Priceless - A Stormlight Archive Fanwork using UE5  

So, for my fellow Sanderfans jumping down here to the comments to tell me what I got wrong, let me pre-empt you : there's a lot 😅. There's a number of things that I ran out of time to do, here's the short list: - That's not actually Oathbringer - Dalinar is wearing Adolin's gauntlet, but Adolin is still wearing 2 gauntlets - Kaladin is suspiciously clean - There are no spren in the scene besides Syl

I love your decision to pan out to the “justice” glyph that has been burned by Navani before.

I like the detail of Dalinar wearing Adolin’s gauntlet since his own was broken.

I see the core of something amazing here, thank you for creating this and I can't wait to see what you do next!

I could nitpick details, but instead I’m just going to appreciate everything that’s great about this. I believe this shows how animation is really going to be the best way to brink the Stormlight Archive to cinema. Great work!

I really liked how you depicted Dalinar.

Sadeas just standing there, listening to Dalinar and Kaladin's conversation in stunned silence. Very authentic.

Ummm hi this is incredible. So much about the animation is awesome-direction, staging, camera effects. Even the "writing," in translating from book to video. Really really cool! I'll be sharing with other Brando Sando fandos and hopping in the Discord :D

Love the inclusion of the heartbeats.

My favorite scene in the whole series.

You just need pacing. Its not just the voice intonation, you need to give space, elaborate pauses, time to breath between dialogues for a more dramatic effect. For example, right after Sadeas showed surprised from Dalinar saying he will exchange the shardblade for the bridgemen you could have given him a much longer pause to take in the hesitation the surprise (no words needs to be said let your facial animation speak for that). Sometimes its just not the voice acting but the pacing.

Great work. Great choice of scene.

Incredible work to bring an incredible scene to life! Can't wait to see how the next piece come out!

this is fucking awesome

this is amazing thank you for making it, subscribed and looking forward to more

Increíble trabajo!

The WIP scene allready looked super impressive, but this is just great!

Very incredible! Awesome animation! Hope to see other cool stuff from you 😊

Wow! This is amazing! I was about to nitpick, but you already pointed it all out!

B+ for animation F- for voice acting Overall pretty cool, great job!

Not for nothing, because I'd love to see you do more of these, but I'd also be happy to do some free voice acting for you. I'm not a professional, but I love me some voices.

Hey this is super cool! You did a fantastic job! Pretty new to Stormlight/Cosmere/Sanderson stuff, but this is one of my favorite parts of the book.

damn this is incredible. While it isn't perfectly accurate, the animation is glorious. The voice syncing would be my only complaint, but that is minor.

Kinda got me teary eyed! Good work!!

Wow man, that was amazing!!! Thanks for doing it. If this is what a fan can do a single scene , can you imagine what say a 100 mill behind a decent director and writer could get done???

Thank you. I have tears running down my cheeks. Beautifully done, and especially thank you for having it done ON the glyph.

Overall, amazing piece. I can tell you put a lot of effort into this work, though that is not without flaws. The models look great, with the shard plate looking close to how I imagined it based off of the descriptors. The shardblade itself looked good, as well the mist effect from the broken plates as they leaked stormlight looked great. Kaladin looks... close to what I imagined, but if I had to guess, I would put him a bit older. The things I feel you messed up on (not casting blame, I imagine this project took a long as time, and looks like it took a lot of effort to put together) Dalinar is definetely to short, The shard plates always are described as these large pieces of armor that need an entire team to put on the user. as well needing special mounts to be able to carry them. The dialogue is very clunky, and does sound robotic. If using an AI voice thing, that is fine and useable but would need to be reworked to make it feel more natural. But the voices themself do feel like how I imagined their voices to be. Though would have added a bit more "gravel" to Dalinar's voice to show his age and experience. The crowd itself seemed a bit.... underwhelming to me. like they did not really react aside from the voices making objections or gasps. I bring these not to try and discourage your work,(nor implying I can do better, I cannot) But to just give my two cents here as I do enjoy the stormlight series and am happy more people are giving it the attention it deserves. But good work nonetheless.

I really like the faces you chose for them.

Well done! I love seeing this scene play out on screen! It's very close to how I imagined it.

This was dope, thanks for making it!

