@putrdude Thanks. Yes I believe to more I work on it the better it is getting. This is the first part of a pilot episode for an animated series. I love telling stories and found 3d to be a great medium for my Ideas. I wrote the whole pilot as a standard 22 min. episode. I also have a series bible and outlines for 7 more episodes. I also have ideas for other shows in the same world like earlier witch hunters in Victorian England. (Thanks to content Artists. I see sets and get Ideas. I have Ile Avalons victorian and Stonemasons Old London that I have done test renders with)

The one good thing about this style is it is very easy to render. (I have a macbook pro 15 with quad i7, 16gb ram, and Intel Iris Pro Graphics) Not even a dedicated GPU. The characters and foreground is all Preview render which only takes a few seconds a frame. (I love the new geometric edge tool. It has pretty much solved the outline problem).

The backgrounds are rendered in firefly usually still but sometimes moving never take more than a few minutes to render per frame. I always only use one diffuse ibl to light the scene and make it flat/ cartoon like. If there is a shadow I use one spot for that. I really studied how 2d anime and cartoons are made to get this really optimized quickly rendered workflow going.

Thanks for the Ideas for making the characters more likable I will keep that in mind as I write. I really hope to spend more time in the series exploring character development and not necessarily as much action but still keep it interesting. I and doing this myself. I have hired someone for sound and hope I can find a way to get a little financing so I can also hire another anamator to help get it done faster.

I do Plan on having the rest of the first episode parts done over the winter.

David