slow mo
way too much of it
Sonic Shadow Duel
November 6, 2010 –March 13, 2021
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: MADE A FEW EDITS got rid of excess slow-mo, and someone ( I forgot) told me that Show No Tears was the better song so took out Devil's Dance! For those of you who keep saying Sonic cant fly, think of it this way, he is moving so fast gravity cant keep up. And in the game Sonic and Black KNight Shadow can use blast without emeralds, in fact there are no emeralds in that game but shadow fights like Vegeta with a sword.
HOLY CRAP an AWARD?
EDIT: There a lot of things I could improve on I think what most people are saying it that it is good at individual scenes but they dont necessarily flow together, and too many slo-mos. Other than that I think I did so so, since I haven't use flash in like 4 years still stuck in AS2 but for this I learned some AS3. Sorry for the lag since some people don't have Flash player 10, because I had some 3d layers so I couldn't make it FP 9 Sorry.
This is just flash practice, I do plan on doing some real animations that are drawn. Why should I waste time drawing everything just to practice cinematography and motion and action sequencing. Just like drawing, if you know how to draw accurate proportions but need to work on rendering, waste time drawing, when you can borrow line art to just work on rendering skills.
Okay so this is a long way from Super Sonic Warriors. Sonic Adventure Z has been canceled, I wanted to do it but buy the time I got flash all of my custom sprites and storyboards were gone on an old computer. I thought why not do just a battle, after all that is what most people enjoy in a sprite flash now a days, mindless violence. ^^ ENJOY!
P.S.
Im to lazy to edit to the credits so for music, thank the NG Audio Portal. Furthermore, the names of the non NG portal songs in order are: Knight of the Wind (Sonic and the Black Knight), Training (Track 07: Best of DBZ Trunks Compendium) and Metal Ridley Boss Battle Theme (Metroid/ SSB Brawl)
Reviews
good work
solid
An animation with a bucket of milk
this would be AWESOME if you had laid off the slo-mo and pause each time sonic recieves a kick to the head.plus that 10-second pause right before the charged up spin attack was RIDICULOUS. if u speed it up, it would be great. also, stick with the DBZ effects if thats your thing, it works well
Enough already.
I'm sorry for being so tough on you, but that was a huge waste of my life.
I'm going to rate this movie by category, just to point out some of the strengths and flaws:
-Story-
None. There was no premise to this movie at all, other than 'Shadow sees Sonic, beats him up, they fight for the next 3 minutes.' For such an unoriginal idea with no dialog to even accompany what's happening: 1/10.
-Artwork-
Overused sprites that weren't used at the right moments. For example, the 3D running Sonic scene near the end had sprites of Shadow standing on the ground... While he was in mid air. Backgrounds looked nice, problem is you didn't make them yourself. Most of the effects you included haven't been made by you either, and the effects you made yourself were copyed from Alvin Earthworm. Overall: 2/10
-Music-
Generic battle music, which got boring and repetitive after they were played the 3rd time over. Needs more variety: 4/10
-Animation-
Sprites were used well in some cases, but in most, the concept of the sprites used at certain times were ripped from various other sprite fight movies. (Example, Sonic spinning on the ground, powering up.) Some of the 3D animations were nice, but could've been polished to look better. Fights were repetitive, and got old quickly. There was nothing going on that was keeping my attention. Also, ENOUGH WITH THE SLOW-MO: 5/10
-Sounds-
DBZ sound pack: 0/10
-Overall-
A lame concept, a lame execution. Move away from the sprite fights. If you're going to make more sprite movies, don't make them about Sonic, or Mario. Everyone's seen enough of that, we want something new. Also, the music in your movie was one of the only good things about it, don't be an ungrateful bastard, take the time to credit them in the movie. If this gets shared onto another website (which it undoubtedly will), there will be no way to ensure that they'll be credited.
Review score: 4/10
Voted: 2/5
Great? no just good.
It's good but not Great people love watching fights betwen characters but when you over do it things tempt to turn out bad. Like for example as everyone has already stated. The slo mo was very over done. Maybe like 2 or 3 times woulda been good. Other than that its pretty good.
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