Klonoa Chronicles is a series of tweets by Klonoa’s original creator, Hideo Yoshizawa, that give insights into the development of the games he had a hand in making. Each post has an English translation with the original Japanese text included.

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

• Before Klonoa - Spriggan: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

• Beginnings of Klonoa - Radia Senki: Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17

• Names of Phantomile - CLONOA:  Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21

• All Just a Dream - Scenario: Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26, Part 27, Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31
  
  
• Vision Cleared - Visuals: Part 32, Part 33, Part 34

• Language of Phantomile - Dialogue: Part 35, Part 36, Part 37, Part 38, Part 39

• Of Games and Cinema - Design: Part 40, Part 41, Part 42, Part 43, Part 44, Part 45, Part 46, Part 47, Part 48, Part 49, Part 50, Part 51, Part 52

• Tokyo Game Show & Adverts: Part 53, Part 54, Part 55, Part 56, Part 57, Part 58, Part 59

• Thankful Suite - Music: Part 60, Part 61, Part 62, Part 63, Part 64, Part 65

• Final Vision - Debugging: Part 66, Part 67, Part 68, Part 69, Part 70, Part 71 
  
  
• Good Morning, [Playername] - Development aftermath: Part 72, Part 73, Part 74, Part 75, Part 75

Klonoa: Moonlight Museum

• Part 76
• Part 77
• Part 78
• Part 79
• Part 80
• Part 81

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams

• Part 82
• Part 83
• Part 84
• Part 85
• Part 86

Klonoa Chronicles is a series of tweets by Klonoa’s original creator,Hideo Yoshizawa, that give insights into the development of the games he had a hand in making. Below is a translation along with the original Japanese text.

クロノアクロニクル第４８回！ 今回も幕間の月の国クレス復活のムービーについてです。 

Klonoa Chronicles #48! Again, this time it’s about the movie of the resurrection of Cress, the Moon Kingdom in the interlude movie. 

ＣＧ制作会社のビルドアップが乗りに乗って制作してくれたおかげでとてもいい月の国復活ムービーができました。 しかし、やはりクロノアの登場するシーンは難しいので、結局由水くんのチームでやることになりました。

Thanks to Buildup, a CG production company, we were able to make a very good movie about the revival of the Moon Kingdom. However, the scene with Klonoa was still difficult, so it was decided it’d be done by Mr. Yoshimizu’s team.

でもクレス復活はかなり迫力のあるシーンが創れたし、クロノアがパメラに乗って月の国へと飛び立つシーンもクオリティの高いものにできたのでよかったと思ってます。

But I’m glad that I was able to create a very powerful scene of Cress’ resurrection, and a high-quality scene of Klonoa flying away to the Moon Kingdom on Pamela.

このムービーができた時、予算を決裁してくれた部長に自慢げに見せに行ったのですが、その時の反応は「ン千万円かけて、これだけ？」というものでした。 これはゲームのプレイの中に入ったら、どれだけ効果的かがわからなかったのでしょうね。 「費用に見合う効果は必ずあります！」と断言しました。

When the movie was completed, I proudly went to show it to the director who had approved the budget, and his response was, “This is all you can do after spending tens of millions of yen?” That was the reaction I got. I guess he didn’t realize how effective it would be if it were part of the game play. I assured them, "It will be worth the cost!” I assured them.

内心は「ン億円かかってる『鉄拳』のエンディングよりはずっと効果的なお金の使い方だと思うけどね」と思いましたが、大人なので言いませんでした（笑）。

Inwardly, I thought, “This is a much more effective use of money than the ending of Tekken, which cost a billion yen”, but I was an adult and didn’t say anything (laughs).

今回はこのムービーを制作してくれたビルドアップが描き起こしてくれた絵コンテと、最後のクロノアがパメラに乗って月の国に向かうまでの由水くんの絵コンテを公開します。

(From this point on Yoshizawa is referring to the storyboards of the game’s interval CG cutscene, but due to going over the 10 image limit, you can find them here and here.)

This time, I’d like to share with you the storyboard drawn up by Buildup, who produced this movie, as well as Yoshimizu’s storyboard of the last part, when Klonoa rides Pamela to the Moon Kingdom.

つづき

Continued.

ここからは由水くんのコンテです。 では来週もお楽しみに！ つづく

This last part was finished by Mr. Yoshimizu. See you next week too! To be continued.