Reviews for The Myth Of Sisyphus

[RawrJeff]

Sound effects...

You obviously put a lot of effort in making this look good and it certainly does : )
I agree you can very well see where the resemblance to Adam Phillips' work, although he gets absolutely ever detail right. Your flash looked slightly more... - "scribbly" for lack of a better word. The drawings just weren't as smooth, but that's probably intended. But it doesn't matter, it looked great in its own way.

If one thing bothered me, then it would be the sound effects. There were a few obvious looping sounds in there that got somewhat annoying, and the sounds weren't always just right to fit with the animation.

That's just some of the good and bad, constructive criticism, you know ;)

But I did like it. This is among the best stuff on NG.
Keep it up :)

CatFat responds:

Thank you, i suppose i do have a scribbly sort'a style, i prefer it. Thank for the constructive criticism.
Much appreciated

[Drancerdude]

Nice!

I can see that u put a lot of effort in this !! and by that I mean that the story is funny
the grpahics were nice( the shadings were the best ) and the sounds...
Its good this movie came in the Brackenwood collections! well done!

CatFat responds:

I'm glad that you enjoyed it!

[JolleJR]

charcter

U think those charcter are to hard for you to animate, the moves those charcter does is wierd. anyway is looks good!

CatFat responds:

I never said it was hard..

[Philosophise]

Copying..

a style to the point where your charcter resembles one of Adam Phillips is ridiculous.
I'm all for taking inspiration from other sources, but that was just ridiculous.

CatFat responds:

He's a caveman not bitey

[CrimsonGear]

Worthy of being in the Brackenwood Collection

I enjoyed watching this, though I will say that Sisyphus' grunts got a bit old toward the end... I wouldn't recommend getting rid of the grunts, just making them quieter.

The animation, on the other hand, was pretty darn good. It wasn't exceedingly detailed, but it was stylistic and fairly smooth. Yes, it looks an awful lot like Adam Phillips' work, and it does lack the overall polish of a Brackenwood film, but it's still a cut above 90% of the stuff on this site. Like so many others have said already, it doesn't matter that your style is -CURRENTLY- similar to Phillips'. If you were claiming that you came up with the style yourself and gave no credit to Phillips', then it would be different, but as it is, people have no right to criticize this movie because it "lacks originality" in the style. The only way you can really get better at something is by copying someone better than you - your own unique style will surface in the process.

Another thing I would recommend is that you include an explanation of the Myth of Sisyphus somewhere, either in the description or the video itself, because too many people are giving it bad marks because they don't know the legend and are too illiterate to read the video's description. Otherwise, they'd know that the movie is -BASED- on the Myth of Sisyphus.

Great work! I'll be looking forward to future submissions from you!

CatFat responds:

Thanks for the recommendation