gee ralph

didn’t know you could write an heartbreaking romance novel

don’t wanna come off as blunt after you said all that but i just wanted to say that you actually CAN animate a detailed fig as good as a non-detailed one. my rule of thumb is “it’s not that it’s not possible, it’s that you aren’t trying hard enough”. instead of trying to get a kick to come towards the camera and then just think “well s**t”, just delete the leg and swap it for a less detailed version with some intense blur and quickened frames.

the problem i have with Scarf Users as we’ve come to call them is that they never think outside the box. you could compile animations from 10 different animators and it’d look like it was the same animation by the same guy. it’s why i push users to be less (key word comin’ up) generic, and to think outside the box.

animation is a wonderful thing to express creativity but i feel like these ‘Scarf Users’ are pulling us away from that, they’ve had their time in the spotlight and it’s time to put them away. i was a fan of Scarf Figs and mindless combat animations but as i’ve matured and became a full fledged animator myself, i’ve learnt that that isn’t enough to be a true animator.

anyway, as you yourself said Ralph, i’ve wrote way too much.

I’m even shocked I managed to read all of that. You do raise a fair point, Epitaph.
Although, since you’re complaining about character designs of other people, you’re forgetting another key fact of character-making: Personalities and character development.
Not to rant on your series, it’s still awesome, but I’ve found a small flaw in it. Almost none of the characters get any character development throughout the ENTIRE series. The only character that gets a decent amount of development is Roux, and Cyan Claw gets a SMALL bit of development. We also see a SPEC of development with Epitaph, with his grudge against Bullet. Not to mention, Kaiju and Charxek literally got NO development, and only got about 4 or 5 minutes of total screen time (Or less). Now, I understand you were saving Charxek’s reveal until the final episode as a climax, but you could have at least given Charxek a personality, instead of being a mindless engine of destruction. A character with no personality is a bland character.

Now I’M the one typing too much crap that nobody’s gonna read.

Ha!
But anyhow I’ll state my opinion (although I’ll get blasted for sure) why I believe that character development is good I think you should make something everyone could recognize somthing iconic and almost impossible to replicate

Are you saying that to me or Epitaph?

Both

… Oh

Well that’s the thing, I’m terrible at making characters that don’t draw inspiration from someone else’s character.

hence Kaiju being the Origin Being of Time

boi that’s literally what SNM achieved

well, i managed to squeeze in side characters too like the Rouxian Sniper from Ep.5

also, most of the characters are based off real people, users, i was forced to use their personalities and had to be extremely careful not to deviate from that.

i will admit however that Kaiju got very little time to shine and so i’ll work on that in Aftermath. remember i had to fit all this in just an hour.

Charxek Thar was SUPPOSED to be a mindless engine of Destruction, she is the ‘Origin Being of Destruction’ for a reason, she’s bent on the goal of complete annihilation and has lost all humanity. i hope to give some flashback scenes in Ep.5 so not only can we see her look before going mad but also see her original personality.

but yeah, i still have Aftermath and the Complete Edition to FULLY flesh out as many characters as possible, especially poor old Shirokaze.

besides, at least it’s not as bad as Jokey with the most you get is him just punching s**t

Oh, right. I forgot that you could flush more characters out in the sequel series, my bad.

Talk about KHAOS, am I right?

I remember those good ol days of stickfigure animation. The days were it was next to impossible for me to make those big war animations everyone else was doing in pivot.

I used to like 50 deaths in 5 minutes.

Now i just don’t give a s**t about combat anims. I only care for true quality

WHAT DO YOU MEAN REMAKE THINGS?!

if i’m correct…

the polyfill is kind of stretchable for detailed figures

look at the previous bow submitted