Nice.
Excellent work, lovin' the series, keep it up!
Reviews for "Ghostbusters: Episode 2"
very impressive... but I have some suggestions
I really enjoyed this. The storyline was simple, but engaging enough for the duration of the short. The dialogue was crisp and enjoyable.
However, there are a couple of things that should be improved:
1) the beiggest flaw in this production was the sound quality. It was often muffled, suggesting that the recording levels were above the acceptable range most of the time - and there were a lot of sibilants and pops. You should record your voices through a sound board and monitor your levels. I also recommend using a breath guard during recording.
Once you have your sound down, you should equalize your levels to avoid having some characters' voices louder than others, (as happened here). Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge is an excellent tool for audio production.
2) The lip synch was very lazy, and ended up being quite distracting. You can use a two-frame mouth animation for short bursts of dialogue and long shots, but it looks silly on close ups or medium close-ups - especially if you have a talking head delivering a lot of expository dialogue, (as in Egon's speech in the ambulance).
If you look around, you should be able to find resources that will help you animate talking heads more convincingly without having to do a lot of work. Basically, you create a movie clip of the mouth with the 6 major phonemes, and then use a frame action on the timeline that includes the dialogue recording to cause the mouth clip to jump to the appropriate phoneme in synch with the audio.
The process of cutting up your dialogue for mouth movements is called creating a "dope sheet". If you search on that, you should be able to find some useful resources.
I think that by addressing these two things, you could take your work from engaging to mind blowing with surprisingly little effort.
I hope this helps.
I hope this helps.
Biggest GB revie ever XD
Graphics -
The graphics are looking better with each ep. Every now and then you might wanna spruce up the animations by adding more detail in certain scenes when they're focused on and maybe some lighting fx. Everythings an improvement so far though
Audio -
Guh, when the timing went off at the end it kinda shattered that a bit, maybe it was just my comp, maybe no. Also the voice actors to to speak away from the microphone to eliminate some of that static and microphone sound. I think you need a new voice actor for winston, his voice just doesnt sound natural.
Story -
I liked the story the most. Ghostbusters deal with paranormal activity and you nailed it. Great job on that, really enjoyed both of the full eps stories!
Intro and Creds -
I love the creds the best. The song is just plain perfect and it shows them all getting a little more comfy and sort of shifting off for a bit. Perfect ghostbuster feel. Although I'd just like to see the silhouette walk and not slide lol.
Overall -
If you love ghostbusters you'll love this. The lame jokes from pete, the science talk from Egon, Ray dumbing thing down so other people can understand, and winston...throwing in random things (needs to be more smartass and smoke a cig or two, plus new voice wouldnt hurt) . Great stuff
A well done flash
I might have taken me some time to see this animation. I found it to be very well done. I like the whole ghostbuster thing and I like how you continued it. Keep up the good work. It made me laugh.
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