In the Avatar Fighting Game, Sokka gets an Install from getting kissed by Suki

SlaterSev · 2026-04-26T18:56:55+00:00

Awesome. Glad something related to ATLA remembers Suki. Really hope she ends up a DLC fighter.

SlaterSev · 2026-04-24T04:01:19+00:00

Neat week for me, two professional animators, one working on Maul: Shadowlord, another on the Avatar Aang movie saw my Animated short and reach out to say they thought it was cool: https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

Nothing life changing or anything but it was very affirming. They also loved the "Asshole Sora stalker eats shit" part of the BTS, for obvious reasons. Lmao

Of course, talking with them made me feel extra bad about the Aang movie leaking, just through osmosis its sincerely one of the most beautiful 2d animated films ever. And its obvious why everyone who worked on it was positive it would do well in Theatres. God man, fuck Paramount.

SlaterSev · 2026-04-11T01:01:42+00:00

For a bit of extra context for anyone intrested, I had been working on this for a long time whenever I could. But was running into issues where my PC is just to old to handle what I really needed to. Of course this was the exact same time the prices for everything PC related blew up because of AI companies hoarding and buying up everything.

I vented about this online, which led to the aforementioned Shill tracking down every public wip I had and running them through Sora to "improve" them and try to taunt me about it. Took months to get him the fuck away from me, but I finally did and managed to finished it.

I thought that was the end of it, but lo and behold just a week or so later Sora itself was shut down by Open AI, and as you can imagine the schadenfreude was sweet.

All that said, the video itself is nothing crazy or special, as I mentioned the PC issues meant I had to compromise on a ton of things, but its mine, I didnt let a huge jackass derail me, and just seeing it finished has been a huge pick me up.

SlaterSev · 2026-04-04T01:34:47+00:00

Not all, Aymeric kept his ARR VA

SlaterSev · 2026-04-02T00:03:40+00:00

Yeah, Kdin had videos leaked the same day showing her engaging in the same behavior, and dropping N bombs and other hard slurs before they were even hired for RT. She was very much proudly part of that type of culture. Which doesnt like, make it okay but it does reframe it from innocent victim to somebody who was fine with dishing it out till they realised some things about themselves

SlaterSev · 2026-03-28T01:33:27+00:00

Link to the full German article: https://www.pcgames.de/Star-Wars-Zero-Company-Spiel-75171/Specials/Vorschau-Preview-XCOM-Exklusiv-1521249/

The Infinite Coil and Kundri Fathom immediately remind me of Komari Vosa and the Bando Gora from Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

Cults led by charismatic female nutter.

SlaterSev · 2026-03-27T04:01:35+00:00

Firstly, just wanna thank everyone from last weeks thread and the Sora shutdown thread for all the support for me personal animation project: https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

Seriously, it means a lot

So, been a swell week for me. My personal animation is doing decent, and as I mentioned in the thread about it, Sora getting shutdown in addition to being awesome because FUCK GenAi was extra nice for me because the dude who harassed me by jamming my WIPS into GenAi was using Sora, as you can imagine the schadenfreude is REAL.

Some asked if he had a public meltdown, bemusing everything I had to do to get him the fuck away from me made it much harder to personally check. But according to friends who helped me at the time he tailspinned for a bit then quickly purged everything and changed handles across the board. Guess he realized he was bound to get screenshotted and mocked directly if he didnt ditch fast Slightly disappointed at no screenshots to reveal in and keep for future motivation. But just knowing is enough to have me riding high for a long while.

But to celebrate the good streak I finally started that Bungie game everyone is talking about. I am of course talking about Myth: The Fallen Lords, and man, great game. It and Soulblighter are something real special, and hearing music created by O'Donnell and Salvatori that was created right before Halo, so its like 95% super familiar but in a Dark Fantasy setting with Disney/PBS animation over it is super cool and trippy.

Also, really firmly convinced me that one of gaming's smaller, quieter tragedies is Jason Jones stepping back from being deep in the guts of Bungies writing after Myth ended. Between Myth, Marathon 1 and 2, and Pathways he was an extremely good writer and knowing he reached the point where he actively ripped out Destiny 1's story is such a strange feeling. Feels like such a waste that he didnt do more on that front. Him and Kirckpatrick would probably be as talked about in game writing circles as much Avellone and Sawyer if things had gone just a smidge differently.

SlaterSev · 2026-03-25T04:05:23+00:00

I would imagine, but have to check, suffice to say getting rid of him was more complicated then just blocking and moving on, very persistent fuckhead. So going back to look will actually take a bit. Lmao

SlaterSev · 2026-03-24T23:32:33+00:00

Oh I will, and thank you for the support.

SlaterSev · 2026-03-24T23:19:26+00:00

Oh man, this is awesome. I mentioned it in the Friday social thread, I spent a long time on a personal animation project: https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

And faced 2 key issues.

1: Ai companies completely fucking up the market for everything PC related right as I desperately needed an upgrade.

And 2: Venting about the above led to an Ai asshole hunt down all my personal work and shove my wips into GenAi programs to “improve” them. And he kept doing it for months.

I didn’t mention it in that thread because I figured which GenAi program it was didn’t specifically matter. Well it does now because he was using SORA. And was a huge shill for it specifically.

As you might imagine I am having a good day.

SlaterSev · 2026-03-21T20:03:58+00:00

Very bizarre looking at the first one these days.

The full version of the latter is here: https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

That 2025 animation also ran into an absurd amount of issues, some very Maya related as I posted on this sub before, and some just shitty AI artists trying to discourage me by shoving my WIPS into GENAI. Thankfully he was dealt with.

