Sam Fennah / FailSafe42 - Atheist furry who dropped out of college; sperged to Bionicle fans about God not existing #SAVEBOB

[Token Weeaboo]

Spoiler: Archive (Warning: Motion sickness)

The mouth doesn't line up with the lyrics. At all. Not once did I get the sense that Lucy was saying a single word that was coming out of her mouth at any point in that video. The chest expansion makes NO sense. it looked more visually proper the way it was before. Lucy looks like she been working out. The expanded hips? Considering female mammals have wider hips it makes more sense biologically, except I can't decide if he over-did it? I am certain about the chest though. The camera work is an atrocity on its own. The wiggling, wobbling and needless zooms during the chorus gives me feelings of riding a roller coaster. Except I'm in my desk chair and the ride is looking at this hideous chimera and my stomach is sick. (To fix that I watched it again in .5 speed and the lip sync became WORSE)

The teeth look longer? I think they are longer, it may be just the new textures. I'm not sure- what I am sure of is there needle teeth are still a bother- and she's still weightless. There appears to be no sense of balance on Lucy. Watch this at .5 speed when she lifts up her leg. You'll notice just a slight lean back and no real sense that she's shifting herself to compensate for being on one leg. nothing affected by gravity works like that. "uh, @Token Weeaboo are you sure you're not a foot fetishist" nah, I just want to make sure that when I look at the center of somethings mass that it looks right, and it doesn't look right I'm going straight down to their support- and sure enough it's not looking right because the legs and feet. There isn't enough of any sort of major hopping or skipping for me to complain about the landing animations- but there is something else.

He clipped the legs in. The first time wasn't that bad- but the second time was... Well you can see it.

The eyes and fur texture are honestly the best thing about her, but that's usually the case with his models. I just wish he learned to texture skin better so it didn't clash so badly with the rest of the character. Noses and the skin inside of ears always look out of place and made of fabric or plastic.

I'd also echo this exact line, except I'd say the ears looks like a piece of leather that's been rubbed on for a few hours.

I legit feel sick watching this. There's too much motion.

Well, since I was watching this I wanted to make sure the velociraptor legs weren't new, so instead lets just appreciate how much Lucy has "improved" from his first motion picture of her full body.

What do some of his fans think of this animation?
*Sips Disney animators tears*

Spoiler: ??NSFW??

 

[heyilikeyourmom]

Spoiler: ??NSFW??

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Yeah that’s pretty sexualized. And that’s really weird for a cat monster thing.

 

[Token Weeaboo]

Yeah that’s pretty sexualized. And that’s really weird for a cat monster thing.

I know I said I didn't think it was full furry earlier in the thread, I'm starting to question it more after this one.

 

[Chamulum]

Spoiler: My lord you guys, the Archive

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The mouth doesn't line up with the lyrics. At all. Not once did I get the sense that Lucy was saying a single word that was coming out of her mouth at any point in that video. The chest expansion makes NO sense. it looked more visually proper the way it was before. Lucy looks like she been working out. The expanded hips? Considering female mammals have wider hips it makes more sense biologically, except I can't decide if he over-did it? I am certain about the chest though. The camera work is an atrocity on its own. The wiggling, wobbling and needless zooms during the chorus gives me feelings of riding a roller coaster. Except I'm in my desk chair and the ride is looking at this hideous chimera and my stomach is sick. (To fix that I watched it again in .5 speed and the lip sync became WORSE)

The teeth look longer? I think they are longer, it may be just the new textures. I'm not sure- what I am sure of is there needle teeth are still a bother- and she's still weightless. There appears to be no sense of balance on Lucy. Watch this at .5 speed when she lifts up her leg. You'll notice just a slight lean back and no real sense that she's shifting herself to compensate for being on one leg. nothing affected by gravity works like that. "uh, @Token Weeaboo are you sure you're not a foot fetishist" nah, I just want to make sure that when I look at the center of somethings mass that it looks right, and it doesn't look right I'm going straight down to their support- and sure enough it's not looking right because the legs and feet. There isn't enough of any sort of major hopping or skipping for me to complain about the landing animations- but there is something else.

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He clipped the legs in. The first time wasn't that bad- but the second time was... Well you can see it.

I'd also echo this exact line, except I'd say the ears looks like a piece of leather that's been rubbed on for a few hours.

