WOW
Ive seen many flashes during my time at newgrounds, never has one touched me or made me think like this. I love NEARLY everything about this flash, the sound is perfect all the way through-the french with subtitles is a very clever touch and the story is excellent, had the charachters of looked different, i would have been .... well i cant quite describe it but im sure u get what i mean!!
Sir I'm touched by your words! And you're not the first to complain about the characters not being 'fitting'.
Thanks for the review and complements :D
since so many people have complained about the 'non-fitting characters' fact, here's what I have to say about it:
My style in making art is usually in combining oppositions, and the characters I made could have had a much more creepier look, but I tried to make them as, well, "cute" as possible, I admit I didn't draw the reporter (Gustave) very well, but really you'll notice in most of my work I always use oppositions, even in the end of this flash I said "Memory of love, Memory of hate" (psst, hint!)
Don't get it
I have no friggin clue about what I just watched, but, what ever, here.
hehe don't worry man its quite normal :P
thanks for the review!
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wow that was good. dang that was seared into my mind. made me think alot. ..watch it over a couple times if you dont understand it...you will
oooo now there's someone who understood the whole thing :) well done!
thanks for kind words :D
If only, but then again.
I'll divide my review in 2 parts, the good and the bad, because this flash deserves a pro-like review and not just a bat in the back and 'good job', because I see a bright future in this authors flash development.
Good:
- Using subtitles and a foreing language (french) really created a surrealistic feeling and it pushed the story foward with a good grip and made sure the story evolved. This is what made it nice to watch.
- Music and sound effects and the quality of them. Musics came from Lord of the Rings to Silent Hill (not sure really, and I missed the credits too because I was busy writing this as they rolled). Everything well placed etc.
- Some of the flash 'art' featured in this flash was great but not all I must say - more about that in my bad section. The backgrounds (or rooms if you wanna call em) were nicely done with a good sense in perspection, the book felt a little flat though don't you think? If you would have made it in 3D it would have been a lot better imo.
Bad:
- I must say that the characters didn't fit in the animation. They were ok, but not fitting to this movie. Maybe you need someone to help you with the art? I mean, if the flash had realistic human art the effect and overall feeling would have been dramatically raised to the roof.
- Tension. Not nesesserily a bad thing, but a 'experienced' flash prank viewer I must say I almost stopped viewing this flash because I was waiting for a scary climax all the time. There was 1 scary moment in the flash and it was in the early stage, wich wasn't too shocking so I continued viewing.
In conclusion:
I wasn't really up to view your extra footage at all, since when you actually put a end to the story, extra things don't really interest. Me at least, I can't really talk on others behalf.
Overall I loved your flash and I hope you make more of these odd and innovating flashes. So in other words thank you for submitting this flash.
I gave this flash a 'protection vote' and all 10s, because I see a talent here so sorry for you others who think we should judge the flashes by the content.
I hope you found my review helpful.
- TonyMan
Ah yeah I suppose If I knew a bit 3D it would help a lot with this movie, I need to look into it as a matter of fact!
True I could use a hand with drawing because my drawings do stink (in a way) I need to practice much more, and as a matter of fact, I might consider doing a remake of this movie, possibly using drawings from a pro!
Well the tension in this movie is quite different than what you were expecting I suppose, it focuses more on depth, and a different way in delivering horror
I found your review very helpful! Thank you for such an in-depth review and summary of my movie, its very kind of you! I hope to see you review my future flash movies :) and I think you’re a great reviewer!
Again, thanks!
Interesting.
That was very interesting movie.
I didn't understand everything, but it was really good.
It takes some thought to understand the thing, so its quite normal not to understand everything (in fact, I don't think anyone did understand the whole thing completely so far)
thanks for the review!