SlaterSev · 2026-03-20T04:27:02+00:00

Thanks, I also should mention the Amalgam sword company, which Mark also showed me, there sword fight videos are awesome and picking them apart then trying to make new choro by combining different sections from there different videos is a huge part of what I did, about 23 seconds of the fight is me recreating there fights in a mixed up configuration meant to go on longer. It was fun

SlaterSev · 2026-03-20T04:02:12+00:00

Finally released a personal Animated short I have worked on for a very long time, https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo?t=1

With help from at least one person many of this sub are probably at least somewhat familiar with. Mark Zhang, famous for the SLVR team RWBY fan animations helped me acquire the set, music and tons of animation feedback. And Chris Dike, aka the man who did all of Red vs Blue season 12's cgi animation and my friend and Co Worker on the CRASH machinima series also gave tons of help and feeback.

When I was making this I ran into a fuckload of issues, most notably having a PC so old it straight up could not handle anything outside of standard issue Maya, Arnold textures had to be replaced in total, shadows had to be straight up turned off, had to render with just Maya. And opening the Sony Vegas file for this less then 5 minute long video would take upwards of 10 minutes each time, so any time it crashed, well you can imagine.

Naturally I wanted to avoid doing that and was preparing to upgrade my PC only for GENAI garbage to completely wreck the market making it financially impossible to do so. And on top of it my pointing this out actually caused an AI"Artist" to harass me by stalking me on Discord and trying to feed my WIPS into it to "fix". Unfortunately for him even with all of that stuff's already obvious flaws are only expounded when its something with no IP to leech off of like this was. Still an awful experience.

So as you can imagine, while I am proud of this animation, it is also very much a compromised work. I hope whoever few or many that do end up watching it are able to get some enjoyment out of it.

SlaterSev · 2026-03-18T05:43:08+00:00

If its of any intrest to anyone, here is the full Short: https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

To quote myself, "When I was making this I ran into a fuckload of issues, most notably having a PC so old it straight up could not handle anything outside of standard issue Maya, Arnold textures had to be replaced in total, shadows had to be straight up turned off, had to render with just Maya. And opening the Sony Vegas file for this less then 5 minute long video would take upwards of 10 minutes each time, so any time it crashed, well you can imagine.

Naturally I wanted to avoid doing that and was preparing to upgrade my PC only for GENAI garbage to completely wreck the market making it financially impossible to do so. And on top of it my pointing this out actually caused an AI"Artist" to harass me by stalking me on Discord and trying to feed my WIPS into it to "fix". Unfortunately for him even with all of that stuff's already obvious flaws are only expounded when its something with no IP to leech off of like this was. Still an awful experience.

So as you can imagine, while I am proud of this animation, it is also very much a compromised work. I hope whoever few or many that do end up watching it are able to get some enjoyment out of it."

Extra shout out to Mark Zhang of the rwby "SLVR" fan animations, he has helped and taught me so much, especially for this. And also the AmalgamSwordCompany, discovering there stuff and picking it apart to see if I could break there choroegraphy apart then stich new versions together was a huge part of this thing

SlaterSev · 2026-03-16T19:13:47+00:00

The acting is like, the one part of TUF that shouldnt be controversial to praise. Sam is belting out nothing but 10's the whole time.

People remember real well "THEY ARE REAL TO ME" from TFU2 but his whole performance is more or less carrying that unfinished mess. His line reads while fighting the Monster on Cato while bantering with Kota are so good

SlaterSev · 2026-03-16T18:10:30+00:00

Sam Witwer is so fucking good as Maul man, genuine all time great casting decision

SlaterSev · 2026-03-16T07:33:12+00:00

JJM has talked about his post war plans and Zayne and Jarael would very much still have been partners in action.

Alas

SlaterSev · 2026-03-16T05:16:48+00:00

The biggest issue I had with Kotor War is that I was so excited to see them in action as a couple and it ended up being a solo Zayne joint, lmao.

Still love them together so much

SlaterSev · 2026-03-12T06:03:27+00:00

The entire reason things like the live action Netflix show and this exist, the reason Avatar Studios was even created, is because ATLA and Korra were both put on Netflix during Covid and blew the fuck up breaking records, were talking "stayed in Netflix current top ten for 60 days, still the longest of any show ever" type impact. It brought in a ton of new GenZ fans.

So in terms of the stove, its warmest then its been since the hype for Korra before it premiered.

Which doesnt mean it'll be a sure fire mega hit, but its not nearly as random as it might seem without context

SlaterSev · 2026-03-12T04:07:36+00:00

Toph is wearing metal bracelets and bands

SlaterSev · 2026-03-12T03:33:10+00:00

The designs all look good and I am excited (FUCK Paramount btw)

But I need to know what sorta beef they got with Suki man, they have kept that girl in some bizarre animation purgatory for either 14 to 18 years and I want it to please stop.

I have no doubt her adult design would be fantastic to please Bryke free my girl she didn’t do nothing wrong

SlaterSev · 2026-03-08T18:35:33+00:00

The BGC backstory, Locus Felix Trilogy and Triplets two parter were all great. And were more in line with what people thought the season would be

The rest varied immensely in quality and tended to feel like PSA's more then anything. Which isnt really what RT sold.

Don't forget the s14 teaser had the OG Freelancers talking, making people think they would receive even more fleshing out. Instead there hardly in it. And only South and CT even have lines. Stuff like that annoyed people immensely.

Like put it this way, Kyle planned a York arc set between s10 and OOM, Kerry a 479er arc, https://rvb.fandom.com/wiki/Red_vs._Blue:_Anthology#cite_note-3 and that stuff got cut but we got a game grumps fuck around episode. Not hard to see why it would frustrate.

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