Score: 6
"ork that wen"
date: December 2, 2006
+++ Plenty of interesting, well-written info.
++ Great tunes during menus/extras.
- though they could loop better.
-- On pages 4,5,6 of the 'canon, continuity and beyond' section, text is extremely hard to read on the left. You dimmed the white on page 3, but not subsequently!
- Text is kinda hard to read. Justified or left-aligned text would work better than centred. Maybe a lighter, smaller font for the book?
- In bio of Rick, surely 2nd paragraph should all be in past tense? Confuses.
+++ Great drawings. Looks just like the pro thing from some screens! Specially the vehicles and ships, which are flawless throughout.
+++ Great voice-acting. They sound as they should (age, microphoned...) and acting's good too.
---- Terrible lip-synching.
-- I couldn't understand voices at times. No subtitles.
-- tweened motion for joints looked dodgy.
- Some pixelly edges on some things.
Street scene and high scene above city's backgrounds have lovely backgrounds. Did you really draw everything in here yourself?
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I'm astounded by the amount of work that went into this. You obviously love the series and it's a great tribute.
Read all the text apart from one or two sections, watched the movie twice. But a lot of it was overly confusing for me and I was struggling to keep up. Bios helped though.
Optional subtitles would let me enjoy it a lot more, I think.
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By the way, I've got a few original Robotech comics. If you pay for the postage, I'll gladly let you have them in exchange for... a drawing of an elephant.
Author's Response:
While I appreciate the criticism, you didn't have to give me such a lousy score. It was extremely difficult as it is working on these kinds of films, and with just 2 people on the planet making Robotech stuff, ya shouldn't be too harsh cuz its quite discouraging.
About the problem with lip-synching. A lot of people pointed it out, but I'm really, really confused! I mean, you know that Starcraft series that's so popular right now? The one with the all the 3D effects? (Most recent film was Starcraft Infestation). That film had some pretty, okay fine, bad character art with terrible lip syching, but people never complained. I wonder if there is double standards in this site... :(
I never studied animation, so tweened joints may be the only thing I'll ever do! Arrg!
Lastly, everything was made by me with Photoshop and Flash. As I said, its very time-consuming. And getting a score like 6 is quite painful to the ego.
I tried adding subtitles, but I encountered an error. I really tried. Took me 3 days to decide to omit the subtitles!
Lastly, is that last offer for real?? I'm PMing you as I write this. (That elephant thing though...)