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

[AngryTreeRat]

Oh my gosh this looks so bad. When I first saw this, I thought it was a really old design Sam had made during his Bionicle era of animation and then I realized that this was recent and I just... it's not good at all. What I think the problem is the quality just tanks, compared to Sam's own character designs- the commissions look fake and rushed. The fact that people willingly pay him 300$ for this and then are actually satisfied the finished product will forever confuse me. Again, the skin looks like latex but idk if that's intentional or not and of course they just had to add those painful looking sexual poses. He literally puts almost no effort into his commissions and you can tell the difference from the quality, or maybe he doesn't have time to actually put in effort because he's juggling so many jobs at once. It's like he's on a time crunch with everything he does, I guess doing things consistently is just difficult for him.

It's worth noting, the design isn't his. He just made the model. They also, based on what I've seen, selected the poses themselves. Also, assuming he's like most people doing commissions, he likely checked in with them at multiple points throughout the process. So the latex is likely intentional. That leaves the fact that I can see some model stretch on that thing and the texture work is poor. I believe he also provides the file for the model itself to those paying for these (that's the real valuable thing from a 3D commission, as you could rig that into, for example, VR chat if you want) so if someone could acquire it we could assess the quality first hand for how we made it is on a technical level, and if it's even usable for the average person.

 

[Eurasian Lynx]

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That face

 

[Draaq]

It's worth noting, the design isn't his. He just made the model. They also, based on what I've seen, selected the poses themselves. Also, assuming he's like most people doing commissions, he likely checked in with them at multiple points throughout the process. So the latex is likely intentional. That leaves the fact that I can see some model stretch on that thing and the texture work is poor. I believe he also provides the file for the model itself to those paying for these (that's the real valuable thing from a 3D commission, as you could rig that into, for example, VR chat if you want) so if someone could acquire it we could assess the quality first hand for how we made it is on a technical level, and if it's even usable for the average person.

I don't know, but he doesn't state that he gives the 3D model, just the 5 pictures (or animation clip), and if you look around so far, nobody seems to own the file of the model. And I think that is the case that you only pay for the rendered shots, else guess people would have posted more rendered poses of their characters, even animations, and he would state it in the commission info that he gives the file.

Also the texture is straight out the Glossy Shader in Blender with chosen colour red. The texture took literally zero effort, I know it from learning Blender.

 

[bowow]

Now, i am no modeler, but is it THAT difficult to create some decent fucking claws? I don't understand why loves adding them so much when he can't even attach them to paws/fingers correctly
Is it because of his autism with references that everything looks like it was drawn by a 15 year old DA user who thinks that looking at pictures of real things is cheating?

 

[Draaq]

Now, i am no modeler, but is it THAT difficult to create some decent fucking claws? I don't understand why loves adding them so much when he can't even attach them to paws/fingers correctly
Is it because of his autism with references that everything looks like it was drawn by a 15 year old DA user who thinks that looking at pictures of real things is cheating?
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The last finger on the left/thumb scares me most. Idk but he has always had something with making hands, fingers and feet look terrible.
In the Celia animatic she picks up that chemical thing also really weirdly up, but it’s Sam so I won’t question it

Also, happy 100 page anniversary for this thread

 

[Big Meaty Claws]

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The first one looks pretty fine to me, but the red one uhhh really ugly. The skin looks like that fake leather you have on very smooth couches plus really glossy, can’t look at it, it looks so shit

Imagine dumping 300+ bucks into these models, when these could easily sell for less than 100 by another modeler

If I was these people i'd be upset.

 

[dirty finger]

That face

 

[Big Meaty Claws]

Looks like we finally get to hear what Celia Sounds like

 

[Draaq]

The last part where she is lying and the chest and her stomach. The jiggling puts me so very off, other than that I think it is like a Fennah animation overall. Didn’t expect such a voice though, but that’s the creators choice. Fits still good enough.

More excited for the next one, Winifred, as I’m not personally much into Celia. Maybe that will change with the book, but for now what I’ve seen I didn’t care for much.

Looks like we finally get to hear what Celia Sounds like

 

[JustMeLol2021]

The last part where she is lying and the chest and her stomach. The jiggling puts me so very off, other than that I think it is like a Fennah animation overall. Didn’t expect such a voice though, but that’s the creators choice. Fits still good enough.

More excited for the next one, Winifred, as I’m not personally much into Celia. Maybe that will change with the book, but for now what I’ve seen I didn’t care for much.

This voice isn't the best imo, not what I was expecting at all. Doesn't sound intimidating, was expecting it to be more deep and threatening. Just sounds like a low effort Harley Quinn knockoff, or an edgy teenager trying to be "deep" lol. All I can think about is the phrase "IT'S NOT A PHASE, THIS IS WHO I REALLY AM" what even was that ending... the weird jiggle physics have made a comeback I see.

 

[JustMeLol2021]

The last part where she is lying and the chest and her stomach. The jiggling puts me so very off, other than that I think it is like a Fennah animation overall. Didn’t expect such a voice though, but that’s the creators choice. Fits still good enough.

More excited for the next one, Winifred, as I’m not personally much into Celia. Maybe that will change with the book, but for now what I’ve seen I didn’t care for much.

So when I first watched this, I was very skeptical. Then I realized that maybe just maybe... it's not that bad...? I mean sure the jiggle physics are distracting as hell, but other than that I think the voice acting was pretty decent. The Winifred voice test is gonna be interesting to say the least, I'm curious how that one will work out.

