Chapter 4 of Quest of the Key is now available–check it out here, and let me know what you think!
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Hello Auroratrek,
as always, very well done. Your speakers are simply outstanding. I’m looking forward to your next episode.
Best wishes
Thorsten
Excellent! Your characters have very realistic action and the little nuances in their movements bring a lot to the believability of the story. Always looking forward to the next installment. 
pete
Thanks! Yes, I think the voice actors do a great job. Smithhammer is a new character and new voice actor, and I thought he really hit it out of the park on this first episode. The same actor did the drunk guy as well, and I thought he was hilarious in that role as well.
Thank you! I agree that those nuances are really important. They’re also a lot of fun to add, and that’s a lot of the fun of animation that it kind of grows as you go along. Many of the nuances aren’t explicitly “in the script”, but get added in the process, particularly during the motion capture sessions, so by virtue of their genesis, they gain a bit of an impromptu “live” feel. Not to show the sausage being made, but most of the movements of the drunk character, for instance–particularly the walk–were totally ad-libbed by my wife in her mocap suit, and she came up with the idea of the burp on the spot.
Hallo Auroratrek, very lovly story, and voices, Witch beautiful sets and animations. Were do you have the voices. Looking forward to the next story.
Thanks! The little female gnome is actually voiced by my wife, and the others are voice actors I hired on Voices.com. Good voice work I think is really key to animation, and I think they all do a great job. Voices.com made it really easy to find good actors–I mean, you put the job out there and you’ll get 20+ auditions in a few hours. It’s not cheap, but also not out of reach for someone like myself willing to spend too much money on his hobby LOL.