Did you know that Hoyoverse is proud of the fact that they have crunch free culture and huge wage standard? Those animators are trully paid well and having the time of their life.

This animation smooth af these animators are living the dream

THIS GENUIENLY LOOKS LIKE SOMTHING A UKpostsR WOULD ANIMATE AS A FAN PROJECT

Getting nostalgia for Ratchet and Clank. It's been so long since I've seen truly expressive 3D animation in a game.

This thing is even more 'cat' than an actual cat

This makes Genshin look like a power point presentation...

I love the bouncy / cartoony vibes of ZZZ. I see a lot of people complain about it, but I think it's a breath of fresh air from all the mocap in the industry

'Are those, scissors?' *[Red sun starts playing]*

It looks like an SFM animation with how overexaggerated and cartoony the movement is. Not a bad thing, just unique for a game. I dig it honestly.

This game is so fluid! Hoyoverse have such an amazung dev team to have Genshin, Honkai, and now ZZZ have such unique animations.

This has such a indie youtube animation energy to it and I love every single detail about it, I can see they did research and actually know what most people want from 3d animations recently, full of energy and personality in every single frame while being smooth and expressive all at the same time, this specific scene shows quickly but well both sides, for Comic Relief characters/moments to deliver the message extremely well and a quick serious moment with very small subtle body language movements showing the personality of the character represented on how they behave. I'm so happy that 3D animations are going to this side and i'm here for it. Also.. Nekomata gang!

This looks amazing, this entire game is so full of charm and love. Everything about it makes me want to play it right now

"Are those scissors" (In the distance) *"I'm fuckin invincible"*

finally, animators who understand squash and stretch is necessary for non-realism animation

they move like tiktokers

I know the animation is really nice. But does anyone else feel that in ANY game with cutscenes and animations. That the pacing of the animation feels a little weird? Like the part where the scissors get thrown at Nekomata was fine. Anby pulling her away was fine. But when Nekomata says "yeowsers, I thought that was going to take my nose off". Anby just instantly says "are those... scissors-- who's there?" like the camera feels like it jumps around sporatically and we don't really get to take in the stuff that just happened.

From experience of playing 3 main games of Mihoyo, the quality of these CGs are really something else.

Hope this is what actually we got when making an cgi anime

This is amazing. Its like anime + toon which makes it serious and funny at the same time.

I melted when Lycaon appeared, said his line with his deep beautiful voice and made his high quality and subtle animation movements~

This is one of the few times a cat girl has genuinely been adorable to me, and it’s almost entirely because of this bubbly animation that I love. I also greatly enjoy the masked fellow’s reactions, as they fit the animation just like that cat girl does.

damn this animation is smoother then my brain.

They also have a very talented motion capture artist, there's videos here on UKposts, very expressive!

It sounds so much more normal when you put it at .75x speed

they capture the cat like movements of her character so damn well

Imagine a CGI anime with this sort of production value. Hoyoverse is absolutely going to become a bigger and bigger media powerhouse in the future. I hope they'll release non gacha paid games as well in the future.

0:44 dear god, I understand why the characters were scared. its a furry.

DAMN THAT WAS WELL MADE

I really hope the Mihoyo employees are even treated well.

Not only the animators, the people behind those models did a solid job as well!

so far everything about this game has looked amazing

holy its amazing the sketch and strech technique is perfect the corporal lenguage its...its...............¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ fREAKIN PERFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God Billy never fail to entertain me 😂

Not just paid well but also no unrealistic time pressure from publishers, since hoyo is a self-publishing studio.

The Movement and Face Expressions are so Fluid and smooth, and not Dry. The visuals are good to! I love it! Did they Get paid better than Shibuya Arc Animators?.....

The animations on all of them are so good, it’s so fun to watch. I hope zenless zone zero comes out on pc cuz I think I’d actually play it

A catgirl that actually acts like a cat. Neat. Also, Billy is such a trip lol

The cat girl is honestly so adorable, she honestly gives me vibes of those “scrungly” rescue kittens like tater tot

Quite expressive!

Wow the movements are all hand-made but to do it that fluid?? Impressive

Adding a fluid to the animation is a masterpiece.

I like that each of Hoyoverse game is in different style and type of animation, and most importantly, they are all made with high quality.

holy crap, those animations are in an entire new world

it so smooth, i'm jealous

I'm loving how much personality are they giving to the characters through their cartoonish animations

God , if they did a complete game release of one of them they would make so much money.

"Writer, when you said to make them shiver, how much shiver did you want to exaggerate?" "I want you to shake 'em in their custom baby seal leather boots, I want you to shiver 'em deep in their timbers, I want that shit SEIZURING u heard?"

That's real smooth!

Now that I think about it, it feels like Mihoyo has one game for each side of their playerbase lol. Tears Of Themis for those who like males, Honkai 3rd for those who like females and now Zenless Zone Zero for furries💀

Its like the animation fluidity came straight out of an early 2000s 3d platformer. Its awesome

The animation is so smooth!!

