nice rhyming
hey, that was a really cool poem, and good hand-drawn animation! I really liked this.
Reviews for "I Was Almost Murdered"
That Was Good
I liked it. Good job. The ryhmes must of been tricky but I chuckled at a few parts. Thimbs up.
if you want feedback
ok, to address the problems with your drawings. first off, they were good. i particularly liked the drawing of the title screen. then i realised why - it was stationary. all of your graphics, were nothing moved were impressive. the problems start for you when you try to make things move. the biggest example of this i have is the arms moving. it didnt flow properly. it looked too obvious that they were a different image superimposed over it. address this, and you're on a winner. my second point would be the way the poem was done. having a big white bar at the bottom with the text is old school. keep the font and size, but have it OVER the drawings. looks better :) my last point, is it was badly ended. i was curious whta the beast was, but finding out it was his dog was a let down. too obvious. other than that, i was impressed...
Matt-Merrill responds:
Ok, so it's the animation, not the drawings that have a problem. That I can understand. And that's also the biggest problem with doing a flash video this way. Because it takes a fair amount of time to draw everything, scan it in, and put it into flash. The last thing I want to be doing is drawing individual frame by frame motion for the kid's arms or whatever. Also, all those .gifs really raise the filesize and I had to keep it under 5 megs, so it was important to keep the amount of images I used to a minimum. But yes, I understand it could be better animationwise.
And Next time I'll try putting the subtitles over the video.
And sorry if the ending dissapointed you. It may have dissapointed me also if I was watching it for the first time. But you don't want the poor kid to DIE do you?!? hehe
and thanks for the review.
Meh..
Not good. I appreciate that you tried this mixture of mediums but you failed. The poem is lame and the drawings aren't that good at all. You attempted a horror flash and failed. I appreciate the effort, but it just wsn't up to par with the other horror movies on NGs.
Matt-Merrill responds:
It wasn't really a horror flash though. I wasn't aiming for it to scare anybody. And I'm still waiting for someone to tell me WHY my drawings are so awful. People keep complaining but never saying what's wrong with them. I am completely satisfied with them, they came out looking exactly like I wanted them to look. The perspectives are fine, there's a decent amount of detail. It doesn't look like a photograph, but I didn't want it to. So please, explain to me why they are so bad.
yes...
i loved it....'specially the drawing technique you used......pretty good ending too....i liked the rhyming.....good job....two thumbs way way up :)