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the subtle face things like the double take, the stuttered pause mid-word, the nostrils sniffing, the eyes widening, memes aside this is legit some fantastic performance animations
Give it a few years, given they just showcases the addition of much more advanced squash and stretch tech, we very well may. Honestly it's squash and stretch that's one of the biggest things behind high detail animation as it both facilitates and aliviates more complex bone rigging in models.
It's probably hard for them to do that because of the ridiculous amount of cutscenes the game has, but I do hope they'll make important moments a little more cinematic
@@rexex345 I noticed they also seem to be experimenting with much more expressive eye movement in the most recent patches, especially with the cutscenes involving Zero, but Krile as well. I imagine that’ll pair well with the graphical update they’re doing with 7.0. They always seem to experiment with some new detail of animation or camera work in smaller patches in order to implement it bigger in the next expansion. ShB and EW got much more cinematic camera movement than previous expansions.
@@facetioustitan3900 oh yeah, iirc they upgraded the tech for that around 5.3 which is when they did their first showcase with the last cutscene. Eyes is actually surprisingly hard cause while they're typically their own models inside the face, getting it even slightly off creates incredible uncanny valley effects that can ruin a scene.
Of the few times the WoL was served food before this scene, 1 ended with Rauhbans arm being cut off and the other ended with us being drugged... The last included a date night with Aymeric who ended up getting stabbed... Lol So this really meant a lot to the WoL
Omg thats so true, no wonder we stopped eating in SB 🤣 Well that isnt true, we were offered a drink with Gogetsu and we all know how that turned out... until he was revealed to be alive still.
@@semekiizuio yeah there might be other minors scenes i may have forgotten where the WoL is explicitly seen eating food but those were the significant ones i remember off the top of my head LUL and yeah, i dont remember any eating scenes in SB. LUL
If this actually happen the Exarch would implode right the moment WOL took a bite. Also, have to go punch a wall cus this is cute and wholesome as hell.
@@Firan25 I admit, I was a story skipper! I didn't care for story in MMOs after growing up playing WoW, I just wanted to level and fight stuff, really. Run around playing a character I thought looked cool. Started playing back in 2016, and skipped all story up to Shadowbringers. My friend forced me to pay attention, I bawled my eyes out, proceeded to bawl through Endwalker too, and I've actually now begun playing a new character and have been going through story properly from the beginning now. While the game may have a story focus, not everyone plays it for story. People can enjoy it in whatever way they want as long as they don't hurt anyone. In my case, I was never a story person and my time playing World of Warcraft in the past kinda ruined my perspective on MMORPG story, as I rarely see anyone care for WoW's story and I always just sorta blew through it without caring in my younger years. I AM glad I experienced Shadowbringers and Endwalker though, as it's gotten me invested in knowing and catching up with the full game's story before any more big expansions drop! :)
@Firan25 WoW broke a lot of people. A text window would pop up next to the quest and had a lot of unnecessary detail while having no interaction with the questgiver so it usually was best to just go to the objectives to find how many boars you needed to kill. The story wasn’t as clear-cut as the MSQ so most of your time was spent leveling. The story most people focused on was endgame raids and even then most raiders don’t GAF about story and just want loot. The heaviest concentration of story has been getting set aside for books and other media outside the game so yeah, WoW breeds story skippers. It’s ok tho, a fair number of them have unlearned that behavior since the story does actually deserve to be paid attention to in FFXIV.
@@gateauxq4604 100%! FFXIV's had to untrain a LOT of negative WoW habits of mine, so far enjoying story again is a big one, but also trying not to worry so much about dungeons, trials and raids. I look up guides for every single one I have to do for MSQ out of a habit of being afraid of my dungeon party yelling at me. 😅 FFXIV's community is so much more welcoming, it makes me feel a lot more comfortable when playing.
@@tylermalone6466 Fray just unable to contain herself and openly sobbing at the only humane gesture she/he/they've probably ever seen shown to the WoL.
I am so incredibly happy right now that you decided to go through with making this video, this is so damn wholesome. Amazing job as always, but every subtle movement in this animation was just so well done! Thank you for making these videos! ❤
You do for FFXIV what countless legends did (and still do) for TF2 (and other Valve games) with their GMod & SFM animated videos. Thank you so much for this, this is amazing and definitely needs more traction.
This is hilarious. I've seen the original and you nailed the feeling perfectly. I'm dying laughing. I also just noticed the "Well Fed" and I'm laughing even harder now
Why is it that I can see this totally happening in-game? WoL just so stressed out from everything and then Exarch comes in with a simple sandwich and makes the WoL break down.
This is HILARIOUS but above all I'm impressed with the attention to detail in the animation, movement and expressions. There are so many subtle details that makes this video not only one of the funniest videos I've ever seen but also one of the most well done and amazing videos I've ever seen
I love all the friends and children I’ve adopted on this journey. The scions are my family including Tataru on of the only few Lalafell’s that I think are cool
This video more or less sums up the transition from Stormblood to Shadowbringers After spending the last expansion being treated like a side character (while still doing all the heavy lifting), the story finally remembers that you're still a person who deserves be treated to simple delights like sandwiches and plenty of sleep every now and then
just know your animations are very appreciated, they're really good anf fun, i wouldn't mind seeing you animate anything out of ffxiv and it's characters
I just arrived at the point in the msq when Ardbert lets you know the exarch made you sandwiches and i had to drop everything and rewatch this like 5 times
You keep on putting out bangers after bangers. The moment I saw the tweet where you announced to cook I was on the edge of my seat and there it is. I was thinking you will incorporate the scene into Mhor Dona location but the crystal tower inn is amazing aswell especially bcs it's such a core vista in Shb. Looking forward for what you are cooking next!!
