I animated Berserk… but in Blender 

Bro has cooked yet again

I think its great that a powerful and versatile 3d program like Blender is free.

I have been thinking about a good 3d animated berserk for days.It’s like the algorithm is reading my mind.

bro, you took on a massive challenge that even a huge studio failed, berserk is a very detailed manga, understand that you're one guy. For one guy taking on such a difficult task, this is beyond amazing and very inspiring! You have mad skills not only with blender modelling, sculpting, animation, drawing, procedural fx, and texturing, but also, your video editing is nuts! If you try a simpler style like Naruto/bleach I'm positive you could nail it! keep up the amazing work!

make the impact frame a little faster and it'll be good, trust me!

This is amazing. The only "critiques" I can give are making the impact frame shorter and adding more weight when the swords first collide

One issue I have despite it being so beautiful Is the fact that the beautiful impact frames happen and then a very small sword clash effect happens which doesnt feel fully to scale in terms of power But it does kinda feel like one of those scenes where a water droplet falls to signify a big attack Idk how to say it properly

God, how this video doesn’t have like a million views? The work was flawless, keep it up man The animation was jaw dropping

100% better than the 2016 version. Stand proud, you cooked.

15:04 That one single person made this is damned impressive. The smear frames really worked with Zod - but with guts in the first shot his arms look thin and noodly. It might read better if his arms were widened at the shoulders and tapered down towards the thickness you went for in the final shot by his wrists. After Guts was sent flying could benefit from some minor tweaks as well. As he's flying through the air, slightly stretching and tapering him would convey higher speed. Faint action lines in the shape of a cone around him mimicking a supersonic mock cone is also effective at doing that. There is no visible plowed snow from where Guts impacts and drags along his back. If when he impacted the ground it kicked up some dirt & grass, had a more substantial thud sound, and had some screen shake it would really sell the power from Zod's tackle. All minor things mind you. You did a knock out job!

This looks AWESOME! Minor bit, the moment their swords impacted felt weak and lackluster as if it had zero impact. I think it would've had more impact if the other guy's sword got pushed down more, the sound being more crude than silvery, and if you wanted to go all the way, add a single black-and-white impact frame between the swords colliding scene and the Shockwave scene.

Words can't describe how awesome this is. Congrats. Your work really inspires us all.

The money shot! 15:04 The HEART is there!!! I can’t believe a single person can make an animation with so much more intensity and passion than a full studio! The quality of the animation isn’t perfect of course but i can feel how much time you poured on it! A 3d Berserk can work but only if a studio who’s been working with 3d animation for a long time were to take on the anime. Your work is incredible, not only on the final scene but also your editing and the animation you did all throughout the video!!!

i will always defend that guts rage should be a total black and white shot with some red sparkling from his eye, but diregarding my preferences, this is wonderfull

the impact frames are so good individually but they’re just doing so many contrasting movements, instead of selling one motion like they should be. also the sword clashing thing was my favourite, that’s so perfect. edit: holy shit i just looked at the end showcase IT LOOKS SO GOOD

Props to you! Glad this helped you improve your understanding of the animation pipeline AND, unlike many who clowned the 2016 version (me included), you actually attempted to try your hand at it.

bro has done something alone better than an entire studio could💀

I love Berserk and the pacing for your animation captured the esence of the manga really well

What nobody should forget is, that even the transitions (for example, the one between chapter modeling and animation) are all projects in blender itself that would drive you crazy as a beginner. Nice work, my man! I love your efforts! Not even start talking about the work for editing in premiere pro and after effects (or alternatives). All of the mentioned stuff is in areas where you could work in professionaly on their own but this guy wants to animate Berserk and show it the world with a high-quality video because he can

You should Look into the Guilty Gear series of games next time you do this. I think youll find alot to learn from and draw on

This is SO impressive! If you're really trying to capture that 2D look, you should consider watching the GDC talk by the Guilty Gear XRD animators. They basically give away all the techniques they used to recreate that 2D in 3D look.

The Zod model was great! I think those texture painted shadows really worked in his favor.

You did great, what's really missing here is an understanding of fundamental animation priciples.

Woow.. looks awesome... At least you proved that you can make cool looking CGI Anime

I'd say you did a great job at making 3d models more clean than in the original 2016 anime. Good job!

Don't feel bad about anything, your a one man animator and still produced something better than an entire studio working on berserk 2016

Now we need the full film

I am happy to see that animation. I understand it required a lot of work, and the result its quite impressive. Its not perfect, but surely is better then the most recent adaptation. Respect.

Damn man, this is one of the best videos I’ve watched… I’ve always believed that we can never reach beautiful 2d animation in blender, but this video changed this idea.

As an animator i can't express how happy I am for finding your channel. Im using c4d and from your projects im inspired to start my Blender journey ❤ Thank you so much.

