LUKE: Hey guys just before we start the video there was a bit of a spoiler up ahead.
This whole video is talking about the Anime Arc that we just finished.
KEVIN: So if you haven't seen it yet, please go check it out in the description right now.
Glitch Productions!!
SMG4
LUKE AND KEVIN: *SIIIIIIIGH*
LUKE: Hello you sexy fans.
KEVIN: Guys, we have just completed the Anime Arc, one of the biggest arcs we've ever worked on in this channel
And we are right now actually in LA we're not at the office right now
LUKE: Chillin, havin' some fun, you can tell, you know. KEVIN: Yeah, we're taking a much-needed, uh...
Break, very short break though
Before we get back into the memes just because the anime was intense
We have a lot of things to talk about concerning the Arc and what we plan to do in the future
But before we get into that... LUKE: To commemorate the end of this arc and all the events that have happened...
KEVIN: We are introducing the new...
SMG4 shirt! Put it up. LUKE: Whoa lookat that! KEVIN: The SMG4 girls contains you girls
Tari, Human Meggy, Saiko and Desti, but basically, of course, this is parodying the Gorilla's Demon Days cover
its your forming girls with a lot of attitude mind you this is...
one of our proudest shirts
We've spent a very long time with our artists working on this one making it look extra good
Because we think the arc was a really big deal and there's so much that has happened that can be seen through this shirt!
Also you just get this really cool design! LUKE: These t-shirts are in limited stops. So you better check it out now before they're gone forever
Over at shop.smg4.com everybody. KEVIN: And just before we continue
We're attending supanova in Sydney. So if any of you guys are in the area come check it out. Check us out
We'll be having a booth and a panel all about Meta Runner. So let's talk all about the Arc.
This whole thing has been planned from the very beginning
We had two sorts of stories at the beginning that sort of converged together. That was always planned. I remember Luke and I spent like
countless nights, like so many hours like late up into the night, just walking and trying to write all this and figure everything out
LUKE: It's a funny story. Actually this story started off with actually focusing on Boopkins
He was originally meant to be the focus of the Arc and it was all meant to be about his cartel, the Anime Cartel
That episode of Mario's Illegal Operation
that was meant to be a whole Arc but like, nah, let's let's do something... KEVIN: We were like it out
We can't make an entire Arc just for this. So we ended up building up all of this story
You guys obviously noticed the darker tones. No, in the later episode of the Arc
Yeah, we have always wanted to push ourselves as storytellers and we wanted it to be able to evoke emotion
We want to evoke certain feelings from our audience other than just comedy. Of course
We are always going to keep doing the memes. We're gonna keep having all the comedy that you love SMG4 for, but we really want to
explore and push ourselves in terms of writing in terms of the sort of
stories we can tell. Alright, so let's talk about the Anime Arc. Obviously,
The overall tone this time around was quite dark, especially the latter two episodes
LUKE: Um, with Desti's death...
Meggy's transformation.
KEVIN: Yeah and you had the whole World War sort of setting the World War setting with something actually really wanted to do for a very
long time. LUKE: Kevin just loves war
YOU MAKE ME SOUND LIKE A PSYCHOPATH. I'm fascinated with war
I thought it'd be a cool scenario and just very cool to watch it
We did it like a Saving Private Ryan kind of thing
Anyway with Desi's death and just the transformation of Human Meggy,
that was planned the entire time and that was... we were actually thinking of doing it for...
quite a while and it took us a very long time to actually decide "Yes. This is what's going on."
LUKE: I was so sad when I had to make the death scene, you know, "I can't I don't want to do it!" KEVIN: I remember you
were editing it and you were so afraid!
