"Army Men" - A short cinematic by FlippinDingDong

In preparation for the upcoming assault on the toilet, the Green Army ambushes a key Tan position atop the bathroom vanity.
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For those of you who don't know, I've been enrolled at an art institute pursuing a degree in 3D Animation. This is partly why the flow of cartoons on this channel has basically come to a stop.
This is a quick animation I made to test my abilities in Autodesk Maya (the 3D program that I'm learning about in college).
There are two keywords there: quick & test. Don't be expecting the next Ratatouille or something out of this. Its just a bunch of Army Men shooting the crap out of each other because I wanted them to.
(plus, I always wondered what "Sarge's Heroes" would've looked like in first person.)
HOWEVER, due to time constraints, I had to wrap up this project a little earlier than I would've liked to so that it had adequate time to render it out. As a result, I still kinda consider it a work-in-progress. While there are a few obvious problems (I have no idea what's up with that dude's wrist), most of them are fairly minor, such as stiff animation, missing effects (bullet impacts etc.), and an overall fuzzy/pixelated image (I had to crank the quality way down in order for it to render in time).
Overall, this entire thing took about a month and a half to create, and 11 days (!) to render out.
As I move back to school in two days, I'm hoping to churn out a few more 2D cartoons in the future as well.

[@vanargrand3199]

Finally, an animator who understands how an M16 works.

[@joshoneill3197]

You know in cod mw and wwz they make the M16 a semi automatic rifle

[@valonquinn4863]

forgive my ignorance, but would you mind clarifying? I'm genuinely curious what you mean?

[@vanargrand3199]

@@valonquinn4863 Dust covers open

[@akneegrow6152]

​@@joshoneill3197 It's actually burst fire, in mw the M16 is an M16A4 which only have semi and burst fire modes, so it's correct. The Vietnam era variants like the M16 (602) and M16A1s have full auto capability.

[@HeadhunterNixon02]

Nice 24. Much love.

[@DearDeer86]

"War is not black and white, it is green and tan!" Fucking golden.

[@slayermate07]

i miss sarge, scorch, thick, vikki and the gang... :(

[@Lajos_Kelemen]

Me too.

[@AlexMrShot]

+_Reborn _ When they...you know...

[@dominicvucic8654]

That was bold killing all but one main character of the series hey at least the green rouge us out their some where

[@Sir_knight_trooper]

Yea I miss the old plastro from the original army men I also miss carapar too idk it seems like my childhood was just tan general's 1/6 rc stuart tank and bionicle also snowstorms good memories

[@wayneprickett8626]

I honestly wonder whatever happened to Bridgette Bleu but yeah it still hurts that the heroes are dead😭

[@danielbryant8637]

is this what the toy soldiers in toy story do in between movies

[@aarontheperson6867]

yup

[@tombkings6279]

Good thing nobody actually dies I think

[@otterwingate7581]

@@tombkings6279 anyone who's played "sarge's war" would disagree

[@Henry.J.blacksmith]

Yes

[@omegasynth2775]

May I just say that I love how it was revealed they're little toy soldiers? The Helicopter is so dark inside you can barely see anything but the silhouette of the soldiers. Then the bathroom is revealed, and when the helicopter lands, we see the plastic green rifle on our comrade revealing itself from the darkness. I know the title makes it obvious, but goddamn was that cool.

[@Mikudude1billion]

Also, and I noticed this on my 5th re-watch last night, but Sarge's helmet is constantly obscuring the top part of his view which, do to how army men helmets work, is exactly what would happen. Kinda makes it look like a half-letterbox though.

[@vasha4799]

They are army men toys

[@Oddtom121]

Toy Story deleted scenes

[@p00pyface92]

😂 lol!!😂🤣

[@purplecreature7725]

Yes

[@Enclave_high_command5552]

They actually should have had tan Army men and they would have been like arguing with each other that would have been funny

[@Enclave_high_command5552]

They should have had tan army men so they could have had like arguing And fighting

[@sniperyo2615]

Real

[@legendario13]

Oh my, this was such a nostalgia trip. 10/10 would play The Wilhelm Scream was awesome XD

[@jurrasicminer]

are you refering to the PS2 game of this? if so I agree it is a nostalgia trip

[@legendario13]

jurrasicminer It goes even further back! to the psOne, 3D, Land-Sea-Air, green rogue, lock and load, final front, etc. And my favourite Team Assault. Is just so so great.

