On the one hand, I admire the effort. A one-hour film takes a lot of work, and the furry fandom needs more projects like this and more people who are willing and able to see things through to completion.
On the other hand, even though the fursuits appear really well made... it still looks like a bunch of people running around in animal costumes. Which is what it is, of course--but it's kind of hard to take seriously, as opposed to how it might look if the characters were CGI, for example.
I expect furries will like it (assuming the story and characters are good), but to anybody outside the fandom I fear this is going to look rather silly. And that's a shame, because we also need more stuff like this to show that we're not a fandom that's just about fetish porn and whining on the Internet.
On the one hand, I admire the effort. A one-hour film takes a lot of work, and the furry fandom needs more projects like this and more people who are willing and able to see things through to completion.
On the other hand, even though the fursuits appear really well made... it still looks like a bunch of people running around in animal costumes. Which is what it is, of course--but it's kind of hard to take seriously, as opposed to how it might look if the characters were CGI, for example.
I expect furries will like it (assuming the story and characters are good), but to anybody outside the fandom I fear this is going to look rather silly. And that's a shame, because we also need more stuff like this to show that we're not a fandom that's just about fetish porn and whining on the Internet.