To be honest, the animated series is merely one big experiment. This is one of those "one shot" sequels to something else with more depth. The animation is always a constant improvement in speed work. By now I've gotten the hang of animating and how many frames work in order to it to be smooth. I'm pushing to actually just finish this season. I have other works that are getting more indepth detail when it comes to animating that can't be released yet. So the amount of time I'm putting into this, while it's a lot, I know I can do much more with it. Also, this was the first time using my Cintiq, so it was a little weird for me at first, but hopefully using this scene as the test, the final one of this episode will be a lot better.

I will admit I got really lazy on the last part of this scene. A lot of the lip syncs got thrown off track with some lag and frame loss.

This is based off of my novel series, which by default is a lot more indepth, especially in character development because of the fact it's prose. And this by the very nature of it, is merely a quick throw together extension of it.

As for cliches, for anything involving any type of war or conflict, there's really very very little that wouldn't be taken as a cliche nowadays. I already have this entire season scripted. Each actual episode runs about 22 minutes, the previous one was around 30 minutes.

I appreciate the support, I know there's a lot I need to work on, but it is something I do in my free time between work, freelance work and a social life, and doing final revisions of novels.

The first 4 episodes had little direction, so that's my fault. The latter ones have directions, so the voice acting will emphasize that more. It was my bad and a learning experience.

Yeah, I acknowledge the last part of this scene can get a bit confusing, I was going to add more to it, but I got really sick so I opted to pass and I'll add to it for the full episode release.

I'm doing it for fun, but it's also based off my novel series which is far more importat to me. It's a sequel to the 3rd book and I consider it akin to an anime OVA. I get better with each scene as I experiment a little more, this one also was the test to get used to animating on screen with the Cintiq, which can get a little weird if you're not familiar with it. The next one should be much better.