File:Initiation- Animated Mini Movie

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Warning, this video has strong language and cartoon violence. With that out of the way, let’s start this description.

So first of all, big thank you to my friend The Couch Potato for helping a ton with coloring. Go check her channel out, its amazing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfwV0IAo-cRuNU1aVsJFuqg

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Okay, I’m actually going to talk about this production wise now I suppose? First things first, I need to apologize. I voiced this entire thing myself cause I was too lazy to get some voice actors but I promise this was never my intention with any future projects, I just did it here cause I wanted to not have to deal with getting va’s for my first big project. I’d advice not to do this yourself, I had to listen to my own voice for way longer than I want to know anndd that was pretty painful. Also, I’m horrible at sound effects I’m going to get help with em in the future.

That stuff being said bout audio, even though I could go on and on bout things I don’t like with the animation I won’t. I’m actually fairly okay with a lot of it, and I think you can see some improvement from the beginning to the end. Buuut one thing I’ll point out is shots and composition aren’t too great, and the idk flow between shots isn’t always that good, I’ll put more effort into story boarding in the future to help this.

So this thing took bout 5ish months to animate? Along the way I’ve learned ways to get faster so hopefully I’ll get even quicker, but I donno 5-6ish months doesn’t seem too bad for my first thing. The script though, holy shit it took way too long. I first had the idea for this May 10th 2018 (lmao I remember the date because it was the day after this 2 minute thing I made that also had cringy voice acting done just by me caus in this case I had a deadline for myself of May 9th and there were two characters okayyy I had somewhat of an excuse back then.) I got to work on it soon after, writing scene one but a much different scene one annndd then I ditched the script for several months cause I realized I just had an incredibly vague idea of the story. I picked it up occasionally and continued to have this ‘o yeah I didn’t plan out any of the story and I don’t want to’ sooo I rewrote things and procrastinated. This was kinda an idea that I didn’t want to develop which isn’t an issue with my other stories thankfully soo future projects I’m probably going to do a speeeed through the script but still try and make it decent. Another thing bout the script, sorry some dialogue is so dam cringy it’s like this thing can’t decide if it wants to be G or PG-13

Alright, so I know I’ve addressed my own criticism of meself now for this caus I cant restrainnn but if you want to give your own criticism I’d appreciate it! I’m so new to this and I there's probably a million ways to improve this that I didn’t even see.

Mmk one more thing, I keep alluding to ‘future projects’ I’ll just tell ya instead of being kinda secretive like I was with this thing and tell ya that I’m going to make an animated series in the future. I’ve been plannin it for years and this was kinda just to dip my toes in the water and know how long episodes would take and stuff like that. This whole thing actually takes place inside of my series universe, and takes place during episode two of it. It expands on a certain plot point that happens. So there is a lot I haven’t explained in this thing, that’s kinda why. I’ll explain some things later. Doesnt excuse some of the diolouge in this being stupiddd. Anyway if you liked this and are interested in my future series maybe join my discord server? You can also join if you just like my videos and such! I’d really like to make it more active ^^ https://discord.gg/xfSHRT3

I also have an amino for the same things so u can join it if ya want http://aminoapps.com/c/Tpoath

And while I’m plugging everything heres me insta and DA I just post bad traditional art on insta and bad digital on DA lmao

https://www.instagram.com/tranquilsatisfaction/

https://www.deviantart.com/tranquilsatisfaction