Animal Crossing Documentary
Chris’s hour-long Animal Crossing Documentary offers tours of two different towns saved on two different memory cards. The town of Cwcville is home to Sonichu, who wears a Sonichu outfit. The town of Cwc City is home to Crystal, who wears a Rosechu outfit.
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Outline
00:01-01:24 – Introduction
01:25-19:39 – Tour of Cwcville (part 1 of 2)
19:40-25:19 – Trip to Cwcville Island
25:20-35:24 – Tour of Cwcville (part 2 of 2)
35:25-36:44 – Interlude
36:45-52:39 – Tour of Cwc City
52:40-53:39 – Interlude
53:40-55:54 – Conclusion
End of video spoiler: "HFA" stands for "High-Functionally Autism". Apparently, this is Chris's autistic way of saying "High-Functioning Autism".
Nintendo Power's Article
Nintendo Power’s May 2004 article on Chris’s documentary covers only Sonichu’s life in Cwcville. The way that the article speaks of “Sonichu’s” actions, most casual readers would be led to believe that “Sonichu” is the real name of the person who submitted the documentary.
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Sonichu’s Cwcville Documentary
Simply amazing. There’s no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville—a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life. His opulent manor contained every manner of furniture. Cwcville’s landscape was filled to the bursting point with all the animals who’d moved to his well-tended town. And Sonichu has customized everything about his town—even many villagers have followed his bold trends, wearing the patterns he has created!
Sonichu has packed the museum with his fads—its bug collection is hopping.
He often visits Sonichu Island to bring its high-value coconuts to town.
And he uses the spare hut on the island to store his huge collection of oddities.
Cwcville is brimming with Sonichu’s patterns, including the popular Poké Ball.
PVCC's News Report
The 26 April 2004 issue of PVCC's school newspaper, The Forum, included a news report on the "accomplishments" of then-student Christian Chandler. The first half of the article discusses Chris's OFFICIAL and ORIGINIAL creation, Sonichu, while the second half covers Chris's Animal Crossing Documentary, going so far as to quote Nintendo Power's own coverage.
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Meet Sonichu
Student featured in "Nintendo Power"
By Kari Mitchell
The Forum assistant editor
Most everyone has a hobby. It may be hard to find free time in between classes, especially with exam week quickly approaching, but PVCC student Christian Chandler, has dedicated many hours to his past time. He is the creator of Sonichu, the Electric Hedgehog Pokémon.
Like Sonic, Sonichu can run at high spees. "During Super Sonic's battle against the Perfect Chaos monster (Sonic Adventure DX for Gamecube), Super Sonic was spat out by the monster, and colldied with a by-standing Pikachu," Chandler explained. According to his story, the power from the Chaos Emeralds transformed Pikachu into Sonichu.
The idea for the character came from a project Chandler was assigned his senior year of high school. He was enrolled in a computer graphics class that required him to design a CD cover. His original idea was to put Sonic and Pikachu on the cover, however, both characters are copyrighted. Instead he decided to combine the characters into something all his own. Thus, on March 17, 2000, Sonichu was born.
Over time, Chandler began to mold and expand the life of Sonichu, giving him stories, homemade trading cards, clay figures, a board game, and a Sonichu medallion with charms, among other things.
Chandler and the world he created for Sonichu were featured in the May 2004 issue of Nintendo Power. The place was called Cwcville (The "Cwc" prefix are his initials, Christian Weston Chandler). Nintendo Power was apparently impressed with Chandler's work. "Simply amazing. There's no other way to describe what we received from Sonichu of Cwcville - a full video documentary that walked us through his daily life." The documentary, running about an hour, was taped from the Nintendo Gamecube title, Animal Crossing. He dubbed his voice over the sound through a microphone and audio input in his VCR. In the documentary, Chandler covers "basically how I do things in Animal Crossing as the boy character, Sonichu, in the city of Cwcville." Some of the tasks include using the journal as a monthly diary, making money, customizing the city, and conversing with another Animal Crossing city. For now, Sonichu remains a hobby in the future, Chandler would like to see Sonichu and his friends as real Pokémon, even having their own Nintendo Gamecube video game title. "I am not really sure what to do in order to do all that," Chandler said, "but for now, Sonichu and I, Christian C., are in Nintedo Power Magazine!"