It was ok...
I liked the song but I felt the movie didn't do it justice. Keep trying thats all I can say.
Reviews for "Picard Song"
CorellonL responds:
Hmm. Well, practice makes perfect, yes?
Average
Graphics: The graphics weren't that well drawn, but atleast you can tell who/what they are :P Design is definately needing improvement here, in characters and other objects, and try adding a background.
Style: The animation was stiff, try using the ease feature, which would help smooth it out. You synced in time with the music well though =]
Sound: Sound was fine, nothing bad here, good syncing.
Violence: None
Interactivity: None
Humour: Most of the humour was brought about by the song, but you used some of the lyrics well to get a laff =]
Overall: Umm, this needs to be better drawn, and there are tutorials to help you with that, though you don't have to follow them and you can try to get your own style going, but you should follow the great tutorials NG has about animating, they could really help in your submissions.
-Kuri
CorellonL responds:
Thank you, I actually did learn everything I know from the NG tutorials, I would be lost without the All-In-One Tutorial Part I. The disambiguation of your score certainly helps. And I WILL draw it better this weekend.
Well....
Although I do appreciate that you did put time into this, and I assume that, given your previous longest flash in your own words was only 10 frames, you are fairly new to flash. I think perhapse if you focused more of those frames into a shorter movie with more motion, better graphics etc. Of course this is just my opinion, but I think you could have made something much nicer had you focussed on something shorter.
I did dig the song though, but the pun with the sewing needle was kind of overdone.
CorellonL responds:
Yeah, I'm new to Flash, I downloaded the free trial last Friday. My two last works got BLAM'd after a minute and a half --- one, a disco thing with a stick figure, the other, a stick figure dress-up game featuring 5 shirts, 5 pairs of pants, 5 pairs of shoes, and no music.
Meh.
Both the quality of the audio and that of the overall animation was pretty poor. And seeing that you didn't even make the audio, and that it's already quite a popular meme, you only really get credit for the animation, which wasn't great.
You speak of taking a long time dedicated to this, but a week is hardly anything, especially if this is the end result.
CorellonL responds:
True, true, I don't want credit for the audio, although I do find it to be epic. Thanks for your input, though! :)
WTF
The song was taken from a YTMND and the animations could have been drawn better by a 10 year old. Please, try harder next time. 1/10 because I think the song was funny.
CorellonL responds:
I know it was taken from a YTMND, I explicitly stated that, if you recall. I can plapy music pretty well on my cello and ukulele, but when it comes to composing or writing music, I phail. I've tried two or three times, it always comes out like crap. And I know I'm a bad artist. I did try quite hard, though, this was my first real animation, apart from just messes of crap flying across the screen.