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[Project Beetle Tower: Mega Buster]

That's pretty badass. Big fan of the Gundam sound effects, and I love the reflectivity on the Buster. The shading on the gloved hand.

I wanna see how you stylize a full-bodied X. Let's see him in action!

And if this is during Dr. Light's lifetime, are we gonna see OG Mega Man? What about Proto Man and Bass? Lots to work with, I'm excited to see where this is gonna go.

drluigi3760 responds:

I'm happy to be hear that. More teasers will come along the way.

[Issah's Adventure Intro (Ep3+) (Old)]

It's an unintuitive layout to have the whole of the stage available to introduce these characters...and their bodies and their names, the only two relevant details in this entire intro, are completely opposite corners from each other. They are as far apart as its possible to make them.

So even though you don't have them animated in anything other than a wobble, the audience's eyes would have to dart back and forth just to check "Oh this character? Their name is this. This name? Oh it's that character" and it's made all the more exhausting, because there's a fucking shit-ton of them. There's like thirty of them. Forty? There's a lot of 'em. I don't even remember their names, I think one of them was called Saturn.

You don't give us a break, the Pokerap role call isn't even disrupted with a few of these characters interacting. I know nothing about these guys, and this told me nothing, other than there's a platoon of them.

[Bizarre Breach]

Is that the shrimp from Smiling Friends on the right?

Irish-John101 responds:

It is, a guy we play with uses it as his profile pic

[Scared Lanolin the Sheep Animation (Unfinished)]

"Afraid it would look bad once it is finished?"

I mean, that's a self-fulfilling prophecy as much as it is self-defeating.

You gotta embrace the idea that everything that we're trying out when we're inexperienced at it is gonna suck.

And the tragic part is in what you have worked on in this loop, it demonstrates a lot of complex understanding for what's needed in a full-bodied character's acting. You got turns with this big cartoon head and her hair, and where her arms are going in relation to how her hands are clutched together, what her legs are doing to emphasize her emotional state. All that stuff is really good.

But then you can also detect where it just fizzles out and you stop caring a mere ten frames into it. You didn't give it a chance to look bad once it finished, but you also didn't give it a chance to look good either.

It's your second movie submission. Even if you wanted to bail on doing this because it's a copyright protected character, you could've completed the action, and then chalked that up to experience from the practice of doing something like this. That way, the next time you're animating a character acting, it isn't the first time you're doing it. It's the second or fifth or tenth time you've done it, and it'll look that much better for it.

More telling than all of this, though, is the attitude displayed in your blurb. "It will come. Whenever." Implies you're just going through the motions, and you're not even that stoked about it.

Begs to question why are you doing this? Perhaps you need to find your why again. Get back in touch with your inspiration, and see it through to completion. You had your "why" when you started, because you saw this character being oversaturated with porn, and you wanted to do some acting with her that was for everyone. I get that, and that's a good "why" for practice. But you didn't give yourself the opportunity to practice...and something deflated your reason for this project midway through.

It's okay if it sucks. My first animation sucked. The "first animation" I posted was the one experiment I made that didn't suck enough to hide. I tried stuff out that I hadn't done before, stepped outside of my comfort zone. And I think you'd really benefit from doing the same.

My only other critique in this is to watch her feet- her stance scoots forward without her legs actually picking up to step forward; at this stage that would be an easy fix, just altering a some lines in certain frames to make it seem like intentional movement forward. She could be stepping as her bodyweight shifts from side to side as she glances around.

I encourage you to keep going. Try to abstain from posting works in progress, and achieve that victory lap from completing something. Even if it has problems. You can't take your twentieth step without taking your third and fourth.

ZoronB164 responds:

Thank you for your comment. I could of finished it. And others wanted me to finish it as well. I had other amateur-ish animations that I worked on. Knowing how the body moves and flows. And how I wanted the animations to look as well. But I shouldn’t feel so pity about this work I did. I did like how the sketch animation looked. I probably can’t work on it again. But am thinking of animating another one. If I have good video references for the animation. And not to give up on that either.

