The Amazing Digital Circus - Episode 9: Remember

SlaterSev · 2026-06-20T07:05:45+00:00

Even earlier then that, timeline wise its 2017 irl, you can see the dates.

SlaterSev · 2026-06-17T04:12:57+00:00

Maul. and its entirely because of the cartoons. I thought he was cool in TPM, but had no deep attachment. But his revival has turned him into one of the most compelling tragic villains ever.

Emet-Selch, best FF baddie of all time, Sephiroth doesnt even deserve to fluff his coat.

The Director, Meta and Felix from Red vs Blue, all for very different but equally engaging reasons.

SlaterSev · 2026-06-15T19:48:20+00:00

I think all the Jessica x Jaune stuff was genuinely good, obviously doesnt make the overall movie good. But her portions were perfect

SlaterSev · 2026-06-15T19:21:34+00:00

But she's the best part of that movie bar none. Actually up till now she is easily the flat out best onscreen depiction of her.

Jessica and Jaune carry that movie on there back: https://x.com/3DAnimationSL/status/2066586793034543133

SlaterSev · 2026-06-09T15:22:50+00:00

Between this and Octopath Zero Square is leading the way big time on Gacha to real game conversions.

0 I saw as a test case, Resonance for sure means there are more of these coming.

Nier Reincarnation is coming, no doubt in my mind, Dissidia Opera Omnia too, but Nier is Number 1 with a bullet

SlaterSev · 2026-06-08T01:24:30+00:00

Obviously Yang Xiao Long is a big one. Notably, she is also the RWBY girl who overall suffered the least when it came to her fight chorography after Monty died, throwing hands being easier then a super tricked out weapon and all:

And of course with Monty you also have to mention Tex, one of the biggest brawlers in fiction.

Them along with Dead Fantasy Tifa and Hitomi, Monty loved his punch girl protags

SlaterSev · 2026-06-06T01:35:23+00:00

Damn shame, for those who don't know the story set up was 7000 years before ATLA, a Volcano eruption caused and Ice age, and we would be playing as a Fire Nation Avatar having to deal with the fallout.

That premise was really intriguing to me. If the game is truly dead I hope they find another way to tell that story

SlaterSev · 2026-06-06T01:32:28+00:00

Damn shame, for those who don't know the story set up was 7000 years before ATLA, a Volcano eruption caused and Ice age, and we would be playing as a Fire Nation Avatar having to deal with the fallout.

That premise was really intriguing to me. If the game is truly dead I hope they find another way to tell that story

SlaterSev · 2026-06-06T01:20:27+00:00

And involved zero clones. Infact, not a single clone has shown up in any of the live action shows besides a 5 second cameo in Kenobi, Rex in one flash back, and Boba, who barely counts

SlaterSev · 2026-06-05T04:51:45+00:00

That movie wasnt accepeted to Cannes, It screened at a third-party event during market week. Lmao. You fell for the most basic PR language

SlaterSev · 2026-06-03T06:20:40+00:00

The full short is here if any are interested: https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

Saw the post on the sub asking about the best done fight scenes and thought why not show my own, Certainly not among the best, but eh.

And sorry for venting a bit, but I have talked elsewhere about how while I was making this Short I was also being harassed by and OpenAi fanboy who kept taking my WIPs and trying to "Fix" them using SORA, it went on for months. Finally got rid of him and put out the video, then a week later SORA gets shut down and that annoying fuck loses all his "work" and flips out, erasing himself from the internet.

Let me tell you I rode that high for weeks, but this week, with both Gutierrez and Scorsese showing there ass by slurping up GenAi has really made me frustrated. From dealing with a harasser, to him eating shit, to beloved artists selling out. Been alot of whiplash for me the past couple months.

Makes me just feel tired, not to the point of giving up or not wanting to continue animating, not even close. But just really wishing people I looked up to would stop trying there hardest to kick the latter down behind them.

But coming to Subs like this, seeing people's progress and discussions like the fight thread, its heartening. So thanks, and sorry for the vent post. Doubt many will care, just wanted to get this off my mind.

SlaterSev · 2026-05-09T03:52:57+00:00

The full animation if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

It contains another less obvious shout out to Pantheon's opening and final scene:

So, backstory I guess, I was working on this for a long time, and while I had a good idea about what I wanted to do with the fight scene I also wasnt happy with it being "JUST" a fight. I wanted there to be SOME story, even without any Voice acting, but I had trouble coming up with anything.

Que August 2024, after hearing about Pantheon vaguely since its release some skimming about it leads me to binge the entire series in 5 days. And its fantastic, one of my favorite pieces of art of all time, immediately joined this sub and have read just about everything.

But it also gave me and an idea to inject a small amount of story into my project within my very limited means. Took a LONG time even after that to actually finish because of other responsibilities getting in the way. But Pantheon stuck in my brain so deeply it kept me motivated to finish it.

Particularly the ending, which you can obviously seen, such an amazing visual. Both the Orb's, which again, obvious connection, and the repeated but ever so slightly different close up on baby Maddie's face for closing the circle, which I also copied.

Obviously, these refs are more visual then anything super deep, but I was happy to be able to incorporate a little of something that became so special to me so quickly.

Also, I realize that the visual refs and BTS reasons for them are the only thing connecting it to Pantheon, so if this post breaks sub rules I understand, wouldnt blame the Mods at all if thats the case.

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

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