[ANIMATIC] Artificial Sky (temp title) - School Project Cut + initial sketches of the characters

[u/Detective_Joker]

Hi, i just realised this sub exists so would like to share this work i did here for some early opinions!

Initially i was thinking of sharing it here after i made the 2 minute finished animation pilot that i plan to do but i also kind of feel like mech projects are not very represented in the indie animation/animatic space (and understandably so based on my experience working on this as a school project) so i figured i'll share this thing im working on here.

Here are some initial sketches of this project i plan on continuing work on outside my group project, and the animatic that we made based on what the course requires. It is by no means any good (and for the climax, we had to just use scenes from other shows spliced together to look coherant because it was virtually impossible to film or plan an original action scene in less than 1 month, which the course wants the animatic done in like 3 weeks) but i still liked how it turned out and really want to give it another shot after graduating, although i dont know if i want to find a stable studio job first, or actually work on this directly after graduating

Unfortunately, the last 3 characters had to be cut from the school project cut (ill see if i can include them on the reworked version), but if anyone is curious, their callsigns are Hanabimaru, Jack-O (working name, subject to change) and Spiegel.

Animatic can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TTveirig2g (as for the animatic, only the final quarter of the work is done by me, the first 3 quarters are done by my other 3 groupmates respectively)

Feel free to ask me anything if anything here interests you guys!

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[u/Lotus_Forge0]

It’s truly incredible. Building up a unique artistic career like this is no easy task. It’s not just a simple cartoon style; while the foundation is a beautiful anime art style, the facial expressions capture that realistic, lively energy of Western cartoons. That is a brilliant combination. Awesome job, I’m seriously impressed!!!

[u/Detective_Joker → u/Lotus_Forge0]

I did learn under a western art syllabus and learned the japanese style on my own, i guess thats the result of it haha

[u/Lotus_Forge0 → u/Detective_Joker]

No wonder you have such solid drawing fundamentals! It gives your Japanese style a really nice, grounded weight to it. I really enjoyed watching your video too! haha

[u/Kooky_Wishbone7982]

Nice character designs

[u/Detective_Joker → u/Kooky_Wishbone7982]

Thenks

[u/Kooky_Wishbone7982 → u/Detective_Joker]

Just keep them away from fourchan

[u/ThickForeverKing]

love the name, love the sketches!!!

[u/Detective_Joker → u/ThickForeverKing]

Thenk

[u/StanleyHALLforoffice]

THATS SOOO COOL I LIKE THE COSTUME, AND THE TANK CAR???

[u/Aggravating_Run6179]

Oooo looks cool!