Score: 2
"okay, well"
date: October 3, 2009
first off, i do respect you as an animator. you quite obviously are very talented and put a lot of effort into your work. so, regardless of what my personal feelings are on the content or anybody elses for that matter, i thought you would just deserve to at least know that and have credit given to you.
the one thing i just don't get about your work is that they don't seem to really, well, have a point i suppose. and what i mean by that is that they just have no real thing that would make you stop and think. you tend to take a sensitive subject (whether that be murder, molestation or whatever else a lot of people are sensitive to and are not really exposed to much) and just animate about it. i'm not really feeling like you have a story to tell, or even something to make people think about.
your movies don't really creep me out at all (although i do think that you do tend to cross the line near all the time, which isn't necessarily a good thing. i think you were going for the creative and unique route but when something is a little too much, it becomes very hard to appreciate those things) but to a lot of viewers, obviously it would. that seems to be the only real experience that they're getting. fear. and tbh, if i'm not feeling the one thing everyone else is, then what am i getting from this flash? i'm not getting a whole lot.
i'm going to use an example of a video game that has actually changed the way i think. it's a freeware game called yume nikki (actually, based on the content of your flashes, you would LOVE this game) and it is under the general opinion it is very, very creepy and scary (much like your flashes). however, the difference between it and your flashes is the fact it leaves a lot of it's message to the players imagination. whether it has a message or not, it's up to you. what that message is, that's up to you. what you think the most correct message is based on what you have to find out. there is no real objective to it, only you can make the game have some sort of purpose. one thing is for sure, whether or not you are right or wrong about the game and it's theories, it definately makes you think and isn't straight forward at all. that's what makes it unique even though it's creepy. it doesn't seem forced or anything either.
what i think you should do, to better enrich the experience of your work is to maybe add aspects of these things to them, and not just have them with no real point. to me, this flash was quite boring. very lovely to the eyes, yes, but just because something is nice and good looking doesn't mean it is actually good.
anyway... i hope you don't take offence to what i have said, i mean none whatsoever. you are a talented person. i really hope to enjoy future works from you, you seem like you can do really great things.
