"Army Men" - A short cinematic by FlippinDingDong

In preparation for the upcoming assault on the toilet, the Green Army ambushes a key Tan position atop the bathroom vanity.
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For those of you who don't know, I've been enrolled at an art institute pursuing a degree in 3D Animation. This is partly why the flow of cartoons on this channel has basically come to a stop.
This is a quick animation I made to test my abilities in Autodesk Maya (the 3D program that I'm learning about in college).
There are two keywords there: quick & test. Don't be expecting the next Ratatouille or something out of this. Its just a bunch of Army Men shooting the crap out of each other because I wanted them to.
(plus, I always wondered what "Sarge's Heroes" would've looked like in first person.)
HOWEVER, due to time constraints, I had to wrap up this project a little earlier than I would've liked to so that it had adequate time to render it out. As a result, I still kinda consider it a work-in-progress. While there are a few obvious problems (I have no idea what's up with that dude's wrist), most of them are fairly minor, such as stiff animation, missing effects (bullet impacts etc.), and an overall fuzzy/pixelated image (I had to crank the quality way down in order for it to render in time).
Overall, this entire thing took about a month and a half to create, and 11 days (!) to render out.
As I move back to school in two days, I'm hoping to churn out a few more 2D cartoons in the future as well.