I legit feel sick watching this. There's too much motion.

Well, since I was watching this I wanted to make sure the velociraptor legs weren't new, so instead lets just appreciate how much Lucy has "improved" from his first motion picture of her full body.

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What do some of his fans think of this animation?
*Sips Disney animators tears*
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Spoiler: ??NSFW??

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I'll try not to go on with my own animation autism rant but the only thing I thought of when seeing this is the BTS reel of Tangled. Disney has a history of using rl models as animation references so the animation is fluid and makes sense compared to this...mess.

But yeah. He's totally gonna dethrone disney guys.

 

[Big Meaty Claws]

The camera work is an atrocity on its own. The wiggling, wobbling and needless zooms during the chorus gives me feelings of riding a roller coaster. Except I'm in my desk chair and the ride is looking at this hideous chimera and my stomach is sick. (To fix that I watched it again in .5 speed and the lip sync became WORSE)

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who honestly felt so fucking sick with the constant motion, twirling, and camera shifting every fucking 3 seconds, jesus christ, I needed to no joke take a break from it due to my eyes trying to process all the visual blur of a mess

 

[Token Weeaboo]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who honestly felt so fucking sick with the constant motion, twirling, and camera shifting every fucking 3 seconds, jesus christ, I needed to no joke take a break from it due to my eyes trying to process all the visual blur of a mess

I had to watch the damn thing three times to make sure I saw what I saw. I lose my lunch for the great weeaboo critique.
Actually, it's been an hour after I watched it and I'm still feeling queezy. I'm putting a motion sickness warning on the archive spoiler.

 

[Muttnik]

I re-watched all of the series so far. You know, the dialogue is fine. It's snappy and at times can even be quite witty or funny. It's just wasted on asshole characters, jerky uncanny visuals, and a plot that's moving at a snail's pace without any context or explanation.

Part of me wants this to succeed. Not because I want to indulge Sam's stupid edgy ego or points of pretentiousness, but I do enjoy a creepy creature-feature akin to something like The Dark Crystal or Pan's Labyrinth--but with a dark sense of humor. The problem is that it's just everything else that bogs it all down and makes it disappointingly frustrating and exhausting to look at.

 

[Unexpected Genitals]

Like, at a glance it looks fine, but then when you start to really look at it, the motion looks so...fake. A good animator can make even the most surreal of character designs come alive, but there's nothing here apart from a lot of surface-level quick movements. No weight or rhythm.

Edit: Adding onto that, Lucy's face is just going nuts. It's like her lips and eyelids aren't actually attached to any distinct muscle.

 

[heyilikeyourmom]

I re-watched all of the series so far. You know, the dialogue is fine. It's snappy and at times can even be quite witty or funny. It's just wasted on asshole characters, jerky uncanny visuals, and a plot that's moving at a snail's pace without any context or explanation.

See I like a slow burn. My favorite episode of the whole shit is, by far, Slice of Life. I wouldn’t mind more episodes that break down these creatures’ flimsy sense of superiority to reveal how broken and miserable their nature actually makes them.

 

[Vatred]

I re-watched all of the series so far. You know, the dialogue is fine. It's snappy and at times can even be quite witty or funny. It's just wasted on asshole characters, jerky uncanny visuals, and a plot that's moving at a snail's pace without any context or explanation.

Part of me wants this to succeed. Not because I want to indulge Sam's stupid edgy ego or points of pretentiousness, but I do enjoy a creepy creature-feature akin to something like The Dark Crystal or Pan's Labyrinth--but with a dark sense of humor. The problem is that it's just everything else that bogs it all down and makes it disappointingly frustrating and exhausting to look at.

It could be because I'm "exceptional" but I have a hard time understanding what the hell the characters are saying most of the time. Could be the accents or audio mixing or me just not knowing the context. Anyone else?

 

[Token Weeaboo]

It could be because I'm "exceptional" but I have a hard time understanding what the hell the characters are saying most of the time. Could be the accents or audio mixing or me just not knowing the context. Anyone else?

All of the voice actors are contracted, so their audio recordings are slightly different with the echos. If you just listen to the characters without any visuals, I found that to make them a bit easier to understand. As for context, I'm trying to figure that one out still myself.