Berserk fans when they hear "Berserk animated in 3D": _NOOO NOT AGAIN..._ That said, this is super impressive.

I love how transparent you are about your process! Most people would redo the effects until they are perfect or kill the project while trying, but you have the integrity to tell us the shortcomings and what you learned. This stuff is awesome man, keep it up

this is honestly incredible, I think that if you can recreate the cgi level from the Bonfire of dreams scene from the berserk memorial edition you can reach a good peak of cgi cuz that scene uses good cgi for berserk

My man rolled upto berserk fans of all people with 3D animation and walked away with a 99% like-dislike ratio True legend

I loved it much better then the original, I just felt like it was a bit too colorfull, it kinda made me feel like it wasn't really beserk since beserk gives me more of darker vibe.

nailed how the character and color palate are supposed to look but the part where gut swang his sword and the sword was blocked felt like 2 sticks hitting each other

A true Struggler...

he has the basics but lacks the dynamic camera angles and perspectives, fix that and he'll be going down a long road of money

At 11:45 I laughed so much when you were moving Guts' body

Bro is better than a full animation studio

bro made what a whole studio couldn't

ngl this looks kinda garbage from a viewer perspective, but hey... at least you gained experience.

i JUST discovered this channel with this video, and being also a 3D and 3D artist your talent blew my mind man! every bit of work you've done was incredible. You deserve so many more views

Your work is the best I've seen so far. Its amazing. When I see people making animations on RU-vid it always feels like just content, it never looks finished or like it has polish. While yours isn't there, it definitely reflects the effort you put in

I'm sorry but the poses and animation still looks really bad...

it still looks really ugly

badass

The part of the video where you talked about deforming characters so they look cool only through the camera reminds me of using freecam during cutscenes in a videogame.

This honestly looks worse than the actual show.

As much as I’d love this as a whole series I know that’s not feasible less than a minute of animation took I imagine over a month but if there ever is a berserk anime this man needs to be head of animation ❤

Seeing myself in this video was wild, great vid man! Been experimenting with blending 3d and 2d myself recently so I love vids like these!

watch the first few seconds of the animation in a 1.25 speed, makes it seem a lot more impactful and really gives that speed and force effect of guts impact. Really great animation 100/10 no one could have done this better

This looks amazing!!! The impact scene with the swords is perfect!!! Oh only one think that could make the animation even better is the litghting. When trying to create anime look in 3D I found out that most of the time you don't want the lights to be realistic, you will often want to place fake spots of lights in dark areas and maybe more suns that don't make any physical sense, but the same as the poses makes it look way more artistic when looked from the camera.

Better than Berserk 2016,i like the few close shot of the fight,keep up the good work

that looked amazing bro, and it was cool seeing you talk about the process. Great work man

i expected just models or something like that, but this is just insane, i don't have words. Great job man!

3D animation in anime has come so fkn far since 2016, it's so frustrating to me when internet dwellers' first reaction when there's 3D in a new series is just to talk shit about how "CGI bad" or misusing the word rotoscope. You've done a fantastic job with this!

Who let bro cook? 🔥

There's nothing better than a 3D base with 2D animation filter layered on top of it.

Amazing work I can only imagine how much crazy time it took. Especially that sword clashing and the SFX and that ground animation... just some bloom AO and volumetrics.... BAMMMMM you shot will be AAA quality...

Man... It turned out amazing! It truly shows the potential of 3d with 2d like style!

This is great. The amount of work you put in your animation is just impressive

Bro the impact shot is crazyyyyy🔥🔥🔥🔥

The thumbnail reminds me of that one Sukuna guy... *"Stand proud you're strong"*

This is really good! Honestly, the only area I think really needs work is the compositing; it feels very flat and the colors don't feel quite unified enough. But this is still amazing work!

So cool, ploughing forward to complete something in 3D using a process that you haven't done before is no easy feat. Most people will quit at the first few hurdles, inspiring to watch! I would be interested to see some modern anime compositing on this, similar to MAPPA's before and after compositing Attack on titan video. Maybe you could do a video on that using this animation? It would be interesting to see how you break it down, and whether it could also be accomplished in blender instead of after effects? Cheers!

I love the impact frames!

This is amazing. I loved the emotions shown when Guts swings the sword down. Really shows his feeling of hate and his drive to survive no matter the situation even if it means losing his humanity, though the scene lacks the feeling of how much force he'd use to swing a massive sword down. The weight alone would cause it to drop quick (especially if Guts is forcing it down). Maybe taking a frame or two out might help with that and/or using lines to help visualize speed. Regardless, this animation is WAY better than the CGI version. Disclaimer, I'm not an artist nor am i talking bad about this animation. This is just my own personal thoughts and ideas that I would have loved to see in the 2016 Berserk. Keep cooking!

A good blend of 3d and 2d makes it look extremely good

Makes you appreciate things we take for granted a lot more. But still can't help but feel he did better.

