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Lish  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can We Live Forever?

"Really well done. The pacing of this second episode is very good."

Thank you mk. I truly appreciate the kind words and accurate observation! I feel quite confident saying that each episode makes steady progress with both visuals and content. It's the lovely RATCHET effect at work. Keep watching!





humanodon  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really like your animations!

Just out of curiosity, why no faces?

Lish  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks humanodon. (incredible name btw)

/Just out of curiosity, why no faces?/

I exclude faces, as well as a lot of detail in general, for a number of reasons. Simplicity is golden. Consistency is important. And the faster the better. Designing faces for characters, along with appropriate facial expressions would just take too much time. With all this project required in the time frame set, I had to be honest with myself that my level of design skills could not maintain a consistent over all look beyond geometric shape. So Cadell and I both felt very comfortable keeping the same aesthetics as the "Are Chimps Cultural?" video and trusting that with each episode our skills would improve! As each episodes wraps up, I can feel this happening! Small amounts of confidence and skill are accumulating and bit by tiny bit the videos shall convey this! (I hope!)

humanodon  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks!

    Small amounts of confidence and skill are accumulating and bit by tiny bit the videos shall convey this! (I hope!)

(By the way, to quote stuff, you can put these things: | around the text | but without any spaces. Also, at the top right corner of the comment field is a tiny link that says "markup" with all kinds of other stuff you can do.)

The two episodes so far are pretty well put together in my opinion, so I'm interested to see how the videos develop further. That makes sense about the faces.

Lish  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    (By the way, to quote stuff, you can put these things:around the text but without any spaces. Also, at the top right corner of the comment field is a tiny link that says "markup" with all kinds of other stuff you can do.)

Thank you humanodon. Look at me learning and applying interwebby tactics.

    The two episodes so far are pretty well put together in my opinion, so I'm interested to see how the videos develop further.

Thank you. I appreciate your interest very much.

theadvancedapes  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OMG Lish is on the Internets! So proud!

Lish  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

:D! I did it!