My honest review:
TL;DR:
avantgarde xxx, delighted to see something new;
; keep doing your thing, you have great talent and potential!
OVERVIEW:
I've been around VR since early days. It's safe to say I've seen a lot of what's worth seeing by now. Going in to check this video, I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting much as I'm not the biggest fan of 3d animation videos. Most of them seem to me too static and artificial and simply turn me off. When i noticed your video was 40 minutes long, I was like oh shit, no way I'm gonna sit through all of this.
Not only did I watch it all in one sitting, there were many parts I rewinded because they were very creative and just cool to experience. You did a lot of stuff I never seen done in VR before. The cinematography was one of the most interesting executions I've seen done in VR. I think I noticed a few references too, maybe they were inadvertent, some floating camera angles for example reminded me a lot of Enter the Void and it was really cool for me to witness this kind of camerawork in VR
I LIKED IT BUT HERE'S WHAT I LOVED:
- I'll mention cinematography again. I loved it, very captivating, i'm gonna watch the video again sometime just for the creativity alone
- scale, fov & video setup was perfect for me
- there was one over the shoulder angle, 3rd person kind of thing next to a mirror, I liked that a lot and I'd love to see more of that in VR in general. There's something about that kind of proximity that partially covers the view that tricks my brain and makes vr video feel a lot more immersive. It's actually what I enjoy most in live action VR videos, japanese studios pull it off often, I was very surprised when you pulled it off too with 3d
- the comicbook-style timestop sequences were very creative and I think you're on to something great. It's a fantastic way to push storytelling in an artistic way with limited resources. I could watch a whole movie like that with no animations and would love it, it's what I imagine comicbooks in VR are gonna be like in the future
- the hentai inside-cam scene came out from nowhere and bedazzled me, very creative! lots of firsts in VR for me in this video
- there was one particular scene at around 29:15 that for me was one of the coolest scenes I've seen in VR videos ever. The way you framed it and had the camera track the hip just made the energy/hardcoreness of the scene pop-out
HUGE. 3rd person live action sex scenes in VR fail to transmit the same energy that normal videos perfected over the years. When I saw your scene I immediately felt there was something special about it. That shit in live action would be crazy, it emphasizes the scene in dreamlike way rather than make you feel like a cuck patiently sitting in an armchair next to people fucking. But even in 3d, I think it's a great technique to compensate/hide the staticness shortcomings of 3d animation
HARDLY ANY CRITICISM:
- I drifted off during the initial dialogues, didn't bother reading them too much, sorry. Too many words, too hard to read in vr, probably i'm adhd. I felt that the full screen interruption texts (sort of like silent era movies dialogue) worked and work a lot better for me in vr and keep my attention
- the camera movement was ok for me but i have a lot of vr-time, at times I wondered though if it's not gonna be too much too fast for some and make them sick, it felt like something that would have made me sick years ago. I might be wrong but mentioning it just in case
- i mean by porn standards you're kubrick and i shouldn't really comment on storyline at all. Just the initial trailers alone at the beginning have more substance to them and are more intriguing than most porn videos i've seen. but... with your talent and with this being so avantgarde, I hope you'll go down an even more artistic road and emphasize on storytelling and do short & thought-out trippy experiences rather than long repetitive videos like I think is the norm with 3d animations in general.
It's very likely bad advice and probably not profitable at all, but that's just my sincere hope. I'd watch your stuff for creativity and substance, new trippy erotic experiences in VR, something I never seen before. I personally don't care too much about the hardcore aspect in 3d because it all just kind of blends in and feels the same from video to video. But some of the creative stuff you pulled off, I think that's rare and new and that's what me personally I'd love to see much more of
GLHF:
Whatever follows next, this video was a very big surprise for me and I'll follow your stuff very closely! Your creativity is awesome, I hope you'll make tons and tons of stuff and earn something through it. Thanks for sharing it with me!
