Another masterpiece. The music is perfect, the storyline is suitable and the animation is your best yet. A lot more fluid than previously (though you still have quite a bit of resizing) and the motion was a lot more realistic. The same relaxed pacing as your previous works and this really helps one get into the mood. Too many animations these days are a shot a second, but you know how to set the scene length to establish a mood and setting. Excellent work. Make more!
P.S Perhaps some colour would be nice? I know you've done it in previous animations and the black and white of this was a little dull.
Should put a preloader in there because having it automatically start is a little annoying. There should also be an end screen with a replay button so it doesn't repeat in a mind mashing loop for eternity!
Technical details aside though it was a nice animation. I don't really like it when people just grab a funny audio clip and animate something over the top but for what it is you've done it well. I like your art style a lot. The soft colours and thing lines give it a laid back appearance that fits perfectly with the tone of the audio clip. The animation was a little static and whilst the lip synching was decent the facial expressions could have been a little more varied. Sure they widened there eyes and closed them whilst laughing but a bit more motion would have been nice.
I liked the various animals you had playing the roles and that added another comedic element that stopped the joke getting too stale. As a whole despite not really liking the concept i thought it was decent, definitely a nice art style.
First things first, it's good that you have a preloader but the play button is a little osbscure. It apperas to be a small pebble? It's hit area is also a little wacky.
And after pressing that, why does the animation stop again on the title screen? This seems a little unnecessary, pressing play once should be enough to watch the whole movie. Again, the play button is literally the title and this is a little obscure too, there are no roll over effects and it's hit area is the same size as the actual text. It required skill to get the movie going again! Always make sure you have large hit boxes for all your buttons and atleast some roll over effect (no matter how subtle).
As for the actual content it was decent. You have a clean artstyle and the black white (whilst a bit bland) looked nice enough. The red hearts & kisses were a nice touch. I liked the background music, though you should have credited the author (even if it's you!).
The concept was a little strange, two robots floating on a cloud meet each other and fall in love? Well okay! But perhaps a little more explanation could make it more engaging. Why were they floating on clouds? What made them attracted to each other? Something at least that the viewer can relate to.
Oh and seeing as you like robots, you might like to know it's Roboy Day on July the 10th and if you submit a robot animation then you enter the side wide competition. Perhaps you'd like to spend the time and make a longer, more plot driven robot animation and release it then? Just a thought.
Well the thing was with the loader I really got messed with that thing so I thought what the hell who cares its all about the animation, and we are planning to do more of those things and next time it will be longer no worries.
I enjoyed the script and voice acting though i wasn't a huge fan of the art style. Some of the colours were a bit garish but the mouths with their large teeth were quite unique and i liked that. The lip synching was decent and the facial expressions were comical, it was perhaps all a bit static but the script didn't demand that much movement.
You blended the photo backgrounds well with the vector foregrounds and the drawn backgrounds were good too. The pacing was good (which is very important with comedy) and the characters were all interesting and distinct. Some good work!
Thank you for giving us some feedback! It's nice to have such positive feedback. I can understand not enjoying the overall style, afterall it's just a matter of opinion. We are always lookng for ways to improve things though.
Heh heh, very nice! The animation was the highlight for me, there was very little resizing some escellent timing and some highly expressive poses. The concept was fun and the length was decent. The crab character was a little odd, was he a magician? The punchline worked well and had me smile.
The only downside was a lack of voice acting on the part of the two mistresses and the low quality. I'm assuming you didn't make it in flash? Well NG now alows for none swf uploads so you needed have crammed it into a swf file. I think you still need to talk to Tom but i've seen lots of movie uploads on the portal recently.
Still, it was all in all a fun watch with some good music, a fun concept and some great animation.
Great atmosphere! The concept is really cool and you pull it off quite well, i never thought i'd be scared by a cat leaning his head into a doll house. The song(?) that loops in the background gets a little annoying. The sudden cut off is quite jarring and stops the music from ever blending entirely into the background. Your art is decent and the camera angles and lighting were pretty good too. I think your animation needs work and a lot of it is far too static. Remember than when people walk and run they don't glide, they move up and down. A key part of making run/walk cycles look good is getting this right. Having a body glide horizontally along with legs moving beneath just looks bad, make sure the body is moving up and down with the rise and fall of the walk!
