The show I made before BFDI (2008) (Part 1)

Carrie briefly outlines the planned game mechanics for Total Kid Island, including two distinct teams and an elimination process without a merge, leading to a one-on-one final showdown. The video concludes with a promise for a Part 2, where more details about TKI will be revealed.

The creator, Carrie, introduces their show 'Battle for Dream Island' (BFDI), which debuted in 2010. They explain that the inspiration came from their obsession with 'Total Drama Island' (TDI) in 2008. Unable to draw humans well, they decided to make inanimate objects the contestants, a concept that carried over to BFDI.

Carrie reveals that BFDI was not their first attempt at creating a TDI-inspired show. They found an old file from 2008 called 'TKI character creation,' standing for 'Total Kid Island.' At 11 years old, Carrie wanted to create a version of TDI with younger characters.

The video shows the six human characters designed for TKI, noting they were influenced by the 'Total Drama' aesthetic with flat colors and harsh outlines. Carrie demonstrates loading the 15-year-old Flash file and manipulating the characters, discussing individual names like Vanessa, Olivia, Gerald, Catherine, and Scott. They also explain a unique animation technique used to make characters orbit a central point without rotating themselves, involving layered rotations in opposite directions.

Carrie details the creative decisions behind the TKI characters, including their team names ('Murderer Trout' and 'Yelling Beavers') which were directly inspired by TDI. They explain that Catherine was made voiceless due to concerns about finding enough female voice actors, inadvertently creating a predecessor to BFDI's Teardrop. Carrie also examines how different facial features and expressions were handled, noting consistency in skin tones but a lack of diversity, and the organized naming conventions for symbols compared to later BFDI projects.

The creator discusses how different fonts were chosen to reflect character personalities. Catherine had a serif font to signify her bookish nature, Gerald had a flamboyant font, Olivia's text was bold for her 'swearing' personality, and Vanessa's italicized text represented her leaning posture. Carrie also points out the use of black outlines, a technique also seen in TDI, and the pragmatic decision to use them to avoid complexities with outline coloring based on lighting.