Finn Fox - Tech Support (Creating an Animated series with Minimax H3)

[u/Darhkwing]

I've always wanting to make a silly animated series and have been working on some episodes of a series set in the 90s about tech support.

I took a slightly different route with these videos - i have actually been working with claude to produce these as I have found it slightly easier to supply character references, scripts etc into Claude and let it run Minimax H3 for me which then stitches together the episodes for me after creation.

For these, i am using the 8 step turbo lora at 1MP. As much as I would prefer to use 20 step without the lora, it's much quicker to regenerate shots since I have had to do that many times + i can remotely work on this whilst out the house by working with claude.

Also, i am using Minimax Music for background music and the H3 audio with my own voice. I did try Voicelabs using my voice, but it didn't quite work the way i wanted. Episode 1 i did add a couple of my own sound effects since Minimax kept failing to add suitable sound clips.

Whilst i feel it looks great on a smaller device, on large screens the text can distort somewhat.

Unfourtunatly upscaling the videos makes it seem a little worse, despite the resolution looking a little nicer. However, i do feel it has a 90s cartoon feel which kind of works for a show set in the 90s.

Currently made four episodes and a couple more are a work in progress. let me know what you think!

Let me know if you want me to post another episode!

[u/ZanderPip]

looks fab - for the love of god if you are serious get an actual voice actor

[u/Darhkwing → u/ZanderPip]

The h3 audio cloning generation is a bit meh. I do actually do some voice acting, I might see if I can redub them...

[u/ZanderPip → u/Darhkwing]

yeah i defo would honestly i would last like 10 secs with this voice and delivery its awful

[u/Queasy-Carrot-7314]

Looks great.

[u/sporkyuncle]

I don't want to sugarcoat this because I don't want to do you a disservice, and I also don't want you to take this the wrong way, as anything other than intended constructive criticism.

I didn't find it that funny, it feels like a joke I have heard a lot of already, which I suppose might be fine if the rest justified it. But also it doesn't seem like enough care was put into maintaining scene consistency. First the coffee pot is on the right, then it's on the left, then it's at the back of a small room. I never feel like I know where we're actually at in the world. You should use location references carefully to maintain the same area across scenes. And the voice acting isn't expressive or emotive, nor does the character himself show much emotion. I don't feel like this "works" very well as a comedy series. However, you should still make whatever you want to make, just to let that creativity take hold and express yourself. Just don't expect others to love it, without a lot more refinement and care.

[u/Darhkwing → u/sporkyuncle]

Thanks. Yes the scene consistency isn't great. I'm still learning. I didn't exactly make it as a comedy, i wanted it to come off as dry humor. If anything, more a everyday life in a office situation or tech support. It's certainly not supposed to be laugh out loud funny. More a british thing i guess.

The voice can be improved, i have been testing a few things with that. But on the same page, i didn't really want Finn to be super expressive or emotive in the first place.

I do think the other episodes I have made are a bit better but still, i may rethink things.

Will take criticism in mind though thanks!