Score: 8
"Viddy well broher, viddy well."
date: April 22, 2004
That was infact pretty cool. Style was awsome and the narrating great too, I really like the world you came into. Graphics were pretty neat, the backrounds were very detailed, nice work with photoshop there. Nice with the waterfall and I liked the light from above. Birds flying looked realistic and gave a good mood to the story. However the animation of the elf needs work. I could tell you had mixed photoshop graphics with flash graphics, like you had made his body in PS and his head in flash. This really doesn't look good, his body looks stiff and really doesn't fit with the head. The elf also played the his flute longer then the music went on. And when he stoped "playing" he moved an inch, this really doesn't look smooth. I liked the overall apperance, nice job on his grins and facial expressions, that and the voice gave the elf a good personality. The voice however, ddn't go in sync with the subtitles, I'm not sure if you streamed the voices, if you didn't- do it.
Keep on flashing, I see alot of creativy here.
Author's Response:
Thanks ! Glad you rather liked it. I did put some hard time in the graphics and script, and I wanted to put some kind of atmosphere in it (watefall, beam of light, birds ...). I didn't really use PS though. I drew my backgrounds with Flash, and used the "Gaussian Blur" feature of PS to make them look distant, that's all lol, and the elf is 100% Flash too! And there are indeeds loads of flaws with the music synching as much as the lip synching and subtitles and all that. But they gave me such a hard time, that I sort of gave up. And nope, I didn't stream the sounds, if I did, they just didn't worked. Weird.
Thanks for the motivating review.
Alex
