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There's a man poking me..

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--update--
Sound is fixed
File size reduced to 1mb
Thanks to Simon McClure)

It's an interested movie about a strange man and his umbrella. I spent the last week working on this, a record for animating a single cartoon for me. It's loosely based on a story I read*, though i've changed things to keep it more visually stimulating. Enjoy, and stick around to the end.

*
"There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" by Fernando Sorrentino
(Thanks to VijchtiDoodah for the reference)

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well, this is practically well animated, but since this one lacks some action, it makes this one get a bit boring!!!

Good. Work on the animation.

I like this submission, but the old man's sleeve looks really weird when he moves his arm. Great use of sound effects.

yeah...

yeah i read that story last year in school.... its a good story
phycologicaly messed up
we had to discuss wether we thought the guy with the umbrella was real or in the dude's mind.....
any ways improve on the graphics just a tad and mabe make it flow better but over all good i'd like to see more that are similar...

I don't get it

Who in this world could stand that. I might let someone do that for a while just to see what happens, but for more than a week. Then again, I might just let someone poke me for that long just to see if I grow accostomed to it. It's like a whole new drug!

Habits

Graphics (7) - It was very funny but that doesn't make it better animated. You've got very nice anima, but everything is very square and round.
Style (7) -
Sound (7) -
Violence (4) - Guy shoots himself in the head, whaddya expect.
Interactivity (1) - Play button.
Humor (9) - It is very funny. <thinking about what it'll be like happening to yourself>

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Uploaded
Jul 22, 2005
9:37 PM EDT
  • Daily 5th Place July 24, 2005