You got me on the end music, love heardcore shit.
It was pretty good, I enjoyed it...I loved how he was slowly getting pissed of throughout, the music at the end was pretty funk-a-delic.
Reviews for "A Very Retail Christmas"
DPSGryph responds:
Haha, Thank you! I'm glad you liked the end music! And actually, I go through that range of emotion in about an hour anymore... No more Christmas music!!!
/soapbox
Good, but one issue...
The ending didn't feel like it was done correctly. I would've liked to see one last scene with the speaker in pieces on the ground (assuming that's what he shot at; for all we know he could have turned around and blown his own brains out instead). As it is, it lacks closure.
DPSGryph responds:
I had originally planned to animate the speaker exploding, but thought it might have been overkill since the whole thing was building up the speaker-hate, and leading up to the ending I chose... I thought it would be more fun to see the Santatron fire off into the night sky.
My father's input was to shoot the speaker and have a bunch of tiny dogs spill out onto the floor and run away. But that would have just taken it into a whole other direction.
Not bad at all
It drug on a little bit too long, however, the ending was worth it. I'm not in retail, and I understand this guy's pain. It's ridiculous how long Christmas music gets played and to what extent (24 hrs a day on some local radio stations!)
I like the fact that the facial expressions change from happy to extremely annoyed towards the end...the marking of the calendar was a nice touch as well.
DPSGryph responds:
Yep, it drug on. It was supposed to. I wanted it to be longer, in a sort of "drilling this into your head via your ears" kind of way, but I'm happy with the length. It lets you hear a whole lot of barking and makes the payoff better ;) Thanks!
hmmm somethings missing
it was great but nothing really happened though
he just sat there while the radio (which could be made im to an MC and played back making it more simple) moved and the calander changed
but it definately wins the funny vote
I have two uncles who complain about it every year
This is 100% correct. The industry starts this about November 1st and true it does not end officially till December 26 or in some crazy places January 1st. We recently were at the Macaroni grill and all the employees agreed with my two uncles. We actually got them to play Italian music instead while we were there. What makes me laugh is they played opera which my uncles also despise. I love it because I get a kick out of it.
The animation was okay but I would have expected to see some hair pulling and a little insane head banging by week 2 or 3. Not just the annoyed expression. You could have even had conversations about it with the customers who really are just as annoyed.
DPSGryph responds:
I think it's awesome that they were ALLOWED to change the music. Most places, that's taboo.
The terrible thing about most public-service industries is that you can't show negative emotion. No running around the store screaming at the top of your lungs... No blowing raspberries at indignant customers... Nothing like that... I don't get it. Anyway, I chose to keep it down to simple facial expressions instead of exaggerated acrobatics.