People focus a lot of attention on their fore-ground subjects/characters, but they sometimes fail to realize how much awesome backgrounds can help contribute tons to the work. Also, the style of art, like your faux watercolor style, subconciously adds to the overall quality and beauty. Your backgrounds were simply amazing...amazing! The story and music went very well together, the expressions on the characters were very good and emotive, and the animation was very good. There was some definite professionalism here.
The Balloon Journey
August 3, 2008 –December 5, 2011
Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.
Author Comments
*UPDATE* Hundreds I mean literally hundreds of people are asking me about the music. The most common question is, who made them? It says on the credits... The holiday OST by Hans Zimmer.....
The songs used:
"Anything can Happen"
"Cry"
"Maestro"
*Warning. This is graphic heavy. Medium Quality is recommended... and flash 8 player*
Yeah I know, you guys haven't seen me do stuff for over a year now... Most of my stuff usually goes on other forums and my DeviantArt page.
Don't expect too much of this one, it does not have any complex full frame by frame animation like my On Your Mark p.1 for example. It's more supposed to be more of an emotional/moody experience, rather than having an all crazy action here and there footage.
This is based on an online comic from DeviantArt, simply called the "Balloon comic" by Emmy Cicierega!
http://b1nd1.deviantart.c om/gallery/#Balloon-Adven ture-Comic
Her comic style is hard to imitate for me in my opinion. I did the first 3 pages, but overall, I screwed up the designs. You can read the rest of the story here and see how it ends, its a great read.
Animation by me
http://tonikop.deviantart .com
Extra credits "More thank yous to"
-Unicomics and Zandoid
Reviews
what can i say?
It warms my heart and I love the music. One of my favorite moments is when he pulls out the chips and her face is like "WTF?" I loled.....but its excellent! ^^
This the best thing you've submitted to Newgrounds. I know some people would say "Serpent's Grave : Pitch :" was better, but this one was just so awesome it had to favorited. I was impressed at the use of color, if not some of the best color I have ever seen. The wonderful music fit the pleasant theme nearly perfectly. Even the credits with the green circles was nice to watch! I believe that Emmy Cicierega may in fact be the sister of Neil Cicierega (another great guy here) and I'm glad she has made this masterpiece.
if you found the link to this on a certain imageboard website in a certain thread devoted to comics
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- Score
- 4.30 / 5.00