I just finished the first part of an animated show I am working on. I have been working with Posed and 3d animation for a little over a year part time so could use all the feedback given. It is still a little choppy from the last time I asked for feedback. I think I am geting better. So please enjoy and let me know what you think.

Witch Hunter Pilot - part 1

David

David,

That looks great! You've done so much in so little time. Only a year and part time? I'm starting to dislike you already.

I missed the first one but this is very good.

Lip syncing for some needs some work, but that is always difficult.

Is this part of a much bigger project or a trailer for a comic book?

Personally, I love animation. Would do it all the time if Seachnaseigh would only loan me his cpu cycles. ;)

Just my two cents and something I've read about, don't forget to 'save the cat.' If you want your viewers/readers to care about your characters, save the cat. Very cool how they fight the creature and all, but if there was a baby in a stroller that he was attacking and they were coming together to protect the baby/cat, it would make your viewer/reader like your characters from the get-go.

@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

David,

Very cool. Good luck. You might try one of the funding sights, GoFundme or whatever. If this is just your first work (1 year) you are doing great. (IMHO) Good luck and don't give up.

Wow. That's actually very cool. I didn't realize Poser could render animations without a massive investment in processing power. In any case, you've got a real handle on dramatic camera work and rapid cuts. It definitely keeps the viewer interested!

Thanks @moriador the animation is hard but the camera work is fairly easy. after I set up the scene I just swing the dolly camera around to where I like it. I think I have always had an artistic eye. Or I could just be I spend way too much of my free time watching tv and movies haha!

i think I have anime model hair envy.

Wow, if this is less than a year of learning, you will be dangerous with 5 or 10 years under your belt. Very nicely done. I couldn't animate a walk cycle without screwing something up.