Beautiful (RRC, Review #11)
A great flash. It was very neat how it showed the character progressing through life. The different stages were very deep. It's just like a cycle. A somewhat simple animation to a very complex idea. Grats on the Daily 4th.
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Yeah, simple animation, I didn't want to ruin the idea with too much animation. Thanks for the reivew!
Just my opinion of course.
Great typography at the start.
I loved the moving lines you started with. (Brush strokes straightened?) The angular-wiggly look worked well.
I felt the straight lines and filled colours on the coffin didn't work too well given the style of everything else.
The pink/yellow/white characters were kinda hard to see against some backgrounds - specially the pink/yellow against the light pink.
The faded gradients worked wonderfully as did the relatively minimalistic animation. Though the characters didn't move much, the moving lines helped give it life.
The proportions were slightly out of whack - specially when the guy's holding the teddy bear. I understand cartoons don't need to be 'realistic', but the way the head expands slightly in that frame and the hand is so tiny looks wrong.
Seeing the lines, 'through' others didn't look too good in my opinion. A soft fill might have worked well.
Anyways, sorry to focus so much on the graphics, but despite your comments, I just didn't find an awful lot of emotional depth here. Sure, we can read messages into it - life is short, enjoy it; death comes to us all and other such things but to me it never seemed like you were telling a real story - it all just seemed sorta generic and I never really got swept up in it all like I thought I would shortly after it began.
I noticed that you had some parallels between his earlier life - when his father ignores him & the coffin - and later life. Is that meant to be the message? That life is cyclical? That we can get stuck in a rut?
Thing is, when I watch an animation like this, I don't want to be shown things I'm already aware of - I want to be offered an opinion, taken on a ride... essentially your animation didn't really 'speak' to me.
Sorry.
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Yeah, I understand fully, not everyone will get the same reaction from this as the majority are. Its one of those things you can watch once, enjoy, and remember it for that. I know I really can't watch it anymore because it becomes boring and I made it.
thanks for the review!
Amazing
This is a very hard concept to portray, and you deliver it perfectly.
Graphically this is not the most impressive movie ever, but it's whole message doesn't need to be seen with all the bells and whistles, that most other concepts really need. I also liked the squiggle lines, kinda added to the feeling of constant movement through time, I suppose.
The song was excellently picked, great tune suited the movie and the whole idea to a T. Nothing really more to say.
The concept it self was a very deep one, and the way your movie seemed to take off with it was very emotional and heart felt. With excellent timing you seemed to just to make the viewer feel a sense of inevitability, but I suppose the ending is not secret :D
Overall, an amazingly put together work, one of the best on newgrounds.
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Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it, a lot of the things you mentioned were just artistic preference. I just felt that is what I wanted it to look like, Thanks for the review!
AMAZING!!!!!!
The Art work and story you put into this video shows your hard work and effort. It was a little long but it added to the dramatic effect of the video. The music was very good yet sad. Keep it up!!!
wasn't trying to make it sad, only meaningful, thanks for the review!
That was very nice.
It was simple animation and had very little movement, but with the style this worked perfectly, and from the drawing I could see it better than perhaps if it was moving. The lines and un filled colours worked for this, and I liked how you had a different colour for each person.
The music also worked well, as it stayed in the same calm volume through all of it which worked well.
Though it would have lost some of the style I would see more intense drawings or maybe more, with some movement might work better. Also I could see other pieces of music being better, though the one you used was still very fitting.
One thing I did not like was the coffins, I feel it ruined the style of the animation.
Very good work and deserves the 4. Keep up the good work.
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The coffin is suppose to be symbolic, so thats why I choose to fill them in.