Score: 5
"Let down by your claymation."
date: March 27, 2006
Im sorry but i found that hard to watch. Looking at these other reviews i feel that the other people have not watched many other claymations. The characters were lumpy, boring, one colour, effortless blobs of clay with attempted arms and legs and a head that has been slammed against your desk a few times. Some bits were choppy, and worst of all FOCUS YOUR CAMERA! The picture quality made my eyes water it was so bad, turn the saturation on your camera up too, lots of colour was lost so it became drab and boring. The background moved a few times too, and the animation was very simple and quite unexciting.
However, the (only) good bit of that was the flash which i see you tried very hard on. I liked the focusing in and out effect which you used to blend it in with the poor quality out of focus background, and the reflection in the Psp.
In conclusion, i think you should practise claymation a lot more, and use some better programs. Your camera seems to be a webcam, and not a very good one at that. If you want to enter something like this into newgrounds, spend a bit of money, sacrifice your birthday present for a camcorder or something that will make better picture quality. Also the sound was bad quality, and you used greenday (yeah thats an opinion but i hate it), and to make it worse it sounded like you recorded the greenday, making it fuzzy and sounding a lot lesser quality. And your voice was quite high, but there's always audacity, to make your voice lower.
I can see you put a lot of effort into this, and i applaud you for that, but leave claymation for now, you seem talented enough at flash- you can move onto claymation at a more experienced level.
Burntleaf