Reviews for Chanter Tales 1.2

[newgroundsluvr]

Graphics,music,plot all good. Needs more sounds.

Spectacular! I really enjoyed this movie. The story was good and I was never bored during any part of it. The graphics and animation were also impressive. The music was just oustanding. And the fact that you made it yourself is also very cool. The voice acting was also pretty nicely recorded for most of the other stuff on NG. The only problem I had with this was during the little fight with the creature there were no "battle sounds" like the creature screaming while getting cut etc. Other than that it was a awesome movie.

[MedMapGuy]

Masterpiece?

This is truly an astounding piece of work. It reminded me a lot of something... animator Ralph Bashki would make. I guess it had a lot to do with the rotoscoping. Great stuff, love seeing rotoscoping in flash. That's real animation. (I'm not sure if others would agree though)

It felt very 80's, with that compelling animated movie 'adventure' atmosphere going on. The only problem is the voice acting for the characters, who sound too much like the guy you meet in the street. Not much depth in their performances... Maybe if you had gotten a British guy to voice or something... In terms of story, its been seen before in other media, but that's there's somethign fresh about it in Flash form I suppose!

I hope this series continues...

Ghosty22 responds:

I didn't know what the term "rotoscoping" meant until you used it. I looked it up in wikipedia, and it said that rotoscoping is when you project film of live actors onto glass or paper and trace their bodies for each frame. I didn't do that. I drew each of those characters from scratch. However, I was trying very hard to make their movements realistic.

Anyway, thanks for your thoughts...

[Doomsquirrel]

Awesome!!!

It's nice to see something non anime influenced...I was starting to lose faith in the portal!!!

four for humour cause the naked nymph turning into that old creepy guy was pretty damn funny

[Krag33sh]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Sound is nine, cause I heard you clicking xD rest is very nice ;)

[MonoShluk]

wow....

I have watched few of your works before getting to "Chanter tales", from watching your latest submission i thought you were good enough for digging a little further. now you have won a place of honor in my Favorite artists list.

The story you have come up with is, like many have said before, very interesting and original, which I find remarkable. The smooth frame by frame animation is rarely seen on Newgrounds and you have done a great job on working it out, showing great patience and talent.

Was it made by Rotoscoping or with references and keyframes? Either way, it was very well done.

I'll be waiting for the 3rd part of this series and for any other submission you will add.

5/5 from me.

Keep at it!

Nir.

Ghosty22 responds:

Yay! Place of honor!

Some other people thought it was rotoscoped, but I don't even know how I would begin to rotoscope something. I know how it works in theory, but I don't have the tools... But I do take it as a great compliment when people say it looks rotoscoped. References? Not sure what that means in the animation world...

Everything in Chanter Tales is drawn with the mouse. I guess my techniques change a lot. Sometimes I make movieclips of Nuok walking in place, and then I tween the clip to make it move. Other times I FBF him walking from one point to another. In which case I'd use a more Disney-like technique, where I'd draw the starting and ending pictures, and then the one in between... Then I'd draw the frames in between each of those and so on.