There’s always the chance of something during December awards, we’ll see. Nevertheless-happy to stoke the flame

I’ll see what I can do, I appreciate your thoughts and for checking it out!

Yes indeed👌🏽

Y’all are the ones supporting this, so thank *you* :)

Thank you for supporting ! I think it’s amazing that there’s still so much love in the ME community :)

@jonathansud there definitely is, we are just await in darkest reaches of internet space until the next game. The cycle cannot be broken Oo_oO

Big boi drell incoming , excited to get this one out to y’all!

just stoking the fire for BioWare :)

Shit starts to pop off, it’s gonna be fun :)

You’re the man, it’ll be great 🔥

Thank you, I’m even more excited to show y’all this one :)

Thank you! The drell are a personal fave, so I’m excited to showcase them some more with Valot.

Because rendering is a pain in the ass, hahaha.

@ understandable have a nice day

Valid thoughts, thank you, I've been doubling-down efforts on these areas. Can you expand on the voicework? Some of my cast are relatively new, but they all have tremendous potential and deserve more for doing this gratis. There's also the chance that I just suck at giving proper direction-no way to know/fix with a simple "sucks".

@@jonathansud Alright. The last time I did voice acting and stage acting was in 2016 but I’ll try to pull from that and give a little bit of advice here. In terms of the voicework, the Asari, Evel at 11:34 had a very difficult time expressing inflections and emotions in what she was saying. Almost as if she was a female moist critikal. If you want an example of what one would expect, you can just look at the Asari that shows on the TV for a brief moment. Asari generally don’t really have many inflections besides being a little bit autistic so you don’t really need to lean into anything heavily like what you need to do with Hanar or Elcor, for example. Another example would be the Turian at the 6:46. He sounds rather amateurish. Which, I suppose you could say the same for most of the rest of the cast. But an example here would be the fact that he over emphasises his inflections at the end of his words. He sounds like he’s over acting here and it comes off rather crude. Instead of making him sound like he’s genuinely depressed and saddened by the influx of refugees, make him sound annoyed, as that would make more sense within the context of this scene (unless you intend to expand on the history of this particular character in the future). He also breathes out when he ends his sentence at the 7:29 mark and it makes it sound, again, like an amateurish job. He doesn’t portray the right emotion here, he says to the watcher ‘this guy is depressed about refugees’ which doesn’t fit within the given context. It should be ‘this guy is annoyed by refugees being incompetent’. It doesn’t help either that you’re portraying this as being a fully grown man when the voice that comes out of his mouth is rather high pitched. It doesn’t fit with the deep bassy voices known coming from Turians in this universe. But that isn’t really a voice acting problem, but rather a not so right person for the job problem. Another example of the previous problem would be the Volus that appears at 8:50. This guy also sounds extremely amateurish, but here it’s a lot worse. Not only does he do the “breathy sneaky guy” novice voice actor bit, but he also heavily over emphasises every single inflection and makes it sound again, unnatural and very amateurish. This is the type of voice acting you would expect from someone that just started, or hasn’t done any training at all. At 13:55, this entire scene was rather confusing. There’s multiple issues here, and some of it actually has to do with the writing. Let’s start there. When Lena says “Managed to come through for you”, it gives the notion that she’s reporting to a racketeer as we have the context of the Blue Suns doing racketeering at the start of the video. When Evan says “Sorry, eh, probably… Seein’ things” it comes off as too self-aware for a schizophrenic and doesn’t sound particularly believable. When you imagine a homeless veteran “seeing things”, you don’t imagine him actually saying that he’s probably seeing things. You imagine someone who’s broken, depressed and prone to psychosis. Not someone that switches to a normal human being as soon as they pull themself from their distorted reality. In that vein, let’s now talk about the voice acting from Evan here since, as usual, Lena is doing a perfect job. When Evan says his psychotic lines, it actually sounds pretty well done but when he comes out of his psychosis, he sounds too normal. Too much like an approachable person. Even if this is in the realm of reality for an actual psychotic, it falls into unbelievability when he doesn’t retain even a shred of his psychosis as that’s not what people expect from someone like that normally. So, again, unless you want to use this character again in the future, he’ll need to fall more into the stereotype to retain a sense of believability. Make him retain a shred of that spacey, disconnected floaty voice that he was portraying earlier, but not to a point where it’s now overdone. Just enough, that it hints to it still lingering in his head instead of the extremely casual and alert “Yeah. Yeah, you too.” In terms of the two Blue Suns employees, I don’t really have many complaints here besides maybe Reynolds not really conveying a sociopath as well as he could have when he threatens Lena to “pop a single seal… Or better yet, how about two”. It comes off as a bit too cheery, but otherwise, he does a pretty good job. Anything else I had an issue with, such as the chef at 4:28 or the female politician at 4:45 onwards would have just been fixed with some better sound balancing and distancing. The chef would sound a lot better if he sounded like he was a lot farther away from Lena when he shat on her, and the female politician needs to stop eating her mic. IDK where you got her but she sounds like she’s doing ASMR which isn’t what you’re trying to portray here obviously. Hope this helps.

There's definitely things to consider with this type of analysis-I appreciate your time with writing all this up, as well as the criticisms in the original comment. I've been aggregating all received feedback, and I think one of the common sentiments is more directional oversight. Looking forward to your thoughts on the next episode👌

@@jonathansud Like I said, I think this has massive potential. It just needs a lot of polish. You earned a subscriber from me with notifications on on account of you making authentic-feeling Mass Effect content (especially since it's Quarian themed) so I'll be eager to see your progress. As far as a first episode goes, this by far blows a lot of things out of the water. RvB's first episode was terrible and aged poorly, for example. Maybe once you finish this series you could make a Tali x Shepard sequel for after the events of ME3!

Funny you should mention that…maybe I’ll remake this relic 🤔 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqmWmXuIhqmFmsksi=HDvNEOA915xcK8L3

Been testing different things, I'd appreciate if you check out some bits from the new trailer to see if there's improvement!

you will :)

thank you, it means more than you realize :)

@@jonathansud How long did this work needed to its completion? It seems pretty flawless in its flow of motions.

Actual production took about two months, give or take, though keep in mind that I ran into countless, time-consuming and trivial mistakes. For example, that whole plaza/restaurant environment actually blew up-so a lot of time went toward rebuilding. Definitely work needed, but hopefully the just-released ep2 promo shows improvement :)

they're definitely hurtin financially after Omega

not at the moment, but I post casting calls on here whenever needed !

@@jonathansud on KZbin? I shall keep my eyes open :)

I missed seeing this username, hope you're well homie!

@jonathansud I'm doing great, thanks. I'm a little busier, and not exactly in the swing of stop motion. And behind on watching KZbin due to spending time with my girl and schoolwork. How are you?

⁠@@A_Productionsthose are definitely better uses of time, for sure, happy to hear! And all’s well on this end dude, thank you. A little this, a little that, as usual :)

@jonathansud great!

as someone who's predominately a writer-I'm *very* curious about the direction they go

if I had a nickel, I swear to God… lmao

Thanks for joining the journey, see you for Episode 2 <3

I like analytical stuff like this-what was the fan-fiction titled? I've never read any and wouldn't know where to look lol

It’ll continue. N7 festivities coming up-might just have to share somethin, who knows. Thank you for the kind words 🙏🏼

Those 20-somethin playthroughs finally paid off , lmao. Thank you!

Thank you so much, and if I ever need additional voices, I always share the casting call on here :)