This made me smile so much, I love it!!

Amazing work 😮, keep it up 👏

the facial expressions are phenomenal!!! nothing like this is seen in any 3D animation i’ve ever seen

This was amazing! Well done.

That was amazing, thank you!

Amazing this is significantly better than your draft just a few days ago! It’s stunning!

Amaaaziiiiing!! ❤

Wow that is actually so impressive 👏

this is really well done

This scene only gets more meaning as we learn more about the blackthorn's past

Fucking amazing. Can't wait for the day SLA gets the on-screen treatment it deserves. This moment alone would absolutely break the internet!

AWESOME!!!

Outstanding

Amazing!

this is amazing!

This is awesome I can’t get over though how sadeas sounds like will ferrel

espectacular!!

Fantastic, Just really miss the delievery from the audio book, Michael Kramer portrayed Sadeas and Dalinar too well.

Oh I absolutely love this, it is just how I imagined! I wish the when Dalinar summoned his Shardblade, Sadeas would be more surprised and Adolin and his army actually draw their swords but it is great!

Love it!

Whoa this is awesome

I have no words for what i just see. Holy fuck this is amazing

Well storming done friend. Well storming done.

Would love to do some voice acting for you in future videos!

Woah nice job! This is such a wonderful scene, though i cant share it with anyone who hasnt read the book since its literally the best moment in maybe the entire series, but for sure book 1. That, or the "im banging your mom" talk he has with Elohkar just after this.

I’m going to have to reread the books now aren’t I😅

Fucking helll!!! This is amazing!

If you could. You try the graphic audio, audio over the ai

a dead spreen for an army of radiants, better trade ever made

amazing

you sanderson fans gotta relax this is great, plus it's fan made doesn't mean it's professional work. Amazing job and keep going, you'll only get better!

nice

The music and models are great but I'm surprised you went with the uncanny AI or AI voice changer rather than having multiple people narrate or use the existing audiobook/graphic audio dialogue. The audible audiobooks do a great job of having multiple distinct voices despite only one actor, but the AI voices are so distracting it detracts from the rest of the work

very cery coool

Voices are awkward but damn this is quality

Why would you have him summon the blade palm down? It's described as falling into their hands.

Awesome animation, the voicework could definately use some other takes, but otherwise really cool

this is a nice piece of work. How long did it take you to finish this of ?

Id love to see side carry with this model

what's amazing here is that he bought an army of windrunners without knowing it, a great scene!

Dalinars a pretty cool dood...

This is really good! In fact, just created this channel to ask you about the shardblade summoning animation. I have always imagined it as a puff of mist manifesting in/around hands and extending to form the vague shape of the shardblade (same shape and look&feel when a shardblade goes through living matter). Once the "invisible mold" of the shardblade is filled with this mist, it instantly condenses, revealing the shardblade. Almost like a lightsaber ignition animation than mist rushing from all directions to form the blade. Maybe I'm cherry picking to form this opinion :) but in WoR page 1015, there is a detailed description of a shardblade getting formed (most detailed in the first 3 books! haven't read the 4th one yet) that seems to support this view. There is another one in WoK page 1068, where a puff of mist appears in hand to form the blade. Would love to see this kind of summoning in action! But regardless, amazing work keep it up!

Hey man, if you're looking for voice actors in the future I know myself and a few other people who'd love to get in on something like this, free of charge

Now do Dumais Wells...

Great job. That scene hits so hard. Critical opinion (feel free to ignore): I honestly think working on the verbal cadence, most notably the pauses between lines, would add the most value for me. Some may want the vocal inflection, but I think the cadence is more important. Not sure if that is something that's viable to work on in the short term, but I thought I'd mention it. Do you have an end goal with this project, or are you just letting creativity guide you?

I never understood this, are the Kholin soldiers wearing uniforms or armor, cos uniforms don't seem very good protection in the shattered plains

Remember that the shattered plains are mirrored

The motions feel robotic, and the voices lack emotion. Sadeas (Sad-ee-ess) and Kholin (stress "lin") are mispronounced. Aside from these, I think this animation is phenomenal!

Voices are terrible apart from that, this looks neat.

AI acting

It's not priceless at all. Far inferior to the audiobooks.

I picture Dalinar looking like the Hound from GOT