Hey smg4 friends we have been wanting to release this video for a very long time
we're so excited to finally talk about this but basically
We are going to talk all about
Tari, the meta Runner universe, the history of how yours truly came up with this entire idea because we know that a lot of you
Fans are very curious about it, and we know that you guys want to know more about meta Runner
Which is coming later this year and we'll be showing you the difference between SMG4 tari and meta runner tari
Let's begin with how exactly tari was born
our little sister who was like 12 years old at the time was doodling in a book. Y'all said it like it
Any ideas for like new characters for SMG4?
Yeah, because at the time we wanted to introduce new characters, and so she drew like a gamer girl. She dubbed her name Tari
Yup. So this was our little sister just her doodles
of just coming up with this character as you could tell like this is tari in a very very early stages
She's meant to be up 100% a robot. Yeah, she had like a bumble man antenna
Yeah, headphones and stuff and her jacket was very very simple. It was just like the basic
It was a hoodie just with a love heart on it. It was really really simple. She had a d-pad on her eye.
Alright. Yeah. Oh my goodness saying this man, we've come so far the fins
So they've literally been so many iterations of tari before we got to where she is now. So this is the actual it's so cute
Yeah, so you can see her Jacket was completely different. It just turned out like a lovely heart on it
Yeah, and she had a type
Stitched on the back. Yeah
We were going she was going for this whole Rayman feel like the floating head
So a lot of the stuff you can tell straight away. We kept like the blue hair
The sandles. the sandles! had to keep the sandles. Absolutely. This was the foundation of tari and this was our
inspiration for not just tari, but also meta runner.
Do you guys remember the ultimate gamer episode where with smg4 and tari where tari is basically introduced? that episode!
What's in our back of our minds for over a year.
That was meant to happen a long time ago, but we just yeah
But we just kept pushing it back because we wanted it to be right
The episode used to be completely different right Mario would have found tari in like the back of the castle in a garbage dump.
Yeah and mario would be like "what are you doing here?"
And the whole premise of the the original episode we had was Mario was going to do an eSports
Competition and he needed a trainer and that's where tari was going to be. at that time,
Taya was purely just a robot. She wasn't a cyborg girl. She is now. This is originally what we had
3d modeled for tari right you can see she has all these expressions like she has the blue hair
She has a headphone but she was just purely a robot at the time
We were talking like maybe she should be a character and that's when we did this
All right. First of all, yeah, let's look at this
can you do that by the way, no! yeah!
Don't even understand. Oh, this is meant to be dale what put up a photo of dale.
Screwing around came in Jimmy, but this is just me trying to readraw tari
And I used to draw a lot of anime when I was younger
So I was just like oh she looks like this and we just playing around with the idea of like what you could potentially look
Like yeah from there. We have our sister's drawing, but we were like
Kevin let's make a series with this character. Yeah. I don't even know how to having just one thing led to another
Basically in the end we were like, let's just make an animation series. Let's do it. How hard could it be?
it's
extremely hard to make an animation series
We don't know anything about the industry in just went in anyway dove right into it
It cost us so much money so much time and so much of our health to get to where we are now
Just because we had no idea we had no experience but we've learned so much from this and basically the next steps
From that was we got a concept artist
Yeah names Jared Jared boy shoutout to Jared! shoutout to our boy jared
And basically we got him we showed him this very preliminary
Concept of time. What was it?
we were like, oh
Let's let's make a bit more human or like let's make a bit more like I guess let's change the style
Let's play around with a style and see if we can get something you like right? Remember how we hired him?
It was like we gave him a test to draw tari. Yes. This is the image that got him hired. Okay
Yes, so this is a boy jared we gave him that original art. And so this is tari version
1.5 1.5. Basically, this is what tari looks like. What's going to look like?
This is the metal hands. He was playing around with I think you recognized the one on the left a little bit
Yeah, I fell in love with this design Vitara at this point. We were just focusing on tari format for Madonna
Yeah, at this point we weren't focusing on smg4 tired because we were so into making our own original series
so what happened was I met her when I came to for SMG photos then we had a
Few more this the atari 1.6. No, really
It's like marathon marathon
marathon of a picture of marathon same thing right in in in in
In it and then we had this version the most human version with haria like all let's play around with her as a human mind
If she had a pony tail, yeah, and we had this version. This is the sidewalk
If you remember in the original concept art, she had like a d-pad for an eye. This was like
Our artist trying to transpose that into this we didn't keep an unfortunate because it just looked - applauding
Yeah, and so we had a lot of iterations of Atari
Yeah, I got a lot of iterations are tied
We also wanted design a singlet and shut the jump into hoodie design as well
And so this is the concept thought of tired that we ended on and we are so happy
We just saw it and we're like this is it, but I'm not happy with it
I need to really quickly mention that the hoodie didn't always look like the one you see now
Yeah
the hoodie definitely change
originally
We went we rolled with this design of just the blue hoodie with the red heart on it and we really liked it
this is just a very early render of Atari and this is us playing around with the
Design, and basically the whole tarz whole design was bluejay. Yeah
So you'll notice that a lot of these characters are met or honor based around motifs Tilburg
Yep
And that was the whole idea that we wanted to do Antares was bluej because she was like sort of shy sort of quiet
Yeah, this is where this thing came from. This is like a Blue Jays wing. Yeah, and this is basically Tyrese emblem
This is meta runners
This is the symbol for Madonna and this is the tires who designed that we ended up transforming it into such a once again
yep, and you can see like there's a lot of emotion into it and so basically
From there. We're toiling away
Introducing tar into this universe into met her on a a universe
Completely dominated by video games with this one character who is a mariner who?
