July 9, 2013

ObjectCon returns for the second time this year

New logo! OMG

Date: August 31st 2013
Time: 6-10pm Pacific Daylight Time.

On the katyj98 channel

The new Blog is up: http://object-con.blogspot.com

July 8, 2013

Michael quits working on BFDI

I have always wanted to talk to Cary who worked on BFDI. And surprisingly, he finally responded my facebook chat today!

\(⌒▽⌒)/ <see i like emoticons

So I talked to him about ObjectCon.

He said that the reason he did not joined ObjectCon last time was because Michael didn't want him to.

This time he quitted working on BFDI.

He said the Michael doesn't really like to work on BFDI.

However, we will still do the voices of the over 15 characters still in BFDIA.

So no worries about that.

June 26, 2013

50!

Hooray for updates!

June 18, 2013

Imagining the Future of Object shows (till 2053)

I would like to go a little further into the future, because why not?

End June 2013:
BFDIA 5d comes out

August 2013:
BFDI(A) Trivia 50 is released

September 2013:
Object Universe Season 1 completed.

January 2014:
Object Universe Season 2 begins.

April 2014:
BOTO Season 1 completed
ObjectCon 2014 is held

August 2014:
BOTO Season 2 begins
BFDIA completed.

Late 2014:
Inanimate Insanity II completed
BFDI Season 3 begins
BFDI(A) Trivia celebrates 100 episodes.

2015-2016:
BOTO and OU season 2 have completed.
BFDI(A) Trivia ends after nearly 200 episodes.
Inanimate Insanity Team eventually makes a full length movie.
The team also uploads 3 seasons of Inanimate Insanity on iTunes, being quite popular.

2017-2018:
ObjectCon 2017 would be the first 'physical' con held in Sydney, Australia.
Inanimate Insanity Team forms a new company and sets up an IPO.
Adam Katz is the co-founder along with the rest of the team.
BFDI Team eventually joins the II Team and maybe others as well, working together.

2019-2020:
The team went ahead to create its first TV series, inspired by the animations they made years ago.
The TV series became a hit amongst children, teens and even some adults.
The show became one of the top 10 most downloaded TV shows on iTunes.
ObjectCon became a more popular convention with thousands joining every year.

2020-2022:
The company's stocks grows to the same level as Mattel is today.
The TV series have 3 amazing seasons.
The company expands its market towards toymaking and game development.

2023-2030:
The company sold hit games and toys.
The show eventually won an Emmy Award.
Making a full-length movie to be shown in cinemas
Became a blockbuster, with box-office reaching $200 million.

2031-2040:
The company buys many small companies.
The company's only greatest competitor is Hasbro.
Makes a sequel to its original movie.

2041-2050:
The company is making revolutionary toys like a robot with personality to talk to people with autism, it went on to become a world-changing toy.
Co-founder Adam, retires.
Former COO Taylor is now named CEO.

2053:
The company eventually was bought/acquired by the biggest toy manufacturing company at the time.

May 29, 2013

Digging deep into the source files of BFDIA 5b.

At first I was planning to make a version of the game that could be playable on tablets. So I decided to download the source code, and used a software called "Flash Decomplier" so as to convert it into a .fla file to export as a .apk file to publish to Android tablets.

However, after looking through the decompilation, I saw some interesting assets that many may not have seen. Let's go through them one by one!

Pencil will be in the game! Somewhen...

Whaa?? Propeller Tune.

This comes the asset we've been waiting for, this appears to be a paint bucket icon for the future "Level Creator". Also, you would see an color picker and eraser, literally.

Here's a complete toolbar of the tools to be found in the creator.
Pencil, Eraser, Box, Paint Bucket, Color Picker, Selection, Row, Column, Copy, Undo and Clear.

Here we see what happens when you click 'Save'. A window pops up to input the name of the level, creator and a description. Which kind of works the same way as Algodoo actually.

We can also see different windows to add characters, objects, tiles, backgrounds and dialogue.


Thanks for reading! Just imagine the wide variety of levels you can make out of this!

May 27, 2013

How I got into the Object show fandom + How I started BFDI Trivia

Hopefully, after this, people would stop asking me how.

It started back in June 2010. I came across a video called "The Big Stuff" as I was pretty interested in astronomy. After watching this video, I was impressed. Music went well with visual. I decided to go check the channel out. I found, what appears to be a pretty decent cartoon, which I thought was just a youtube upload of a TV cartoon series. Then I was like "meh", and ignored.

