Reviews for ArkAngel - Episode 1.1

[Sk8erGirl14]

timing is almost everything in animation...

the whole scene after where they stare at eachother for like an hour is too long...the movie paced was sooo slow...you had to wait a long time for each meaningless scene to pass...get on with the story telling already...the "director" needs to learn more about timing...

as far as the voice acting goes, that was good...more animation and less still images....or switch the style up..everything seems like it was traced and just shuffled in the project to make it kinda work...IDK that's the feeling I get from it...

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[BassMasterFei]

It had potential...

...but in the end, there's just too much missing. As some of the other users mentioned, the pacing needs work. For example, the long stretch of dead air while the main character and the girl are staring at each other is a little *too* long.

You should also get someone to look over your dialogue. This is maybe the tenth movie I've seen with some variation on the "God is dead" line. And on a more urgent note, "poop-for-brains"? I thought these people were supposed to be high schoolers.

Artwise, most of the drawings look either referenced or traced. It's not a problem specific to you, and I suppose a lot of people won't mind either way, but it makes the movie look a little contrived.

Anyways, I know the review sounds harsh, but I really get the feeling you're trying too hard to imitate existing anime shows (I won't name names), rather than coming up with something really original. I mean, a classroom scene in which an introverted main character is disgraced? It's been done to death. My advice would be to sit back and try to think of something unique to yourself.

[Draciel56]

potential..

I can see potential in this flash..but you seem to be missing some basic stuff. The big things I saw wrong about this were:

1. timing was REALLY bad. The guy stared at her for at least 30 seconds. I thought my computer was lagging or something.

2. animation could be better. Some parts in it show me that you can do alot better. Lay off the fades and (what seems like) lazy skipping..ish..stuff. If thats a style, I suggest you try out a different one.

3. The characters couldve been introduced a little better. The main problem I had was with the last dude. "go for her" we have no clue who this person is(i thought it was the principal? o_O) or how he knows whats going on with the kids life.

Well just work on those things..you should be fine. Try to make the next episode more interesting. I'll be looking forward to it.

[NecroOne]

Not bad.

I hope to see more of this later on.
Keep up the good work.

[Darkdragon500]

Not bad but....

after watching this it seems like the whole story was ripped off of Evangelion *Neon Genesis Evangelion* with some mild changes to the characters such as name and style cept for the guy that tells the main character to go for her who looks exactly like Kaji. Well the concept of it is okay I guess...but a lot of stuff was taken from Evangelion so atleast try to make the story somewhat different.