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Score: 9

"Moral - I need a zippo lighter."

by: Bezman

date: March 26, 2006

selected aspects (rated from ----- to +++++)
(note: I'm not rating everything or trying to break the flash up into constituent parts. Just giving you an idea of how good/bad I consider the points I mention.)
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+++: Music fitted well and was well selected throughout

-: switches between songs was a little jarring at points (more fading might have been nicer).

-: the animation for the drummer at the start (tweening the height) looked a bit shitty, as did the guy you kinda skewed as he slided over to the girl.

++++: most of the animation was awesome. Clean lines. Fairly expressive. Good use of silhouettes. Nice colours.

+++++: It was a solid story I enjoyed watching multiple times.

+++: I like the way you don't use speech as a stylistic choice.

-: What was the relationship between Chillz and the hooker? Why was he paying to see her, then playing the sax? Why pay to see her when he can't pay his rent? If they love each other, can't she see him 'out of work'? In writing this, I think I understand more about the situation, but I still think that could have been explained a bit more. Also - what the hell was the boss doing telling the girl to go over to the bar? Fair enough if I'm missing something obvious or if it's meant to be uncertain. But I'd like to know what's going on in those 2 areas.

-: I think you could have better shown the time passing before Chillz has to sell his saxaphone. As it is, it looks as if he just went a day without food, which isn't long.

-: I think you could have made the saxaphone-selling a bit more emotional.

-/2: ending is slightly cheesy. Having said that, I didn't personally see it coming.

overall
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A well directed animation. Graphics and music are great. Really, all my complaints seem out of place when talking of such a beautiful piece of work..

Score: 10

"great"

by: dustyh

date: March 25, 2006

Being a big fan of jazz and blues, I really liked this, a good movie, especially for flash.

Score: 9

"Fantastic!"

by: ThePeterMissile

date: March 21, 2006

Great graphics, great story, great sound, great job!

Score: 10

"cool movie"

by: blazedandconfused

date: March 21, 2006

that clip had everything: drugs, blood, money, and hoes. keep up the good work.

Score: 10

"fuckin pissa"

by: Driscool

date: March 20, 2006

Excellent story of a Jazz man. He got his ups, his downs, and the scene where the bad dudes got capped was sick. Kudos to you for making such perfection.

Score: 10

"jazz rules"

by: malkavianxx

date: March 20, 2006

Great jazz movie! I love the selection of music (especially the trane) although I thought that you should have thrown some billy holiday in at the end there...

animation was splended, the brooklyn bridge scene screams of Sonny Rollins... etc. great job.

Score: 10

"The difficult third album.............."

by: Dinosaur-Legs

date: March 18, 2006

Well Ben you damn sure took your time but it was well worth the wait. Your first foray into a colour feature that wasn't just a "collection of dick and fart jokes" and you took to it like a old master. If I'm honest though I thought, although it was thematically similar, the story didn't engage me as much as the Composer even though this one was far better executed and you even managed to get something decent out of that clunky old sound equipment. Now I know I'm biased but your easily the best author of serious work on this site and the only reason I ever visit it so kudos to you. I can't help but feel though that due to the mature nature of your work you're only ever going to fufill a niche on this site so get your work out there man, don't just rely on NG or I'll pull that scraggly beard of yours out by the roots! that is all.

Score: 10

"Great Taxi Driver references"

by: perj

date: March 18, 2006

I cant believe someone thought Johnny Depp was the cab driver...anyways that was a great movie and I loved the Taxi Driver references/music.

Score: 10

"That was incredible"

by: Timbus

date: March 16, 2006

I havent written a review in a while but I felt that this deserved one. It was Original, Well designed, and just... Awsome. These are the things that most animators only WISH they could do, you did a good job of making the story flow from scene to scene. Some things you might want to work on though; Your story line could use a little work as at some points I thought that I didnt make sense or whatever, also your sounds cut out early sometimes. The last review said youll be rich in a few years, I highly doubt that, but putting your talent to use could earn you a promising future. Tune what you know up in college and maybe take some website design? You definetly are a awsome animator.

Score: 10

"Another big future flash"

by: sioned

date: March 16, 2006

Your gonna be rich. Your skill is easily in the top ranks of the animators on this site, you create honest and original art, not to mention your jazz influenced style of flow in the cartoon. Simply put, your a professional, no question. I'd say 2 or 3 years tops and you'll be huge.