Thank You
For making this flash. I'll never forget it.
Reviews for "crossroads in the sky"
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I love the animation...and the poetic feel was...outstanding. Making realistic points along the way...something some people can learn from.
Double edged sword
The animation was superb, but...the dialoge, the acting; horrendous. If it was intended to be that way, then I don't think it was the right way to go. Good effort in any case.
Yeah I know!!! >:<
I know, Albatross is an icon of existentialism
animations are very nice and calm smoothly, nice done. But voice acting, seems to me not so good as it could be. Especially male voice. 4/5
The Albatross
Often, to amuse themselves, the men of a crew
Catch albatrosses, those vast sea birds
That indolently follow a ship
As it glides over the deep, briny sea.
Scarcely have they placed them on the deck
Than these kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed,
Pathetically let their great white wings
Drag beside them like oars.
That winged voyager, how weak and gauche he is,
So beautiful before, now comic and ugly!
One man worries his beak with a stubby clay pipe;
Another limps, mimics the cripple who once flew!
The poet resembles this prince of cloud and sky
Who frequents the tempest and laughs at the bowman;
When exiled on the earth, the butt of hoots and jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking.
- William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
Fairly enjoyable.
I'm sorry to say, though, that I found the voice acting nearly unbearably bad. I can understand that they were most likely intentionally stilted, but there is a way to do that, and a way not to. This sounded just way to forced and it made me uncomfortable.
The animation was too tweeny, I found, as well. Twens are great but they should be used more as a crutch than as a full on method of movement. These were a little too stiff, and a little too abundant.
The imagery and 'cinematography' was breathtaking and gorgeous though, and very easily appreciated.
I loved the music, and it really helped carry the atmosphere, which was much needed as the voice acting was killing it.
As someone else said, this is very poetic, but I'm certain it was supposed to be, and I don't see why you would ever mark it down for doing what it was intending to do, so in all honestly I loved that poetic aspect.
Overall it was a very enjoyable work.