good video but it says load for about 2 mins evry 10 secs.....its very difficult to watch
Reviews for "Red"
Did he kill himself with a flaregun? Lol, good animation though.
I know a lot of time an effort was put into this, I can really tell and on that I salute you. modeling, rigging, texturing, lighting, then animated everything is an enormous feat to take on by yourself.
Everything about the story is clear. You can make a quick connection that whoever we're about to meet is depressed simply by the mess in the room and music. T
he character himself is pretty well done. the emotion is a bit hard to express on a character with a few features as he has but you did a pretty good job. I can appreciate the detail in the ear twitching and what-not. There's just something about his over-all movement that irk's me a bit. It feels... "floaty". he feels like he's missing some weight. I'm working on some of that stuff myself when animating character and sometimes it's a bit rough. The stumbles I think is where is feels most noticeable, but it's still not that bad. When he falls to his knees he pulls back both his back legs at the same time. when we naturally fall to our knees we would stumble one leg at a time, so delaying them there would give it a much more realistic feel. Movements like this are best acted out in front of a camera so you can play it back over and over letting you study it. (I actually got up and tried to fall to my knee pulling both legs back at the same time to make sure I wasn't bullshitting you :P)
some smaller details that I noticed:
The bottle feels like it's glued to his hand when he drops it, it doesn't move until the very last finger releases it.
His hand, when it resets on the arm of the couch right before he pulls the gun up collides with it and moves threw it. Remember that when you're aiming up a shot, all you have to worry about is how it looks to the camera that it's going to be rendered in. if it's actually not touching the couch it's alright as long as it looks like it is to the audience. that's the easiest way I deal with things like that.
anyway, great little short! keep it up, and the best advice I can give you when it comes to 3D animating is don't be too shy to act out your scenes yourself and film it. It gives you really great reference video.
Iznvm responds:
Very nice observations man! I totally agree and these are all things that I hope to fix in future works. It's just a matter of getting more experience and practice under my belt. I told someone earlier in a response that I didn't use any rotoscope references, and I really wish I would have. In the future, acting things out in camera and referencing those shots will be part of my workflow.
As for the other things, like the bottle and all, those are all things that would have been done, had I had more time.
I'm glad you liked it and appreciate the work. I had 2 weeks to put this thing together from scratch, so my mindset was pretty much just to get it done the most efficient way possible, even if that meant sacrificing some in all the areas - animation, texture, modeling, etc
It's not often you see 3D being used here on Newgrounds. The artwork and animation are beautiful from beginning to end, I will say though that the wolf doesn't have much expression to him, we can't really see a lot of emotion in him, which is a crucial element when looking at the story. I am still a bit confused about this story, the wolf is sad that Red is dead... okay, but did he kill her, did she just die, I mean it is a bit strange to see how this would cause a suicide. Suicide is a touchy subject, but I think you needed to explain a bit more through the wolf.
The music choice was a good one, but it seems to be setting the tone too early on, I think silence would have done this movie better to build the appropriate atmosphere. The sound effects are standard fair, nothing out of the ordinary there. All in all, I get the feeling that more time was spent on the animation than the building of the story. Still great, but could have been better.
|| Cheers ||
*Masterful Artwork
*Superb Animation
*Great Music
*Great Sound
*Good Story
|| Jeers ||
*Story - More Explanation
*Animation - Wolf Needs More Emotion
like youtube only slower. nice implementation of 3d though