Repentance (May be offensive)
polycounter lvl 11
After 11 weeks of hard work, we finally got our goofy fake game trailer out.
Although i would love to go and fix some of the animation and other technical issues, i'm just burnt out right now.
Was a group project, we had a great team working on it. I was responsible for all of the animation, and i modeled Jesus and did all the fancy particle effects.
Please guys, enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VZG9z9_ufY
C and C welcome as always.
Although i would love to go and fix some of the animation and other technical issues, i'm just burnt out right now.
Was a group project, we had a great team working on it. I was responsible for all of the animation, and i modeled Jesus and did all the fancy particle effects.
Please guys, enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VZG9z9_ufY
C and C welcome as always.
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I know its a lot of work though so congrats getting it done
it is funny.. sound/music could use a lot more love though, and the line 'christians are supposed to be merciful!... i was a jew' line left a bad taste tbh. I know its tongue in cheek and all, but it sounds like you're taking a jab at jews
I know its a lot of work though so congrats getting it done
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Oh, come on man. It's taking a much bigger jab at Christians with Duke Jesus[em]. Seinfeld had a shitload of funnier/more caustic jokes about Jewish people in general, big deal.
Ya it was a school project... the sound was edited in about 2 hours, so it really didn't get the love it deserved. The animation was painful, was working on it for a very long time, im just glad it's finished and turned in, now i can maybe spend some time making something for DW
I've wanted to do something similar for a while, but it's hard to do while being humorous instead of just offensive.
I liked the "I was a Jew" line, myself.
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it is funny.. sound/music could use a lot more love though, and the line 'christians are supposed to be merciful!... i was a jew' line left a bad taste tbh. I know its tongue in cheek and all, but it sounds like you're taking a jab at jews
I know its a lot of work though so congrats getting it done
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Oh, come on man. It's taking a much bigger jab at Christians with Duke Jesus[em]. Seinfeld had a shitload of funnier/more caustic jokes about Jewish people in general, big deal.
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I didn't really like that line either. Not because I found it offensive at all, it just seemed like a "non sequitur" to me. It's true that Jesus was a Jew, but it doesn't really have anything to do with being merciful or not. In the context of what was being said, it didn't make much sense and wasn't a very well written joke in my opinion.
I think it would work better if he said something like, "I AM Christianity," kind of like a cop saying, "I AM the law" when a suspect tells the cop that police brutality is against the law.
Sorry if it offended people but theres never going to people who aren't offended by something that's this risky. That's what the group understood going into the project. Trust me, we could have made it much much worse, but we wanted to get to the area - if 10 was offensive, we wanted to be at 9.99.
Look at south park, i'm sure south park offends millions of people... but it's still one of the best shows out there.
When it's all said and done, we knew people would be offended, but those aren't the people we were targeting.
The animation was shit i know, lol. It's my first time animating something of that scale, and time constraints are a BITCH. The next thing you see from me will be free-time project that will be much less offensive :-)
And about the cars, it was at that point where i just didn't think about that stuff. They looked like cars, which is enough for me. But i think back now and realize... damn, i should have made those bottoms black.. good lookin out Toomas.!
I really wish i coudl have gotten this animation done and compiled a week earlier, so i could take into account all the good comments and ideas that you guys gave me.
ORR he could be more like terminator
demon"-but you said not to murder!!!"
Jesus:"I lied." BAM!!!
imo that would be funnier because technically Jesus is "Christian Jew" or "Jewish Christian" :S lol
but I think i'm being too techincal. Everyone gets the jist of it anyway.
Also, try to play with the animation curves a lot more, especially with the camera. The interpolation was incredibly obvious and it just felt unpolished.
And i totally understand what u mean by static body movements. I try to make it a point as an animator to never have any part of the body completely static. Your right about that shot. everytime i look at it i cringe because it's one of the only shots in there that are like that.
And as for being unpolished. It is EXTREMELY unpolished due to time constraints... Ha if i had it my way i would have been editing this for another month and getting all the sound and shit in there. But we edited all the shots and sound together on the last day in like 2 hours, and we were throwing in clips just to fill up the required space we needed.
And with that said...
I've no 'critiques' per se, as you're likely finished this and have moved on. So, I'll be blunt here as I don't quite know how else to say it.
I didn't find it at all funny. Or good for anything you may possibly be trying to achieve with this other than a cheap laugh.
I don't follow religions as much as others might, so that may be why I didn't find it funny, but if you think this will help you get a job somewhere you are kidding yourself.
You mentioned that it was unpolished due to time constraints - so why even release it? You handed it in already, probably got it graded, so why not take the time to really make something you can use rather than something a few people may find funny but in no way t
There was no art direction. Animations were poor. Floating level props here and there. Poor lighting. Mesh density for the entire video was all over the place. Was there any thought in to the actual gameplay of this project? (re:He's suppose to be going after the demons, yet he's blowing up cars - and all the demons did was tip one of the cars over! Oh, right, Jesus had a grenade launcher. Er...)
Ooof, so there you have it. Good practice & exercise for you but back it up or delete it and move on to bigger & better (and a more suitable timeframe).
Why NOT release something that we spent 11 weeks on that we finished? I'm actually really proud of it. A bunch of 7th quarter students did that project, of course it's not going o be polished and professional. It's student artwork. We had a goal, and we accomplished it. So i'm proud of my team. The majority of people who watch the video say the like it and find it quite funny, even if it's just one or two laughs. So i'd say it's a success.
I am moving on to a project that I'm doing by myself right now, that has no time constraints and will be more appropriate and animation oriented.
Teachers occasionally give students these grand projects without realizing that some students don't have mommy and daddy paying the bills and 4 more classes they have to worry about.
Not that it doesn't take a lot of personal drive to get anywhere - but in the case of animation and rigging (especially when you don't want to be an animator or a rigger) you sometimes have to do what you can to get a "fun" project...learn a little along the way and move on.
Anyone who goes to an art college and thinks they are going to be amazing at ALL aspects of game creation at the end of the program is going to be seriously disappointed, and unfortunately a lot of schools simply cram a thousand different aspects down a student and the end result is less focus on anything in particular (aside from the students who step up on their own.)
I mean i want to focus on environments but at the same time i had shit ton of fun animating this so i mean, I'm in a situation where i don't even know what to focus on. it's kind of frustrating.
ps. Offensive is what makes it funny. Who really cares?!
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