"photorealistic animated series"

[My Fault]

The characters look good until they move or speak, then things fall apart.

Nice environments though!

[wedge]

photorealistic? ummm... i wonder if we saw the same trailer... in my opinoin, neither the environments nor the characters were believable, moving or still.

[pomme]

well seeing that they're on a low budget, it's forgiveable. Go to soulpix's website check out some of the characters, I would watch the show if it showed where I live, sure beats Max Steele and Action Man. I think a mistake was made by advertising it as photoreal, you're just asking for it when you do that. If it was shown in the Gallery/Finished Work/WIP section, everyone would say "wow amazing great work show me the wireframe" heheh

[Kabab]

I really don't see the point of making a photo relistic serries why not just use a real camera :) and use the cg for the bits you can't do in reailty.

If your going to go to the effort of a CG serries i personally think it should be stylised.

But i can appericate the effort behind it and i hope it does well but thats just my 2 cents...

[Christian Mir]

Hi folks,

Here go my two cents:

I think that for a tv series and its low budget (compared to film work) the guys at Soulpix have been doing very close if not the best in industry.

I can´t remember a tv series which features that quality level on environments and characters.

Hopefully they release an english version as can´t understand a single word in german.

Excellent work.



:applause: :applause: :applause:

[digital_rhino]

I have to agree with Kabab. Everyone seems to try to create CG characters that would be "mistaken" for real folks. That may never happen...and even if it does, they're still not going to act as well as their real life counterparts. Stick with stylized animations...i think it looks a lot better.

[spm]

looks like hand animated stuff... but if its mo-capped it really sux.

[holosynthetic]

one thing i think it really needed was for the guy to freakin blink...thats the one thing that irritated me the most...everyone blinks..he didn't once

[JohnD]

I also agree with Kabab. I never really got the whole "phtorealistic" scene. Seems like a waste. Why not just use the real thing? I'm much more interested in the "Shreks" of the world then say...the "Aki Ross's". I just don't get it..:shrug:

[Mangaka604]

Looked at some pics...horrible posing. Fay's hands looked like she got electrocuted or something. No bends whatsoever...

[markdc]

The facial expressions and all around animation needs a lot of work. :thumbsdow

[monotypic]

considering this is for a tv series i think its darned good.
too bad their advertising it as "photoreal"
sorta lost respect for it as soon as you see the characters.

maybe they shoulda said..
" presents a photorealistic ski cap."
cause i dont' see how ANY of that is supposed to be photoreal.

*shudders*... oh god.. the wind blowing that cape thing is KILLING me.

i agree with Christian Mir though... it is right up there with the rest of tv 3danimation.
oh well... if this manages to get translated into english... i'd watch it... ^_^

[holosynthetic]

one thing i never see anyone say about 3d animations trying to go for the photoreal look is that perhaps the company / individuals making the series didn't have the sources to purchase sets...pay actors (good actors at that)..pay for extras....items on the set...the equipment to record the actors, that actually has a nice quality to it, face it, the stuff is expensive to buy, making something on the computer as photoreal as they can, can sometimes be alot cheaper..and have that extra "look at the talent..." thing going on...

personally i think people trying to go more photoreal is pushing 3d in the right direction, only making 3d better in the future, i am tired and bored of animated cartoons

[stephen2002]

Not quite photoreal, but certainly better than the exisiting 3D animated TV shows.

And I thought MaxSteel did a pretty good job in some places, but then again I might think differently now, it has been a while since I saw it last.

[My Fault]

Originally posted by stephen2002
And I thought MaxSteel did a pretty good job in some places, but then again I might think differently now, it has been a while since I saw it last.

No offense to the people that worked on Max Steel, but that show was horrid! I was flipping around the other day and ran across it and could not get over how ugly the show was. The lighting really stood out as particularly bad. I'm sure given more time to complete a show it would have improved greatly but the end result was one of the worst cgi shows ever....IMHO that is.

[smellovision]

Yeah, I really didn't think that much of this. I agree that the models look great, but if your going to have a tv show, focus on animation not models.

coop

[The Magic Pen]

Hmm should'nt claim to be photo real when they can't even match the quality made by 5 year old technology by Sqauresoft for final fantasy the movie .

[hdri]

it would have been better if they spend the time, money and effort in animation and staging, instead of waisting it on render, render, render.
i appreciate the effort of those guys. Maybe the problem is that the producer has not very clear preferences.

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