Strong story needs good characters to hold it! +some more info

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Sunshaft

Movie VFX artist, 3d TD

Henrich Achberger @Sunshaft

Age 31, Male

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High school

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Strong story needs good characters to hold it! +some more info

Posted by Sunshaft - May 9th, 2014

So I worked a bit more on main characters design. I really try to make antagonists as much enjoyable as main protagonist, then make every character look distinctive but also appropriate to conditions.

Djjaner made some tests and his facial animation skill is UBER LEVEL! you can expect smooth and fluid animation of facial expressions and lip sync.

these characters are still in concept stage, I might redo them (probably robo-soildier on right will be redrawed)

and also looks of the characters will change during the movie, they will get bruises, wounds, different clothes etc...

Btw drawing female in madness style is so weird... still I am really stisfied with result, having sympathetic characters is really important to me.

in therms of backgrounds and overall feel, I am really inspired by The Last Of Us, that is greatest piece of art ( althrough I never played it lol)

full resolution http://blogimg.ngfiles.com/894000/894680/742134410_characters-preview.jpg

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EctiBot 2014-05-09 18:33:07

That looks amazing :O! Really liked the background and the general art style f8r the characters :D. Great job. Can't wait to see the full thing ;).

Igyzone 2014-05-09 18:37:59

Last Of Us, yeah that's a cool survival game. How about Littleluckylink's Dawn/Day/Dusk/Overtime of the Madness, will it be something like that, beacuse that is pretty much the best madness survival series for now.

Sunshaft 2014-05-09 18:37:59

yeah, I remember some of his survival style animations, and they were amazing. and it also had really good characters

Coft 2014-05-09 19:05:31

Very well done. Is there a noise layer over the background? It's over their hair and clothes too. It looks good.

Sunshaft 2014-05-09 19:05:31

now it is just effect in photoshop, but later on in postproduction I will convert it into a 1080p video add grain and motion blur in AE

asdf 2014-05-09 19:52:14

haha what a joke, you can't even draw original characters so you just make these things, you have talent so stop wasting it on madness dude !!!

Sunshaft 2014-05-09 19:52:14

why do I draw these characters? because Djjaner has experience in animating them. After this movie I am going to focus full time on 3d animation

IMNOTXADERLOL 2014-05-09 20:05:45

Guy below, how rude..

SpikeVallentine 2014-05-09 20:17:10

out of all those characters down at the bottom who is your favorite?

Sunshaft 2014-05-09 20:17:10

all of them

asdf 2014-05-09 20:37:09

just kidding sunshaft you fucking rule :) :)

GabrielBarsch 2014-05-09 23:11:24

lal dat first guy reminds me that mafia man from maximun ninja

Sunshaft 2014-05-09 23:11:24

good eye, Im giving him full credit for face design

max4000 2014-05-10 03:50:39

I think you did a really good job on the female madness. You showed the femalistic feel to it though. Yoou gonna need some works on the robo-soilder

Zapchon 2014-05-10 11:36:37

Dat Agent Tho.

StefanOcean 2014-05-10 11:48:30

is that a gman

Rakshal 2014-05-10 17:02:12

Man, those characters look awesome!

Gibb50 2014-05-11 08:03:44

This just looks... Pefect. The faces, the pose, dat BG And dat overall design.
Well done to the both of you.

Dawcio510 2014-05-11 12:17:35

I actually played The Last Of Us, the controls on PS3 are a bit buggy but I played about 10- 15 mins anyways, it's actually a cool game but it doesn't get me in it at all.

chris-the-stick 2014-05-12 18:47:08

really nice graphics, and your style makes you to stand out of the ''madness animator's'' crowd, so that good.

you have an original style, and a nice depiction og their faces/eyes.
also this feels like a fresh new animation.

what is going on, story-wise, tho?

will you add a cool/funny story?
always add humour, its good!

tell me if you need a voice-actor/someone to talk abou-t the stories...
k

Sunshaft 2014-05-12 18:47:08

At the beginning it is going to be quite lightweight and funny, later on it is going to get more intense and maybe even scary or sad

ZANCHERS 2014-05-13 18:11:07

That character from maximum ninja tho. Loving the background design.

chris-the-stick 2014-05-16 19:11:32

very good premise. i like this.

do you need voice-actors for this?
(i am one)

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