"Steven's editing reel showed up at the perfect time for me. Once bringing him on, I've been regularly impressed at his work with visual details, comedic timing, and his ability to take a relatively simple idea and really make it look impressive. Overall very impressive editor!" - AntDude
In January 2026, AntDude reached out to me to take the lead edit on two new, ongoing video projects, specifically to bring an additional layer of spectacle and cohesion to Memory Card Graveyard, a retrospective series covering dormant video game franchises. While I was familiar with this format for my own content on the wizawhat channel, the challenge would be to synthesize my visual storytelling skills with Ant's more concise commentary and comedic timing. While his new achievement hunting series, the Kirby Achievement Master Quest, was a great opportunity to familiarize myself with his style of commentary, The Rise & Fall of Chibi-Robo! would be the true test to fulfill a more ambitious vision.
Each episode of Memory Card Graveyard is structurally composed of four chapters: The introduction featuring a brief developer history segment.
The Games, where Ant provides commentary on each entry in the series feeding into a broader point.
The Autopsy, where Ant diagnoses the state of the series before determining how it ended up here.
And Afterlife, a conclusive chapter discussing how fans can engage with the series today or support newly formed development studios crafting its spiritual successors.
These clean breaks were an excellent opportunity to create some clean title cards to maintain flow while pleasantly capturing the vibe of the Chibi Robo series.
A Recreation of the Chibi Robo logo with replaced text titled, "The Games"
Autopsy title card with Chibi Robo in his Trauma Suit
A joke about Chibi Robo's Amiibo functionality served as a great transition point with this animated title card
Throughout the process I discovered how naturally synergistic Ant's commentary style was with Chibi Robo, a series known for its lighthearted, quirky, and chaotic nature. As such, most of my favorite moments stem from this dynamic. There's a very funny segment in which he discusses the nature of Chibi Robo Park Patrol being a Walmart exclusive product launch that I was able to pair with some funny visuals to sell the absurdity.
In addition to the silly visual flourishes and sound design, I recreated some animated graphics from the first Chibi Robo game to serve as a backdrop for any direct quotes. I found that the color choice and vibe contrasted perfectly with Ant's typical branding.
There were also plenty of creative opportunities to visually represent the core essence of these games through montage, meme insertion or other silly edits, and even animations capturing how they feel to play, such as a set of animations I key-framed to visualize the DS duology's increased focus on touch controls.
A compilation of some of my favorite and most humorous edits.
There's silliness and memes abound in this video, but I also loved how concisely and cohesively Ant was able to make a definitive point about the success of Chibi Robo as a franchise at large. It gave rise to some more melancholic and even hopeful reflection by the conclusion. I gave considerable detail to the sound design and music selection to make the most of these moments.
This sequence before the final outro concludes the discussion with a more hopeful outlook.
Finally, what I felt wrapped this video up wonderfully was the Memory Card Graveyard branding itself. Ant designed the logo and title animation, complete with a bunch of different memory card graphics to be used for future videos. My task was simply to expand upon it. I wanted the introduction of the concept to be snappy and more focused on Ant's commentary, while I took more creative liberties for the outro. I'm certainly no illustrator, but for the purposes of the project I'm really happy with the drawing created for the outro, something I'm looking forward to expanding upon in future episodes.
Sequences like these are elevated greatly by the character illustrations done by Kevin Fagaragan, and provide the perfect opportunity to support them with my own vector drawings.