LUKE: "I'm so sad, all that audience will hate us for doing it"
KEVIN: But I think it got the...
it evoked a very powerful
reaction from the community and you guys, we've seen all the comments. You guys obviously care a lot about these characters. LUKE: Really good. KEVIN: And
um, yeah, it was... it was a very hard decision for us to to come to
Especially with the transformation of Human Meggy, we realise we understand it's a very big design change so we spent
like weeks and weeks
Even months maybe just perfecting Human Meggy like you put all the concept art,
we went through so many different iterations
of how can you still make Meggy look like the same girl that all of you guys know and love but still maintain
the new human design here and
this isn't a trivial change, this we're not just doing it because "LOL we just want to do it." We plan to continue
sort of we plan to explore Human Meggy dealing with this
We expect... we plan to explore Meggy dealing with Desti's death a lot more in the future
Um, we don't plan to do any Arc, like, a long-form Arc anytime soon
So we're still gonna go with jumping right back into the memes, into the SMG4 comedy
There's gonna be like, we already have an episode plan where Mario works at McDonald's
Should be really good. LUKE: That's a secret! Um
There may be some episodes that connect but maybe only two or three episodes. Yeah, 12 episodes long. KEVIN: Yeah, it won't be 12 episodes
No, we will be doing small, small-scale stuff in terms of just overall story.
We do plan to have, like, emotional or more thought-provoking and like character development focused episodes
I think that's how we've evolved as
creators on this channel, we've evolved into
creators that still want to provide the memes, right?
But we also want to tell these stories and we want to really build on these characters that we're creating
LUKE: We want to make SMG4...
Even though SMG4 didn't start off as is
me and Kevin really want to
Pretty much evolve SMG4 into something like that
KEVIN: Yeah, exactly that and I think it comes back to like that's what Glitch Productions is all about
Okay, obviously, we still have that... casual memes
But we still want to dip into, like, the writing and we want to... to really build on worlds and characters
Now if you do, if you still want your anime...
LUKE: Anime? No more anime Kevin! KEVIN: But don't worry if you guys still want your long-form stories or, like, Arcs and that sort of thing
Why don't you check out Meta Runner which is coming out in July 25th
Again if you guys don't know, it's this series that we've been working on for the past...
Two years and it's all finally coming together. We are so excited to show you what we have. It is fully animated
We've been working with a team of now 14 people
LUKE: Yeah, if you haven't seen the trailer yet check it out in the description. KEVIN: Yep
and it basically, it's about a future where video games are everything and it follows Tari and you guys all know who Tari is
And we're just really excited to show you guys so please stay tuned check that out
LUKE: Finally for a very special announcement for all you Gmod-ers out there
We are releasing Axol and your girl Human Meggy on the steam Gmod workshop
KEVIN: You can check that out in the description below. LUKE: So happy to release it
Cuz that means you guys can, like, get used to them. You know how to make them do dumb s**t
It's like it's great like after releasing the old SMG... the other SMG4 original characters bag
We've seen your originality, what you guys did
Especially in the collab videos. Oh, yeah, it was great. So thank you guys so much. Keep it up. Our links in the description
KEVIN: Really, honestly guys, this community is absolutely incredible. I love how interactive and engaged everybody is, keep making that stuff
That's why we, really we're releasing the modders because we want you guys to make, continue the machinima, to continue, like, the posters and stuff
Like that, continue the fan art. We love it
We absolutely love it and just building off of that if you want to contact us at all
Head on over to our social medias that's @smg4official and at Kevdevz over on Instagram and Twitter. We will be looking at
everything that you guys tweet us or message us about
We just wanna talk to all you fans. We want to know what you guys, know what you guys think. We love y'all
Yeah, no homo. LUKE: And with all that said and done make sure to check out the SMG4 girls shirt
That is at shop.smg4.com. KEVIN: It is limited edition guys
Remember limited time only, limited stock only once it's gone. It will be gone forever. LUKE: With that
We'll see you guys later. KEVIN: Thank you guys so much. You've been a wonderful audience. LUKE: Love you. Goodbye guys. KEVIN: Oh, yeah
don't forget there'll be SMG4 this Saturday. It'll all go back like we'll go back to regular episodes this Saturday
(k video is over bye)
(plz leave lol)