Then a year passed, I came back to the same "The Big Stuff" and saw their annotation saying that they released a new video "The Large Stuff" which is said to be better. I clicked it, then, WOAH. Amazing visual and audio harmony. I went back to the channel, named 'jacknjellify'. I saw the cartoon again, now at its 20th episode. Well, I had time, so I decided to watch it anyway.

The cartoon was amazing! Nice storyline and animation. Battle for Dream Island became the best youtube series I've ever watched. However, it took me like 4 days to completely watch the whole thing up to episode 20. Then shortly after came episode 21, I watched it, it built up the suspense inside me. It made me want to watch it very badly. I eventually subscribed, when JnJ had just past 1000 subs.

Half a year has passed again, I was thrilled by the finale of BFDI. I came across the BFDI wiki page, browsed through it, and saw character pages with a section called 'Trivia' at the bottom. Then I had a surprising idea. Why not make videos about trivial things in BFDI? And so I did. I got to my movie making software, iMovie and stitched up a video containing scenes from BFDI. Needle Slaps had about a pretty decent 40 views at first week. And so made another trivia. My trivia became even more famous after BFDI Trivia 5, where I saw my stats showing my video views had tripled! And so I continued.

Right now, 1 year and 9 months since starting to watch BFDI and 1 year 4 months since starting BFDI Trivia, I feel the object show fandom has grown bigger. I'm really impressed. Thanks to everyone into supporting me and all the object shows that entertained us.

I've been quite busy again, but BFDI(A) Trivia 43 may come out this week. NO PROMISE IS MADE.

May 11, 2013

Kat Rants: What object shows could have AKA the Wants

That's right.

I'm gonna list the few stuff that I think object shows would be great to have but not necessarily important.


  • Songs - Not just any song from another source, but original songs. BFDI has done it with the 'Points are gone' Cake at Stake song. Inanimate Insanity also has done it, though not many may remember or realise this, they have a 'christmas carol' kinda thing at the end of episode 9 - The Snowdown. BOTO has done it too, with its most recent episode with two songs written by Anko, those songs were nice!
  • 3D Scenes - Animation done in blender with toon-shading then transported to flash/after effects to stitch 2D and 3D together. So far, I think BFDI has done it in BFDI Episode 25 with all recommended characters.
  • Official websites - With official websites built for the show, people get to enjoy greater content and viewing experience, especially newbie who just started to watch the show. Inanimate Insanity has done it, pretty well.
  • Merchandise - Just for personal ornaments, to show that they really like the show. Both Inanimate Insanity and Object Universe has done it.
  • Being a TV series - What I mean here is that have the object show be like a TV cartoon series, that has nothing much to do with the previous episode. So far, there is no object show on youtube that has this yet.
  • Games - or even interactive stuff that would let viewers appreciate content on a certain show. So far BFDI has done a game, two games in fact.
That's it.

I may make it into a video some day. Who knows?

March 15, 2013

Join us at ObjectCon!

ObjectCon is the one place where Object Show fans get tot together and discuss on the future of, basically, object shows!!

Meet up with special guests such as:
Adam from Inanimate Insanity
Sam from Object Universe
and me, Kat from BFDI(A) Trivia

We will ensure you'll never get bored!!

Join us!
30th March 2013
2000 to 2300 (EST)
0900 to 1200 (GMT+8)

Only on katyj98 channel

Join the chat while the event takes place!

February 23, 2013

When WILL BFDIA 5C come out?

We've all seen the past BFDIA delays, but ever since the release of BFDIA 5B, it's come to my attention, when WILL we see BFDIA 5C?
Cary and Micheal have been busy with the BFDIA 5B game, releasing new levels, even showing that a 'Explore' mode and a level editor will be added into the game in March. But if they are so busy with this, dosent this mean NO bfdia AGAIN this month? There's been no notice that its coming on march 1st, so if your one of those people who stay awake for the BFDIA episodes, I'd recommend just going to sleep.

February 22, 2013

BFDIA 5b SPOILER!


Carykh, the creator of BFDI and BFDIA 5b replied to TB's youtube account saying that he will appear in the game but he had ELER.

ELER is likely an acronym of:
Evil Leafy Electric Rig?
Evil Leafy Energy Rip?
Evil Leafy Evil Rage?
Evil Leafy Elimination Resistance? (lol)
Evil Leafy Enemy Rampage?

These just IMO.

What do you think it means?