Two awesome fanvids.

[The Shad]

Two fanmade videos.

Metal Sonic vs. Sonic.



Doomsday (unfinished)

This is a project I started over a year ago, the goal was to remake the last zone from Sonic & Knuckles as a 3D animation. I wanted to add additional story points at the beginning and end to compliment the existing canon of the game. This is evidenced by my little additive prologue where Sonic finds the emeralds in space. I had planned to have a sky-diving sequence where Sonic loses his power at the end, and dives after the falling master emerald with Tails picking both of them up in the nick of time. I would have shown them flying to the floating island, dropping off the emerald and roll the credits with them flying off just as the game did it.

The plan was to finish.

So why didn't I finish? I got burnt out. Animation is a tough craft. It's especially tough when you're not sure of your own abilities. Slap that on top of having a full time animation job at the time, and it's a nightmare having the will to make time for this. You spend all your day on Autodesk Maya, the last thing you want to do when you come home is load up Maya again.

I'm releasing this now because I think things have really changed for me. I've moved away from my animation job, and got a new job working at BioWare, which is fantastic. I don't do animation there which is nice, so there's definitely a gap in that regard that might make me come back and finish. There's always that hope. I want to finish so much, there's so much I want to do for this project. So hopefully one day...

Also, lots of fanboy whining in the comments section over the colour of his eyes.

[Ellie]

I caught the Doomsday one the other day and its amazing work, must have taken him forever. The Metal sonic one is great to, even if sonic looks a tad shiny. Still, thats hardly important, its obvious it took time and its great.

[Alex]

I don't want to put down the amount of effort and work put into these, or the fact that the guy's definitely got a pretty strong directorial touch, but to be completely honest, it wasn't that great... Going off the first one alone, because the second one isn't loading for whatever reason:

In my mind, I'm comparing it to that Sonic 2 ending vid from a few years back, and it blows this out of the water. It's just a combination of the models not looking quite right (the proportions are a bit off), the textures being even weirder and shinier than in Heroes and the animation being just... not quite right somehow. It's a strange complaint, but it's just one of those things that makes your brain go "wait, that's not right..." and it kinda breaks the illusion of just watching it. The awful thumping techno music wasn't exactly helping either.

Like I said, good on him for actually doing it. I can imagine it was a huge amount of work and effort and I don't really want to downplay what he did. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to be honest and say that the end result just wasn't that great.

[The Shad]

The Metal Sonic one was done quite a while back. The second one is a [censored]ton better.

[Mark]

It IS true, you have to judge his work by the second one.

[Retro]

Even the second one I thought was up and down in a couple of ways.

His modelling in the second one is great, especially the ships and the mechanoid at the end. The way they work mechanically and function looks gorgeous. Furthermore, his "cinematic" sense for camera angles and movements are also very well put together. I can see why he works at Bioware. Animations are pretty nice too.

However, he really needs to work on his editing, the latter one took an unforgivably long time to tell something that could have been done better in half the time. Lots of times there's lingering shots for no reason and it drags it all out. Furthermore, sound editing was hit and miss. The sounds were good, but many kept getting repeated. Then of course there's the abysmal soundtracks chosen for it. I seriously don't get Snappleman's popularity in the slightest, the screaming guitars and overly loud crescendos just don't fit a scene like this in the slightest. Then random Unleashed music....for...no real reason.

Although looking over my own complaints, they are like the icing on a cake being a tad annoying...but you can scrape it off and see that underneath it there's a damn good cake still waiting for you. A very nice piece of work considering it's just him on his own and well worth the time to watch it.

[RedDevilDazzy]

The Doomsday Zone one is fantastic, the guy who made it deserves all the praise he's getting. I think he said it took him like over a year to make that one. After all that work, it's the best Sonic video I've seen!

[Baxter]

Jul 16, 2010 12:47:54 GMT Retro said:

Then of course there's the abysmal soundtracks chosen for it. I seriously don't get Snappleman's popularity in the slightest, the screaming guitars and overly loud crescendos just don't fit a scene like this in the slightest.

^ this. Actually cringed the minute that started playing.

Otherwise, pretty outstanding solo efforts, and I'm glad to hear his dedication paid off. Most will probably disagree, but I liked the pacing of the Doomsday clip; it's a bit more true-to-life, and a nice change from this "rollercoaster" style of narrative that seems to have become standard the past few years.

[Mecha HMS]

This reminds me of that awesome Sonic 2 End scene I watched a while back if anyone can link me to that would be forever grateful as not seen it in a while

The One where you see Sonic against The Battle Suit and then Escaping the Death Egg as it blows up

[RedDevilDazzy]

I like The Battle Suit, it's so shiney. Nice reflection's on the face, showing space!

[Eleonora B.M]

I like a lot more the 1° one with mtal (mabe because I really like the character) that is absolutely great! but Sonic in that vid seems just a little.....static...yeah, metal works a lot better. I'm not a lover of Sonic and Knuckles so I like a bit less but it's surely made better. They're both great!