Many months ago I watched the anime titled Cowboy Bebop . Not too long after finishing it, I thought of how similar Niko Bellic's and Spike Spiegel's stories are, which led me to think how would it be to mix both concepts. This is my tribute to both wonderful creations, which, interestingly enough, they celebrate their 10th and 20th anniversary this 2018. An adaptation of Cowboy Bebop's opening with Grand Theft Auto IV elements. Enjoy!

Sidetoside comparison:    • Grand Theft Bebop comparison  
Making of:    • See You Liberty Cowboy (Making of Gra...  

Special thanks:
To my friend, Lauti, for animating Johnny Klebitz' 2d smoke:
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To Bradley Forsythe for making the Grand Theft Bebop's logo:
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Aditional thanks:
To my friend Three Eyes Dude for rigging Niko Bellic in Blender and for helping me to animate him when he wears his gloves.
To the user Brettimaeus (creator of Jojo's Bebop Adventure.    • JoJo's Bebop Adventure  ), especially where he explains how to manage colors.
To the user CoolAnimationVids for providing me the opening on a high quality, video I used as a base (   • Cowboy Bebop Opening 1080p  Creditless  ).
To some dude called Pancho I met in Skype, who taught me to manage text transparency.

This video was inspired in Cowboy Bebop and Grand Theft Auto IV, as well as each one of the users around the world who made their own Cowboy Bebop opening parodies. My favourites were Cowboy 2Fort, チャンミオビバップ (Chanmio Bebop), EvaBebop and JoJo's Bebop Adventure.

Link in Nicovideo: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm32741718

This is my first video made in After Effects, though a lot of Photoshop and Mocha AE was necesary (and a bit of Blender)!
Of course, Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes From Liberty City were used. Finally, the final result was compressed on Adobe Premiere.

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