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Location: Amishville, PA
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Finally completed my first flash animation! More to come pending the results!
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After having just got done reading Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide, this movie fit my mood perfectly. I really enjoyed it and I think the zombie idea works great with madness. Really a nice animation overall. Some parts did drag, but the movie as a whole is really good. Nice work.
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That pirate... damn, that was so twisty.
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I thought this was hilarious... albeit a bit awkward. I only wish his name was something other than Brian haha.
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Of course it belongs here, the site says "Everything, by Everyone" if it doesn't belong here, then where?
This is an awesome entry very cool and good work. Was time well spent if you ask me.
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Thought it was great, really fluent animation. I can't wait to share this with people haha!
Author's Response:
you go girl!
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This is some groundbreaking commentary!
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i guess my biggest peeve with this, other than its release time (about 5-6 years since the 2nd Matrix) is that the sprite animations themselves feel slow in contrast to the tweened movements of the sprite characters.
For instance when a punch is thrown, it feels slow, however the character's reaction to said punch feels smooth. The tweening was good but the transition from one sprite's frame to the next felt stinted.
Another thing that bothered me was that this fight scene completely ignored a pivotal scene of this fight. Neo didn't run across the bodies and faces of the ring of Smiths while supporting himself with his make-shift staff. This scene is crucial, and the fact that it was missing was upsetting.
Overall this was a good animation, however, I feel that upon looking at this animation with a critical eye (which is what we the reviewers are supposed to do), this animation gets more credit than it truly deserves.
Not terrible, not great. A lot of hard work put into this one and it definitely shows.
Author's Response:
Yeah, I was never an up to the minute kind of guy. Most complaints can be explained in the description, although not directly, if one were to, say, think about it for a moment, they would realize why things may seem slow or why its green, etc. But since most people don't take the time to stop and think, or to read the damn description, I will point these things out for them:
1) Green - the movie had a green tone, so did this one. It may seem overdone but consider the resolution and color palette of SNES games, which is what this was mocked to be like - not a whole lot of options for 'slightly green tones'.
2) Speed - this animation just barely runs on my computer, but runs smoothly which. Think about this though, since many claim the animation is smooth and fast paced, consider that your computer is not as good as you wish it was - 16fps is well fast enough for a sprite movie but if your computer is only pumping out 12 that will make it seem a bit sluggish, off cue, etc.
3) Syncing - since I synced the entire animation to sounds in the movie, I challenged myself to match up appropriate sounds. For example, if it sounds like a punch, have a punch occur. A kick, a scuffle a hard or soft landing on the ground...beyond that limitation, I went with an interpretation in 2-D what was originally a 3-D scene. Instead of X (width) and Y (depth) with a Little Z coordinate (height) I had to compensate for the lack of depth with height. Sure, maybe Neo jumped up a few too many times, but this only saved the viewer from 5 too many slow motion scenes since the only other option during low sound parts would be for Neo to jump kick a Smith 10 yds away for 5 seconds. It just made more sense to do it that way.
And yes, a lot of hard work, so don't vote down because of your uninformed opinion. Most people who simply say 'awesome work' and vote 5 probably realized the aforementioned examples I addressed so they didn't let it affect their opinion.
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"Review 420 (unless someone stole it from me)"
Wow, that was sweet promotional!
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Hey I just wanted to say that these animations always impress me. I think they are absolutely awesome and thanks for giving us something cool and interesting to watch. I can only imagine how long something like this must take to create. Stellar.
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Was as funny as it was gay.
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