Cuphead: The Story of Animator Tina Nawrocki
Channel: Video Game Story Time
Date: 2018-05-18

Tina Nawrocki has spent her entire life learning about traditional, hand-drawn animation. As a student, she often lamented the fact that big sriltudios like Disney no longer require traditional animators, and she wondered if anyone would ever appreciate the unique talents she was developing.

Turns out, there was a family of creators out there that were looking for someone with Tina's exact talents. The Moldenhauers, creators of the video game Cuphead, shared her passion for handdrawn animation, and hired her to create characters for their game.

Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, along with other members of the Moldenhauer family (including and especially Chad's wife Maja Moldenhauer) initially wanted to make Cuphead a big, sprawling run-and-gun platformer, but they lacked the resources to make this happen.

Years into development, the team decided to expand the scope of Cuphead, and Tina Nawrocki was brought onto the project primarily to create the enemies that would fill the new platforming stages in the game. It's thanks to Tina that these levels were possible.

The story in this video was taken from an interview Tina gave with the Girls on Games podcast that you should definitely check out. After hearing Tina's story, we couldn't help but get excited about making a video based on her journey as an artist.

Here's hoping you enjoy this as well!

Love,
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PS Also, sorry, subtitles aren't working for some reason, we suspect it's a YouTube problem, so we'll try again a little later to see if we can get them to work.

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Source: http://www.girlsongames.ca/2017/08/07/gogcast-123-tina-nawrocki-cuphead/

Music: Ambiment by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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