the Last of the Dashkin
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- rated 4.43 / 5 stars
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- bitey
- brackenwood
- dashkin
- portalhistory2009
Credits & Info
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Author chluaid
- Uploaded
- Dec 9, 2009 | 11:48 AM EST
- File Info
- Movie
- 11.2 mb
- Weekly Users' Choice December 15, 2009
- Review Crew Pick Movie of the Year 2009
- Daily Feature December 10, 2009
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Author Comments
This is the story of the last of the dashkin. The people are all gone and in a world of innocent animals, the solitude, the sadness and bitterness have corrupted his view of life. What does the future hold for such a tragic creature? Will he wander the planet, forever alone until his death? Will he always be the wild King of Brackenwood?
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It's a massive honour to be nominated for a 2nd Tank Award, thanks NG! Thank you for front page, all the great reviews and the incredible score for Daily Feature.
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Thanks to Brackenwood fans and donors for all the support not only during the 4 weeks I spent making this, but also in the 2 years since I submitted Waterlollies.
Since then I've been working on the Brackenwood feature film outline with my good friend Ryan O'Loughlin. With no plans for a new web episode in the meantime it occurred to me that Brackenwood fans could be waiting years for the feature. I didn't want to abandon them altogether, so this new movie is my way of staying in touch with them and the NG audience.
This is the first Brackenwood short to break away from the "character introduction" style movies that had little or no character motivation and plot. This is a story, not only answering a lot of questions, but asking just as many new ones.
I used Flash CS3, the .fla is over 300MB (half of that is audio) and it took me 4 weeks.
Don't worry I won't be leaving it another 2 years. I plan on starting storyboards on the conclusion in jan-feb 2010.
Reviews
Rated 3 / 5 stars December 9, 2009
naaah :S
it seems like its only half done .... :( loved it otherwise
Rated 3 / 5 stars December 9, 2009
An improvement in some aspects
The backgrounds were very detailed. The animation wasn't as good as the previous ones in that there wasn't nearly as much actual animation. There's actually some kind of story getting setup here, which is a huge improvement. I found the previous ones boring, to be nothing more than smooth animation that I could find in any professionally animated movie, complete with some predictable, childish humour or moral of the story - Bitey getting what he had coming.
This is leading to something more interesting, though. I always acknowledged the skill and effort in the animation in the previous ones, but those reviews got deleted because I said I didn't like the movies overall. I still think this is overrated, but it could be amazing if those animating skills were put to good use (i.e. something with a little more depth/entertaining value, not just a display of excellent animating skill).
inb4 flagged/deleted for actually posting a review instead of blind praise and for giving this a score below 10
Rated 3 / 5 stars January 25, 2010
Not a fan of narration
Very Beautiful, but basically boring. not as interesting as previous videos. I feel that this narration is worse than the quiet. Don't tell us, show us.
Rated 3 / 5 stars December 11, 2009
took it too far...just....just oo far
The visual quality was well enough, but I found it more entertaining with the whole thing on mute. The narration though good was rather uneeded. Considering that it went through the entire series so far without it.
It seems like you tried to reinvent the wheel and instead made a octigon. It'll still work if you push hard enough, but it's just not up to par.
I understand that that adding a backstory would add a lot of depth to brackenwood. I wish, however, you decided to do it in the simple and hauntingly silent way that has become your signature as was with the previous.
I can't help with agree with Bolagna123's review. This doesn't feel like a step forward in the story.
Check my site for the 'no narration' version (there's a button to turn it off but leaving in the music and sound effects).
Rated 3 / 5 stars June 24, 2010
...Sweet...
Creepy, but a cool movei, with losts of magination, but is still kinda creepy, and mysterois, but all in all, this movie is well executed, and is GREAT animation.