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“What are we longing for at the sight of beauty? Is it that we would be beautiful ourselves? We imagine that much happiness comes this way. That, however, is a mistake.” – Nietzsche, quoting from memory
This quote above is in fact deadly actual for real-life nyalas (and not only them, of course). Literally, my first encounter with the species was an article describing how to hunt the “incredibly beautiful nyala”. I’m not principially against hunting but here I do get a feel of mental glitch. If something is so beautiful, I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to kill it.
This animation here is a side project really, but since I got all this fur, it’s a waste not to show it off. I probably said that many time already, but I’m in love with the way the nyalas look. The colors, the stripes, the thick fluff!
I posted a preview like a month ago. It would have been done much quicker, but, can you guess?… Hairflow. Always that damn thing. Taking as much time as the rest of animation work combined.
The clip itself is, as always, linked externally because of the file size. A compressed version here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19z.....usp=share_link
And here’s an uncompressed version. May have better quality, though I wonder if it matters in practice:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UT.....usp=share_link
Comments are welcome!
This quote above is in fact deadly actual for real-life nyalas (and not only them, of course). Literally, my first encounter with the species was an article describing how to hunt the “incredibly beautiful nyala”. I’m not principially against hunting but here I do get a feel of mental glitch. If something is so beautiful, I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to kill it.
This animation here is a side project really, but since I got all this fur, it’s a waste not to show it off. I probably said that many time already, but I’m in love with the way the nyalas look. The colors, the stripes, the thick fluff!
I posted a preview like a month ago. It would have been done much quicker, but, can you guess?… Hairflow. Always that damn thing. Taking as much time as the rest of animation work combined.
The clip itself is, as always, linked externally because of the file size. A compressed version here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19z.....usp=share_link
And here’s an uncompressed version. May have better quality, though I wonder if it matters in practice:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UT.....usp=share_link
Comments are welcome!
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Antelope
Size 1280 x 720px
File Size 211.1 kB
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Huh, really... A dumb technical oversight. I've managed to address it in the other recent works, but in this one, the environment was set up quite a bit earlier and I forgot to update with the newest findings. Basically, there's a 'shadowcatcher' object involved. And even though it is not visible in itself, for best effect it needs to be set to approximate color of the part of the background image it is simulating. So here it should have this beige concrete hue. And I didn't think of adjusting this, it just remained default white, that is, too bright. Which made the shading to be too light.
I can agree, making the shadows just a little more prominent could help. Over all it looks pretty good.
This is not a critique of your work, more a personal preference suggestion. I have told you before, you are good with stoic expressions. However, I think in something like this, perhaps having him form a subtle smile, or turn his eyes towards the camera/viewer in the last frames before the cut of each scene, would really sell the idea of him showing off. :)
This is not a critique of your work, more a personal preference suggestion. I have told you before, you are good with stoic expressions. However, I think in something like this, perhaps having him form a subtle smile, or turn his eyes towards the camera/viewer in the last frames before the cut of each scene, would really sell the idea of him showing off. :)
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