That said some of the animation was pretty good and i'm sure with practice you can get some create some more realistic looking motion. The voice acting fitted the concept perfectly and the sound design was good too.
I didn't really like the shrinking growing scene, the imagery of it is a little too cliche and comical to work with the sinister tone you're creating here. All in all though it was an enjoyable flash and i look forward to future episodes!
Thanks for this, really honest and helpful. I'm definitely a massive amateur with sound design, i need to get a better mic to record background noise & edit it properly or collaborate with someone here on newgrounds because I had to make the eerie sounds etc from scratch. I do see what you're saying with the jarring sound, which i didn't entirely register until I started editing with headphones.
And really appreciate your advice about walkcycles, they're still my biggest struggle and I do need more practice. As for the shrinking scene, I hadn't really thought about it as comical but thanks for your input. Think as I get better with AFX i can come up with better transitions from live-action characters into flash figures.
I was impressed by the opening shot though the lense flair put me off a bit. However the lense flair in the second shot was utterly gratuitous and detracted from the otherwise decent composition of the scene. I like your art style and the backgrounds too, are they 3d models? You managed to blend their complexity and the simplicity of the character designs effictively and it gave the animation a recognizable style that fits the animations theme too.
I thought the voice acting, music and sound design were all well done and sounded proffesional. The animation too is good, though at certain points it really seemed you were cutting corners ie. 2:23 when she changes the direction of her run AND the jump at 2:48.
This is the first in the series i've watched so i can't comment much on the story but this episode was engaging enough to have me go look at the previous episodes now. Definitely some fine work!
Pretty damn crazy! The loading screen was fun with its beautiful picture that gave you some characters to ponder and its amusing advert satire. The menu too was nice, with proffesional buttons with nifty preview pictures, funky music and a fun randomized scrolling quote at the bottom.
I was a little unsure which flash to watch first, and i guess it didn't matter. The "back" button really should have utterly disappeared when the flash started playing as it was a little distracting. Why were the animations in movie format? This visibly detracted from the quality and appears as though they were all made in flash anyway so was seemingly unnecessary. Did it perhaps lower the file size (though i can't think why it would...)?
The actual content of the flashes was great though! Some very odd stories and unique characters and some epic music to match. The music really was a highlight with these animations and everything was timed so well for some beautifully touching (and comedic) moments. My two favourite stories where the seal and the underwater mine and the strange magicians butt based antics.
Most of the animation was pretty good (lots of nice fbf) and the art styles were a joy to look at. All in all it was an exciting, well made, and fun to watch collection of animations. Good work!
Wow. I really liked this. It had its own unique style that grabbed me from the very start and immediatelyhad me hooked. I'm not sure why you decided to redraw every frame, even still backgrounds, but it certainly gave the animation a strange naturalness that sits in exciting juxtaposition to the smooth edges, gradient fills and tweens most commonly found in flash animations.
I thought the sound was pretty great too, from the opening ambient sounds of rural life to the sudden monstrous drone that built and built as we saw the future flash by in a dionysian mess.
I would reccomend you try animating some parts with a lower frame rate. The animation needn't be so smooth for stiller movements (the ending for example should have been much slower paced, there were far too many cuts in too far short a time for the viewer to really see what was going on).
Definitely an interesting animation, keep it up!
Sorry buddy this is a website for animation. The only animation i saw in this was the title screen and i think that might have been one of those cookie cutter "insert your text here" deals.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars 5 hours ago
Another masterpiece. The music is perfect, the storyline is suitable and the animation is your best yet. A lot more fluid than previously (though you still have quite a bit of resizing) and the motion was a lot more realistic. The same relaxed pacing as your previous works and this really helps one get into the mood. Too many animations these days are a shot a second, but you know how to set the scene length to establish a mood and setting. Excellent work. Make more!
