Nicely done
Dont know why but it reminds me mister bean hehe, i hope to see more new movies like this from you guys
Reviews for "Strange Days"
That. Was. GREAT.
VERY nice job on it, I hope that other flash creaters follow in your footsteps.
I haven't seen anything this good since the days of... Well, I've never seen anything this good!
S-K responds:
funny you say that, because this was one of the first flash and filmed footage together movies. Since then this technique is pretty common now though and I haven't received any credit for it beyond these reviews D:
Well worth the 11Mb!
Good thing you got the upload size increased, well worth it. This is hopefully a groundbreaker for NG, though I dont expect any of this calibur to be making an appearance anytime soon.
Animation is slightly different, everything is smooth other then Green's walking animation, which involved about three frames. Whether you cut down on them or had to converve filesize I'm not sure, but a smoother Green animation would have made it a touch better.
Pausing inbetween scenes is essential for the making of it, so I wont even bother bringing that up - only that it could be a little less, but as if I'm gonna penalise you for that, I'm not that cruel.
Original script, original idea, original characters (Though that human in there looked like he was stolen from another flash animation, am I wrong? hehe...), all put to good use in a groundbreaking style of flash submission.
Awesome work, heres looking at many future submissions by you, and others out there willing to make a decent effort at this sort of thing.
Voted 5.
Btw: Nice job with the credits, I managed to read them all the way through ;)
S-K responds:
More of a groundbreaker when the main movie was first made a year ago compared to now (Flash has become much more video friendly since then) it makes me wonder what the reaction would have been like if I submitted it back then... anywho thank you for the kind review nonetheless, also be sure to have a try at finding the easter egg...
Very creative
I liked this movie a lot. Very original and you showed that you put forth the effort to make it the best you could. Very nice, definied as original!
-Reaper
Slow paced... no point.
I was expecting something really great what with the file-size limit you went through the trouble to request be raised for you, and the cracking sphere logo in the beginning was top-notch... but the video itself left a lot to be desired. For one, your expression both facially and bodily was the equivalent of poor voice acting. When you jumped from drawn objects to you holding something, there was a noticeable jump in the video footage. Like someone else said, this is to be expected somewhat... but with the action being so slow to progress in the video it was more annoying than forgivable. The little green guy was only fairly well animated, and didn't make any sense whatsoever in the context of what else was going on. The background was really very drab... which I understand was in an attempt to make it look like a canvas on which you were drawing, and to keep from kaing things difficult for the frame to frame video animations, but you didn't draw enough to fill it in or make it anything worthwhile... it just stayed drab for the most part. You didn't even make the "swooshing" door open, for goodness sake, it was just more canvas into which you conveniently walked. If that was supposed to be impressive, it needs some work... like having another area visible through the door, You could have easily used a layer on top of the video to even make the door black, like the room beyond it was dark, and have you fade into the darkness of that next room by simply doing a motion tween on a black graphic of the door overtop of your video body. It wasn't necessarily bad... but it is not what I would call good, and certainly doesn't live up to expectations you set forth in the description.
S-K responds:
If what you're saying is there's not enough attention to detail I partly agree with you, I had ambitions for this far beyond my abilities at the time.
The very first idea draft was to have so many character cameos they can't all be listed here, but the other important thing I never mentioned was I was literally learning as I went along with this, probably the biggest time eater was masking every individual frame so it all looked like it was interacting more convincingly, add to that I had to write enough crap to fill a small book about the history of animations using techniques like this before I could even get started within about 4 months and you start to get the picture. The rest of the time I have worked on it has been spent preparing it back to be viewed in Flash format as I feel it was intended.
As for compression if you've ever worked with video you should know that alone can be hell balancing quality with filesize needs.
You have some impressive action scripting skills, but you need to bear in mind I was exspected quick results compared to the way you seemed to have total creative freedom with your movies. You'd be amased how much ideas get flung out the window when you're starting out in something totally new to you and someone's on your back exspecting quick results. Maybe I wasn't ready for this style of animation based on my drawing skill alone, and it shows in places, but if I never tried beyond my limits I wouldn't have learned all I have from this.
If that's not good enough for you then consider this a stepping stone towards something better
I recommend you view some other flash movies which have attempted similar techniques or try yourself for the best understanding, because to put it simply vector cartoon characters interacting with real life scenes can be hellish to do convincingly at the best of times...