jthrash's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pig: The Dam Keeper]

The design is very graphic (like an old UPA cartoon such as Mr. Magoo), which in my opinion is great considering how bland a lot of CG Animation still looks despite advances in rigging and animation technology. My biggest critique is simply that you should have increased the Render Samples (I'm assuming you're either using Cycles in Blender or Arnold in Maya)--the shadows have some rather ugly and noticeable noise. I know it takes forever to render, but especially for a single image like this here, one should be willing to wait as long as necessary to get a clean, crisp image. Also, when you are done rendering, maybe you can bump up the saturation of the colors in a photo editor like Photoshop or Gimp? The slightly desaturated tones imply that this is a depressing scene set in a factory farm or something, which I don't think you're going for. Making the backdrop any color other than gray would also help a ton. Finally, maybe try to learn how to make textures and bump maps, especially for the clothes, to create the illusion of more detail?

Again, though, the actual character design and 3d model is actually fantastic for a beginner, my critiques just have to do with literally every other aspect of the CG character pipeline, like lighting, color and texturing.

OctavioJG responds:

Wow ... that was a complete criticism, and I really appreciate it, almost no one had taken the time to give me a criticism of such magnitude because many of my friends do not know about 3D. I am a beginner and I continue studying, this is my first rendering, and I am very aware of the problems that render has, in fact I could already give it a touch up because I finished the matter, and I ended up liking the world of 3D modeling a lot. I had taken other renderings in different camera shots, but I don't know what happened that Newgrounds wouldn't let me upload more than one image, if you're interested you could go to private for you to see. And yes I use maya, although I want to explore Blender, I am starting it from scratch. Once again, thank you very much for the time you have dedicated to me. Un pinche saludo grandote! , bro!

[The Big Character and the Tiny Goblin]

I notice the tiny goblin is green and retired...

Potatoman responds:

And dead.

[Commission Veil Star Wars OC]

The lighting and shadows are very dramatic in this one. Nice!

Gx3RComics responds:

Thanks doodle!
Took a bit to do but it worked out in the end.

[Squish]

I don’t even know what I’m looking at, but I like it.

Potatoman responds:

Its a hand squishing a turquoise creature's lips

[Final Fantasy Legacy]

A lot of PS1 RPGs are difficult to finish without a good strategy guide or walkthrough—ironic considering you couldn’t just go to GameFAQs or find a YouTube walkthrough back then, you had to hope a game was popular enough to get a proper Prima or Brady Games strategy guidebook. Final Fantasy IX is one of my favorites, though, so it’s worth playing in my opinion.

FuShark responds:

Hah yeh, that's one way of playing a game that doesn't exist anymore unless you force yourself not to look. I would love to eventually.

[Little Internet User]

I REEEEAAALLY hope she has responsible parents who know what she’s doing on the Internet. Her childlike innocence must be protected for as long as possible!

Nabella responds:

She's beyond any of us in the sense that she strictly uses the internet for research and practical purposes.

[Jesus Saw]

He knows when you are sleeping...
He knows when you’re awake...
He knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake!

Nabella responds:

Santa and Jesus were brothers separated at birth.

[quote]

This is a great low-poly design, but I do have a nitpick about the turntable animation that can easily be fixed. Assuming you use Blender, it looks like you used the default “Slow In, Slow Out” animation interpolation—Quote here would spin consistently at the same speed if you set the keyframes to “Linear” instead. Also, to make this rotation truly seamless, you should render the whole animation, but cut out the last frame in your video editor. For example, if your animation is 120 frames long, cut out the 120th frame only so that it doesn’t look like Quote stops rotating for a split second before starting again. Then he could spin non-stop for all eternity!

nokoi responds:

good call, added it as an extra cause i wanted the original to stop for a sec

[No ordinary love]

You might want to take Birdo to the ER, Yosh. They’re not looking so good...

DummyPhantom responds:

no she needs to die

[Ko-Fi Drive Neera Li complete]

From Freedom Planet? Nice.

Gx3RComics responds:

Yup! Lot of followers on twitter seem to be into the game, me too so, figured it'd work out