Score: 6

"Nice attempt"

by: AloneInTheDark

date: January 8, 2007

Nice attempt at making an action short. The photographs you made and edited were beautiful and the setting was very atmospheric.

However, while watching this episode and the previous one, i felt like you don't really know the opportunities and limitations of Flash and stopmotion yet. Making a Kill Bill like action flick isn't the best idea to translate into a stopmotion. Personally I think the beauty in fight scenes is the fluent motion in the movements of the characters which is often more like a choreographed dance rather than a real fight. These photographs result in choppy combat that takes alot of the speed, timing and adrenaline away from the action.

Another disadvantage is that the movie is too ambitious and takes itself too seriously. I'm not saying you should make comedy movies, but it is impossible to create an epic movie with a compelling storyline if there isn't even dialogue in it or some form of character development. I'm sure the storyline looks grand in your head and you are dying to show others how great this is, but the chosen medium and technique and perhaps your current skill and the lack of a budget won't allow you to fully convince the viewer yet.

I'm a sucker for stopmotion though and as an experiment this is quite nice, but it is nowhere near the big action movie it is pretending to be.

AITD

Score: 8

"Action seems Stiff and slow, but interesting!"

by: Rin4ku

date: January 8, 2007

I watch'd both videos so far (watched part 1 when it first came out, re-watched it for a refreshment) and overall its a good style with the stills, but i think the action seems a little stiff and slow. Most acions are very under-exagurated and its like every move doesn't phase them. Like the time when he just barely grabbed his sword from the ground, he then blocks a strike as he is laying. He didn't make any reaction taking the block and the girl flew back all so sudden.

Another thing is that the combat seems slow. Most times when you see someone strike with a sword, its almost instant. With this, you can see every frame for atleast a good half second, taking 3 seconds for the weapon to strike... making it look REALLY slow. The last part of the combat though with the flashing show'd massive improvement between both the First movie and this one.

Other than that, im enjoying the style and the girl is beutiful! Be sure to tell her that :). Don't kill her off though, even if it does come to the end of the series, cause if she dies... we'll make a movie about me coming after you for killing them off :)

Keep up the goodwork, just show a little more reaction and speed up the slashing and it'll be beyond amazing!

-Rin4ku

Score: 10

"Interesting, way different."

by: GroundsMaster

date: January 8, 2007

Compelling, to say the least. I can see why it's a front-pager.

Score: 3

"Interesting, although not animated."

by: armstronganimations

date: January 7, 2007

"-=Everything you see in this movie is all shot with a DIGITAL STILL CAMERA and is animated in Flash.=-"

Except of course, none of this is an animation. Its just your pictures in sequence. I don't get why this is on the front page. Sure, its interesting, but seems like you made way too much work for yourself. You could have done all of this with a video camera. If you're going to go for stop motion-esque special effects, take advantage of the medium. Do things that you couldn't do with a video camera. And don't call it animation.

Score: 9

"Chunkey"

by: Theribus

date: January 7, 2007

Still frame movies are deffinately an art, i must give you that =)

though one part that bothered me a lot: every movement is underexagerated.

like when either person swings a sword they keep their arms too close to thier bodies. they are too stiff-armed. you need to work on making every action look more realistic, more follow through on sword swings and more complete body movements. at this stage it just looks incomplete.

i really admire your work, it has a wonderfull style, but if you make another one, please take this into consideration =)