Sacred Town

[d4rk3lf]

All right... what's wrong?
Not even one comment in the 3 days, neither here, neither on threedy.

Is this animation so crap? :(

[imamog]

Hey d4rk3lf,

Here are some observations after watching your piece a few times: 1) The lighting and texturing look great ... that courtyard seems really peaceful, 2) The ferns on the stairs need pots or something to grow out of, 3) The camera bounce while the character is walking is a little floaty ... maybe try having the camera fall a touch faster than it rises, 4) I really want one of those ice-shooting spears, 5) When the spear shoots out it's ice blasts, it might look better if the ice blast originated from inside the prongs of the spear, illuminating the end of the spear in the process, 6) The birds/bats in the sky would look better if they were stretched out a little as a group -- you need a couple of them to create a clear silhouette against the sky to be able to tell what they are, 7) The courtyard overall looks very symmetrical -- it might look a little better if this was broken up some.

All of these are pretty minor, though. Overall, I think it's off to a great start. I really like the music.

Good Luck.

[d4rk3lf]

Thanks a lot imamog (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=1826) vbmenu_register("postmenu_4451963", true); :)

Now I am thinking to try again, actualy to model the whole bunch of stuf for the enviorontment, to improve the lighning, and to animate better whole scene again.

[imamog]

Do you mean lighting, or lightning? Because the lighting looks fine from what I can tell, but I guess there's always room for improvement. Modeling some rubble, more plant life, a couple of architectural elements, etc. would definitely break up the symmetry in the courtyard. In my opinion, you don't need to animate the whole scene over, just tweak what you already have.

Have you considered adding arms in the foreground to hold the spear, grab things, swat bats, etc.? Also, when the ice blast (or maybe lightning?) hits the demon, it would be pretty cool if there was some sign of a hit (steam clouds, or maybe electricity crawling all over the victim).

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