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GAME · 2010 · USA

Happy Wheels

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Eleven players take on the hazardous world of Happy Wheels, each using their own mechanics to get past chainsaws, objects and countless dangerous obstacles on the way to the goal.

8 Interesting Facts About Happy Wheels

Interesting Facts (7)

  1. #001

    Blender would not let the creator begin a fluid simulation on any frame but 0, so he ran the blood simulation across the frames he needed, baked the cache, and manually renamed roughly 50 generated files to the frames he wanted.

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  2. #002

    Although the game is notorious for its graphic violence, a handful of levels contain none and offer the character almost no way to die.

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  3. #003

    The creator of the live-action Happy Wheels project rendered the characters and obstacles in Blender Internal, while the background was shot separately, then stabilized and sped up to match the animation's pace.

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  4. #004

    According to the creator, building the Irresponsible Dad character was the hardest part of the project, as he had almost no experience with armatures and their constraints.

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  5. #005

    To keep the rig easy to animate, the dad was constrained to the bike and the bike to a master object, so moving the master also moved the legs, pedals, tires and head.

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  6. #006

    The creator advises opening the file in Blender 2.66a, because loading it in an older release such as 2.63 made the transparency edges of the PNG textures look wrong.

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  7. #007

    Once the animation was rendered at full resolution, the creator spotted a few blood blobs still suspended in mid-air, but he left them as they were, since his PC was underpowered and plenty of work remained.

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  1. #008

    Each body part was shot in front of a greenscreen to cut down on masking time, and the creator filmed that footage twice, on a sunny day and an overcast one, since the background plate had not been shot yet.

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