Ha, this is good.
Thanks for being a good sport about my animation, alot of people are giving me crap for it.
I especially like yours for the albanian boy, It's freaking hilarious dude.
-Danief
Reviews for "Albi, the racist dragon"
Just heard about your version of Albi... [726]
While watching a new version just submitted today. So anywho, gave it a shot. Your animation and hand-drawing skillz (as opposed to relying upon textures) are actually better than the dude who did the new one... but there's two major problems with it:
A) most importantly, you used a subpar (IMO, at least) version of the live FOTC recordings of Albi. This one's much shorter, doesn't have a lot of the nuances and slower (better) timing/pacing of the more well-known live recording (or even of the HBO version). Also, the audience in this one... laughs way more obnoxiously. Of course, you didn't record it, but there's a better version of the audio you coulda used, so it was an error of selection, an editorial error, IMO.
B) why is the mob (which is well designed, good job!) sitting right outside the mouth of the cave doing nothing the entire time Albi and the Albanian boy are talking? That just seems weird... both the official FOTC HBO version of the animation and the other NG Albi show the mob chasing Albi off, but not sitting right outside the cave for the private conversation that makes up most of the storyline of the song. Which I think is a better choice.
Aside from that, I love a lot of things about your version. Making Albi red instead of the usual green was an interesting difference, and I loved Albi's reaction to his teardrop jellybeans (though this version of the song cheated us of the later line in the song about the one special rainbow jellybean tear.... which is what Bret and Jemaine eventually started making the song cause Albi to not be racist anymore... apparently this is an early draft of the song, which doesn't have the layer of detail their eventual development of the story would come to have... alas. ;_;).
That reaction shot was priceless, in fact. So overall, great job other than the choice of the song version and the mob intruding on all the privateness of Albi + the boy for the whole rest of the plot, and of course... thanks for adding more FOTC flash to NG! WE NEEDS MORE. Do the Robot song or the David Bowie song, if you ever make another. #;-}>
Gnydsmelt responds:
Wow thanks for the really awesome detailed review! I actually never saw FOTC's version of Albi until i was done with my version. So it was quite funny to see if me and FOTC*s version matched up on some of the lines/timing etc, wich some of it did!
I will try to make another one, thanks a lot!!
CHEERS!
ya dun well.
i liked this animation a lot. and i rekon all the people who say drawings and animations were bad shame on you! every one has a unique style of artistry and drawing and people should not be put down for that. but more to the point, SiMa-T you've done a good job bringing this song to the net, keep up the good work.
Gnydsmelt responds:
thanks man
Nice!
I remember hearing that song on Flight of the Conchords, I liked the clamation version that was on the show a little better, but your animation does the song justice! Very well done!
Gnydsmelt responds:
thanks man :)!
good......but
THAT LAUGHING IN THE BACkROUND WAS ANNOYING AS HECK!!!