Score: 7
"A great introduction."
date: March 3, 2005
So an adaptation of the story, then?
It took me a while to realise what was going on, and that the gothic dude was the devil.
However, after seeing it, I'm anxious to watch #2. This isn't a great movie in its own right - more of a prologue, a teaser for things to come.
From the start:
Nice fonts used, although the 'F' is quite a step away from the 'normal' gothic 'F' drawn by calligraphers. Also, the circle forming the lower horizontal line would never really be drawn with a calligraphy pen.
Just an observation.
I don't think the italic script works that well tbh, and the 'play' button should perhaps have been changed.
Ah, I spend too much time on the details... but someone's gotta tell you these things...
I like the lack of outlines on your graphics (or, with the characters, coloured outlines) as they distance your work and make it look far more 'grown up' than it otherwise would have. The sight of the boots running away from the camera doesn't look great. But that's one of the hardest things to do, so I'll forgive you. ;-)
In the side-one view of the devil grinning, he's leaning too far back.
But these are small criticism in what looks to be an excellent adaptation of the classic story. I must confess I haven't read it yet, but I heard of it and meant to...
Well, hopefully you'll do Goethe justice.
Off to watch #2! Yay!
Is the spoken German part of the original music, or is it excrepts from the original text?