P.S Perhaps some colour would be nice? I know you've done it in previous animations and the black and white of this was a little dull.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars 6 hours ago
Should put a preloader in there because having it automatically start is a little annoying. There should also be an end screen with a replay button so it doesn't repeat in a mind mashing loop for eternity!
Technical details aside though it was a nice animation. I don't really like it when people just grab a funny audio clip and animate something over the top but for what it is you've done it well. I like your art style a lot. The soft colours and thing lines give it a laid back appearance that fits perfectly with the tone of the audio clip. The animation was a little static and whilst the lip synching was decent the facial expressions could have been a little more varied. Sure they widened there eyes and closed them whilst laughing but a bit more motion would have been nice.
I liked the various animals you had playing the roles and that added another comedic element that stopped the joke getting too stale. As a whole despite not really liking the concept i thought it was decent, definitely a nice art style.
Thanks very much, yeah sorry about the preloader and stuff im a newgrounds noob, but thanks for all the feedback nice to hear some input :)
Rated 3 / 5 stars 3 days ago
First things first, it's good that you have a preloader but the play button is a little osbscure. It apperas to be a small pebble? It's hit area is also a little wacky.
And after pressing that, why does the animation stop again on the title screen? This seems a little unnecessary, pressing play once should be enough to watch the whole movie. Again, the play button is literally the title and this is a little obscure too, there are no roll over effects and it's hit area is the same size as the actual text. It required skill to get the movie going again! Always make sure you have large hit boxes for all your buttons and atleast some roll over effect (no matter how subtle).
As for the actual content it was decent. You have a clean artstyle and the black white (whilst a bit bland) looked nice enough. The red hearts & kisses were a nice touch. I liked the background music, though you should have credited the author (even if it's you!).
The concept was a little strange, two robots floating on a cloud meet each other and fall in love? Well okay! But perhaps a little more explanation could make it more engaging. Why were they floating on clouds? What made them attracted to each other? Something at least that the viewer can relate to.
Oh and seeing as you like robots, you might like to know it's Roboy Day on July the 10th and if you submit a robot animation then you enter the side wide competition. Perhaps you'd like to spend the time and make a longer, more plot driven robot animation and release it then? Just a thought.
Keep it up!
Well the thing was with the loader I really got messed with that thing so I thought what the hell who cares its all about the animation, and we are planning to do more of those things and next time it will be longer no worries.
Thank you!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars 6 days ago
I enjoyed the script and voice acting though i wasn't a huge fan of the art style. Some of the colours were a bit garish but the mouths with their large teeth were quite unique and i liked that. The lip synching was decent and the facial expressions were comical, it was perhaps all a bit static but the script didn't demand that much movement.
You blended the photo backgrounds well with the vector foregrounds and the drawn backgrounds were good too. The pacing was good (which is very important with comedy) and the characters were all interesting and distinct. Some good work!
Thank you for giving us some feedback! It's nice to have such positive feedback. I can understand not enjoying the overall style, afterall it's just a matter of opinion. We are always lookng for ways to improve things though.
Rated 4 / 5 stars 6 days ago
Heh heh, very nice! The animation was the highlight for me, there was very little resizing some escellent timing and some highly expressive poses. The concept was fun and the length was decent. The crab character was a little odd, was he a magician? The punchline worked well and had me smile.
The only downside was a lack of voice acting on the part of the two mistresses and the low quality. I'm assuming you didn't make it in flash? Well NG now alows for none swf uploads so you needed have crammed it into a swf file. I think you still need to talk to Tom but i've seen lots of movie uploads on the portal recently.
Still, it was all in all a fun watch with some good music, a fun concept and some great animation.
