yeah it was actually fun and all that but the animation was bad, the drawings also...
I love the music i think it fit with this movie in a unique way, i think the music is the best thing the hole movie have.
the dialogue at the end was good and funny.
my principal complain ( and for that i lower 4 points) is that the drawings are bad, really bad and animation is not good, i never make a flash yet and i think i will never do a flash but i surely have seen many flash movies, and i can tell you this animation is bad...
anyway for the effort and the music a 6/10, that means i don't like it but it's not a bad work...
On the positive side, you had some good editing of the action sequence in there. You actually tried to tell a story, which is definitely a bonus, and you did manage to tell it. Some of the drawings and animation were ok.
On the whole, though, several things in this were annoying for me personally. First of all, that music (I don't even know its name...) is so incredibly overused in so many films that it was hard to take this things seriously right off the bat. Why not use some free audio from the Newgrounds Audio Portal instead? There's some great stuff in there. For instance, I can see "The Toy Shop" by Simon-F really working for this submission, or maybe "Don't Tell Me Again" by MaestroMoodSwings.
The second thing was that most of the drawings and animation were simply not good. I don't even mean "not good" in the sense of bad anatomy or whatever. Even "bad drawings" can be beautiful in their own way. I just didn't detect a whole lot of artistic sensibility or consistency in there. Most of the time, it felt like you just drew your characters without thinking about it. Some of the drawings, like the one where the wolf is very angry, looked downright silly.
Finally, the story itself wasn't always told in the best way. The wolf somehow getting up onto the tree branch was unrealistic. If you wanted to create the feeling that the squirrel had nowhere to run to, why not solve that problem by having the wolf chase it into an open field or rocky hill where there are no trees for it to climb, for example?
Also, that dialogue at the end between the squirrel and its friend went on for just a tad too long, and overly slowed down the pace.
Ha, nice way of opening the review by complimenting what you liked about the movie. The song is from a movie, and the song was recently used in a commercial, those are the only places I think it has been used. its a relatively common style of music especially for cartoons, but whatever, that doesn't bother me so much. I took a listen to the audio portal stuff you suggested, they were alright, but I didn't feel they matched this movie at all.
Animation not good? Alright, you caught me, red handed. But you throw me off with the ' not good in bad anatomy or whatever, you just dont see artistic sensibility'. I understand that my character design changed from when I started the animation, to when I finished(hey, it happens, and it is clearly visible when I did the older stuff compared to the later stuff cause I gave the wolf proper anatomy, and gave the squirrel more character). You think I just drew each frame without putting my heart into all of them? I dunno man, tough statement to make. This cartoon falls into a style I am making my own cartoons in that you just dont seem to dig.
I think I know what specific wolf stuff makes you mad, and the only drawing I didnt redo would be the wolf hitting the nut away, which I'll admit, is bad, and shoulda redone, but I didnt have time and no longer felt the need for that.
My favorite drawing of the whole animation is when the squirrel is on the wolf's nose. I kept some sketchiness in that frame. I think you might be referring to the shot where the wolf is about to eat the squirrel(near the end), I'll admit, that is a bad drawing, but I found it funny, and decided to keep it. Not a good fit for you I guess, oh well, can't please everybody.
The story isn't in the best way? Its a cartoon! Magic man! The wolf got up the tree somehow, you dont see how, and it doesn't make sense, but it still happened! What any animation, and they pull stuff like that all the time. It seems more like this isnt your style of a cartoon considering where you suggest it should go. And if you follow the event of that scene, the squirrel ran up that tree, so if a wolf did that in the same amount of time, but a little faster, it could too climb a tree in that time. So it makes sense.
The dialog was four lines. Too long? If i made it any shorter the story/humor of that sequence might have been lost. It was supposed to be a change of pace. Oh well.
You still gave it a 5/10. Wait, thats a 50%, Fail! This cartoon didn't pass your test. So you gave 5 points for good editing, very few good drawings and ok animation. I'll take it, better than nothing.
The content and story line were great though the animation looked like a 4 year drew it but over all i found this movie good and the ending was the best of part of it all. Improve the graphics a little and you'd have something.