Great work! Much respect for the amount of work you put in to bring this to life. I'd love to see a video break down of your system into tasks for more animators to replicate a studio setting.

You made something amazing. Bravo. You''ll go down in history for single handedly giving us hope that you and ArcSys will keep on making more projects with these techniques.

Amazing! A lot of effort put in every scenes, thanks for sharing your work

For the dynamic detail, this sounds like a job for surface shaders and tessellation.

man it's just amazing, the level of knowledge is absolutely stupendous

dude you blew what berserk deserves as an anime out of the water.... but also realized you dont have enough time in the world to finish the entire saga. sucha shame.i had to turn off 2016 during the first season and never look back. while you made it gorgeous with so much fluidity.

The amount of work in these 30 seconds is just...well, it's a lot. But the outcome was worth it. If we had Berserk anime with this type of quality, millions of fans around the world would feel overjoyed.

You had me captured all the way through this video, really entertaining.

Amazing video once again Noggi! You keep getting better and better. Mad respect for the work and time you put into these.

I feel stressed and astonished noticing how much effort and planning it took to make this single video. The learning, preparing and executing this animation and THEN recording and editing this video. AMAZING BRO👌

I'd take this over the 2016 style any day of the week. Seriously killed it with this!

Absolutely amazing work and a beautiful video that gives amazing insight! 10/10

I just smiled and loved the wide ground shot of sword flying pass keep doing what you are doing.

first shot and second short from final was my favrt

This is perfection

You’re incredibly talented sir….. the delivery of your videos are amazing and your works are insane!!!! Keep up the great work

This looks amazing, as someone whi started learning anime blender recently you have inspired me

Good job noggi! Amazing work, very well executed.

just amazing, everything is so stylish and interesting

I support you re animating the 2016 and 2017 series. In this style it would be 1000 times better

your content is great, much love

Very awesome study👏 I really appreciate seeing the process and work behind it, outstanding 🤩 congrats!!!🎉

After watching this, I feel that I really, really suck as 3D artist. This is AMAZING my friend, so much inspiration, not only about your 3D work, but also the video edit. Thank you for this.

this turned out awesome, congratz :)

this shit looks great my only two pet peeves are that for the initial arm swing for guts, you kept the noodle arms rigid instead of moving the bicep first and letting the forearm and the blade follow offer, acting more like a wind whip effect with the forearm and even the blade bending with the motion of a whip, the blade obviously only slightly as giant thick heaping metal is more dense than bone and flesh, even with muscle, in addition to speeding up the last few frames to show how quickly guts swings the sword after the windup to the scene can REEEEEEEEALLY hit the FEEL department of the RAGE nd MURDEROUS *INTENT* guts has harbored over all these years in the eyes of the audience (instead of a speed similar to the wind up. if I had to guess, I'd say 3-4 exaggerated frames with a face stretch "feinting" behind the sword and eye contact and a bright flash of white when the swords collide, as well as much more initial movement of the blades after in the shot with the sparks to hide the actual procedural spark generation cause asking you to draw that shit by hand is crazy, even as a member of audience... also, the sparks are hot small chunks of metal. make them travel in the direction the impact is coming from. if only one sword is swinging, make them bounce off the blade like a mirrored path, only following the momentum of the blade being swung, aka make them bounce to the top left and separate the animation into frames instead of smooth movement where they suddenly lose their color because of the kinetic energy dissipating quickly from such a small mass [but that's not important, I digress.]) the other thing is more common in practice than anything. when you made Zodd swing the sword... you didn't make him swing his torso and right shoulder along the path with him. you made it more like a tennis ball racket... in wii sports... which i don't blame, you were very tired and new with this, hell you poured most of your heart and soul more into the line art than anything which really shows in a beautiful way. however, sadly, it makes the movement of the swing not match the intent and the power behind it.... which hurts the result a little... and, before i say this, please. don't take this as negative criticism. this animation, despite its very VERY slight flaws, is still incredibly beautiful. and I'm just proud to even still be alive to see it. this criticism... is only, *ONLY* meant as positive... if Zodd were to want to strike guts full on with the intention to kill in one blow with all speed and power... he would lunge forward on the sweeping strike... which would, in tern, make it much more likely that the snow from guts' split second evade not only be a lot more likely but it could also result in it bouncing off the edge, flinging it up further and requiring you to do less work for the lunge of the 3d model *for* the actual snow to hit his face and guts' retaliation after Zodd's flinch to be a lot more impactful and excitement building... for the cliff hanger. just some food for thought... marvelous work. 🫂

I dont understand why you dont have like 900k subs, bro, your content and your art is sooo fire

Wow man im so impressed with your knowledge you make me want to try animating again honestly.

the effort you put in to these videos are insane.

The VFX looked insane, and in my opinion looked absolutely worth the time and energy spent. Well done!

that is absolutely awsome