Let's talk! (MMD, animation in general)
Added 2025-06-08 19:00:05 +0000 UTC
This is not an update post like for example the last post was, but more of a "bait for comments" type of post while i'm recovering (managed to get sick in the first few days of summer, lol. Dont worry, i'm already much better!).
I'm trying to not ask for stuff like this or in general reminding about likes or comments or stuff like this. You don't owe me anything and the fact that you all still supporting me in one way or\and another, while me being extremely slow animator (Spending 170-200 hours on tracing is...something and sadly i didn't saw anyone as slow as me in tracing animation lmao) or working on multiple animations at the same time and not being able to upload anything for multiple months is already surprising. I am very grateful to everyone who supports me, no matter in what ways.
I've been a bit lost in the last couple years in terms of what people think about my "creation" or purely about quality of my animation. Part of the problem is also that i've pretty much stopped making full videos (like full videos with camera and effects, the last one with long dance was done for Doja Cat song, if we will not count shorter dances or "tiktok-shorts" dances. I'm not even talking about stuff with original animation.) The number of works has dropped by a lot in general. There's a reason for that, which has been partially fixed now, but i don't want to complain once again ahah.
Anyway. I just want to ask you - What do you think about my animation lately? Like...is the quality of the animation good? It's always hard for me to know how good my work looks because i'm just harsh on myself all the time aha! What kind of animation would you like to see more of in the future? Doesn't even matter if it's p2u animations, maybe you just want to see animations with characters of mine that I used to do sometimes. Maybe you want to see more solo animation, duets or group dances?
Maybe you don't like the genre of music, or maybe it's a problem like "i want to see more j-pop that k-pop". Most of the time if i have a choice to do some dance tracing i choose by “I like the choreography/melody” and do not pay attention to the genre of music or how popular this or that song tbh, but this is me. Maybe you think that my quality is bad and you want me to try do blender animation\tracing or maybe the opposite? I'm not aiming for ultra perfect smooth motion-capture level animation, but maybe you think that at least in dances you want to see this?
In general what do you think...about all of this, aha?
Comments
Na naaa wall of text is fine, i looove reading long comments (and write big posts also lmao). THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Its nice to hear that its not fully "just smooth animation" because while im trying to do everything smooth and pretty realistic, i want to do animation that kinda mix of "its looks really smooth" but "its have its own rough style" you know? So its nice to hear! Well if im able to choose songs most of the times im just go by "i like this song\i like this dance" choose and its just happens that sometimes its k-pop (+a lot of them have easy to find choreos video ngl ;OGUDFHOPNBIUFHGN). With vocaloid songs its a bit tricky because im not that often listen songs with vocs\utaus or even if i am - there is a big chance its not have any dances\only good for singing animation. But there a couple not that popular songs in my "reference folder" so i will think about this. The blender part is mostly if people think its better for me to try out blender or not. Im not really want to just into blender right away because i have a lot of animations that "on hold"\not for sell\with my OCs, that i already do in mmd and its will stay like this. But for dances i can try? Anyway thank you again! >w</
WFno
2025-06-16 06:52:36 +0000 UTCYour animation style is one of the best in the community currently, while I do not really mind the tiktok challenge motions, they are very good to post from time to time to keep engagement up! The quality of yout animation is amazing, it truly feels like a natural blend between hand-animation and mocap to be honest, and the result feels also very cartoon-y while retaining some natural aspects that flow very well with the overall look! On the K-Pop to J-Pop topic, I'm always feeling like the original purpose of MMD (Vocaloid Music Videos) has sloooowly been fading, getting replaced with trend motions that quickly disappear after a while. . so having someone that takes their time animating songs they actually enjoy and not only for the content it's really a breath of fresh air! No fault to any animator that follows that path, it's just an opinion of mine and everyone is entitled to their own. If you want to try Blender animation I'd say to give it a try, even tho the workflow compared to MMD is kinda different and a bit difficult to pick up at first. . Anyways, I'd love to see more content from you, even if it's small!! Your animations always feel so lively and natural, as if the characters were actually alive! Keep up the great work Wolf!! Sorry for the wall of text haha
AxelCode
2025-06-08 19:20:50 +0000 UTC
