December 19, 2007
Author's Response:
Ha, nice way of opening the review by complimenting what you liked about the movie. The song is from a movie, and the song was recently used in a commercial, those are the only places I think it has been used. its a relatively common style of music especially for cartoons, but whatever, that doesn't bother me so much. I took a listen to the audio portal stuff you suggested, they were alright, but I didn't feel they matched this movie at all.
Animation not good? Alright, you caught me, red handed. But you throw me off with the ' not good in bad anatomy or whatever, you just dont see artistic sensibility'. I understand that my character design changed from when I started the animation, to when I finished(hey, it happens, and it is clearly visible when I did the older stuff compared to the later stuff cause I gave the wolf proper anatomy, and gave the squirrel more character). You think I just drew each frame without putting my heart into all of them? I dunno man, tough statement to make. This cartoon falls into a style I am making my own cartoons in that you just dont seem to dig.
I think I know what specific wolf stuff makes you mad, and the only drawing I didnt redo would be the wolf hitting the nut away, which I'll admit, is bad, and shoulda redone, but I didnt have time and no longer felt the need for that.
My favorite drawing of the whole animation is when the squirrel is on the wolf's nose. I kept some sketchiness in that frame. I think you might be referring to the shot where the wolf is about to eat the squirrel(near the end), I'll admit, that is a bad drawing, but I found it funny, and decided to keep it. Not a good fit for you I guess, oh well, can't please everybody.
The story isn't in the best way? Its a cartoon! Magic man! The wolf got up the tree somehow, you dont see how, and it doesn't make sense, but it still happened! What any animation, and they pull stuff like that all the time. It seems more like this isnt your style of a cartoon considering where you suggest it should go. And if you follow the event of that scene, the squirrel ran up that tree, so if a wolf did that in the same amount of time, but a little faster, it could too climb a tree in that time. So it makes sense.
The dialog was four lines. Too long? If i made it any shorter the story/humor of that sequence might have been lost. It was supposed to be a change of pace. Oh well.
You still gave it a 5/10. Wait, thats a 50%, Fail! This cartoon didn't pass your test. So you gave 5 points for good editing, very few good drawings and ok animation. I'll take it, better than nothing.