heavycream
kiwifarms.net
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- Nov 18, 2018
The ghosting is pretty bad on the original too.He tweeted a new pinned animation today.
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Since I'm bored, I decided to "analyze" and critique it.
Pros:
+ For starters, his animation skills did seem to improve, like I said earlier. It no longer looks choppy as it was months earlier, rather like one of those Garry's Mod animations from early 2010s.
+ His camera work also seems to be getting better
Cons:
- For some reason, he rendered it as a GIF. I'm not sure why, perhaps Twitter doesn't support large files. GIF is absolutely horrendous for anything other than drawn animations, so obviously the result will look bad if it's a video with a rich color palette.
- He still hasn't learned how to disable resampling in Vegas. You can see that the video suffers from extreme ghosting effect issues (I've been there myself many times, often times I even had to re-render the entire video).
- This word diarrhea makes it extremely hard to make out the message he's trying to convey.
Not exactly a criticism, but Red's backpack is missing while Leaf still has her bag intact. What's up with that?
In conclusion, it does confirm that PL is capable of learning and growing if he wasn't so stubborn, which has been said numerous times. From my personal notes, I don't work with MMD, but from what I've seen, it's possible to make decent animations in it. As an animation software itself, however, it looks rather lacking: you have to download tons of filters to make your picture look decent, I don't think it supports any modern texture maps such as Bump, Specular, Roughness, etc. If you're familiar with it, feel free to dispute my criticisms and/or add any of your own. I worked in SFM and the aforementioned GMod which offer much more liberty for animation. Maybe PL will try learning Blender later on? Not sure if his PC would be able to handle Cycles or Eevee though, as he hasn't ever posted his specs anywhere.
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