 

[Meowthkip]

Spoiler: Archive (Warning: Motion sickness)

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The mouth doesn't line up with the lyrics. At all. Not once did I get the sense that Lucy was saying a single word that was coming out of her mouth at any point in that video. The chest expansion makes NO sense. it looked more visually proper the way it was before. Lucy looks like she been working out. The expanded hips? Considering female mammals have wider hips it makes more sense biologically, except I can't decide if he over-did it? I am certain about the chest though. The camera work is an atrocity on its own. The wiggling, wobbling and needless zooms during the chorus gives me feelings of riding a roller coaster. Except I'm in my desk chair and the ride is looking at this hideous chimera and my stomach is sick. (To fix that I watched it again in .5 speed and the lip sync became WORSE)

The teeth look longer? I think they are longer, it may be just the new textures. I'm not sure- what I am sure of is there needle teeth are still a bother- and she's still weightless. There appears to be no sense of balance on Lucy. Watch this at .5 speed when she lifts up her leg. You'll notice just a slight lean back and no real sense that she's shifting herself to compensate for being on one leg. nothing affected by gravity works like that. "uh, @Token Weeaboo are you sure you're not a foot fetishist" nah, I just want to make sure that when I look at the center of somethings mass that it looks right, and it doesn't look right I'm going straight down to their support- and sure enough it's not looking right because the legs and feet. There isn't enough of any sort of major hopping or skipping for me to complain about the landing animations- but there is something else.

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He clipped the legs in. The first time wasn't that bad- but the second time was... Well you can see it.

I'd also echo this exact line, except I'd say the ears looks like a piece of leather that's been rubbed on for a few hours.

I legit feel sick watching this. There's too much motion.

Well, since I was watching this I wanted to make sure the velociraptor legs weren't new, so instead lets just appreciate how much Lucy has "improved" from his first motion picture of her full body.

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What do some of his fans think of this animation?
*Sips Disney animators tears*
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Spoiler: ??NSFW??

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The protruding chest fills me with actual disgust. It looks so unnatural.

Anybody else think the wacky camera angles and zooms are overcompensating for how jank the animation is? Because it seems to work for the children that like his work, since they don't have enough time to register what the fuck they're looking at.

EDIT: Started drinking, decided to close my shitty old sketchbook with some tweaks on Lucy Lacemaker's godawful design. It's not much better but it would at least be less ugly and terrible. Scanner's not working so I had to take this with my phone.

Spoiler: KISS Rule: Keep It Simple, Stupid

 

[Neon]

EDIT: Started drinking, decided to close my shitty old sketchbook with some tweaks on Lucy Lacemaker's godawful design. It's not much better but it would at least be less ugly and terrible. Scanner's not working so I had to take this with my phone.

Spoiler: KISS Rule: Keep It Simple, Stupid

Somehow you made her appealing! I would actually consider watching a series with this version of her in it.

Sat through the Oom Pah Pah video and took some notes.

Spoiler: More bitching about animation principles

- The leg kicks look incredibly unnatural. Joints don't move that way and limbs physically can't snap into the air like that. The one at 0:30 in particular needs more backwards lean from the top half of her body, or something to counterbalance that huge kick.
- The foot closeups are really making me uncomfortable because of how lifeless and stiff the feet are, they look like they've been mummified to a crisp and will snap if they bear any weight. Human hands and feet are full of tiny bones and muscles that provide some degree of movement and bend. Maybe animal feet are different but I can't see them looking that brittle.
- The leg dragging on the ground at 1:08 is completely weightless and frictionless against the bartop. Pesky animation principles!
- What the fuck was that fade transition at 1:20 for, apart from giving her her clothes back? Have her spin around and magically have them back, it's less jarring than that awkward fadeout.

