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'Chicken Castle'

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Hello: magnanimous citizens of Newgrounds:
Here's my animated submission for NATA'14 FINAL ROUND.

The theme this time was to "Animate in the Style of your Opponent", in this case; animator StejkRobot; someone you may already know for his works through the tournament.

So; now you'll watch an animation introducing a lot of less-usual things in consideration to any work I've done before in (hopefully) plenty of ways.

If you've seen some of my works before; maybe you'll be able to point them out through the short.

NOW, with that said; sit back and ENJOY!
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I think I have A LOT to say about the process; so once the tournament is over I'll take some bonus time to elaborate some more on the making of this final animated short.

Maybe it's a bit hard to make a propper comparison out of context, but the whole style-adaptation was based on "things I haven't done at all in animation" that my opponent does a lot on his works.

Hoping that you already watched the animation: here's a small list of things I tried to adapt from the latest StejkRobot's works in this short:

-'Heavier' action sequences (chases, fights...); with a dynamic use of camera every once in a while.
-Avoiding using too many "squiggly lines" (contrary to most of my work!), involving more emphasis on sharper lines for character poses and cleaner transissions.
-HUMAN protagonists with long necks and big ears; showing a big emphasis on their gestures and expressions.

And of course, there was one 'theme' we had in common, a theme I wanted to keep exploring in animation:
ROBOTS; which was the main motivation to begin the process of making this short animation.

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I wanna start with the fact I really loved the loops in the animation, the chicken-bird people walking, and the girl in the robot running towards the screen were very well done, The backgrounds had a great style and they matched well with the characters. That being said the colors also looked great, your visual story telling speaks for itself. All the sounds were fitting and so were the music tracks. You did a masterful job on the story and action sequences. I loved it!

Yay

this could be a game

The style and Art of this was awesome! :] I thought it was original but the shots could have used a little more thought and the animation was a little iffy in places, but overall it was great!

Very Nice and Cute :3

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Score
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Uploaded
Aug 20, 2014
11:28 PM EDT
Genre
Action
Format
video
flash
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