Quest of the Key - Animated Fantasy Adventure Series
Auroratrek
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Chapters One, Two, and Three of Quest of the Key are now available on YouTube! Quest of the key is an animated fantasy adventure series in the vein of Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons, but doesn't take itself too seriously. Daz users will recognize many of the assets and characters used in this production. Chapter Three has just been published, but I will include links to Chapter One and Two if you haven't seen those.
Chapter One - "Help Wanted"
Chapter Two - "Garador"
Chapter Three - "Jack"
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I remember the beginning of this being posted by you a few years back as a work in progress.
Wow the level of polish and storytelling is superb. We have a protagonist we like almost instantly, her resolve and tenacity are exciting to watch, and the story is unfolding at a pace and design that shows professional level of cinematic exposition. The edits are succinct and efficient and the shots never linger too long. The expressions, lip sync and motion captured animation is spot on too. Very impressive. Really liked it.
Awesome. I have only watched chapter one so far, but definitely want to continue.
Animation is very smooth and natural, just the right amount of humor. It is interesting to notice what is going on in the background during certain scenes, nice attention to detail.
I hardly want to watch DS animations anymore because the quality is generally poor, but this is a notable exception. (I assume it is animated in DS, if I am wrong I apologize. Maybe it was exported to Blender or Carrara?)
Thank you! I'm pleased with how it is coming together. One of the great things about animation--as the writer--is that it really makes me pare down the story and dialog to their essentials, since I know I'm the one who has to animate it LOL. I tried my hand at writing science fiction novels years ago, and I was pretty verbose, so animation has been good for me. I have to credit my voice cast for giving me a lot of expressive dialog to animate to, so that helps a lot, too, by giving me the inspiration for both the mocap and the expressions. Glad you enjoyed it! I'm working on Chapter 4 now.
Thank you! I hope you like the other chapters. A lot of fun of animation can be the little details you put in the background that you don't know if anyone will notice, but it's fun to just add them. I used to animate in Daz & Poser (my Star Trek: Aurora episodes were done that way), but I finally had to bail because some of the essential plugins I used (particularly Mimic lip sync) aged out. Doing animation well on this level is a lot of work and requires a lot of patience--it can take a year to create 10 minutes of animation when you do it yourself--but I enjoy the process and the challenge, so I'm able to have fun with the journey as well as the destination. It also doesn't hurt to have some expensive hardware and an understanding wife LOL. I still use a lot of Daz assets--most of the characters began as Michael 4 and Victoria 4--but I bring them into iClone to animate there. By and large, Daz assets are better than those from iClone, so I keep coming back for sets, props, and characters. CC/iClone does a pretty good job importing the Daz characters, tho I wouldn't mind if Daz worked more directly with iClone. Any, afgain, I hope you enjoy the other chapters!
Excellent! The attention to detail is astounding. The story and characters engaing and funny. Looking forward to chapter 2!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Chapters 2 and 3 are available at the links in my earlier post, but also available on the YouTube channel. I'm working on Chapter 4 now, and hope to have that out asap.