Meanwhile, let us hope that he makes good on his threat to make a universal World War II map animation. His YouTube channel boasts a boggling assortment of map animations. This in addition to an alternate YouTube channel where he remaps history in response to his own “what if” type prompts. Somehow he finds the time to preside over The Blank Atlas, a site whose members contribute unlabeled, non-copyrighted maps available for free public download. And he may well be a brony, as evidenced by the video he was purportedly working on this summer, World War II: As Told by Ponies. I definitely felt like throwing some ticker tape around when blue triumphed, but mostly I was curious about this Emperor Tigerstar, who relied on such disparate sources as Chris Bishop’s Military Atlas of World War II and Wikipedia to create this extraordinary record in Windows Paint.Ĭareful reading of his blog reveals a diehard history buff with a weakness for metal music, wholesome CGI movies, and statistics. Royalty-free music by Kevin MacLeod and audio samples ranging from Hitler and Mussolini’s declarations of war to Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech add import. The power-shifting colors (blue for Allies, red for Axis) are mesmerizing, as is a relentless timer ticking off the days between Germany’s invasion of Poland on Septemand VE Day, May 8, 1945.
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