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Space Ace

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I made this animation back in 2017 for my hybrid animation module at university, and was my first attempt at making 3D animation. It's a sci-fi action short, which follows the story of a United Space Force fighter pilot who comes under attack by alien fighters of the evil Zenderon Empire. Outnumbered 3 to 1 and with no backup, she is forced to rely on her own skills, as well as the speed, manoeuvrability and deadly firepower of her beloved X-7 Falcon Starfighter.


Before this film, all of my animation was either 2D or stop-motion. I had done some 3d modelling in the past, but the concept of rendering a 3D animation was really new to me at the time. In spite of that, I'm fairly pleased with final result. I do wish to work on further sci-fi projects in the future involving bigger space battles.


The X-7 Falcon Starfighter was my attempt at designing a really cool, robust and tough looking space fighter, and is inspired by the Sabre fighter from Halo and the X-Wing from Star Wars. Certain aspects such as the cockpit and stabilizers are also inspired by the Imperial Guard Valkyrie from Warhammer 40k, and the reverse thrusters at the front of the craft are made to look like the engine intakes of the Harrier Jump Jet.

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Awsome sci-fi

Love the space sci-fi element here some really nice work and a great space battle here love the deep extures of colors too from outter space A good flash here I thought, its interesting how this starts off, pretty interesting, and I got some good entertainment value from this, I really like how this cameout from start to finish. Keep with the creativity and making things unique, like you have done here. This was a very positive flash, with afew tweaks it can be even better. It was not great but was not poor either. it actually had some good points that kept me interested and wanting more.

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a good series to make out of it

~X~

how could she breath in space in the end?

omg this was loads of fun!

Great!

Everything else was great. Space stuff and space dogfights are always great to watch. The ship models also have good designs. The 3D effects and the space environment was also drawn pretty well.

But the Seth Macfarlane "family-guy-esque" character designs just look awful and doesn't fit in with everything else in the short. It literally ruined my immersion from what's happening soon as I saw what the character looked like. I kept half-expecting it to break into a cut-away gag...

Consider abandoning that character style unless you're using it for something comedic. That's the only type of media it seems to fit in...

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Uploaded
Jan 26, 2021
5:41 PM EST
Genre
Action
  • Daily 4th Place January 28, 2021