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How about an older, wiser Mouse, from Ladyhawke?
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I'd recommend that first hour to literally anyone. The costumes are good; the cinematography is fantastic; it's filmed at these amazing, gorgeous locations in Italy with real castles. As a whole, though, I can really only recommend it to big fantasy fans, and even then only as "Worth seeing once."
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The third act is a terrible mess; some plot threads conclude way too early, others are just never adequately resolved, and still others are just kind of disappointingly executed. The final, climactic fight scene sucks, . Everything takes about 5 times longer than it should.
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Well, two days ago I watched the whole thing (yes, with @kobolds-keep.net among others) and it turns out, no, it was not the soundtrack. After the first hour, the pacing kinda goes out the window, especially for the action scenes.
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"It's so cool!" I thought. "Why doesn't this have the same kind of cult following that The Princess Bride has? Sure, they front-loaded the awkward part of the soundtrack in the first 10 minutes, but was the first impression really so bad that it turned most people away?"
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I meant "*one* could make", not necessarily you specifically, whoops
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You could probably make a video about how both of these pushed the envelope of 3d animation--Ferngully had a ton of hybrid 3d/2d stuff (especially for a non-Disney movie in 1992) and I'd literally never seen anything like FafX's pre-rendered graphics when I saw them for the first time
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I'm telling you, Microsoft needs to get Tim Schafer and DoubleFine on a Jet Force Gemini reboot/sequel like yesterday
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Really charming low-poly models, too
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I like to show what I'm working on to someone irl, like a kid showing their mom a drawing to put on the fridge
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Thank you so much! And also, thank you for leaving a review; we both appreciate the time you took to do that
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btw, the game is actually out today! you can play it now! store.steampowered.com/app/2514390/...
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Thanks for reading! If this art looks interesting to you or you like casual puzzle games, please check out our Steam page where you can wishlist Junk-O-Tron! (It will be releasing soon!) store.steampowered.com/app/2514390/...
🧵 9/9
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Observer:
An existential, philosophical bot. His cape took me a while, but finally I just ran a cloth simulation and picked a frame where I liked how it looked. I then converted that frame to a mesh and rigged it so I could use it in expressions. 🧵 8/9
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Gertrude:
The most straightforward of all the bots for me, Gertrude was probably the easiest for me to get from sketch to final renders. I think of her as having a very friendly personality, but not really knowing her own strength. You might want to watch out for her hugs 🧵 7/9
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Dave:
I have a couple of brothers who have worked construction jobs, but I ended up basing his personality mostly on @kobolds-keep.net himself. He likes to maintain a healthy work-life balance :) 🧵 6/9
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The Suzies:
They ended up the most different from their first sketch, with separate bodies for more contrast. They were also the most humanoid bots in the group, which presented challenges, but I think their personality comes across in the final renders. (Apologies to ReBoot's Hexadecimal) 🧵 5/9
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After getting some feedback, we settled on 4 final character designs to implement: a two-faced secretary (the Suzies), a construction worker (Dave), a dumpster (Gertrude), and a planetarium projector (Observer). They were all repurposed from old jobs, so essentially junk themselves. :) 🧵 4/9
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I found it a little difficult to be that abstract, so after a bit I just started to brainstorm as many character designs as I could, keeping in mind the target art style and what would (hopefully) work well as a 3D model. Here are a bunch of sketches that didn't make the cut 🧵 3/9
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The stand-out visual we planned was the companion characters; robots who would react to you "recycling" the junk. In the concept phase I was initially working from the names of the block-dropping patterns that @kobolds-keep.net had programmed in, like "Flighty" and "Sixteen" 🧵 2/9
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I also had this question so thanks for asking 🫡
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It might be down to lighting more than color. Having a single light attached to your head while everything else is dark is definitely horror-coded; adding some overhead lights might help.
(If it still ends up looking like the Backrooms after adding lights, then you can play with color :P)
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My favorite part is that >60% of each "live action" movie is animated anyway
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"Typing" with a controller feels more efficient for me personally if it wraps (especially when the cursors are locked to the letters/characters). I'm specifically thinking of instantaneous controls, huge letters, and obvious cursor; it's helpful on a GBA, not a TV remote
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Wall-stick or stick-to-enemies grapple (maybe you could throw them from grapple if they're small enough? bigger enemies grappled could carry you to higher or farther places?)
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no that's just how blender is :P
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i felt this in my soul
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Really? I feel like within a village, it would be all anyone would talk about for weeks but would that apply to every village in the area?
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This exactly describes my experience with AI. It is fun to play with, not to use.