I admit I'm somewhat unimpressed, because I've seen a large handful of animated series like this on NG, it seems to be a silent recurring theme. Have really laid back sort of pace and very low speed plot development, lingering exposition, a bit of dick-around humor and overdone character setups, maybe follows some anime influenced trends (ie medium, pointy hair for all the guys, except for long haired bro) and generally some stuff about backgrounds.
This is not to say this is not good in many regards, but somehow I've seen this a lot and it's starting to get to me at this stage. Another side note: it's kind of a sausage fest. Only introduced 5 main characters abruptly and they're all males. The only other characters this episode were unique trees.
The drawing was excellent, the animation was acceptable, posing and gripping on 3d-like environments, all superb.
Complaints: Really quiet in a lot of areas. Wasn't sure if volume was even set right a lot of times, huge lack of music or more ambiance. Characters had very few redeeming and unique traits, in both appearance and behavior. Some of the ACTUAL 3d backgrounds had really poor lighting done in-program and some textures were a tad screwy or overly repeated. Your 2d drawing in a mock-3d is better than your actual 3d, which I find interesting and actually rather impressive and unimpressive at the same time.
We'll see what the future brings, but for now I'm really just raising an eyebrow and noting I've seen tons of animations done in this sort of awkward and empty feeling/stereotypical style, and I wish you only the best. Some of these aspects (such as character development) might be resolved with good time. I'll definitely watch a part 2 to help evaluate further.
7/10, 3/5 ~WCCC