The little piano notes when the wolf dude appears are so simple and yet And yet they really tug at my chest for some reason. There's something tragic about it. Hollow. Like the remains of a bustling city now just empty buildings and dust.

Is it weird to want an hour-long loop of Nekomata doing cat stretches?

This is easily the best, smoothest, and most expressive animation of any Hoyoverse game. Very impressed with this. I would like to get into it when the full release begins but I am literally out of storage space on all my devices because of Genshin and HSR so... we'll see. Maybe I'll substitute HSR for ZZZ because that game is kind of struggling right now.

Can't wait to finally play this!

As fluid as 3D anime can get. Love the squash and stretching here.

GOOD LORD! Everything about these animations are amazing! The subtle stretchy-ness to it, the facial expressions moving so fluidly AND FAST, the way they interact and move... IN GENERAL. And it doesn't just stop with the cat girl, That red coat dude's exaggerated pointing and his entire body moving with his motions are just perfection, it actually makes me upset!!!

Japan: Bad work hours, worse pay China (Of all fucking places): *COOK, NIGGA. COOK ME PRIME STEAK.*

So smooth and expressive that watching in 0.5 speed to fully appreciate is almost a must.

Not just paid well: that's some really good talent right there. Speaking from experience, this is the sort of animation quality that takes many many years to develop and perfect: you can't just have anyone do this.

idk this game but given that they do this throughout this scene, they must have fairly extensive engine support for deforming skeletons. my understanding is that's usually hard? I mean check out 0:32, superb

It's so rare to see such quality in animation these days that it's strange to look at

This is smooth man.

My eyes were not prepared for such a high quality and big diversity of animations in one video...

Some of the bounciest, fun, and fluid animation I've ever seen in anything! Wow!

I wasn't ready for those stretching noises man I was full volume 😭

wtf it's so smooth this is some of the most well made video game animation i've ever seen

Bro all the animation, the detail.... I wish anime was this freshen smooth. See this is cgi done right!

Daaaaaang, these animations are crazy. Back in the 80's I never would have dreamed I'd live to see anything this smooth.

The catgirl is so adorable and omg, the wolf-man...

Holy, the use of those smearframes is so good.

This animation style on the cat and the robot dude are going to be the cause of many epileptic episodes. Good lord, thank you for keeping my old PC unable to run that many frames. Mashallah. 😵‍💫🤕

Jeez, that's some crazy fluid, expressive cat emoting, needs more of this in games and anime, its usually so stiff!

love how cartoony the animation is, makes the game feel more lively

I wonder if Hoyo's gonna start a full on anime department at some point. This is so easy on the eyes, I'd love to watch series based on their games or something original looking like this.

Mfs put rubber hose animation in my fucking anime game

Probably has the best visual expressions I've ever seen in a 3D Mihoyo game, putting aside the stunning character animations, the compositions are very well executed.

If CGI in most anime looked anything like this I swear I would never complain about it ever again

This is insanely good.

its always a furry game when characters move like they a block of jello

Nah the cat girl is so cute ngl 😭❤️

Can I just say that last shot of Von Lycaon was menacing as hell.

Mihoyo animation has bee consistently excellent for years. The style is a bit different, but I'm not surprised at the quality.

top voice acting + animation and smoothness.

Seeing animation so smooth and fluid tickles my brain

This looks so much like the more technological aesthetic of early Honkai, and I absolutely love it.

when anime meets Disney so expressive and elegant.

Thats it, even before i knew there was a catgirl i knew shed be my favorite. After watching, this only solidified everything

So this is the result of when the budget and the time both shake hands. Edit: I don't know why this sentence started a debate over Gacha Games in the comments.

I don't think people care but gotta say it eitherway Animation, either 3d or 2D is not as much about money (even tho they deserve a good payment) It's about time You can pay an animator 1 million per frame, if you give them 1 day to done full 24 minute animation, it'll be crappy A weekly anime episode usually takes 3 months to produce So just remember, animation is about time, not about how much they spend Edit because a few people aren't too smart: I'm talking of animators as individual people, not as employees Even if an individual animator is paid a lot, if the deadline is too close, it wouldn't be able to make a good animation Yes, payment is important for a company, but I'm talking of animators not companies Take "animator" as "person who animates something something in 2D or 3D for a living or for a hobby" Not as "employee of a company that is paid to animate"

Bro got that chamber looking personality-

This is among the best animations I've ever seen.

This may be unpopular, but there's such a thing as being overly animated. Some the movements don't sell the idea that the characters have weight behind them, and when they do that weight feels inconsistent.

They turned Raiden into a furry Run

I am starting to think that each game hoyoverse releases get progressively more cartoony. I am actually surprised these character have a bone structure with how wobbly and overexaggarated their movements are.

I'll have to check this game out!

These animation are as smooth and fluid as old school cartoons.

ZZZ was already looking great in my eyes a while back but NOW This might be my game of all time

The video: 😇 The audio only early on the vid when you're with family: 😫😵

Super fluid and expressive