gantzrunner wrote:Jeez the animation looks beautiful, but it is so chopy it irritates my eyes. Look, we know it's 3d, so can we stop the practice of ditching frames to try and make it look like traditional animation? It feels like watching a clip on a bad connection, not quite buffering but not running smooth either. Hopefully the official release will look better, but there are a lot of animated shows that handle cg this way so I'm worried.
I think you mean the design and look of the show is good, but the animation itself is the movement and fluidity and that part isnt beautiful. I feel the same way as you. When I saw the transformation it looked like stop motion. Then again, if this had full backing and budget of a modern show (like Prime or RID) then it wouldnt have been relegated by a web series not even handled by third party production company.
Sabrblade wrote:BUT... Then I noticed the mouth movement, and went "Oh... OH! So that's what they meant by... Oh... Oh no... Oh NO! No. No no no no no no nonononononoooooo!"
That mouth movement is exactly the same kind of underdetailed featureless mouth movement that is common to many anime, and which we got back in both Energon and Cybertron.
It did feel animé-ish to me in the way there is a lack of frames (like the stop motion, slow mo feel), or how they will have a static image move against the background. And you talk of Cybertron but its not eve there, Cybertron had very fluid transformation sequences (the best ever, to me). Too bad they were never against an actual show background though