Review for "A Grave in the Desert"
I liked the graphic work you used with the tones of color. It worked well with the tone of the song.
One thing I want to mention is the use of transitions, which look like mask layers were used. Those were some nice transition from one scene to another. An example would be the reflection on the sword bringing us to the next scene. Think about bringing the alpha channel down a little for the reflection then bringing it to 100% when it comes to the next scene.
Not a lot of nice frame by frame movements that I can compliment you on, though I would have really liked to see some more work on the fbf movement that I did see (the birds flying, blood dripping). The tweened movement was nice though, it definitely had a weight to it.
Stay away from the shape tweening, I don't think it worked well.
The music was sometimes clashing with the imagery seen, but for the most part it fit well, and the pacing of the animation followed along pretty well with the pacing of the music.
I enjoyed how there was some kind of story running throughout, but I couldn't quite understand it. I'm not sure if it's following the lyrics to the song or not. If not maybe go with an instrumental for something like this. The angel motif, the cutting of the hair, the consuming of human flesh and the slaying of an enemy and reuniting of a loved one... something is there, but I'm not quite putting it together.
Check the part with the silohette of the man in the desert at the end, it looked like the top of his head was behind the sky.
Overall, very well done. Looks like you're quite an artist, hope everything goes well with your work. I voted 5/5.
-T0MMY