Reviews for In my mind

[Sonofkirk]

Nice !

Very good effort man, I really enjoyed it. It kept me viewing until the end what means that it was catchy and well done :P.

A good job you did with the graphics, some parts were very nice. Though the drawing quality changes during the flash, I think it was expected and actually it's not bad at all. Through these changes we can clearly notice the differents dreams, so good job. The colors were nice. I liked, when at the begining, it switchs from black and white to colorful, it surprised me in the good way ; ).

The animation was smooth during most of the flash, but sometimes I got less soft and smooth but once again it's not a real problem. And the animation owes its awesomeness to the synchronization with the music. You did a great job with it, in my opinion it's the best part side of the flash.

I can really comment the story because a Dream isn't expected to follow any rules, this flash just shows the large kindom of the Dream, you really catched this feeling, I was like in a dream ....

The music was well chosen and fited in nicely with the animation, as I said above, great job. Nothing esle to say =D.

Overall, very good production that seems clean and well finished. Oh I forgot a detail, really enjoyed the Menu: it was pretty simple and empty but I enjoyed it. This dark screen made me think of the moment when you are almost sleeping but not entierly, so yeah, good thing.

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Lochie responds:

Thank you, I was trying to change styles throughout the flash, I just wanted to show my different techniques, I didn't get all of them in though.

SINXING TO MUSIC IS COOL.

It was supposed to be a dream-like experience, I am glad that you realised that. :)

I am glad that you understood pretty much everything that was intended, thank you for the great review.

[la-yinn]

Not bad.

It was very good, in my opinion. Random flashes mostly generate higher scores because you never know what's going to happen next, and everybody likes that.

Although I like the concept, I didn't think it was really well made. The drawings were very basic, and the animation could use some work. Try making more detailed backgrounds, and add more details to characters/objects. There are of course abstract cases in which this doesn't apply.

It really reminded me of "Dreams". It might be coincidence, but they're very similar. It's unfair to give a lower score because of this, but because you've released it later than the other flash, the 'magic' sort of disappeared. Oh well, that's just bad luck. :(

8/10
4/5

~ La_Yinn, --'
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Lochie responds:

That aim of this animation was just to sync animation to the music, I wasn't really paying much attention to the drawing as I was doing it, I should have more.

The VF twins are good friends of mine, of course they made theirs first, but this animation is nothing related to theirs, their "Dreams" was more about small animations that they have put together, mine was one whole thing that would be smooth and you wouldn't realise it would change scenes.

Damn magic >:C

Thanks for the good review. :)

[Haggard]

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A great flash. I liked the concept of this, though the change over from "reality" to the "dream world" could have been made a bit better. Maybe you could zoom in on the guy while cross fading (fade out the real world, fade in the dream world) into the dream sequence.

I liked how you synched the dream scenes with the background music. This worked really well and helps to experience the flash better.

I also liked the menu, it looks very professional. But you should decrease the length of the fade a bit. It's a bit boring to just sit there and stare at the fading menu, waiting for the flash to start.

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Lochie responds:

Everybody seems to love the syncing. :P

The menu I made prior to the idea of this animation, it fitted the scene to I put it in. :D
The fade does take a while, I made it fade out using actionscript, same with the text that appears. :P

Thanks for the many many reviews RRC'ers. :D

[Mrputter]

Jolly good job ;D

All I can give this animation is praise...

First of all, I thought the menu was great. VERY cold and eerie, so well done with that.

The music was perfect for the genre, and you merged the music with the animation beautifully.

I thought the graphics were pretty good, and I loved the strong use of colour :).

So, in the end, well done, and I hope you carry on making more flashes like this ;).

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Lochie responds:

Thank you, the menu was originally supposed to be for a sniper game that I was thinking of making, but never decided to start, and it fitted well with this so yeah.

I am never really good with the colouring part, but thanks. :P

MORE FLASHES ARE TO COME. :D

[Fro]

Very good.

Animation/Graphics - The animation and graphics weren't always so good in the entire animation, but I think that was the style that you were going for when you made this flash. The overall quality of the animation and graphics were pretty good though. I like how your animation ran smoothly and was timed with the audio in the background, which is something that I will probably express again in the audio section of my review.

Story - A nice random dream like flash here that really shows how random and wild dreams can be sometimes. The menu was pretty cool and original. Maybe it should of been centered a bit more, but overall the story and content of the flash was pretty good. It could of been just a bit longer in my opinion.

Audio - A good choice of audio just because it went so well with the animation at hand. Right from the beginning to the end the animation matched up very well with the audio. That must have taken a lot of work and timing to do.

Overall - A nice short flash, which was done pretty well overall. I think this was deserving of an award. Maybe it would have won on a different day and the day that you submitted it there were several other flashes that were very good at the same time.

C52

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Lochie responds:

Animation/Graphics - The style I was going for was to try and interperate my different styles in one, from graphical to childish.
Thank you for your comments on my fluint animation. :D

Story - My dreams are too random and weird, I might make more of animations like these. If I centered the menu it would have looked a bit out of place because of the straight down linage type of thingy, but I guess I could have moved it closer to the middle just a tad.
The music was too short to keep animating, I was suprised the song finished then because I planned to have of made the guy wake up from his dream sweating and such, but there wasn't enough room.

Audio - I am very persise with timing and such, so it doesn't take me long to sync music with animation, I might submit one of my short music synced animation (It's just black and white squares pretty much) one day. Maybe..

Overall - When I submitted it, the other good animations were submitted STRAIGHT after mine. I was so annoyed. But it doesn't matter. :P

Thanks for the great review my friend. :D