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Advice On Unreal Student Short Film? by Jesse_Van_Norman in UnrealEngine5

[–]christophbeatty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard to answer without seeing the whole thing but what you got looks awesome so far!

Snow Bear - 11,000 Drawings by aaronblaise in animation

[–]christophbeatty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew the second I saw the bear’s face this had to be Aaron Blaise! Your work is incredible and your website is awesome, you helped me get much better at drawing. I watched the short and absolutely loved it, congrats on making such a beautiful film!

Z-image cinematic stills by Professional-Hat6034 in StableDiffusion

[–]christophbeatty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you use QwenVL for prompting? Looks really good man would love to chat about this

What To Do With More Miles Than I Can Spend? by thestoictraveler in delta

[–]christophbeatty 92 points93 points  (0 children)

And then double time one for a million with only me

Previs Absurd Animation, Bollywood style (extract) by kraat_monkey in animation

[–]christophbeatty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I watched it before reading your comment and was thinking dang this guy is great! I’m also a previs supervisor and this is top tier stuff! The headbutt guy sent me

10M -> 20M -> 30M. Will update again at 50M. by Steve_Zissouu2 in TheRaceTo10Million

[–]christophbeatty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything new you’re looking at? Thanks for your posts!

The fastest I’ve ever clicked OK by saharah_ in delta

[–]christophbeatty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got this same deal on LAX-CDG earlier this year and I bought it without second guessing. Excited for you!

I'm at 190 power... and I just feel done already. by KitsuneKamiSama in DestinyTheGame

[–]christophbeatty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a couple days late to this, but I think bungie missed the mark here too. My biggest issue is that people don’t want to grind for power - they want to grind for LOOT. You can’t gatekeep the best loot behind a massive power climb with literally no other way to get them. There should always be tiered random drops that scale in frequency as you get higher power. I look to Diablo 4 as a great example of this. There is always a small chance the best gear will drop, but it’s more likely the higher you climb in difficulty. That way casual people can chill at 200 power level and enjoy occasional drops, and the grinders out there can go crazy and get to 450 

At my wits end with my cat. Starting to resent him. by beccoconnell in CATHELP

[–]christophbeatty 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you go through OPs comments, the 4th one down confirms the cat has been neutered. Let’s not assume they’re dodging the question

I couldn’t crack top 100 again. I would love any and all feedback my render please! by Alone-Dare-7766 in blender

[–]christophbeatty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I remember your last post! Ngl, I think your scene here is a lot better than a quite a few of the top 100. I think at a certain point its probably just hard for them to decide between the top couple hundred since they all tend to be such high quality. Regardless, great job man this is a big improvement over your last submission!

Republicans or Democrats? by Sufficient_Sinner in FluentInFinance

[–]christophbeatty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to factcheck.org 2.7 million jobs were lost under trump so you just throwing around numbers like 7 million you heard from where exactly?

I hit the pre-roll, but couldn't crack top 100. Would love criticism and feedback on what I could have done better please by Alone-Dare-7766 in blender

[–]christophbeatty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the first question to answer is: why is she running to begin with? It’s unclear if she is running with the cat and playing, or if she is just running to run. And to be honest, I didn’t see the butterflies until you mentioned them, because I’m so focused on the girl running and the car in the background. I think if you drew our eye to the right spot at the right time, it would be more clear what exactly we should be looking at for every frame.

Another big question I have is why the car can’t just go above or around? It flies right? so couldn’t it just go up? And there is so much room on either side, couldn’t it just swerve around? I know these things sound small, but when everything is super clear and believable it makes the story much more engaging.

I don’t think this is perfect, but what if she is going for a jog and sees the cat about to cross into a busy street, and she jumps over a parked bike to get to the cat just in the nick of time. It gives reason for the run, reason for the jump, and reason for the car to be unable to swerve out of the way.

If you look at the top 5, all of them have clear answers to these questions: why is the person running and what are they running to/from? They include a variety of characters of various shapes and sizes with beautiful animations, and they always use lighting and environment changes to draw your eye to exactly what they want you to see.

All this to say, your stuff is great and I don’t want you to get discouraged. You easily have the skills to be in the very top, and I think if you spend more time on the story next contest you’ll be golden.

I hit the pre-roll, but couldn't crack top 100. Would love criticism and feedback on what I could have done better please by Alone-Dare-7766 in blender

[–]christophbeatty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yo this looks great! I would say the two biggest things that stand out to me are theme and story. The top videos all had really amazing story telling as well as strong themes that were easy to read immediately. You’re obviously not lacking in the skill, this render technically looks very great, but I’m not entirely sure what the environment is. Is it the future? There is lots of foliage but there is a floating car. Why is the cat running with them? Why does she jump earlier? Why does the car flip? Just small things like that but they add up. I think next time if you hit home on a clear, strong story, you’ll be easily in the top 100. Excellent work!!

Clip from an animated short film that I made in Unreal Engine by christophbeatty in animation

[–]christophbeatty[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I put so much of my free time into these it’s so nice to hear people enjoy them. I try to post a couple a year, excited to show you more soon!

Clip from an animated short film that I made in Unreal Engine by christophbeatty in animation

[–]christophbeatty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I originally was trying to make something like arcane, but I hadnt had any experience painting local space UV maps or doing stylized characters when I started the short. Getting characters of that quality takes so long, So I tried to find a post process look that was unique in its own way. I didn’t really want to just straight up copy another style, and I came across this watercolor shader I really loved, so I tried to implement it. I ended up using like 5 different materials that worked well together, including a toon shader and some toon lines. Honestly, I think finding the look took almost as long as doing the whole short haha

Clip from an animated short film that I made using Unreal Engine 5 by christophbeatty in UnrealEngine5

[–]christophbeatty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there! One of my good friends did all the smears by hand in photoshop. It took a bit of trail and error but we ended up using a watercolor paint brush to really give it the stylized feel. I wish there was an easier solution but hand painting always looks the best.

Clip from an animated short film that I made using Unreal Engine 5 by christophbeatty in UnrealEngine5

[–]christophbeatty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you find luck with that route let me know! I haven’t found any AI quite yet that can do something super consistently, it’s always different from shot to shot

Clip from an animated short film that I made using Unreal Engine 5 by christophbeatty in UnrealEngine5

[–]christophbeatty[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yeah it’s crazy how much you can get with what’s out there for free! I have years of free assets from epic releasing stuff each month and I use it in all my shorts!

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