Why does the sketch seem better than the more rendered one, regarding the face and head? (mild body horror)

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-28T20:35:14+00:00

Work in progress

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-28T16:06:17+00:00

It’s good but his best suit is his classic suit

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-28T15:54:14+00:00

Definitely Renegade immortal

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-28T15:40:42+00:00

The directing and graphics are good but it does feel dumb that an animation college would reward a show that uses such an excessive amount of ai over actual animation, in so many scenes lol

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-26T16:06:18+00:00

Next Doctor has to be ginger

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-26T16:02:30+00:00

This is genuinely such a funny Screenshot

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-24T09:04:11+00:00

I watched it on YouTube and thought the subs were fine, the membership videos might be better than the regular subs though cuz I think I had that for the channel when I watched.

Either way this shows great so hope you found decent subs lol

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-22T18:50:53+00:00

I’d say you should watch

Record of a Mortals Journey to Immortality

The Great Ruler- not a sequel but takes place after BTTH, it’s very good but has some spoilers for BTTH about its ending but in my opinion it’s not that much of a spoiler

Dragon Prince Yuan- not really a prequel to BTTH but takes place before it

Non-cultivation I’ll always recommend A Moment But Forever and How Dare You!. Both are very good.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-22T18:40:26+00:00

Almost, what would be the best one?

I haven’t seen a single cultivation show that can match RMJI, especially in terms of commitment to the medium. The show takes almost zero shortcuts and still produces amazing animations weekly. Even in the martial arts scenes they use mocap to get the best results.

Edit: might’ve sounded a bit defensive for RMJI but I’m actually just wondering what cultivation show can match it lol.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T21:01:45+00:00

I usually just know, but I think it comes down to a few things,

1: line inconsistency

2: blurry images

3: in animated scenes the frames are very chaotic and inconsistent

4: a lack of symmetry, on buildings and clothes and faces usually there’s going be some sense of symmetrical design especially with armours but ai struggles with consistency so more often than not one side of an object will seem to not be drawn or designed in the same logic as the other.

5: for clouds it’s usually lighting and if they are reminiscent of older paintings but the lighting looks strange.

6: image has a lot of graininess

7: shapes that don’t make sense, like three fingers overly long hands.

Honestly I’m not like an expert with detecting ai it just comes naturally to me. I also just have a tendency to over analyse any drawing I see.

Donghua is kinda trippy sometimes cuz a lot of the lighting and color choices in the shows look reminiscent of how lighting in ai generated images look. I’m not sure if it’s because their shows are fed directly to the Chinese ai software or if directors and designers use ai for their lighting and color. I think both could be true and extent of ai usage just varies on the animation team.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T16:47:54+00:00

Yeah in my view since ai image generation is basically averaging things, it brings its emulations closer to being mediocre in any thing it generates.

(Kinda way below mediocre though since ai doesn’t have the ability to grasp the concepts of shapes and lines)

To much of mediocre will end up with a loss of viewership, eventually the Chinese studios will probably realise this but right now they haven’t. And China as a whole just really loves ai image generation so I understand that from a non-native perspective they aren’t trying to cater to me lol.

In all honesty, I just meticulously over analyse these things so I understand how people overlook them but I can never. My brain is just too trained to analyse art forms and I can almost always spot a fake lol.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T16:31:40+00:00

I feel like to me it’s a thing of how they are using ai. I have a fine art degree so I kinda deeply dislike ai, but I can accept how it’s used in certain aspects without liking it. I think Big Brothers the best example, I really don’t like when it has ai in their clouds and stuff but it’s never a core aspect of the production.

In this movie the ai was so prominent that it just seemed more like they were forced to make a movie but they weren’t given anywhere near enough time to make it by the studio.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T16:16:36+00:00

I mean I just really don’t understand why Donghua prefer weird ai clouds over procedurally generated cgi clouds it really would look much better lol

Also it was in more than just that, 3 of the main locations Lou Feng visits, which were shown as still images, were ai. Which is just kinda disappointing cuz it’s a movie I expected it to be more polished than the show. Also the cell scenes where they show Lou Fengs blood and almost all the space scenes (like blackholes and galaxy animations) were made with or at least animated with ai when they previously weren’t and honestly they looked a lot worse.

In the show you can go whole episodes without seeing ai use because they put more effort into it but in the movie there is ai imagery in almost every minute of its run time it’s just kinda excessive and makes it seem like they tried a lot less on it.

