Sam's Sammiches
Credits & Info
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Animation Brewster
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Music -Rusty Courier-
- Uploaded
- Sep 15, 2012 | 11:11 PM EDT
- File Info
- Movie
- 3.8 mb
Author Comments
A girl goes through drastic measures to appease her hunger pangs.
This 'toon is for a competition called NMAE. The open round theme was "the hidden door". This is what I came up with in about 3 weeks.
I tried some new things with this one. Smears, different camera angles, perspective, stuff like that. So let me know what you think, what you liked, what you didn't like, I'm open to anything you have to say and I'll probs respond to every review.
ENJOY.
Reviews
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 16, 2012
Absolutely fantstic!
As always, you made good choice of music for the animation. It flowed really well, from scene to scene, and the facial expressions were nice.
A mini-suggestion would be to include sound effects, like when she was hungry to have a stomach growling, or when the cashier put up the 4.95 to have a cash machine "ding" sound (i don't know if that made sense...)
But that's just a mini suggestion, and not relevant enough for me not to give this 5/5!
Thanks, yeah, I contemplated adding sound effects for those parts (and a couple other parts). Like a slam when she bolts out the door, or, like you said, a sort of "cha-ching" when re rings her up. But I decided against it because I didn't want them to subtract from the song. Thanks again!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars September 16, 2012
hah! nice work.
I really like some of the pacing, but to me the ending was a bit of an anti climax. Not the fact that she found the room, that felt fine... just the fact that it ended there. It felt like there was no payoff.
Anyways, some nice animation! well done :)
Ahhh, yeah I know what you mean. It feels like there should be something after that, like it shows her eating all the sandwiches, or maybe she even gets caught and has to leave or something. If there was time, I definitely would've added something like that.
Rated 4 / 5 stars September 16, 2012
Decent. The animation was nice and fluent, and it kept me entertained. However, there's not much of a story, and the characters aren't developed much if at all. I understand you made this in three weeks, but I still would have liked to see a little more story.
Yeah, I mean, all that's really there is "she's hungry and she has no money". But that's really all the development that was needed within the context of the animtion. Or, you know, maybe I'm just not that great of a writer yet. Either way, thanks for the review!
Rated 3 / 5 stars September 16, 2012
I liked the animation and overall production. Some simple voice acting would have been a nice touch.
Hmmm, yeah, I guess I could've thrown something in there where it's like the guy yells at the girl when he's chasing her or something. Or maybe she says something when she realizes she's hungry. Oh well, thanks for the review.
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 15, 2012
Very well-done.
The Good
* The animation was nice and smooth as always; the movements didn't look stiff, they looked rather natural.
* The cartoony style of it all was something else I enjoyed. Some parts reminded me of some old 1950's rubberhose animations, and that's definitely a good thing in my opinion.
* How smooth the animation was. How do you find the time to animate all of that on ones?
* The audio was very fitting and nice to listen to.
* I definitely liked the way the story was presented. It was done in a very professional manner and I don't think I can do better myself.
What Needs Improvement
* Nothing major, basically minor things like the timing - some parts were a little too fast and some parts probably should've advanced to the next shot a little earlier.
Overall
* Overall, this was a very good flash, I look forward to seeing more work from you. Good luck in your future animations!
Wow, thanks man!
I love that rubberhose-type style, so thank you for saying that, it means a lot.
Yeah, I actually kinda surprised myself on how I got all this done on time. Pretty much everything but the walk cycles were on 1s.
The song! As soon as I heard that song I knew I wanted to do something with it. Waterflame's great.
Yeah I know what you mean with the timing on some parts. The thing is, I tried to make everything go along with the song, and I guess some parts just worked better than others. It's ok though, nothing's perfect.
Thanks again!