[Steve-It or Leave It - Ep4- Therapy]

Are these all AI voices? If you ever need a voice actor, I'd be down to collab- just ask. I'm getting my mug out there, lemme know.

Other than that, this is definitely a cartoon. I liked the lip-sync animation and everything looks clean. Grand Jorb!

[take a sip.]

Try to keep your camera as still and stable as possible in the future, but this looks great! I love the implementation of an animated face over the stop-motion footage. Keep up the great work!

[WHERE'D THE CHEESE GO..?]

This was adorable, I love these guys now.

[WIP Lively Meditation Rough Animation Keyfreames]

You run a risk posting these WIP's, because your brain is gonna get that endorphin kick from showing a half-completed piece of work. That'll lead to burnout, and unfinished projects. I know, because I've flatly canceled projects that I spent months working on, because I kept showing unfinished stuff to friends and family and they were all praises "Wow, that looks really cool! You should finish it!" And I was like "I know right?" Got the endorphin kick from the praise, and shelved it.

How much time, daily, do you spend on this character's hair animation?

It looks great as it is! But you and I both know there's still a lot of work to be done. So how is that budgeted in your schedule?

In the time spent exporting this, could you have finalized a couple of frames?

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This doesn't look significantly different from the one you posted last month. You've just added more to the scope of your project that you still need to color and in-between and tidy-up.

Try to abstain from posting more WIPS, and try instead to get that endorphin kick from the finished product.

It looks skillfully done, but WIPS are easy. Completion is hard. Completion is the most skillful thing you could do. Strive for completion, you got this!

BlackUniGryphon responds:

So, I guess that's an interesting perspective you have there, so thanks for that.

But perhaps its more of a case of that in your life experience of doing stuff, and motives, you experience it as this endorphin kick thing. But, for my personally, art isn't about endorphin kicks. Its something u just gotta do, otherwise u can;t live with yourself... or at least in my personal experience as myself.

If I want/need an endorphin kick, I can just go do a T5 Legendary Raid in Pokemon Go during Raid Hour w my neighbors & friends, or play Community Day n catch Shiny Pokemon.

I'm trained OLD SCHOOL from the 20th century, and I learned to animate the way Disney Animators did ON PAPER, which was how I did it for several years. When u animate TRADITIONALLY on PAPER with PENCILS u constantly NEED TO, and ARE REQUIRED TO, do a Pencil Test which was shot on a VHS Penciltest machine. N this could be done dozens upon dozens of time.

I was trained FOR QUALITY and NOT QUANTITY because in the 90s it was an Animation Renaissance. I went to college for all the reasons an aspiring artist back then was supposed to do, but when I graduated in 2001 EVERYTHING GOT OUTSOURCED and they would ONLY HIRE MEN, and they would NOT hire you if you had skills better than themselves because they FEARED u would take their jobs. There were VERY NASTY THINGS SAID TO ME, and even Disney would harass me (long screwed up story) to work for them FOR NOTHING and legally sign over ALL OF MIGHT RIGHTS TO THEM, but I refused to do that. I was told that the reason I wouldn't get hired was because they wanted to watch porn at work, and having me THERE would make them "feel uncomfortable" (because they were all men). This was told to me repeatedly, because I knew folks whom worked in the big animation studios in Burbank back then, as well as NYC, and many other studios everywhere long before everything got outsourced overseas.

Honestly, I just post the videos, and there's a process of review, and I'm doing so many other things simultaneously. I have a bad spine, and I don't have a job. I just spent nearly a month visiting with my parents down South, and just before THAT I did Hoenn Tour/Go [Pokemon Go] Tour which was exhausting & BELOW FREEZING, so I have no idea what happened once I posted my video.
So, there's no motives of endorphins on my part.

