Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.
The actual title is "If Only I Had Followed Through". Static was a early name for the song in the background. The animation itself stems from a dream I had. I think I've found my own personal meaning behind it, but I'd like to hear what you all think too. Thanks and enjoy.
This was very "Stereothetic"
Stereothetic isn't even a word,I just like to say that:
Stereothetic
Anyways this really ment something to me.
Great artwork and fbf style
very gothic-like.I Love it
This cartoon speaks to me
it haunts me now
IT is my only life
Great artwork though,nice story line.
I just gave up finding the meaning though
it is just too wise for me
hope you write back.
P.S This was a great break from all that foamy crap I saw a second ago.He's annoying .
foamy. hmm. ouch. thanks for the review.
It was like an old korn video
GREAT SHIT! It was good. and the music was great cause you made it yourself unlike most who dont make there own music.
Yuo PWN3D THOSE NUUBS!
abba zabba, you my only friend!
good one
very nice and unique animation. you said in your comments that it was based on a dream you had. that made it a unique and very original animation. it was also very well done, well drawn and highly entertaining. i really liked this one. hope to see more flashwork from you.
thanks. you know you have reviewed me before.
Nice
Actually quite a clear dream.
The way I see it, is that you are in love with somebody and don't spend enough time with other things around you. Important stuff like family and friends. In the end you find out the girl you liked was nothing for you and everything fades to black.
But I'm no dream specialist.
Nice film. :)
-Xander
thanks. im single :(
Intriguing
I'm not really much on dream analysis. So I'm going to avoid plunging into the depths of your psyche and just look at this as a story/movie.
The wiggle-vision got ... well, maybe annoying is too strong a word ... but certainly I was wishing it would stop about the time the forest came on screen. I could handle it when it was just the mannikin and the box, though I'd have liked to have seen it toned down just a bit, but the forest was just way too much and I deducted graphics points for it.
It -did- mostly stop later, and I liked the end of the movie from the boat onward a lot better (visually, at least) than the beginning.
I have the vague impression that the mannikin's head changed shape from being a slightly bulgy but symmetrical cylinder at the beginning to something closer to the shape of a person's head further along. Is that just my imagination, or did it happen in the flash? Why? Did it happen in the dream, also?
I liked the music. It was a wee bit repetitive, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
The stuff dissolving to ... whatever ... see, that's the problem right there. It was a little too scribbly for me to tell what was supposed to be going on. This was one place where more detail would have been nice because I -think- the nature of this matters to how I ultimately feel about the movie. Black fluid? Swarm of tiny black things? Just general corruption and decay? There are subtle differences between what each of these imply (fluid: single powerful malevolous entity; swarm: thousands of tiny problems which sum into an unstoppable total; decay: entropy and the inexorable passage of time).
I didn't care for the way it ended. Going from a (basically) static, if you'll pardon the pun, frame to a black screen felt incomplete. If your goal was to recreate your dream exactly, then fine, but as a movie it just felt kind of like "okay, I'm tired of drawing now."
I've kind of picked out the bits I -didn't- like, so I should probably say that this is way better than most of the junk that's on Newgrounds.
well, lets see...
1, the "wiggle-vision" as you call it is actually just fbf work. That was the art direction i decided to go with from the start, and to stop it completely would have been just stupid.
2, i only animated two different types oh "heads" for the main character; front and side.
3, the blackness wasnt a "swarm". it wasnt "liquid". its not even describable. it wasnt something he could touch. it was, basically, all death and decay.
4, the ending- I wanted everyone to see nothing but black. No "replay?" button, no nice ending, just the last shot of the characters in the corner, then black. that was my ending from the beginning and saying, "I'm tired of drawing now" actually felt like an insult.
5, Yes, it IS better than most junk on newgrounds.