Refreshingly harmonious randomness, even with that berserk little space critter there was barely any violence at all... even though the plot was bizarrely grim and drudgeful. I'm wondering, do you do lip sync first and then rotate the character as he speaks, drifting through space, or is everything actually drawn upside down? Nice animation, nice plot, nice voicing, keep it going!
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Thanks! Figuring out how to do the rotating lip sync was kind of a challenge. I had to make it so that the movement of the actual character was in a symbol which I later tweened to rotate. Then I had to do the lip sync so I brought a duplicate of the character animation symbol (which was stationary) onto the stage and animated the mouths that way. Then I just copied and pasted the frames into the symbol so when I went back to the rotating one the mouths were rotating with it. It seems like the obvious route, and there was probably an easier way to do it, but for some reason that took me a while to figure out.
Well that was unexpected! I should probably have been more prepared from the title, but it was still a bizarre surprise. It's nice how the rest of the movie is in black and white, so that final scene is such a big contrast with the flowing red, the blood and grime and grittiness. Overally the animation is fluent in good ol Disney style, and the music fits the age-appearance. Nice work!
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Thanks a lot for the well written review! Glad you enjoyed the short and haha yeah Skitzo does sometimes take people by surprise! Hopefully you like more of whats to come....
Your English isn't bad at all, but that accent is a bit hard to understand at times. Nice iniative though making an animated introduction video. It's simple and easy to follow, even though it's rather bland and generically informative. Makes me think of those airline videos you watch with instructions on safety before take-off. Hope this isn't the only infomercial you'll be submitting though, would be fun to see more creative work apart from regular gaming videos, those are just... everywhere!! Keep it going. :)
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Thank you for your feedback regarding my English - highly appreciated! I'm working on getting better; so hopefully it won't be as hard to understand me in the future :)
I really appreciate your input on the animation; I was actually aiming to get it somewhat similar to the take-off videos ^^
I've been working with Flash in almost 8 months now, and I'm having loads of fun. I will keep on working and try to post more animations soon. Thank you so much for your kind words, cd!
The only thing this is missing is a scene selection menu. Not that it's particularly long to watch, but I felt compelled to watch LightingLions part of the animation once more before I mentioned that as a definite favorite. This collab is just overflowing with creativity though, so many bizarre and grotesque motion or friendly entertainment all intertwined with music that fits in perfectly, even though it doesn't seem to be specifically synced to the animation. From what I've read it took some intense work to get it done too, so lots of props for the effort! And pretty much all animations included hold a high quality standard, great work!
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Wow thanks Cyberdevil for the great review. And we will definetly be incorporating a scene selector next time. Or should we abandon the interactive swf and move on to the easy to use Mp4...
Finding the right music was one of the hardest parts. And I thank metalbooster for all his recommendations from which I chose the "Forest Funk". Some would say it was bland and repetitive but I believe it provided the perfect foundation for everyone's animations to shine.
This was awesome, so refresingly random and blissful at the same time. The style of animation is innovative and smooth, the music and sound effects always fitting, and the plot is just overflowing with creativity. It's not just a short either, there's plenty of story and content, and I like the fact that it's completely without language, just sound, and still easy to understand. Great work!
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We believe you will like the next episodes as well! ))) Thank you so much!
A day with death? Hah, genius idea! The title wasn't very revealing, and I still ghave no idea what the Dual Force actually stands for (two powers of evil? the two main characters? the clash of their wills?) but it was a great watch. The voice acting in particular really brings it to new hieghts, especially the voice of Death. It goes without saying that his parts of the action are the best parts of this flick, even the unvoiced ones. Apart from the power beam looking incredibly small when zoomed out on the bland neighborhood at the end, the fight was intense, and the animation both comical and satisfying. I was expecting Death to stay at their house though. His car running out of fuel and all that, you know? Nice work!
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I don't even know what Dual Force means either exactly, I guess like, the two main characters, Aaron and Jeffery. And the whole car thing is sort of a plot hole, since I was going to continue this story but now I don't want to, lol.
Well this was a mixture of random and entertaining. I really should start watching series from the first episode onward, but since this made it to the top five (and daily feature to top it off! congrats!) I'm just jumping straight into the action. Though the introductory scene seems to make as little sense as possible to a newcomer in the Adrellia Village world, the latter part of the animation follows a more logic chain of events. Characters are introduced before they appear, which is good for people who haven't seen previous episodes, and towards the end it seems like something big is about to get started. I'll keep an eye out for the next one.
The animation is nice and simple, voice acting good, and the surplus of sound effects and mostly ambient music really contribute to the atmosphere. It feels like most of them were heaped at the start of the animation though, and towards the end there's not much background static. Anyway, keep it going! Looking forward to the next one.
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Thank you for your review! Actually you only need to see episode 42 to understand this - this episode is just a "bridge" episode between episodes 42 and 44. Thanks again for the great review!
A parody on the heart of YouTube. :) Though I can't relate to the gameplay itself, the gaming video puns are easy to relate to. Good animation, good idea, and good voice acting even though it's often surprisingly calm considering the characters apparent desperation. Nice work!
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Thanks, I appreciate the honest feedback! I'm still trying to improve on voice acting.
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