Also my shortfilm, which won a lot of award at so many Film festivals that my email kept getting flooded for over a year for requests to screen my film became such a nuisance, that it was like hoards of scouts hounding me on social media, and due to contract stuff w the festivals, I couldn't submit my film to FilmHUB until the end of the year.... then THAT was a load of work, plus I had to help my filmmaker friends with THEIR film stuff on IMDb since I had to learn ALL OF THAT, and since I knew it by then I had to help out, since I'm too nice, n most people r lazy, and want INSTANT GRATIFICATION.

I don't care about whether people like it or not. I usually get hate comments, trolls, and bullying children whom pretend they are adults and publish very badly drawn porn on their profiles, and demand I like EVERY SINGLE sick twisted porn pic as tho they're SO ORIGINAL, and how dare I NOT WORSHIP THEM??? because libido and FAME is ALL that matters... so whatever.

My art has nothing to do with the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of others, and even if people hate it, that doesn't mean I must discontinue making my art.

I'm NOT interested in fame, fortune, or praise. Because if that's what I wanted, I would just be a liar and ONLY making art to appease others, while lying and being a fraud not just to them but myself.

If people don't respect me, then I can't make them. If people don't love me, I can't force them to. And even if you COULD force people to do that it would NOT be because they love or respect you, its because YOU FORCED THEM TO. Then it wouldn't be genuine, and I have no interested in that.

You don't seem to be trying to give me guff, so I hope I'm not coming off like I'm biting ur head off. But fame is NOT everything. I was pretty famous in the 2000s and I NEVER want to go through THAT HELL ever again. The kinds of leaches, and stalkers, and terrorists, and horribly bad stuff done to me, my daughter, my husband, my neighbors, and even my computers.

Girls (plural) demanding attention 24/7 while holding themselves hostage that if u DON'T DO IT they will suicide. And VERY CREEPY MEN telling me WHAT THEY WANT TO DO TO ME just because they liked my art, or my photography, or the look of my face, hands, or breasts. Or people that are well established in the industry but want me to be their side piece, and tell me elaborate stories about past lives, and fate & destiny (not just 1 guy, but its like a thing many do, like some pick-up-line thing they think THEY INVENTED) EVEN THO I AM MARRIED.

The point of doing art is TO DO IT.
The point of listening to music is to do it. You don;t just play the song and then skip all the way to the ending.
The point of doing yoga, or meditation, or whatever is NOT getting some other thing out of it, its to do it. You don't do yoga or meditation JUST because u want some benefit.
YOU JUST DO IT.

Honestly, the bulk of my time lately, if its not my local Pokemon Go Community which I get so much value out of, it usually my research & philosophy.

I don't want to be stuck in this life, in this world, but I'm trapped here. We're ALL TRAPPED HERE, and it wants u to suffer, and farm your suffering, like The Matrix, or Plato's cave. N even if u r lucky enough to finally die for an instant, it shoves you back into this prison of so many layers of deception.

So, I only have half of my life left to live, and this time I want to actually try to find the exit out, so I don't have to be reborn again into this THING. I think I was VERY CLOSE to actually getting out of this prison the last time, and even if whatever I have to contribute to the other researcher philosophers helps others after me, then so be it. But I REALLY DO NOT EVER WANT TO BE REBORN because THIS IS NOT BASE REALITY.
-and I SAW IT. (even the math shows it)

This is NOT the real world, and its INSANE on the daily, now.

Anyways, I'm sorry if I come off the wrong way. I'm NOT angry with you. And, I'm sorry if I rubbed u the wrong way.

You can say whatever u wish. I'm NOT Anti-Free Speech, so I respect your free will.

My impression is that u meant well from your perspectives, so I thank you for taking the time to express it. And I do appreciate the gesture.

[1,000,000 Subscribers on YouTube]

Congratulations, Mike! This is momentum onto the next big milestone, just stay on it! And remember- you are not alone! You got a helluva support system at your wingtips!

U R Number 1!

[W]

N is for Nightmare
Or potentially to Never Sleep At The Wheel.

Also HOLY CRUD, FINALE TRILOGY AHOY!