[@jurrasicminer]

legendario13 oh yeah forgot about the PS1 version

[@legendario13]

jurrasicminer Yeah, I'm quite the "veteran" when it comes to games Hehe. Anyhow this video is great, bringing back memories to many :D

[@Lajos_Kelemen]

legendario13 My favorite was RTS :)

[@MultiHackle]

war, war never changes

[@SmerchBM]

actually it does it changes all the time First there were men throwing rocks at each other then there were men throwing sharp rocks at each other then there were men throwing spears at each other..... now there are men launching nukes at each other then there will be men shooting lasers at each other.

[@MultiHackle]

I'm assuming you didn't get the reference.

[@FlippinDingDong]

MultiHackle He definitely didn't get the reference.

[@UberMenschNowFilms]

WAR HAS CHANGED

[@FlippinDingDong]

Apollo Diomedes ...DID IT?

[@mAtT47739]

This would make an incredibly neat game.

[@vicente321]

look up the army men games

[@lictor6466]

vicente321 i honestly want a new army men game now like a larger open world thing this vid made me ask why hasn't any one done a new game? i wonder who owns the IP for it was its 3DO?

[@steventan2754]

+Ammu Rembrandt an indie developer is making an army men 3 game it's just that the progress on that is at a snail's pace so we won't be seeing that anytime soon. Search Neotl Empire on KZbin for more.

[@Alicaso]

The mean greens plastic warfare is exactly this, unfortunately the game is quite dead

[@ZombieZoey]

I know this is much much later, but the game Rising Storm 2 has released a mode where you play as toy soldiers and you fight on oversized maps! You should check it out of you're still interested!

[@Michael-lc8yl]

This looks like a trailer for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Toy Soldier Expansion.

[@AceOfBlackjack]

Michael it does

[@AceOfBlackjack]

Oh god it’s me.

[@rockybushes]

@@AceOfBlackjack oh god its you

[@FlippinDingDong]

Well, this is awkward. The video file I uploaded previously was the wrong one, and looked all washed out & nasty. That's what i get for labeling the two "Animation_Final_A" and "Final_Animation_A". This is the correct one. Sorry boutz that. ... What? ... I SAID I WAS SORRY GEEZ YOU WANT A CARD OR SOMETHING?

[@IBT98]

Yes I do, I am so mad that I can't be happy with the hard work you've done!

[@GeckoNovice]

Needs more Wilhelm screams, a good film needs at least one Wilhelm scream for every forty seconds of footage.

[@harrygrant4122]

thank god... you've been gone so long i thought you had died or something!

[@lisbjerg123]

that was awesome.

[@nothitler4327]

Make another!

[@foe4675]

This is the thing why I love army men. They don't use buildings and stuff like that to cover themselves, they just use freaking normal appliance's items ( Toothpaste, Orange, TV Remote, My face etc ) as cover.

[@drogs6253]

The tan's Aim is worse than the stormtroopers in ster wars

[@saucyseph3783]

This was basically my dream as a kid. I remember playing with army men for HOURS on end. The battles were long and gruesome. 'Twas fun

[@aarontheperson6867]

I remember melting them and sticking toothpicks through their bodies, also I remember painting blood.

[@saucyseph3783]

durring the 4th id make a battle and use the firework tanks as... tanks. its a lot of fun getting fireworks and annihilating toy soldiers with them

[@aarontheperson6867]

FrostyLawler I also liked to set up battles. Weather it be inside, or outside, I had a blast.

[@smurfaccount2497]

What parents see: oh look! Tommy is playing with his toy soldiers! What the kid sees:

[@Kafkodesu]

I expected this to ba joke, but this is actually some pretty good animating.

[@SerfinBird]

My god you have brought back so many chiledhood memories with making this bringing me back to the days of sarges heros and the other army men 3DO games this is truely a masterpiece

[@evanc2795]

So who else is old enough here that this causes flash backs to Sarge's Heroes on the N64?

