make another 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
plz dude that was soooo freaking awesome make a sequel and make the graphics not fuzzy this time and you will get front page for sure if you dont w/ this submission something is wrong. so peace out and make the sequel super long and the graphics beter and you got a super movie everyone will enjoy!!!!!
jonah
I'll see what I can do. Got another series in the works, but might return to this one. Front page would be cool, but, like you said, got some improving to do. Glad you enjoyed it.
Loved it, want a continuation!
Loved it, This is awesome, though I wish you could do something about the graphics, they were a bit fuzzy at times, and that took away from the overall quality of the flash. This is a really cool idea, and I'd like to see more of this series. It's a pretty good, high quality flash. Kinda hard to find anymore.
Yeah, sorry about the compression, but had to keep it under the 5 meg limit. We tried to to put as much quality into it as we knew how to at the time. Glad you appreciated it.
Good :)
Bravo! Loved the animation. Though post-apocalyptic scenarios have been done plenty of times before, I would still like to see (if possible) things such as the stories behind Len, that spaceship thing and the mechanical spiders.
This might be a silly question, but is this supposed to be set on Earth?
Yeah, we thought we'd take another stab at the post-apocalyptic genre. Glad you thought it was good. There is actually quite a bit of backstory that we came up with, so it's not just random ocurrences. We're thinking about continuing the series since a lot of people asked for it. And yeh, it is supposed to be Earth.
Talent
You have it. Quality however, not so much. I realize that many conversions made it really fuzzy but even beyond that, the sounds of the wind got really annoying after a while. Also, are we ever gonna get any background about this? Is it some sort of cowboy apocalypse?
thank you for the kind words and honest criticism. indeed, looking back at this work, there are a lot of things that seem almost laughable to me now. of course, we were proud at the time since it was our first serious flash movie, and in some ways it actually exceeded our admittedly low expectations.
the quality issue, though, was something that chafed me ever since I first uploaded it. actually, the current file size limits on Newgrounds would have been more than adequate to put the whole episode in one flash and at decent quality. but at the time the size limit was lower, and this was the best I could do without dropping some of the effects I added in post. also, I agree with you about the wind sound effects. when we put this together we had some rather limited resources and experience. we tried to layer the sound in such a way that it was not too repetetive, but a better recording would have helped immensely.
we actually had a very long and detailed backstory for the movie, including the histories of several characters and world events that led to what you see in this movie. I think part of the reason for the rigor was that it was being done for an open-ended school project in which we could design our own assignment and set timelines that were approved before the project began. thus we had to check in with people at different stages in the pipeline, since the people grading it weren't really familiar with the animation process, and we ourselves were just learning.
it may have been even a little too ambitious, since the actual animation never made it past the intro (the ending that is there now was just a last ditch effort to finish it at a point that made sense). it was a lot more time-consuming to do the actual music and animation than we had initially planned. looking back on the story now, even though it has some elements from the well-established "post-apocalyptic" genre, I think we had a slightly different take on it that never got to be fully expressed. we even had scripts for maybe two or more additional episodes, including staging for complicated action sequences, as well as an overall idea for where the story would go. this material was meant to be the real beginning of the character development in the main story arc. what you see so far is just an introduction that was meant to raise questions and get people interested in and acquainted with the alternate universe in the story.
so I guess the short answer is that there was *supposed* to be more background in this story. it's interesting to see that people are still occassionally watching this and wondering about it even now. we had thought about picking this series up again and continuing it the way it was originally planned. maybe we will one day. I guess it would be a shame to let all that work go to waste.
anyway, thanks again for the review. peace.
do what you want
i can't really say anything about the movie apart from the fact that it's good, but you should already know that , and considering it's the first episode of a series the lack of information about the plot is acceptable
you've shown some good skills, if you want to continue the series i suggest you do it, if you have another series you want to do, and you can make it as good as this, do it.
I started working on another series, but might return to this one. Thanks for the input.