Dalek Animation - "Pretty Lies"

My first full animation!
Rendered in Blender EEVEE. No way I was gonna use cycles for 2946 frames. The lighting would have definitely been better though.
Audio from Casualties of War Episode 1: Pretty Lies by Big Finish
Credit to megangrant22 for the Dalek Command Ship model.
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[@jeremy1860]

Wow, he actually opened up a dialogue before ordering them executed. Most diplomatic Dalek ever 😏

[@Caithness19]

Well, he had to confirm how high-value a target his was.

[@deathstrider111]

The time strategist is generally another calmer and resizable than the standard dalek. Infant in numerous occasions it is willing and some times attempts to work with lesser species if they are deemed to be helpful.

[@AssassinIsAfk]

The space station: we are hoping we can settle this in a calm and reasonable manor Daleks: EXTERMINATE

[@nickthepick8043]

I love how candid, bored, and casual the Dalek Time Controller sounded at the beginning. Really sets him apart from the rest of the race. His voice only ramped up at the end when he commenced the attack, like as if there's enough base nature of Dalek excitement left in him for it. As for the animation itself, I'm not sure if the silent motions of their casing movements were your choice or by choice of the audio from BF, but either way, the unsettling silence with their movements makes them more creepy and I appreciate that. The noises are cool in combat situations, but the silence makes them creep on you more effectively. Also, you didn't just have them standing motionless all the time. It works in a real-life setting, but in animation it's good to not have them static. You make them expressive by their movements while still managing to hold onto their mechanical nature, and how far detached they are from truly sentient beings. I also just love that you included a waveform for the woman speaking on the communiques. Nice touch. In addition, it was an equally nice touch to use the Satellite 5 model for this. I'm assuming by this context, this takes place somewhere hovering around the time war and close to the 9th's Doctor's story in the 2005 revived series, regardless of which generation of the Doctor we have in this story. It's all intertwined, so it feels right because it's all reminiscent of each other. In addition, I cannot imagine how you placed the energy effect inside the Dalek Time Controller's neck section. Like a plasma ball but for Time Vortex energy. I haven't used 3D Software in ages, so this would've been too complex for me to describe. Was it a particle effect of some kind? Either way, this whole thing is an achievement, and an excellent watch. So, Bravo! Excellent work.

[@JRHainsworth]

Thank you! And the casing being silent wasn’t really a choice. In order for the audio not to be too “busy” big finish probably only added the one head turn sound for the time controller telling them to fire to emphasise it. And it’s not Satellite 5 but it’s inspired by it. The rings are a different shape. The plasma ball was difficult yeah. It’s all physically modelled though. I have all of the glow in parts cantered in the middle, and then given a random movement, and a displacement map for the middle of each one so as they move, they wobble like in real plasma balls.

[@crimsondynamo615]

With his voice if he had proper hands and lips I imagine he would be holding a glass of wine and just boredly waving it in his hand just listening to these lesser creatures talk to him.

[@FlagadossSupreme]

Of the species *

[@nickthepick8043]

@@JRHainsworth You are most welcome! I am so sorry that I didn't respond asap. I don't know how I missed your response 8 months ago. I'm glad you're proud of this! Thanks for giving the description of the plasma ball. That fact that you had to animate each tethered part of the glowing orb must have been difficult. Props to you for having the patience.

[@purefoldnz3070]

Plasma ball dalek must be fun at parties.

[@StevieB8363]

They counted on the Daleks to be reasonable. They counted wrong.

[@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536]

Clearly they were bad at math

[@sdmiii1102]

The Time Strategist is like the Dalek version of Darth Vader

[@princecharon]

Yeah, there is no neutrality with the Daleks, only running, fighting, or being exterminated (or some combination thereof).

[@piecheese1214]

"Our roads into NCR territory are hung with the bodies of those who attempted to _negotiate_ with us." - Legate Lanius (Fallout: New Vegas) sharing a similar opinion on "neutral parties" with the Daleks

[@chwenhoou]

I love the new Dalek designs. Especially the Dalek Time Controller.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

This went in an incredibly predictable way and quite frankly the station administrators deserved what they got for thinking they could bargain with the Daleks.

