Original, Animated Web Toon - Warriors of the Unknown

CosmicRadicals

Hi Guys,

Me and my small team spent a good deal of time and effort creating an original, action/comedy web toon, that follows a group of gamers, entirely in-game, in a life-or-death struggle to stop a hacker from destroying the Internet.

Lest anyone got the wrong impression, we're not Pixar or Studio Ghibli when it comes to animation. But we did want to tell an original story that no one else would probably ever make. And we wanted to make it a full show, with a beginning, middle, and an end.

Our trailer is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD5W9aKMMGI

You can see the full 27-minute episode here: http://cosmicradicals.com I would embed this also, but it doesn't seem to be working right with the blip.tv player.

We want to know what you think.

Obviously at this point, we can't really change the first episode, but any comments or suggestions would be appreciated for the future. Even negative ones, but please keep it constructive.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for your time!

Edit: Possibly NSFW for some. The trailer is pretty clean, except for one moment of over-the-top cartoonish bloodletting. But there is some PG-13-level cursing (no f-bombs) in the main show (but not constant). There's also a brief cartoon butt, and some scantily-clad cartoon women, depicted in stills.

Apologies for this not occurring to me sooner.

m3nace

Looks interesting, I'll watch it tomorrow.

CosmicRadicals

So. Anyone got any comments?

How about the Trailer? Did it pique your interest, or turn you off?

Heartlash

I'm half and half on it. Everything that's bad about it feels intentional. For example the audio quality immediately turned me off, but they I realized that it was similar to Ventrilo audio quality, which makes sense. Likewise, the quality of the animation is lazy, but may work in a south park manner given the shows intended mood.

That said, even if these things are intentionally bad, they still stuck out to me in negative ways. Maybe you need to find more of a balance by adding just a bit more polish.

The concept has potential and a few things in there made me smile, but I'm worried you may run out of material too quickly if you're not careful.

CosmicRadicals

Heartlash wrote: »

I'm half and half on it. Everything that's bad about it feels intentional. For example the audio quality immediately turned me off, but they I realized that it was similar to Ventrilo audio quality, which makes sense. Likewise, the quality of the animation is lazy, but may work in a south park manner given the shows intended mood.

That said, even if these things are intentionally bad, they still stuck out to me in negative ways. Maybe you need to find more of a balance by adding just a bit more polish.

The concept has potential and a few things in there made me smile, but I'm worried you may run out of material too quickly if you're not careful.

If you're referring to the audio quality of the voices, then yes, that was left a bit rough to emulate people speaking through mics in an online game environment. But if it's distracting, then it should be something we should be concerned with.

The animation is admittedly, 'lazy', and pretty spartan at times. It really came down to a will to complete the show despite not having a true animator. If we are able to continue producing episodes we would definitely aim to vastly improve on the animation and perspectives.

Thanks for your input!