awesome! objects and characters were detailed, backgrounds were like straight from a high budget movie, and animation were smooth, I cant say anything else than amazing job!
Reviews for "Donaji & the Magical Poncho"
Shi-Gu responds:
Thankyou very much!
PERFECT ANIMATION! I see you're going for wind waker style. Don't hide it lol. But i love it. Similar to my art style which is like Wind Wakerish as well. I'm motivated now. Keep it up I love it.
Shi-Gu responds:
Thanks!
Hahaha, yeah, Windwaker has been an inspiration, but mostly for color and atmospheres.
I'm happy to see such an original concept succeed and get the praise it deserves. The animation itself is great, but you got people to stay awhile and listen to something that (I bet) is completely foreign to most of them, and that's the most important part about this. At least for me.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
I just started watching Las Leyendas on Netflix so this caught my interests. Great animation btw. I'm glad it's told in the original language and not dubbed into english. Really absorbs you into the story making it authentic like that.
Shi-Gu responds:
Thanks!
I originally wanted to do the voice acting in Zapotec, the original language these characters would have spoken during that age, but finding good voice actors with the right voices that could speak that language would have been impossible, so I went for spanish.
Still I'm glad it managed to catch you into the story! :D
Wow, this was cool! It gave me real Windwaker vibes, what with the tapestry intro, the magical clothing passed down from the mom to the daughter and even the music. Your design for the evil god was really cool too, reminded me of some Ghibli type stuff. It's nice to see animation from other countries/cultures other than the US and Japan, and it's a shame that we don't get to see more of that on TV or in theaters. For what it's worth, this felt like a pilot to what I could very easily see becoming a long running series. I think it's definitely worthy of that, but I'll have to check out your webcomic too. Just hope that doesn't mean you're gonna stop making animation.
Shi-Gu responds:
Thanks a lot!
Indeed, I gotta admit Windwaker was a big inspiration for this.
I'm really glad you liked it and also to see interest in other cultures.
Back in the day I had the impression that people in NG did reject anything that were not in english, so I was pretty nervous when uploading this here.
Glad to see such a positive responce.
I won't stop doing animation, I'll try to have some animated parts in the webcomic as well. It's just that it takes so much time to do, so I often don't get to do as much as I would like to.