[@Caithness19]

Well yes. After all, destroying the station a pair of Time Lords are trapped on is only "calm and reasonable" for a Dalek. Anything else would be leaving too much to chance.

[@deathstrider111]

​@Caithness19 the timelords weren't on the station they were in a life pod in between the station and the daleks.

[@2Scribble]

I always like how the DTC sounds like like an odd combination of Tom Baker and a Dalek Supreme xD

[@DrBagPhD]

Genuinely all I want from Doctor Who expanded media at this point is this but officially. Seeing full versions of Big Finish's Dalek content animated to this level of quality would be unreal.

[@JRHainsworth]

I think the obstacle for me, and I’m going to assume every other dalek animator on KZbin is the humans. The best big finish scenes I and others have animated have been 100% daleks, so animating full stories would be very hard.

[@robertoparenti3413]

@@JRHainsworth with the unreal engin 5 matric demos do show what i could call decent generated humans i guess the only hard part would be constructing these models with out high detail 3d scans would be a major under taking for a desinger ?

[@joshuagough3696]

Just gorgeous- thats all I can say- bloody beautiful~

[@zedoniverse]

I am amazed at how real this animation looks! It fealt like it was filmed! :D Well done!

[@SapphireStar23]

Wow! This has to be the best animation I've seen of this audio clip so far. My only nitpick is that the tuning of the head dome movements is a little too fast for me at times.

[@Eddo15878]

This is very high quality animation

[@sirasparagus3816]

i fucking love the dalek time controller

[@Montogoronto]

this was actually great!

[@GawkyDevotee]

Now that was FUCKEN AWESOME DUDE! Blew every Dalek animator out of the water!

[@ParakoEPC]

Amazing, would love to see more!

[@CrimsonParkDog]

Let this be a lesson to every neutral beings in the universe: NEVER DEAL WITH DALEKS!!

[@sirenia755]

send the shadow ship from B5 against the daleks, lol.

[@Drethyr]

"Daleks we want to reason with you"................. 🤣"Exterminate!!!!!!!!!!!"

[@snakedaemongaming6590]

Im not sure if youd be willing but i have a suggestion for a project, not sure if your be interested as it would be adapting an existing video Timelash from what ive been able to gather is a story that was originally intended as a dalek story And looking at it, it seems pretty obvious this was the case, the androids were obviously daleks and the borad - davros, the timelash obviously part of the daleks time corridor, even the androids speech parterns are reminiscent of dalek voices It seems they got 2 dalek stories at the same time and they chose the stronger story feom what ive been able to gather And with a few lighting changes and inserted cg daleks in place of the androids It might be fun to see what it was originally intended to be

[@Kiyodio]

Absolutely incredible work.. please do make more

[@sirenia755]

never, ever trust a talking pepper pot, lol.

[@davidrenwickjunior]

Brilliant animation, ❤❤

[@overtheoverseer]

Wonderful work.

[@HomeOfWhomatics]

Wow looks amazing! I also create Dalek Blender Animations and its cool to see it done so well!!

[@TimeCorridorAnimations]

This looks fantastic! I love it!

[@DalekGiratina]

Doesn't the time strategist have a third done lamp

[@JRHainsworth]

Not visibly in the covers. And I like the idea that the 3 dome lights indicates the supreme, so the strategist doesn’t have it.

[@edeffects]

Lovely stuff! 💖

[@MsAnimator7]

This is awesome! Would love to see more, the lighing looks sleek too! Shouldn't the time stategist have a 3rd speech indicator light? I thought it should but now I can't find any offical images to confirm!

[@JRHainsworth]

It’s not confirmed. The back is never shown, but the first image of him is a photoshopped image of the Supreme, which would imply yes. But since we never see it, I prefer to think the 3 lights symbolises the supreme.

[@thaenaa]

pog

[@TheLoneDalek2021]

Stunning! 😍😍

[@RobertPaulPrime]

Am i not the only one who thinks he's blue?

[@HomeOfWhomatics]

Tell me, how did you get the dalek columns so well!, is this blender or C4D looks amazing!

[@JRHainsworth]

Thank you! And it’s Blender :)

[@casualcake9342]

What big finish is this?

[@JRHainsworth]

Casualties of War