Shankill

I really like the design of Alfie and the old school CGI feeling of the work...There's been a trend for awhile of people searching for "lost footage" of 3d animations from the early 2000's like Shrek (there's forums dedicated to it, I believe) and I'm personally playing around with A:M because I want to create stuff with the retro feel of films like "The Mind's Eye" and ReBoot. As for commercialization, I know there was a period several years back where posting kids animation on Youtube was a seemingly easy way for some money but it was being flooded with content that was inappropriate and so Youtube updated their policies and requirements for being able to monetize. I think they made it so that videos have to be a certain length of time and meet policy requirements and I've no idea if they've limited the use of AI for monetization. That being said, I have a Roku TV and was flipping through their free channels during Christmas last year and there was an animated Christmas movie playing that was legitimately just clips of animated characters dancing looped, motion-tracked dances. If you cut to the 35 minute mark you can watch a dancing ginger bread man...I highly doubt the people involved did it for free, someone must have been paid, and I've had a look and Roku does pay for content: https://developer.roku.com/en-ca/trc-docs/video-on-demand/ad-supported/getting-started.md Not sure what the money is like though, but could definitely look at submitting Bella Bear for Roku channels.

Oh wow! That seems a pretty fun process....I kind of want to try different materials now, the results you had with it were fantastic!

Mind if I ask how you created/what your process was for creating the Play-Doh/Clay effect on the models? It looks great and the animation really captures the claymation/stop-motion style!

Nice!

Jeez that looks good! Watching it frame-by-frame (pressing the '.' button)., it looks like the ball doesn't actually touch the ground on the first bounce back on the ground, not sure if I'm seeing it wrong or if that is actually how it is animated, but it really sells the 'bounciness' of the ball to where I can imagine what holding it would feel like. Well done!

Awesome to see the process, thanks for uploading the video!

I love the look of your ray tracing image, it reminds me of The Mind's Eye animation compilations. They used to play clips of it on YTV here in Canada and it's what got me interested in 3D animation.

Looks great!