Rated 4 / 5 stars 7 days ago
Great atmosphere! The concept is really cool and you pull it off quite well, i never thought i'd be scared by a cat leaning his head into a doll house. The song(?) that loops in the background gets a little annoying. The sudden cut off is quite jarring and stops the music from ever blending entirely into the background. Your art is decent and the camera angles and lighting were pretty good too. I think your animation needs work and a lot of it is far too static. Remember than when people walk and run they don't glide, they move up and down. A key part of making run/walk cycles look good is getting this right. Having a body glide horizontally along with legs moving beneath just looks bad, make sure the body is moving up and down with the rise and fall of the walk!
That said some of the animation was pretty good and i'm sure with practice you can get some create some more realistic looking motion. The voice acting fitted the concept perfectly and the sound design was good too.
I didn't really like the shrinking growing scene, the imagery of it is a little too cliche and comical to work with the sinister tone you're creating here. All in all though it was an enjoyable flash and i look forward to future episodes!
Thanks for this, really honest and helpful. I'm definitely a massive amateur with sound design, i need to get a better mic to record background noise & edit it properly or collaborate with someone here on newgrounds because I had to make the eerie sounds etc from scratch. I do see what you're saying with the jarring sound, which i didn't entirely register until I started editing with headphones.
And really appreciate your advice about walkcycles, they're still my biggest struggle and I do need more practice. As for the shrinking scene, I hadn't really thought about it as comical but thanks for your input. Think as I get better with AFX i can come up with better transitions from live-action characters into flash figures.
Thanks for a fair and thorough review, man.
Rated 4 / 5 stars 9 days ago
I was impressed by the opening shot though the lense flair put me off a bit. However the lense flair in the second shot was utterly gratuitous and detracted from the otherwise decent composition of the scene. I like your art style and the backgrounds too, are they 3d models? You managed to blend their complexity and the simplicity of the character designs effictively and it gave the animation a recognizable style that fits the animations theme too.
I thought the voice acting, music and sound design were all well done and sounded proffesional. The animation too is good, though at certain points it really seemed you were cutting corners ie. 2:23 when she changes the direction of her run AND the jump at 2:48.
This is the first in the series i've watched so i can't comment much on the story but this episode was engaging enough to have me go look at the previous episodes now. Definitely some fine work!
Rated 5 / 5 stars 9 days ago
Pretty damn crazy! The loading screen was fun with its beautiful picture that gave you some characters to ponder and its amusing advert satire. The menu too was nice, with proffesional buttons with nifty preview pictures, funky music and a fun randomized scrolling quote at the bottom.
I was a little unsure which flash to watch first, and i guess it didn't matter. The "back" button really should have utterly disappeared when the flash started playing as it was a little distracting. Why were the animations in movie format? This visibly detracted from the quality and appears as though they were all made in flash anyway so was seemingly unnecessary. Did it perhaps lower the file size (though i can't think why it would...)?
The actual content of the flashes was great though! Some very odd stories and unique characters and some epic music to match. The music really was a highlight with these animations and everything was timed so well for some beautifully touching (and comedic) moments. My two favourite stories where the seal and the underwater mine and the strange magicians butt based antics.
Most of the animation was pretty good (lots of nice fbf) and the art styles were a joy to look at. All in all it was an exciting, well made, and fun to watch collection of animations. Good work!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars 11 days ago
Wow. I really liked this. It had its own unique style that grabbed me from the very start and immediatelyhad me hooked. I'm not sure why you decided to redraw every frame, even still backgrounds, but it certainly gave the animation a strange naturalness that sits in exciting juxtaposition to the smooth edges, gradient fills and tweens most commonly found in flash animations.
I thought the sound was pretty great too, from the opening ambient sounds of rural life to the sudden monstrous drone that built and built as we saw the future flash by in a dionysian mess.
I would reccomend you try animating some parts with a lower frame rate. The animation needn't be so smooth for stiller movements (the ending for example should have been much slower paced, there were far too many cuts in too far short a time for the viewer to really see what was going on).
Definitely an interesting animation, keep it up!
Rated 0 / 5 stars 11 days ago
Sorry buddy this is a website for animation. The only animation i saw in this was the title screen and i think that might have been one of those cookie cutter "insert your text here" deals.