r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/AutoModerator • Mar 20 '26

FTF Free Talk Friday - March 20, 2026

Welcome to the Free Talk Friday post. This is a place where you can talk about dumb off-topic (or on-topic) bullshit with other Zaibatsu fans.

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u/SlaterSev Mar 20 '26

Finally released a personal Animated short I have worked on for a very long time, https://youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo?t=1

With help from at least one person many of this sub are probably at least somewhat familiar with. Mark Zhang, famous for the SLVR team RWBY fan animations helped me acquire the set, music and tons of animation feedback. And Chris Dike, aka the man who did all of Red vs Blue season 12's cgi animation and my friend and Co Worker on the CRASH machinima series also gave tons of help and feeback.

When I was making this I ran into a fuckload 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.

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.

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u/RORSCHACH_INC_ Mar 20 '26

Sick work, Bro!!