I can feel the large amount of disappointment he felt.
I rented that once when I was 8 and got stuck on the stupid ice level all weekend. Almost made me quit the Gwimbly series all together, thankfully Gwimbly Adventure 3 came out later that year
Internet gaslighting aside, this is genuinely a spectacular video. You did a fantastic job at emulating the feel of the CDI. I’ve never seen anyone come THIS close to that. If I didn’t know better, I genuinely would have thought this was real
I hate breaking the joke, but all these different iterations and imaginings of Gwimbly really shows how much dedication there is within the Smiling Friends community. And im just gonna say what no one else is willing to say, theres a damn fentanyl crisis in amreica dude.
I actually had a CD-i as a kid and I've played a shit ton of Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon. This video is perfection. The sound effects from the game... the shitty jumping... I love it. Only thing is the animation is TOO good lmao
I always loved the weird interpretations of the franchises featured in these old CD-i games. The choice to have the Creamed Corn be made in a factory owned by Gwimbly rather than a naturally occurring power source was such a weird decision, but it's part of the charm of Cream of the Crop
Meta-Jokes aside... HUGE props for putting together this piece of art! Traditional animation is hard enough. But fluidly combining it with a niche art style? INCREDIBLE!
It’s amazing how mister millipede’s first major role as a sidekick was in this game. Such an integral piece to the franchise that came from the thing that almost destroyed it.
This is just incredibly impressive I would have to imagine if someone made a homebrew game of CDI like this, that will deserve to had a new community shall be born
its crazy that the ytp community contacted the original animators and they ACTUALLY RESPONDED and game them the high quality animation files for the gwimbly cdi game
Thanks for posting this! We couldn't afford the CD-i as a kid and I was so desperate to play the sequel to my fav game. But now at least I can finally see it myself and though yeah the CD-i may not have been the best fit, the team still knocked it out the park because they had so much passion for Gwimbly.
This is like the only one of these I’ve ever seen that’s done well all the way through. I think the mic audio for Gwimbly/Mr Millepede could have been a hair shittier but it’s still really incredibly done. The drawings are really perfectly uncanny in how they look and feel and move around. Great work! 🎉
This is insane. One thing that was actually nailed was the music. CD-i music for games was always this odd funky beat that never really fit the game but wasn't bad.
Wow, love seeing all the detail in the sprite work that was difficult to see in the original down-scaled version. Also, I just noticed the "Directed by Alan Smithee" gag at the end. That's some clever detail!
It was almost as bad as Gwimbly is Gone! where you had to play as Mr. Millipede and in order to find Gwimbly you had to undergo a tedious series of geography trivia questions
Oh God, I'm having flashbacks. I used to play this game for like 3-4 hours every single day after school. The controls were borderline broken which made the game extremely frustrating, but I was obsessed with beating it just so I could see the final cutscene. I was never able to do a 100% completion run though, that one secret creamed corn can in the ice cave level is impossible to get to without falling into the spike pit.
I was always more of a fan of the 3D games, but I remember my weird uncle having a CD-i in his room at my grandmother's house when I was a kid. He had a bunch of other games on his shelf too, but he told me not to play them or look at the boxes. I could never get past the boss on stage 3, so I must have played hours of levels 1-3 while the adults had their boring talks in the living room. I kind of learned to like it out of boredom. Those were the days