[@bluespy7799]

Love that game

[@Mikudude1billion]

I'm old enough to remember it on PS1, does that count?

[@bluespy7799]

@@Mikudude1billion Of course

[@TheVIDEONINGA]

That was......FUCKING AWSOME. I WANT MORE.

[@swiggityswanka]

ah yes the the perspective of a child when it comes to toys is beautiful

[@Zippsterman]

Those beautiful sound effects are super nostalgic

[@carlitoispissed7486]

I'm a somewhat big Star Wars fan (mainly the Clone Wars era) and when the helicopter landed and everyone ran out it reminded me of a LAAT gunship

[@Cowboycomando54]

I love that the sound track is taken from UHF, that movie is a classic.

[@alanoxford6219]

this gave me PTSD memories of the prisoner camp from the Army Men N64 video game. I never could beat that damn level

[@redfriends_tv]

I freakin remember these games… these were my favorite ps games

[@BigFreakingCacodemon]

"Tangos at two o'clock!" I think you meant to say "TAN-gos" at two o'clock.

[@bluephoenix3945]

Oh my god just got flashbacks to playing Army Men 3D on my PS1, such good times

[@andyjacobs7010]

0:58 I just realized the protagonist doesn't have feet.

[@wheel7850]

OH WHAT THE FU-

[@ninjartist36]

That's stuck in my head

[@shadowdemon1375]

Next Call of Duty game: Coming to you April 2017.

[@FlippinDingDong]

Originally I was going to try to pass this off as a trailer for "Call of Duty: Army Men". But then I realized noone would fall for it, so that idea got canned.

[@keepingitclassy3185]

That intro managed to make me curse out loud

[@chrisyuri4187]

The Tyrannical Tan Commander is once again rebuilding his military and preparing an offensive

[@shadowtornado7778]

Very well done why doesn't this have 1 million views it this video deserves it

[@vassilizaitzev1]

Jesus that brought back memories. Army Men Sarge's Heroes 1 and 2!

[@patrickterral2832]

as a fan of the games this was fantasticly well made.

[@SarcasticPossum]

Only one sentence sums this up for me: "Good to go!"

[@dimitriydzyuba218]

PARTY TIME!!!

[@TranscendentalAirwaves]

Holy crap this is really good. They need to create another Army Men game honestly.

[@megatank28]

This would make the best Military Shooter ever.

[@spigotsandcogs]

Holy shit. This looks better than the actual Army Men games' cinematics.

[@gavinlightfoot5521]

I started watching this right as the toy story soldier part started, I'm not lying

[@nickthepick8043]

Sarge's Heroes 3: Final Front looks amazing. Can you believe they're gonna get Jim Cummings with this again?

[@Custardes]

FlippingDingDong, you are flipping amazing :D

[@CommanderDixion]

I want a full length film, that was beautiful!

[@AdamPerson]

This was made 5 years ago, and I’m sad I missed this crap 5 years ago. The sights even have disgusting dual aperture sights on the carry handles!

[@CrustySaviour]

Those army men must have struggled on their way to Andy's birthday party.

[@Diavidi]

OMG I want play this as PC Game!

[@BRYZORD]

You must make more of these if you can! This is awesome! Hell if 3do was still around, they would hire you on the spot!

[@GTSRyan]

1:45 was expecting him to go colonel 100 on that helicopter

[@DonutDurgn]

Every Vietnam war flash back ever. *Done right*

[@FogHorn1911]

dam, a lot of sounds that really brought me back

[@Sip_Dhit]

The toy soldiers being gibbed by the helicopter reminds me of the extra gore crit kills in the 1st and 2nd fallouts

[@travisreed1730]

OUTSTANDING work. My only complaint is, i wish it were LONGER.

[@rafen40k40]

This is exactly how I remember playing this on my parents computer

[@mountainolegos224]

This would make a BOSS videogame.

[@collinarter2470]

the uhf music makes this

[@furri3907]

Rising Storm 2 Green Army Men looks great.

