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The Balloon Journey

August 3, 2008 –
December 5, 2011
This entry was deleted.

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.

Author Comments

*UPDATE* Hundreds I mean literally hundreds of people are asking me about the music. The most common question is, who made them? It says on the credits... The holiday OST by Hans Zimmer.....
The songs used:
"Anything can Happen"
"Cry"
"Maestro"

*Warning. This is graphic heavy. Medium Quality is recommended... and flash 8 player*

Yeah I know, you guys haven't seen me do stuff for over a year now... Most of my stuff usually goes on other forums and my DeviantArt page.

Don't expect too much of this one, it does not have any complex full frame by frame animation like my On Your Mark p.1 for example. It's more supposed to be more of an emotional/moody experience, rather than having an all crazy action here and there footage.

This is based on an online comic from DeviantArt, simply called the "Balloon comic" by Emmy Cicierega!

http://b1nd1.deviantart.c om/gallery/#Balloon-Adven ture-Comic
Her comic style is hard to imitate for me in my opinion. I did the first 3 pages, but overall, I screwed up the designs. You can read the rest of the story here and see how it ends, its a great read.

Animation by me
http://tonikop.deviantart .com

Extra credits "More thank yous to"
-Unicomics and Zandoid

Reviews

Just amazing. The slight romance was very, very capturing, the slight humor kept my attention. And the music was very, very well executed. You did an outstanding job. So many amazing things happened here. And look at your rising score! It'll beat Waterlollies in days. I know it!

With an animation style that is new, brilliant, and creative, this movie illustrates a wonderful story perfectly! I feel totally awed. I'll be watching this movie again and again!

This was so good! I love Emmy C's art, she is completely brilliant. This had such great animation and the backgrounds were beautiful.

To be honest I didn't really find the animation level to be that great, I even found it rough at times, although the focus effect was used a lot. Not much of a story or character development there either. The music would have to be the thing that brought this animation to life for me, but otherwise (and looking at the other lengthy, positive reviews, I'm probably alone in my opinion) I found it rather lifeless.

Normally when I see a flash, i can point out at least 5 things wrong with it, most of the time I think to my self "There's so many things wrong with this.."

However, on this occasion, I was simply thinking "There's so many things right with this!" The visual style was new and refreshing, the animation loops for things such as the girl's hair were pulled off in a fabulous way, in that each hair was out of sync with another, whilst still maintaining the "wind blown feel"

The camera work combined with the use of filters was superb! The jolts and shakes at the right time, as well as co-inciding with the music (Which was also a great choice) was fantastic, it made me feel tingly all over as I watched it!

The facial expressions were emotive, and very much portrayed the personality of each character, even though no words were ever spoken.

I also loved al the small details, like the way the balloon rotated from the overhead shot, or how in one part, the boy moved in and out of a blur as the balloon was being shaken, even the part in which the girl holds onto the balloon's rope, where the hand dosn't wrap around, merley lays on a layer above that of the rope, just seemed to work.

Over all, you pulled this off perfectly, even if your graphical style wasnt exact onto the original, it was by no means "screwed up" and was a great representation of what you can achieve, both visually and emotionally through animation!

Ten out of ten, and a definite 1st place on my monthly voting form!

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Score
4.30 / 5.00