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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

That was simply amazing.

This film is so moody and paintish all around, the feeling you get is pure happyness and well, the musical score is great too..it just fills all in perfectly. Sometimes theres too much of camera movement, but that's your style.

What can I say more than....keep up your great work bro!!

This was very lovely. Simple, elegant, warm, and devoid of any attempt to make it anything other than a nice lovely movie about two friends seeking adventure. I am very happy that this was made and it clearly shows that original content can be popular as awesome if we try. Though I must admit that I do attribute some of it's success to the fact that it is anime inspired.

All the same there is but two complaints I must level, and neither of them detracted from my experience enough that I couldn't enjoy fully what was there. First, those gaudy filters. Especially for lighting highlights. I simply can't stand them, I'm sorry to say. I find it much more pleasant to simply look at some solid highlight with a little alpha than to see those filter-blurred bits. Secondly, I find the ending abrupt and not in a good and poignant way. The boy with the map shows the girl this intricate pathway, which builds for the audience the expectation that we will follow the journey, and yet in mere moments the cartoon has concluded.

All the same, this really made me day and I am so happy it is here. That crow thing was probably one of my favourite characters in a Flash ever. The music choice especially was very inspired, though it is a shame there wasn't original music written for this. Oh well, we can't be perfect!

I am eagerly awaiting your next work of art.

Very good choice in music, it was almost inspirational. Great job.

You captured her style perfectly! Nice job.

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4.30 / 5.00