Score: 4
"so-so"
date: May 25, 2005
Well, first off the animation was pretty good, and the quality of the audio itself was also pretty well done.
however...
The beginning felt ... apathetic, difficult to watch. Maybe it NEEDED to be somewhat slow & spacey, however it ended up being excessively so.
If the beginning was *subtly* sped up it would've worked alot better.
The tonality of the vocalizations was good - I'm not sure whether it was in the slowness of the speech, or the editing, but it seems like the sense of slowness was probably created both by the audio and the way it was worked into the visual portion of the film.
Like I said, it's kind of appropriate, but... too drawn-out. Nothing's gained by a the extra stretching out of time in the beginning - but it was probably difficult to draw the line -- if this is even something the makers of this had in mind. Perhaps I'm off base.
Something about the rock at the ending, a general sense of akwardness, the music & the clouds --- was interesting, but didn't quite redeem the animation as a whole.
