This animation was inspired by Rwby, Pantheon AMC, RVB and so many other things, I even got help from a former rwby animator and my co worker on CRASH and friend Chris Dike, for which I am very thankful.
But that might be the less interesting part. This video was also made while I was being harassed by GenAi shills, and there is a certain delightful schedefraude I would like to share.
When I was making this I ran into an ABSURD amount 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. But here is the funny part, the program he was using to do it? SORA, which died a pathetic death just days after the video was published. My harrasser lost all his "hard work", and nuked all his accounts shilling for Open Ai. What a wonderful end to a very long and annoying struggle.
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.
If you do take the time to watch it, thank you very much and please continue to support human artists anyway you can. It means the world
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