people with modified cyborg arms used to speedrun and be really good at eSports who is introduced into this world and sort of has no,
memories and like figuring stuff out and I think at that point
We were trying to figure out how exactly can we get our current fan base you guys right now. You lovely lovely audience members to
Like this character because we didn't just want to release marijuana. Yeah, like without saying anything in like
Spicy jokes. Yeah to warm up Thai to the fans
we wanted to put her into smg4 before marijuana, and I honestly
Strongly resonate with the character we came up with her like this sort of shy game ago
Yeah gamer gaming person who just loves playing games not really good
Socializing because that was made to a tee that was us when we were teenagers
A lot of people and we thought like oh this would go solo and smg4
I think she'd like interacted Mario and the rest of the crowd really. Well. She get along with popkins very fine
They'd be good friends
So we got our concept artists to design it as you see on screen and if you guys ever heard of puyo puyo
Tetris that was a theme for the art style that
inspiration for the envelope and so this was the smg4 toy that we transformed that matter on Italian to so
starting from the beginning
We wanted a new character names Howie, but then we got the idea to put it into a CD. I made marijuana. Yep
That's what we came over a lot of time
And then finally we went full circle and like let's put her back into smg4
and that's where we ended up with this SMG full-time a big thing that we wanted to talk about as well was basically
How are we going to?
Make sure that you guys know that smg4
Tarr is very different from everyone because I do look different but they still have like very similar powers and stuff like that
And so that's why when we originally released the trailer we wanted to say to you guys like just straight from the get-go that tari
Smg4 tie is very different. She's from a different universe to met her on the time but their personalities are very similar
Absolutely like the meta on Atari
When the series release the metal attire?
You will see it's still gonna be shy quirky loving games as the smg4 tire
You guys have all come to so basically that's everything surrounding tyre that we want to quickly talk about
But we also want to have this time to talk about meta runner as well and the new characters
That you guys who come to hopefully love and meet. We've got your boy Theo here
He is a coconut boy who loves platforming loves jumping loves having a great time when you guys save in Madurai
He should remind you of a little certain and spaghetti loving friend
Yeah, just I will quickly show you the concept behind him and how he came to me. So we start with this one
This is what it originally looked like on
Again, we went for the Maya proportions, but then we played around with with him
I don't know why we gave him a we'd had the bottom. Yeah
Yeah, he went through many different variations. He turned it to this guy. I like this. I like that
We played around with a lot of concepts with the oh we ended up on this character
And I think you guys would truly love the oh because he's such a happy little ball of energy
And I together with tari. They just make such a funny duo together and that'll really come alive in marijuana
So tommix, they all they have a lot of fun together. But then of course with these special abilities bad guys. Yeah and
First and foremost we have Belle little font. Yeah. Well font II and Belle is a character. She is awesome
I met her on ER in the universe and she it will be basically ties rival throughout all of this
she's extremely competitive and the fact that ty has these abilities makes a
sort of resent her in a way because ty is like
she she came into the world knowing nothing and she's already she has these all these powers and already good games and
If you can tell her designs sent around of Phoenix personalities Paulo opposite
Yeah, and I there's so much. It's so much fun when in a room together
There was so much fun to write because like Belle's sort of like this
Snappy in-your-face kind of go and tires really shy and just together
It's hilarious. And finally we have Belle's boss
Lots, yeah and Lux basically wants to capture Tori and get her abilities. There's a lot more involved
There's so much more involved with the story than just that but this is all we can tell you for now
But it's so exciting. Don't worry when we when Madeline releases all will be revealed. The law is incredibly incredibly deep
And it's gonna be so much fun
And I think you guys will really enjoy we're slated for ten episodes each ranging from about 12 to 15 minutes long
Set for a release day around June 2019 this project we've been working on
Has been going on for like one and a half years now
I think and so we've always wanted to make a series and I've always jumped off just making a series that could create a community
of fans that just love what they love what they watch and want to share art and
jokes, and all that kind of stuff together that that's really true actually like we're working more or less on just making series but more
On making stuff that actually brings the entire community together, right? Luke loves looking at fan art
He loves not you were waiting for the day. You see I met her on a cosplay
Cosplay fan. I look it's
Anything I'm happy. Like it's my it's why I live on you know, yeah like that. Thank you guys so much for watching
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