capcor opened this issue on Apr 02, 2006 ยท 15 posts
luvver_3d posted Tue, 04 April 2006 at 9:10 AM
Congratulations on completing a feature-length project. That's a feat in and of itself these days. However, if you're up for some critique, I have some to give. I can't speak for the plot or story, because the teaser you've shown here doesn't do much to enlighten me to that aspect. The visuals, however, seem very lacking. The first things that jump out at me are very poor character animation, texturing, and lighting. The characters in the teaser move like puppets rather than organic beings in most of the shots. In one snippet, a female character with "long" hair moves about, and her hair is stiff as a board. The environments, although seemingly surreal, still leave me wondering what I'm looking at for the most part. Water looks like metal, metal looks like water, and everthing looks shiny and new. In other words, the entire thing screames "raytraced!". If the texturing were more interesting, I think it would look a lot more professional. Same with the lighting, which in most shots, seems overly simplistic and "CG". I would have loved to see some more natural lighting effects in the outdoors shots (even if it's an alien environment). Otherwise, you end up with an effect that resembles CG back in the mid to late 80's. I don't mean to completely "slam" your achievement here. I think it's great that you had the vision and fortitude to put something like this together, but I also hope that the storyline and dialogue serve to overshadow the seemingly lacking visual appeal in the teaser.