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Tributes of Life

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There is an audio commentary on this as well you should really check out if you liked the story/animation.... the back story helps understand why i made this if you care to also read that.

I had a blast making this and its been a ton of fun on newgrounds all these years... it's nice to actually make a first submission.... And just so it's known... i didn't try to be picaso on this.. i wasn't trying to draw perfect or beautiful.... and working with grey scale wasn't exactly easy :)

Was a fun challenge and i hope you all enjoy it as much as i had fun making it!

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Great

Liked the story, but the animation could use some work. Great music, and great use of colors. GReat job/

Jurian

Clinpachi responds:

I for some reason didn't care as much about detail as i should have :) was my first actual submission to newgrounds so i gave myself room for less effort. Ty for the review~

Lovely

A very heat felt, fun time movie.

The graphics were quite simply drawn, but the suited the nature of what everything was about. Nice grey tinge to everything made the viewer feel like it was a European art house type movie.

The song was excellent, well chosen, seemed to fit perfectly with everything that was going on.

I really liked the story it seemed nice. Initially seeming sad and lonely it develops into a cool mellow type movie, good job

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Clinpachi responds:

tyvm ^^ thats what i was trying to do with the mood glad you caught that!

Emotional.

I liked this flash, it seemed sad at first but ended happily and lovingly, Its not bad for your first submission and once you work on certain aspects of your flash making, your movies will be much better. I liked this though and you captured the emotional aspect of the piece extremely well.

Graphically it was ok, for a first flashthe graphics were good, and i suggest just drawing things in flash to get better with your artistic skills. The colouring in the flash was amazing, its not the fact that you used greyscale (used to great effect) but its the dashes of colour you put in, the circles on the calender, and the colour of the flower. These really made the simple style of the piece stand out alot.
The animation wasnt bad, but once again maybe practice on short flashes that you dont submit, just to enhance your skills. Because in this the animation was a bit stiff.

The sound was good, a nice slow melody helped capture the emotional tension throughout it, and the lack of sound effects is something i only noticed once the movie was over, which means you didnt need to have them as the backing audio does it all.

Overall i liked this, however i had to watch the flash twice to catch what was written on the note hat his girlfriend left him, as it moves across the screen too fast. This is a very good flash despite the simple style and still animation, because the back story and emotion in it are so good and are captured so well. Very Good.

Graphics - 6
Animation - 6
Sound - 8

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Clinpachi responds:

i'm glad you rated the sound so high... i put most effort into that... and those are very fair scores otherwise... tyvm for the review~!

Alright

It's certainly good for your first submittion and early flash, I'll give it that but there is still some work to be done on the animation and drawing side of things, some parts look okay but others kind of off a little. The layout of the animation and menu was pretty good though, so nice work on that and the sound was clear, but in the last part, you have an error with the calander, it's missing an x, be careful when reusing images, lol.

The point behind it seemed to be more of something between a certain amount of people, it did make sense but without the commentry, it does seem a little confusing at the opening bit and the note would be better if it stayed in one place for a while for people to read it, kind of hard to read something moving fast. But otherwise, a pretty decent effort.

3/5

<3

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Clinpachi responds:

thanks very much for the suggestion and yeah i screwed up that last red X on the calendar :o oopsie... lol i'll watch my little details next time better. Ty again for the review~!

\m/

A very touching flash movie. At first I thought this wouldn't turn out that well, but I'm somewhat glad that it at a happy ending after all :) .

The graphics are quite nice here. Not very good drawn, but as you've said that wasn't your major point. But you managed to display everything in a very good way, that's all that counts.

The animations however need some more work. They seemed rather stiff, so this led the flash down a bit.

I liked that you kept the colours in a grey tone. This way everything fits very well together (some flash artist don't have a good taste when it comes to colouring their flahes ^^) and it transported that depressing and uncomfortable feeling of the first half of the flash very well. The sad song you chose for this flash transported this feeling as well.

However, I think it would be better if you changed the colours to some brighter tones and/or changed the music when the girl finally arrived, because now the feeling of the story and the feeling of the images and the audio don't go along so well. Hey, your girl just arrived, it's a damn good reason to be happy and joyful now! ;)

Also it would be a good idea if you turned down the volume of the background sounds during your commentary, because sometimes it was quite hard to understand what you were saying.

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Clinpachi responds:

ty for the review, i took everything said to mind and will work on the minor things on my next official submission ^^; I'll also work better on the volume for little things like the commentary.. i should have boosted it a little and adjusted background sound..

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Mar 16, 2008
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