 

[SquidQuid]

Yeah, this isn't too bad. I will say, I do really enjoy the Narrator's voice than the animations when I watch these.
Stuff Fennah could put more learning into is the dreadlocks and calming down the jiggling, but this is definitely an improvement. Hard to compare to a lot of his older recent stuff that are music videos because of the manic camera work, but he's getting there.

Still don't like seeing him peddle those atrocious pins. The least he could do is reach out to those that have obvious defects (regardless of how positive the receivers are) and replace them. It's a terrible look

 

[Fluffiesaur]

The last part where she is lying and the chest and her stomach. The jiggling puts me so very off, other than that I think it is like a Fennah animation overall. Didn’t expect such a voice though, but that’s the creators choice. Fits still good enough.

More excited for the next one, Winifred, as I’m not personally much into Celia. Maybe that will change with the book, but for now what I’ve seen I didn’t care for much.

Well, it's slowly getting on the right track. I like the voice, it matches the character very well and the narrator makes it excellent.
The physics still leaves something to be desired, but at least it's not non-existent, it looks better than in past animations.

Now, I hope that if Sam deigns to finish Locket's musical animation (because it's been months without any progress) at least he can show some of this improvement.

 

[Draaq]

Well, it's slowly getting on the right track. I like the voice, it matches the character very well and the narrator makes it excellent.
The physics still leaves something to be desired, but at least it's not non-existent, it looks better than in past animations.

Now, I hope that if Sam deigns to finish Locket's musical animation (because it's been months without any progress) at least he can show some of this improvement.

He wanted to redo her clothing first which I support, as her outfit right now looks quite plain and simple.
I’m more concerned about the “I did start it” back then as an answer in the comments. He wanted to add background/environment stuff to the animation test so if it comes out and was worth the wait then I’ll forget every coming soon he said.

I hope he improved then on Locket as much as on Celia, and definitely looking forward to the Winifred voice test - I know that his mom is going to speak her as she was casted for Winifred on the First Night.
I’ve also been thinking, he promised a model turnaround of Winifred some time ago but nothing happened so maybe he forgot it…?

 

[Sparkly Bubbles]

That actually reminds me- The new narrator is really good and obviously has some experience. But what do you think happened to the original narrator? The one who also voiced Ludwig. (Can't remember his name, sorry.) Do you think he dipped out like Halie did or do you think Fennah just decided to get a more experienced narrator so the voice actor wasn't voicing everything? (Since I recall that the voice actor ludwig had a LOT of parts. Ludwig, Yeshua, Shuck, etc)

 

[Draaq]

That actually reminds me- The new narrator is really good and obviously has some experience. But what do you think happened to the original narrator? The one who also voiced Ludwig. (Can't remember his name, sorry.) Do you think he dipped out like Halie did or do you think Fennah just decided to get a more experienced narrator so the voice actor wasn't voicing everything? (Since I recall that the voice actor ludwig had a LOT of parts. Ludwig, Yeshua, Shuck, etc)

Yeah, was wondering too why the Celia Animatic was suddenly voiced by someone else… maybe he didn’t want to anymore or Fennah wanted someone else. He never gives explanation for anything which always annoyed me.
I recently found out not only Luna won’t appear in the book, but also Dorothy won’t. He never mentioned that either until someone asked.

 

[SquidQuid]

Angela, the voice of Ludwig, Shuck, Fleisher, that hands guy, left for creative differences and toxic community. There were a few other behind the scenes things.
Dorothy's creator left for similar reasons and after she left (and Halie), Sam stopped taking OC requests and decided to remove almost, if not, all of them

 

[Sparkly Bubbles]

Angela, the voice of Ludwig, Shuck, Fleisher, that hands guy, left for creative differences and toxic community. There were a few other behind the scenes things.
Dorothy's creator left for similar reasons and after she left (and Halie), Sam stopped taking OC requests and decided to remove almost, if not, all of them

I suppose the only one left is the one who owns Mystique. I'm pretty sure Mystique is in the book because I remember the artist drew something inspired by a paragraph Sam gave her. I guess Mystique is an alright character, but it's a shame some of the other characters were taken out, (like Luna) since a few of them were pretty interesting- at least to me.

 

[Draaq]

I suppose the only one left is the one who owns Mystique. I'm pretty sure Mystique is in the book because I remember the artist drew something inspired by a paragraph Sam gave her. I guess Mystique is an alright character, but it's a shame some of the other characters were taken out, (like Luna) since a few of them were pretty interesting- at least to me.

Wasn't Quinn an OC too? And the Demon Lady we've seen in the bushy-naked sketch artwork wasn't she too...?
I'll miss Dorothy most. Maybe the other people gave their OCs to Sam and didn't care much, I don't know how other they'd appear in a copyrighted/R book. After all they could say after three books "Oh you know goodbye" and what'd he do?

 

[Sparkly Bubbles]

Wasn't Quinn an OC too? And the Demon Lady we've seen in the bushy-naked sketch artwork wasn't she too...?
I'll miss Dorothy most. Maybe the other people gave their OCs to Sam and didn't care much, I don't know how other they'd appear in a copyrighted/R book. After all they could say after three books "Oh you know goodbye" and what'd he do?

I'm pretty sure Quinn was made by Fennah, and I think we'll be seeing him when to book comes out. Not too sure, though.

As for Dorothy, I actually checked the artist's furafinity page and saw that she had removed every drawing of Dorothy on there. Maybe she got rid of Dorothy after deciding to not accociate with Sam anymore or maybe she sold her? Who knows, I'm not sure if the artist gave any details about it, and I doubt we'd be getting any.