Reviews for Chanter Tales 1.2

[gizmostudios]

A job well done!

You are gifted with the power of great storytelling i'm telling you ;) The way you create a mood and world around your words and music is just superb. Nice for you to have done all the work yourself, music included, it just flowed seamlessly in your art. Also the (hard and time-consuming) frame by frame animation really stood out, and made the characters look more alive then if they'd be symbol animated. As for the story itself, it really got me curious about the sequel. But next to all the splendor of this animation, there were a few small points that could use a little improvement:

// music
try to isolate your recordings a bit more, there was a vast amount of voices and enviromentnoise in the background.

// animation
the point where you try to cut the foreground and the background trees loose with layers, you could have created a bit more layering in the animation, for it was a bit obvious that it where 2 pictures sliding among eachother.

As for the actionscenes: when you try to do quick motion with lower framerates, you could consider using some cut-techniques like changing camera-angles and flashes instead of viewing the complete action frame by frame. It could save some precious time for you aswell keeping the speed in the animation ;)

That's all that could use some improvement I guess, I'm really looking forward to see the next animation coming from you. You have some real potential, keep this series up, it aught to be a succes!

Ghosty22 responds:

What could you hear in the background? I thought I was being pretty good about making sure I recorded when no one was around... Although, when I was recording Brian's voice, his dogs were walking around, and I notice some dog tag jingling. Also, in the credits sequence, you can hear the neighbor's dog barking in the distance... I guess I left that in because it sounded weird... I also didn't notice it until much later.

[5lip5tr3am3r]

It's like Tone Loc said

You must ensure
...that your girl is pure
for the fu...
Funky Cold Medina

Nice artwork, the audio is good too.

[Cyberdevil]

Woo!

A great sequell, heh, finaly some nice acction. The filesize is gigantic, took ages to load, but there is pretty much going on in this so that's explainable, keep up the great work!

-cd-

[catsimboy]

I think you rated it a little harshly

The creator picks the rating right? I'd barely call that Teen material, the only blood in it was black and only for one second and you must be a real prude if you count some forest lady slipping off her shoulder strap as "Mild Nudity". But the movie itself was good, but did you need to focus on the guys nasty gangrenous foot wound for so long? That thing was barf-worthy.

Ghosty22 responds:

I guess I just wanted to be on the safe side. I don't like when people bitch at me, and some people in this country are overly sensitive. But maybe I over reacted, seeing as how this is just a flash animation that will probably be forgotten in the next couple of days.

It wasn't gangrenous... It was just a bad bruise. He was walking fine a couple of days later.

[ManaUser]

Good, could use a little polish though.

This might sound dumb, but my biggest complaint is that the play button was too hard to see. It kinda blended in with the standing stones. I thought something was wrong with my flash player at first.

I reoccomnd a bigger button and/or a contrasting color.