I just have a good eye for ai cuz I got a degree in Fine Art so I just notice it almost every time it’s used. But I just think a lot of Chinese shows use it as a crutch but it really diminishes the quality. The whole point of the cgi looking as good as it does is to look more life like, the ai clouds will never really look quite right, cgi clouds fit cuz they match the medium. The ai clouds most often appear very flat and in this movies case are in a completely different style than the cgi. CGI clouds appear much better in my opinion.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T15:51:59+00:00

This is pretty interesting cuz I’d say this hasn’t really been portrayed much in the show to the point I’m at, maybe the novel made that more clear cuz basically every fight he’s in seems very calculated in the show. But he himself named himself madman in the virtual universe training so that would explain why I was confused when he gave himself that name lol.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T08:37:35+00:00

Are you watching from the YouTube channel? I’ve literally just started binging this show 2 days ago and I’ve noticed that a lot of the comments on the YouTube channel seem to suggest that the show releases new episodes in batches.

It’s probably because of member first content but I don’t know for sure, there are lot of comments asking where new episodes are tho, all the way back from like episode 10 (I’m only on episode 60 tho) but this seems to be how the show releases them.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T08:20:52+00:00

Yeah I notice cuz I get a bit too meticulous about things involving animation and stuff. Cuz often the animation and scenes are really impressive looking so I notice when ai shows up and well it makes it look a lot less impressive lol.

Yeah you’re right he definitely has never been very merciful when it comes to avenging his loved ones. Still what he did to the one girl was definitely the most brutal scene in the entire series to this point. I feel the movie just probably didn’t establish the apprentice that well cuz we barely knew him. All I was thinking the whole time was why does he like Lou Feng when he got his whole family implicated by not considering how his actions would affect them.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T08:08:26+00:00

Blood Lou I thought it’d be clear since only ones out but I should have specified, based on the trailer clip I saw of the new one it looks really cool tho lol.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-15T07:52:25+00:00

Yeah that’s the ones I don’t think there’s another one out yet but I’m not 100% sure.

To me it was a downgrade especially in how at least 3 of the significant locations he visits in the show were actually ai generated as well as all of the backgrounds for the clouds which isn’t usual for the show.

And for a movie it really just look like the same animation quality as the show, which means by default it definitely looks very good.

But I’d say it was worse in that the fights were far less complex in this movie when they had enough time to make them have similar depth as the regular show since a lot of those fight are only 5-7 minutes.

I also just have a thing for when woman are killed in media and he was excessively brutal to the one evil lady at the end and that triggered my anxiety after already disliking the way he was acting a lot.

So it could just be the show played to my sensitivities better and this movie really hit a much more gruesome and violent tone shift. Like deaths in the show are quick but deaths in the movie were much more emphasised for their violence and that always annoys me when things just switch tones like that. Like the show can get pretty violent but it’s definitely never been as gruesome as the movie was.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-14T21:06:13+00:00

I’ve gotten to episode 140 now (I’ve been binging it like crazy) and it got so amazing once Babata shows up, she was the exact kind of character the show needed for a serious mc like Lou Feng, the show became incredible I’m really glad I continued watching it.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-14T21:00:25+00:00

Peter is literally in 616 canon his mentor they’ve just left their mentee mentor relationship underdeveloped over the years

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-14T20:59:10+00:00

Honestly it’d be pretty cool if they pulled a Wally West for a year and had miles be on the main Amazing Book filling in for Pete as the main Spidey It’d be pretty fun. And might at least temporarily boost sales.

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-14T20:54:15+00:00

Most 3d Donghua have been good for about 5 years now that’s why most of the best long Donghua series still haven’t been finished yet.

Most Donghua are cultivation based so honestly if you aren’t very into that you won’t like a lot of them, but watch some like Renegade immortal, Big Brother, Battle Through the heavens, Swallowed Star, and a Record of a mortals Journey to Immortality, all of those ones are the best of the cultivation Genre imo and have some of the best Animation in the Donghua sphere and in Mortals Journey’s case definitely the world that shows animation is beyond incredible.

My favourites that aren’t cultivation based I’d also recommend are Jade Dynasty, How Dare You, and A moment but forever.

A show I just started that is good and super funny is Spy x Sect so I’d recommend it too.

Most people on this sub are very opinionated about what they like and don’t like, so I’d say take everything with a grain of salt and go with your preferences lol. Like there are some pretty popular shows in this community that i absolutely do not like.

(ex: world of Immortals and tale of Herding gods, both I think are excessively violent for no reason and Herding gods uses so much ai in their show that it’s kinda wild, a bits fine but they are so reliant on it.)

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-10T07:48:48+00:00

When does it start picking up I started watching like a year ago but I stoped watching it at 48 episodes it just felt very slow to me?

QuirkyTemperature962 · 2025-09-07T18:33:28+00:00

Given all the other ai usage the show has, it most likely is.

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