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New Overwatch Animated Short: "Rise and Shine"
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Antiwhippy
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Rhomega Beta
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Snowing.
At this time of day.
At this time of year.
In this part of the country.
Localized entirely within your room.
They should just start doing shorts that take place in the present time and do more with the characters personalities interacting off each other like the junkrat short.
Mr. Smiley
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i dunno whats more amazing
that i actually forgot about this giant lewd following or they're actually doing some impressive stuff right now
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Seriously are there any good animators working on Overwatch fan films who aren't just making porn? :| Some have a good sense of humor:
but that community is so much smaller than back in the day when people were making really cool shit with Team Fortress assets.
but that community is so much smaller than back in the day when people were making really cool shit with Team Fortress assets.
There's more money in boobs. Last I had read some of the Patreons for SFMPorn were insane and a lot of those aren't really making "movies" but just short animated clips. Its crazy.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Real shame imho. RIP.
Yo, where is this from? That looks awesome!
Well in fairness, we had two different kinds of shorts this week (which for that in itself is shocking, to say the least since it would either be an animated short or an online comic).
One short was comedic while the other was tragic. One played to Junkrat's chaotic nature and random nonsense while the other played more to Mei's personality and uncertainty of what happened when she woke up from her 9-year cryo sleep.
Mind you if anything else, we need more humor shorts like Junkrat's, but it seems like he would be the only person who can get away with doing that since other characters are either too serious or they get their humor by F***ing with other characters (like Sombra). Perhaps if anything, a Lucio short would be interesting to follow.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Don't suppose there's a group or something on Neogaf that could teach people how to use the SFM is there? Would be nice to figure out how to do animations like this.
TF2 developer Dave Riller confirmed back in February that the next big TF2 update (which is going to be Pyro and Jungle focused and will likely be out soon) will have a 4-5 minute animated movie similar to the Meet Your Team videos.
Valve also still has to finish the last issue of the 7 part TF2 comic series although the Valve comic artists constantly get pulled away to work on other projects so it's hard to say how long it will be until the last issue is finished. I doubt that will be the last comic, you never know when Valve will ship a comic with an update.
katsubento
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That was a good short. Heck, they have all been great.
Initially read that as "A Japanese sexualized woman fucking a moon gorilla".
TF2 has some great in-game one-liners. Scout has some of my favorites.
"If you order now, I'll throw in a second beatin', absolutely free."
"You'll never hit me! You'll never hit my tiny head!"
"Hehey, look, you shapeshifted into a dead guy!"
"I gotta bucket of chicken and I'm here to kick ass! And I'm all outta chicken...so I lied about the chicken."
"I'm so fast I got my feet bronzed! And now I'm not as fast."
TheRedSnifit
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The "emotional" Overwatch shorts are funnier than the "funny" ones.
Makes Starcraft II look well-written.
Mei is Chinese.
Hammeh did a lore analysis of the short. Very good analysis including looking at some missable details.
https://youtu.be/FrX2W9LFFFM
https://youtu.be/FrX2W9LFFFM
Wait, what?
Damn that battery scene hit me hard.
I thought it was pretty cheap grab for people's emotions. They did a similar thing with Bastion with Ganymede. He's a robot so I didn't expect him to actually die either.
Ragnorok64
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The story shown in this short was mostly already known.
That is one thing with the shorts. Very few of them actually feature story movement or they don't actually show the interesting parts.
The Doomfist one was cool, but ultimately it's just a clip of him apparently deciding he was done with being in jail and punching his way out. Like, what? That was all it took?
This one revolved around Me trying to get a signal out, but instead she just gets Winston's message and then, apparently, just walks out of Antarctica. Like was she actually imperilled?
Aside from successfully assassinating Mondata, Talon just kind of Team Rockets their way through the missions we've seen.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
There are a lot of tutorial videos up, like with all 3D animation programs it's more down to learning the toolset and actually knowing about the core basics of animation and the process of making an animation like thumbnails---->storyboards->animatic->layout->blocking, using reference, etc. A lot of SFM filmmakers just pose the model don't bother to learn the principles of animation but good lord the ones who do were really good.
It's heartbreaking how amazing these shorts from Valve were and yet they seem to put barely resources into them. I guess it's not unlike Valves game output.
Dreadnought
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It's a shame Blizzard only releases these shorts on Youtube. Would love to see them in their glorious uncompressed form.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
HAHAHA
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry sorry sorry.
Mei so cute <3
Yep, she's definitely a cutie pie.
I remember watching a stream where Mei's voice actress (Zhang Yu) was playing the game (as Mei, of course), and hearing her reacting to all the stuff in game in-character was priceless. There was one moment when an enemy Roadhog player hooked & one-shotted her out of nowhere & she freaked out.
Cute short but yeah, it's obvious how Blizzard just hasn't fostered a writing/directing team that's on par with their SFX. There's a reason for why the TF2 shorts are brought up in comparison, they're really good (albeit comedic but I don't think it's easy to write good comedy).
Blizzard seems to be trying though, so hopefully they can improve now that they're branching out from Warcraft.
Blizzard seems to be trying though, so hopefully they can improve now that they're branching out from Warcraft.
I don't think it's necessarily just the writing in this one. The pacing just seems all over the place. There's nothing wrong with finding out everyone is dead and then being sad about it and then getting over it, but Rise And Shine didn't even dedicate a full minute to that. And then it happens again, and that just draws attention to the breakneck speed the story is moving at.
As for comedy, yes. It is very difficult, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better example of that than video games, where so much of the comedy is just Whedonesque quips because nobody in video games knows how to properly construct a joke. Video games are a visual medium! Don't just put all your comedy in a format where it loses nothing when adapted into an audiobook! It's very telling that disproportionately few video games are comedies. I can't complain too much though, at least West of Loathing released recently.
I rewatched it and liked it a bit more but I really do have to agree that it felt rushed in spots. Maybe if it was a minute longer with her grieving a bit more and figuring things out then it would've been better. Def one of the weakest for me in terms of pacing and direction.
The two best are still Dragons and Last Bastion. The combination of visual storytelling and directing in those were perfect.
The two best are still Dragons and Last Bastion. The combination of visual storytelling and directing in those were perfect.
Azure Dream
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It would help if they actually continued to add to and update the public Source Filmmaker. There's apparently a whole new version, but it's not compatible with all the old assets, and while it has some new features, it's also missing a bunch of them. To my understanding, it's good for DOTA 2, and that's about it.
TheRedSnifit
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It's the Blizzard style. Very well done visuals and character design, but the plot and dialogue are all ripped directly from action movie cliches, mediocre comics, and Lovecraft's lesser works. Throw in the obligatory Shitty Metzen Twist (which inexplicably pervades after he left) and you've got yourself literally any Blizzard cinematic from the last two decades or so.
In terms of sheer badness, Blizzard's writing probably isn't the worst that gaming has to offer. It's probably not even the second-worst. But it is the most soulless.
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