User blog comment:Braden Wong/A Visual Critique of the Volume 3 Clip from a film school graduate/@comment-4010415-20151009222017/@comment-4010415-20151010040910

I don't expect any kind of film or show to be realistic. I just think it would look weird if they kept kicking up dust on solid ice, and I don't understand what exactly this guy means when he says he wants the ice part of the ground to react. How can it react? It's solid ice sitting on the ground.

As for the stuff I agree with, I didn't know what else to say but "I agree"/"I like that too" etc, except on the third image, where I agree that them starting to go a more HD route with the environment is a bit off and I'm not sure how to feel about it. I was thrown off by how different the ice looks now, in relation to how it looked in volumes 1 and 2. It's a lot more blue with a slightly, but noticeable, different design to it. Though, the big thing about it that unsettles me is that I don't want them to go so HD/realistic that the 3D anime characters look alien to their world. Know what I mean?

The first and second images: Yeah, it would be really nice if the characters were moving or blinking. I pointed out that those seem to be completely 2D images because I wasn't sure how many people realized that.

I do fully agree that the shot with Reese entering the scene was great, with the way that she was moving and the way the camera tracked her. I actually didn't notice there was a bit of inconsistency on Blake and Reese's feet sliding on the ice.

I actually can't tell if I agree with the stuff about the depth of field or not. I don't really have an eye for that sort of thing and personally didn't mind how it looked, but as a film student, he's probably right.

By the way, my "Aura, motherfucker" comment wasn't meant to be aggressive. The "motherfucker" part was meant as a "Fuck yeah" type sentence enhancer. ... Can't believe I quoted the cussword episode of Spongebob. Sentence enhancer. That's what Patrick called 'em, right?

I didn't bother with the part about Yang not having VFX with her sliding while Arslan did have it because, really, since we now know that the clip - and the episode itself - isn't 100% finished, I assume that they'll add the VFX for Yang between now and when they publish the episode.

The shot with Yang flying away could, indeed, have been cut into two shots. (Long way of saying "I agree with that.")

And yeah, it actually would have been better if Nadir had drooped his shoulders. At the time of typing my original comment, I couldn't remember if he had already slightly drooped his shoudlers after he dropped his arms to his sides, but now that I think about it again, I don't think he did.

I still think it's fine that Ruby didn't move her head around, simply due to her being in sniping position in the middle of a battle-- er, tournament duel. And I still think that the camera tracking when Ruby looked behind her is fine.

The critique on Weiss' kick explains why that moment didn't look that great. I was more focused on noticing that Bolin looked at the glyph, which is why he didn't see Weiss coming.