And just for fun since it's something I'm familiar with, here's a performance of the same song from the movie adaption of Oliver!:

Comparing Nancy (the girl in the red dress here) to Lucy made me realize how much Fennah falls down on the performance as well as technical aspects of animation. To quote Chuck Jones, an iconic Looney Tunes animator: an animator is an actor with a pencil. Animation is as much about creating appealing performance as it is getting things technically correct.
Did you get bored during the Lucy video? I did, because once my eyes got used to the jarring animation there was no development or escalation to what I was seeing onscreen. Lucy comes on screen with all of her movement turned up to 11 and there's no room to add anything else to keep the viewer's interest. Even holding back on the crazy camera work and high leg kicks until the last 30 seconds would artificially improve that lack of interest, because it would be something new for the brain to take in.
Just skipping through the Nancy version you can see a continuing escalation throughout the scene in her expressions, her movement speed, her dancing. On the most basic level of choreography, check out 1:08-1:26; she stands still and merely acts with her face during the first half of the verse, gets more animated in the second half ("secretly he'd buy it and drink it on the quiet..."), and then transitions to full movement and dances when the chorus hits. This holds true for the rest of the song, but the amount of movement/intensity is upped each time. (ETA: I just remembered that the choreographer of Oliver! won a very rare honorary Oscar specifically for her work on this movie.)
It's interesting and satisfying to watch in a way that Lucy isn't. I know he struggles with basic walk cycles so Nancy's dance moves are far beyond his abilities right now, but learning to show restraint and gradually dial things up during dramatic moments would fix a lot of the issues people have with his animation.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Spoiler: Archive (Warning: Motion sickness)

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The mouth doesn't line up with the lyrics. At all. Not once did I get the sense that Lucy was saying a single word that was coming out of her mouth at any point in that video. The chest expansion makes NO sense. it looked more visually proper the way it was before. Lucy looks like she been working out. The expanded hips? Considering female mammals have wider hips it makes more sense biologically, except I can't decide if he over-did it? I am certain about the chest though. The camera work is an atrocity on its own. The wiggling, wobbling and needless zooms during the chorus gives me feelings of riding a roller coaster. Except I'm in my desk chair and the ride is looking at this hideous chimera and my stomach is sick. (To fix that I watched it again in .5 speed and the lip sync became WORSE)

The teeth look longer? I think they are longer, it may be just the new textures. I'm not sure- what I am sure of is there needle teeth are still a bother- and she's still weightless. There appears to be no sense of balance on Lucy. Watch this at .5 speed when she lifts up her leg. You'll notice just a slight lean back and no real sense that she's shifting herself to compensate for being on one leg. nothing affected by gravity works like that. "uh, @Token Weeaboo are you sure you're not a foot fetishist" nah, I just want to make sure that when I look at the center of somethings mass that it looks right, and it doesn't look right I'm going straight down to their support- and sure enough it's not looking right because the legs and feet. There isn't enough of any sort of major hopping or skipping for me to complain about the landing animations- but there is something else.

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He clipped the legs in. The first time wasn't that bad- but the second time was... Well you can see it.

I'd also echo this exact line, except I'd say the ears looks like a piece of leather that's been rubbed on for a few hours.

I legit feel sick watching this. There's too much motion.

Well, since I was watching this I wanted to make sure the velociraptor legs weren't new, so instead lets just appreciate how much Lucy has "improved" from his first motion picture of her full body.

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What do some of his fans think of this animation?
*Sips Disney animators tears*
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Spoiler: ??NSFW??

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I saw the video and honestly this is autistic but that song doesn't work because the song in the original works visually with a crowd to give a sense of community while this is just some dumb poorly animated furry dancing like shit in front of a boring background instead of a more extravagant musical number like in Oliver.

 

[JambledUpWords]

I’m about halfway through watching season one of Satellite City. I have no idea what’s going on. All I know is that weird character who always sits in the chair is mad about the other furries interacting with humans. The head furry seems to be a “god” of some sort.

Fenneh probably made it up as he went along, and most likely didn’t bother drafting the scripts a few times. The Room by Tommy Wiseau has a more coherent story line. Even if his animation was good, his story telling is crap.

 

[Token Weeaboo]

I've taken the liberty and made a MEGA file of his channel. There are two folders in there for the cannon seasons of Satellite city. The rest is just how the system organized it. If I can find a way to organize it by date uploaded I will do that in the near future.

MEGA

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[heyilikeyourmom]

Fenneh probably made it up as he went along,

He’s got the lore written out on an online database. The necessary info is in the show, but it’s doled out gradually and mostly through subtext, so if you’re not invested enough to pay close attention, it’s not gonna come through.

 

[Zhoban]

Somehow you made her appealing! I would actually consider watching a series with this version of her in it.