[@Fatman4849]

This game series use to ve my favorite growing up.

[@Krejii05]

This is the fps we needed for years

[@pivotalpancake5454]

1:20 Did not expect that Metal Slug stock sound effect lmao

[@justarette133]

This is where Rising Storm 2: Vietnam got the Idea for the 2018 Christmas Event.

[@IronManx70]

Awesome video, felt nostalgic. I grew up making battle scenarios with army men and playing the Army Men games with friends like Sarge's Heroes 1-2, Army Men RTS and Sarge's War

[@ha4e52]

How did I not see this before? This is freakin' awesome!

[@theduke7539]

I used to love the Army Men games from 3DO. The RTS was my favorite, but Sarge's War was a good one too

[@Nygunsons]

I played the shit out of the GameCube RTS verison of this loved it so goddamn much

[@bobsmith-oo4mt]

Rip those two guys , they will be missed 😭

[@hhuuuk]

most importantly. war war never changes.

[@krojewarzywa2265]

Oh man. Service guarantees citizenship

[@rodakscreens]

The game we need, not the one we deserve

[@zacht9447]

This is reminding me a lot of Rising storm 2's Army men mode tbh

[@I_LOVE_SEGABASSFISHING]

The Medal of Honor reboot looks so lit

[@GuardianStriker]

I knew you got those "pain" sounds from Goldeneye!

[@Striker1621]

this should be a game...

[@BDNeon]

Ah. I remember my Maya classes. I was never very good at organic stuff. Anything with irregular curves and such, I just plain sucked at. People, plants, etc.

[@captshak]

Excellent use of the UHF soundtrack

[@trciproductions7978]

when five year olds play with their army men toys. LoL. I’m sharing this vid with my buddies.

[@gabrielegenota1480]

Oh my god I remember watching this way back- I didn't know it was YOU that made this!

[@scruffulon]

Way to go, man. This is amazing. I really liked the sheen of the counter-top and the sizes of everything.

[@sovietunion9772]

This is how I imagined toy soliders when I was a kid

[@edible_lemon]

i think that this should be a game....i approve

[@ViolacTrough]

This takes me back to the PS1 era.

[@MJOM77]

Dude Childhood, I thank you so much

[@CinderFox98]

You sir have won my heart! Absolutely awesome video

[@Max-gz8qe]

This just gave me ptsd but it was totally worth it.

[@lochmon4158]

welcome back you truely are a under appreciated artist

[@alexmcmurry]

Make another please. This was amazing, You have talent and this series deserves awesome stuff like this.

[@theflyingfokker5249]

this is how i remember the classic games

[@judahboyd2107]

They're making a first person shooter vesrion of that one toy soldiers game. You did this.

[@russeltaiga]

so thats what the Toy Story Soliders are doing in theire free time :D

[@Snigglebiscuits]

dude. your animation is becoming stupid good! cant wait to see more

[@hayro252]

this brings back lotta memories....

[@MrErethorn]

I remember a game on the ps1 like this still have it somewhere in my house

[@Ace_Glidewell]

Dude I still have my Sarges heroes for the Nintendo 64 and I still love em. And if they made a game like this I’d definitely buy it!

[@TermusJar]

Childhood nostalgia revived :)

[@jed8592]

This is just like the video game Mean Greens!

[@FlippinDingDong]

I played the living crap out of Mean Greens! I'd start out every match typing in all caps "OH HO HO, YEAH", "PARTY TAAAAHM", and "GOOD2GO". Nobody ever got it...

[@jed8592]

good glad some one else knows it exists!

[@MrDude308]

this was amazing , it reminded me of playing the game as a kid . i hope we get the chance to see more like this in the future

[@squartbotai1383]

The reach woven floss......... God i wish it still existed

[@cvbrocks5975]

This is some high class animation

[@dannymccormack936]

girls playing with army men: this is so boring boys:

[@Galmus2020]

Muy buena animación, me recuerda a los videojuegos de army men 3DO, ojalá hubiera más animación como esa.

[@ShadowClaok43]

I remember this was like a N64 game or something. Loved it.

[@KenjisGamingDen]

wow a new animation after so long it was amazing