User blog:Savage Samurai/Black Widow VS Widowmaker Commentary Trivia


 * This was an episode they planned to do for season 5 (2:10). The reason Ben gives is because Thanos vs Darkseid needed more time on it's animation so this got bumped to season 6 though truth be told he doesn't really remember.
 * This episode had plenty of help from other animators. The same team who did Thanos VS Darkseid also did this episode. However, Torrian also came back and helped with the animation and two animators from Gen:Lock also helped (2:50).
 * Erika and Nano (the two animators from Gen:Lock) will be helping out with the next 3D death battle (3:15).
 * Thac's first thoughts in regards to his first death battle being Black Widow (a character with decades of comic books) vs Widowmaker was "Oh this doesn't seem that complicated, she's a spy. Oh. Oh, wait a minute, she's a spy and her history's bullshit" (4:25).
 * Paige and Luis are part of the animation team behind Wiz and Boomstick (5:05).
 * One part of the Widowmaker's preview (the bit where it's just a bunch of concept art flashing on the screen) was built from scratch by Josh (8:00).
 * Ben notes that pitting a character with lots of history against a character with very little undoubtedly gives the former an advantage. However, he notes that it didn't seem like a big deal in this episode's case because in what little we see of Widowmaker, she performs crazy feats of her own. There is a power gap between the two characters but it is not too significant (8:30).
 * One of the things that Ben found fascinating was how snipers work in real life (9:30).
 * He also notes that he really likes Widowmaker's character and backstory (10:20).
 * The spider at the start was Kristina and Dave's idea (13:25). Torrian also notes that it was quite surprising because while it is a good moment in the animation, the rig is busted and it would've been really difficult to do. Ultimately, it was a lot of work for a moment that wasn't really that consequential to the overall animation.
 * Ben says that there were plenty of ways to incorporate the ferris wheel (15:20). Ideas tossed around were it being blown up, the combatants fighting in it, even how much time was to be used on it. Also it was Tach's idea this time.
 * Torrian, Erika and Nano were responsiuble for the hand-to-hand potion of the fight while Kristina and Dave were responsible for the more cinematic part of the fight (16:20).
 * Ben thought that this episode should probably have a less brutal death but the rest of the team decided to do the death in the episode (16:50).
 * Ben talks about the evolution of death battle and in particular Dave and Kristina. The last episode they did was two reality warping giants, this episode is more mundane and is more of a sniper chase fight and the next is something completely different (17:55).