Sat through the Oom Pah Pah video and took some notes.

Spoiler: More bitching about animation principles

- The leg kicks look incredibly unnatural. Joints don't move that way and limbs physically can't snap into the air like that. The one at 0:30 in particular needs more backwards lean from the top half of her body, or something to counterbalance that huge kick.
- The foot closeups are really making me uncomfortable because of how lifeless and stiff the feet are, they look like they've been mummified to a crisp and will snap if they bear any weight. Human hands and feet are full of tiny bones and muscles that provide some degree of movement and bend. Maybe animal feet are different but I can't see them looking that brittle.
- The leg dragging on the ground at 1:08 is completely weightless and frictionless against the bartop. Pesky animation principles!
- What the fuck was that fade transition at 1:20 for, apart from giving her her clothes back? Have her spin around and magically have them back, it's less jarring than that awkward fadeout.

And just for fun since it's something I'm familiar with, here's a performance of the same song from the movie adaption of Oliver!:

Comparing Nancy (the girl in the red dress here) to Lucy made me realize how much Fennah falls down on the performance as well as technical aspects of animation. To quote Chuck Jones, an iconic Looney Tunes animator: an animator is an actor with a pencil. Animation is as much about creating appealing performance as it is getting things technically correct.
Did you get bored during the Lucy video? I did, because once my eyes got used to the jarring animation there was no development or escalation to what I was seeing onscreen. Lucy comes on screen with all of her movement turned up to 11 and there's no room to add anything else to keep the viewer's interest. Even holding back on the crazy camera work and high leg kicks until the last 30 seconds would artificially improve that lack of interest, because it would be something new for the brain to take in.
Just skipping through the Nancy version you can see a continuing escalation throughout the scene in her expressions, her movement speed, her dancing. On the most basic level of choreography, check out 1:08-1:26; she stands still and merely acts with her face during the first half of the verse, gets more animated in the second half ("secretly he'd buy it and drink it on the quiet..."), and then transitions to full movement and dances when the chorus hits. This holds true for the rest of the song, but the amount of movement/intensity is upped each time. (ETA: I just remembered that the choreographer of Oliver! won a very rare honorary Oscar specifically for her work on this movie.)
It's interesting and satisfying to watch in a way that Lucy isn't. I know he struggles with basic walk cycles so Nancy's dance moves are far beyond his abilities right now, but learning to show restraint and gradually dial things up during dramatic moments would fix a lot of the issues people have with his animation.

Oliver! is a childhood favorite of mine. The context of the scene is that Nancy gives it her all to rile up the pub, so there's enough commotion that she can sneak Oliver out and to his grandfather, to get him out of the clutches of her abusive, thieving boyfriend, Bill Sikes. It works until his dog alerts him to them fleeing and he ends it all by bludgeoning her to death with his cane.

I fail to see how someone can see this admittedly nerve-racking scene and have their first thought be, "Fuck, I want to see my sexy cat monster bounce around and slap her belly to this."

 

[Neon]

Oliver! is a childhood favorite of mine. The context of the scene is that Nancy gives it her all to rile up the pub, so there's enough commotion that she can sneak Oliver out and to his grandfather, to get him out of the clutches of her abusive, thieving boyfriend, Bill Sikes. It works until his dog alerts him to them fleeing and he ends it all by bludgeoning her to death with his cane.

I fail to see how someone can see this admittedly nerve-racking scene and have their first thought be, "Fuck, I want to see my sexy cat monster bounce around and slap her belly to this."

The only reason I didn't bring that point up in my post was that apparently in the stage show, which is the version Fennah picked, Oom-Pah-Pah appears much earlier in the story and is almost like a reprise of "It's A Fine Life" (a still bittersweet but cheerier song). I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that perhaps he wasn't aware that in the movie version, Nancy gets brutally murdered in front of a child in the next scene, but who knows

 

[glass_houses]

The only reason I didn't bring that point up in my post was that apparently in the stage show, which is the version Fennah picked, Oom-Pah-Pah appears much earlier in the story and is almost like a reprise of "It's A Fine Life" (a still bittersweet but cheerier song). I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that perhaps he wasn't aware that in the movie version, Nancy gets brutally murdered in front of a child in the next scene, but who knows

With his kinks, I daresay it's a given.