3d Game animation critiques

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  Nixellion polycounter lvl 11

  Sep 16 2025

  Hi! Cool stuff, fun ideas there!  
  
  So, the first animation, the guy with the chain. A few things:
  
  

  1. It's really important to get the arcs nice and smooth, especially with the visible trail. It just looks dirty and unpolished, and many studios won't accept animations with even cleaner arcs (but still with small defects) and without a visible trail. That's the first thing that would affect even an untrained eye. 
  2. Camera rotation - I don't think it helps. It's confusing, and especially on smooth background with no landmarks it's not even apparent whether the camera is moving or not. You either need to lean into it, and make some cool camera animation that really sells it and add some checker texture or something like that, or don't move the camera. I mean there's some pillar in the background but not sure if that's enough. Though I don't feel strongly about the camera motion.
  3. Poses. The concept is cool, but many poses could use another iteration. Make them stronger, maybe more exaggerated even, with more readable action curves.
  4. The chain\rope, it looks like it bugs out. Improving that would make things look a lot cleaner as well
  5. You need to sharpen key poses, so they read better, add some sharper motions, there has to be some rhythm in animation

  
  Running animation - overall looks good, depending on style and context of the project it could work. I would maybe add some stronger up and down motion
  
  Creepy monster. Mmmh... Hard to judge, but elbows might need some work, they kinda snap all over the place
  
  Wizard run is probably the best. But I think you should cycle\loop it, right now it's not cycled. Monster as well, actually.
  
  
  I left some scribbles, hope they are visible and helpful.

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  AlexAng polycounter lvl 5

  Sep 24 2025

  Nixellion said:

  Hi! Cool stuff, fun ideas there!  
  
  So, the first animation, the guy with the chain. A few things:
  
  

  1. It's really important to get the arcs nice and smooth, especially with the visible trail. It just looks dirty and unpolished, and many studios won't accept animations with even cleaner arcs (but still with small defects) and without a visible trail. That's the first thing that would affect even an untrained eye. 
  2. Camera rotation - I don't think it helps. It's confusing, and especially on smooth background with no landmarks it's not even apparent whether the camera is moving or not. You either need to lean into it, and make some cool camera animation that really sells it and add some checker texture or something like that, or don't move the camera. I mean there's some pillar in the background but not sure if that's enough. Though I don't feel strongly about the camera motion.
  3. Poses. The concept is cool, but many poses could use another iteration. Make them stronger, maybe more exaggerated even, with more readable action curves.
  4. The chain\rope, it looks like it bugs out. Improving that would make things look a lot cleaner as well
  5. You need to sharpen key poses, so they read better, add some sharper motions, there has to be some rhythm in animation

  
  Running animation - overall looks good, depending on style and context of the project it could work. I would maybe add some stronger up and down motion
  
  Creepy monster. Mmmh... Hard to judge, but elbows might need some work, they kinda snap all over the place
  
  Wizard run is probably the best. But I think you should cycle\loop it, right now it's not cycled. Monster as well, actually.
  
  
  I left some scribbles, hope they are visible and helpful.

  Thank you so much, I can see the draw-overs and they help a lot. There's so much arc tracking I still need to do to get the first clip where I want it. I'll work on all the rest of the clips too as I move forward.

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