Original upload date: 25 Nov 2016
2019 EDIT: Hi all, this video has been made public as I am still proud of the animations I made in this. However, I am no longer making Thistleclaw videos. (Please read below.)
I have a new channel: / spectralpastels
EDIT: I am not going to be making any more Thistleclaw videos 1. because of Spottedleaf's Heart and 2. my opinions of him have changed since re-reading the books and 3. because I used to use Thistleclaw as a negative outlet when I went through a very distressing time in 2013. I grew to like him in 2013 after I read Bluestar's Prophecy, I related to him as he had lost three family members he loved (Snowfur, Whitekit, Sweetpaw etc.) and during the year of 2013, three people dear to me passed away. I won't go into the details, as I prefer to keep it private, but I want to separate myself from negative memories. I want to try and distance myself from that year and focus on the present. Thanks! I hope you understand.
Also, SH handled such a sensitive topic really poorly. If you make a book that includes a theme like that, it should be rated as at least an older teen book but HarperCollins approved it, which baffles me. So, please take this into consideration as well. The novel caused a lot of upset to people, myself included.
This video was made before Spottedleaf's Heart was created, thus it only includes Bluestar's Prophecy's plotline. So all of the text below was written before SH was released.
Information:
I'm so happy to finally show this to all of you, I worked incredibly hard on this and I hope that it paid off. I also added a bit of an easter egg of sorts in this video, if you were to reverse this video then the credits will be played forwards. I thought that would be something fun to add-in. The livestreams I had working on this were incredibly fun and I hope to make more of them in the future for people to watch. Thank you to everyone who visited the livestreams! Also, I didn't add voice acting as this video is rather personal to me. Maybe I will do a casting call for one of my AMVs in the future. Who knows. ^^
I also took the google docs file down, as I didn't want to look like I was defending his actions in SH, because it honestly made me feel sick when I read an exert from one of the chapters.
FAQ
I worked a year on this and the programs I used consisted of MSPaint, Gimp 2, Windows Movie Maker Live, Flash CS6 and Powerdirector 14.
The song is Natalie Walker Waking Dream and the credits is the reversed instrumental version of it. I edited it myself. All of the sound effects were taken from soundeffects.org.
There are 4128 frames in this and every different coloured shading on the characters and my backgrounds are symbolic of emotions, they are listed here:
Symbolism for colours used in shading/lighting:
Pink = Life/Love
Purple = Mourning
Red = Danger/Aggression/Strength
Yellow = Joy/Optimism
Orange = Enthusiasm/Warmth
Blue = Depression/Peace/Loyalty
Black + White = Passing on to the heavens
Green = Envy/Jealousy
I hope you enjoy it!