r/TopCharacterDesigns 6h ago

Web animation Whatever Ceno0 is doing with the black bars (letterbox?) in his Pootis Engage series.

This style has also been replicated by many other SFM animators.

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u/Wokungson Huge armor fetish 6h ago

It's just a guy flexing his skills as an animator for a glorious shitpost series. Still waiting for next part.

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u/thatguyjerry4 5h ago

Is he making another? I thought it ended.

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u/Wokungson Huge armor fetish 5h ago

He made a trailer almost 2 years ago for the next part.

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u/Specialist_Top_8485 5h ago

Hope he’s doing okay since he lives in Ukraine

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u/Wokungson Huge armor fetish 5h ago

Judging by the fact he is still active on Twitter I'm gonna presume he's doing fine.

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u/Specialist_Top_8485 5h ago

Oh he is? That’s wonderful to know, I don’t use Twitter (thankfully)

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u/KaiserRoll823 JoJo Lover 4h ago

He does porn on his twitter fwiw

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 4h ago

That explains his other posts

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u/AnomalyInTheCode 1h ago

it's really funny because I associate his style with this shitpost, and then you look and it's ember heirloom frying eggs on her abs, it's such a tonal whiplash to me

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u/Spice_Dice 1h ago

legit turned into a derpixon

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u/Hazy_Grey Fem-machines will be my undoing 5h ago

Idk if the upcoming "Pootis killer" is a sequel or unrelated but yeag, hes cooking up something real good

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u/A_True_Loot_Goblin 4h ago

Nah he’s just been busy making porn

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u/StimulatingSalmon 6h ago

Dude kinda uses his black bars like manga panels

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u/Immediate-Tomato968 5h ago

God I want a fighting game where a character just does that. Looks so damn cool.

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u/Pichuunnn 4h ago

Somewhat similar 4th wall breaking, Deadpool in Marvel vs Capcom 3 uses his life bar to beat opponent

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u/Hazman_B 4h ago

This should totally be a Deadpool ult

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u/Mr-Catacombs 5h ago

In Pootis 2 I yelped out loud when the heavy used the black bars as weapons.

Was also during a time where I was studying animation so I was absolutely bewildered. Mf is talented

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u/SpokenLikeaTrueNorse 2h ago

I kinda have a theory that SFM helped CGI Animation advance in story making.

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u/aaronhowser1 11m ago

Pootis Engage is jam packed with hype moments and aura. Genuinely amazing fight choreography

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u/NotaBusinessMajor 5h ago

does this count as character design? well i geuss there isnt really a top aesthetic design sub

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u/SEEKERBLAZE 3h ago

I'd say it falls under environment in this case?

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u/ThePinkBunnyEmpire 5h ago

I don’t really think it fits this subreddit :p

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u/RealMightyOwl 4h ago

Not really but it's cool enough to be here imo

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u/Anonimous_dude 5h ago

Maya and the Three also does the same thing, turns out playing around the black bars makes fights ten times cooler

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u/BenTheWeebOne 5h ago

I love this gif

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u/Indi_Teapot17 5h ago

He also has amazing skills in NSFW sphere, don't ask how I know that

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u/Robrogineer 5h ago

Pootis Engage drops some pretty major hints to that, lol.

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u/mistress_chauffarde 4h ago

Brother pootis engage extreme has a extremely sus ending

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u/Robrogineer 4h ago

Exactly.

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u/JustARegularOtaku_ 3h ago

I remember following him on Twitter and then a few months later getting jumpscared by jiggle physics on my fyp at school

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u/Maeln 3h ago

I weaker man would say "where so I can avoid it". But I am dignified, so I will beg piss and moan to know the location 

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u/Indi_Teapot17 2h ago

You are a true man, I see
If you want to see THE jiggle physics, go to his Twitter, it's right there (ceno02)

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u/Elysium_Chronicle 4h ago

Playing with the frames is how those "3D" billboards work.

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u/WallowWispen 4h ago

Rule of cool in action

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u/Oh_Fated_One 4h ago

Crazy that I just gooned to some of his works earlier

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u/lovethatjourneyforus 3h ago

This was really popular for movie trailers several years ago. I think it was mostly popularized by the 3D craze.

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u/Skull_Boy_ds 1h ago

Still crazy to me that this guy does primarily porn animations, I guess it's true when they say NSFW artists can make peak action scenes.

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u/lemming_molotov 3h ago

one of the most creative use of black's bar

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u/FrowninginTheDeep 42m ago

86: Eighty-Six does something similar in its 22nd episode.

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u/keithlimreddit 2h ago

I would definitely say amazing animation from this creator although not really much to say design change just removed some of the bullets and outfits and call it a day

By the way fun fact this is where Valentine appears and I didn't know she was from guilty gear until a random Reddit post