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Machina Humana

Author

GUS BUS JR (MrGUS)

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Date Submitted

01/20/2008 | 11:39PM EST

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Current Score

3.57 / 5.00

Score Rank: #24,091
Popularity Rank: #70,050

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  • Daily 5th Place Daily 5th Place – 01/22/2008

Author Comments

Wow, daily 5th, my best so far, thanks alot everyone I'm really glad my third try finally made it ha, I guess I should really fix the replay button now.
-----the replay button doesn't work well.. I'll fix that in a little while---
---by popular demand :translation to the parts in spanish---( I added an explanation at the end too....)

Despierta= wake up

que sientes? = what do you feel?
que haces? = what do you do?
que eres? = what are you?

en verdad despierta = truly wake up
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I haven't submitted much, and it will be a while after I submit again due to some work I've got, so I would really appreciate the reviews.
Well this is my take on my own confusion about the world, if you think it's confusing, then good, but the animation is not that hard to interpret, just make your own meaning to it, thats fine. I promise my next animation will be more random fun than seriousness, but as I said that will have to wait.

Man was I lucky I found and adopted a song for this one, the whole animation was done randomly by me before I even thought about which audio to use.

Ciao dudes/dudesses and thanks for seeing this,
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about the story..

if you already saw it and couldn't understand or interpret a thing... here's what it meant to me, and what are the events going on,the point is that it means something to you though...

What is going on? Description of the scenes:

The first scene is a series existential questions ,it is abit implied that this scene is going on in the character's head, since it gives the command despierta (wake up) and the next scene is the character waking up.
After waking up the character finds himself in a common enviornment.. though he looks around as if it wasn't and you can see flashes of an alternate place... maybe it is in his head, maybe it is actually there (you can see some shadows on the window), it could be part of some experiment, after all reality could be relative and that is a big point in this animation.

Exiting this common room he walks through a corridor.. which also brings to mind the concept of an experiment facility. At the end of the tunnel you can see that something is not how it is supposed to be, the tunnel seems broken and a white space follows it with a female figure on it... alluring him.
Contact with this strange figure generates a violent reaction and a second awakening occurs, almost as if provoked by this figure which calls to him, which tells him to wake upagain.

When the character wakes up, the exterior is gone, and his core( a machine) is all that's left... it is mantained in a closed room and it's being analyzed, but his reawakening is much stronger than his first and he sets himself free... but how free truly free means is in doubt.
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ok so with this you now know what is going on... what does it mean? You should really work on that... but ,as I said before, to me it is related to:
the basic questions of life... and death, and the futility of it all (or at least not knowing if it is so or not), how awake we are... how much is social programming and how much of us is truly left? it makes me wonder ... what "me" would I be in a completely different environment, i play around a bit with the idea of a higher power which even could be within ourselves not necessarily a god, etc..

In other words... IT IS MY CONFUSION

that's enough to get your mind started if you didn't have any ideas about it I guess

Gustavo M.

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Average Score: 8.9 / 10

Score: 9
Jurian

"Very Nice"

by: Jurian
date: March 2, 2008

NIce animation with good music and stuff. Good job.

March 4, 2008

Author's Response:

Thank you, getting the right song was hell, and at the end.. the song I chose was one i've had for a long time

Thank you for your review,

Gustavo M.

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Score: 9
Shanus

"Good"

by: Shanus
date: March 2, 2008

I was a bit wary, as the start was a bit slow but it was pretty amazing after.

The graphics were pretty simple to start with, nicely atmospheric, but ended up really beautifully.

The song was pretty good, nicely synched too.

Overall a good vid, great build up and beautiful exicusion, very good :D

=Review Request Club=

March 4, 2008

Author's Response:

Thank you, that's actually how I worked too, at first I was not very convinced so I was very slow on my work.. then It grew on me and I gained some momentum ,at the end I corrected and improved the first slow quite sketchy.. that saved the animation. The sync was a freakin miracle, I thought I would never achieve it since, (this was very dumb on my part) I found a song for my animation, instead of animating with a song...

Thank you for your review,

Gustavo M.

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Score: 8
Little-Rena

"Intresting"

date: March 2, 2008

It's certainly quite an intresting flash, I have to say that. Though it doesn't really seem to make too much sense when just watching it alone, a solid plot with the main animation might help the viewer to work out what's going on. But that aside, the animation to this was done pretty well, though there are parts where it seems like it's a little odd or needless animation.

The music was fine, though some sound effects in parts would have been good too, the music did fit with this but I have to say, sound effects would have been good, they would kind of add a little more to it in my opinion. But other than that, this seems to have been done pretty well.

4/5

<3

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March 4, 2008

Author's Response:

Thanks for the pragmatic review, I did realize how it could seem a bit too wierd.. specially since at first I didn't even translate the spanish part... but well I wrote quite a long description for anyone who was really curious.. I'll try to make the animations a bit more selfexplanatory though.

Thank you for your review,

Gustavo M.

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Score: 8
NintendoMadness

"Best out of the three fo me."

date: March 1, 2008

I wasn't really that keen on the song so I'll try and stop that from affecting my review.
- Good stuff -
Again the effects were very good and there was sreally effective FBFing in there. THere was perfect shading and the slight randomness wasn't too overpowered and was onlt in there a bit. It had a VERY good 3D all the way through and I can see you put ALOT of efort into that.

- Bad stuff and improvments -
Should of used that very cute pre-loader. :3 Need to get that replay button working.

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March 4, 2008

Author's Response:

haha yes .. the preloader , that preloader is a logo for a failed " digital art and animation" group I wanted to start.. so I'm the only member, but it is not dead.. SofT will never die, it's just not that easy to find group members where I live. I did feel I controlled myself with the randomness this time, It's much more understandable than on my other works-ish...

Thank you for your review,

Gustavo M.

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Score: 10
Bearkillr

"COOL!!!"

date: March 1, 2008

I thought it was a VERY good movie....kinda scared me though....the graphics were good and flowed very smothlly.....kinda reminds me of an Segway(the one that pertains to English...not the machine)..

Yeah....as others said...It had a kind of 3D view.....I liked it....Good Job!

~Review Request Club~

March 4, 2008

Author's Response:

Thanks for the capitalized "very", it's very different from a normal very, ha, and it's abit of a scary atmosphere but not a really scary theme.. wierd yes, I would give you that. I'm glad you liked it, I'll keep it up, I'm making somethin happier now.

Thank you for your review,

Gustavo M.

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