loved it!
I loved it! maybe a song in the background ;)
Reviews for "One Quiet Winter Night"
Beautiful animation
It may not be a very complete story, but there's something very nice about this film
hmmm
It was verry nice to watch, but dont get the story i think.
the kid dreamd that he was in santas sled and then it wasnt real
and they feld down, or somthing :-p
why would a kid dream somthing like that?
holy crap
maybe its just my puter but it took longer to load than the actual movie.
and i really didnt see what was so great about it. i like the occasional serious film on newgrounds but to me it was a bunch of still screen shots of paintings and a little animation inbetween. the snow looked nice though..too short.
pretty much what im trying to say is i was a little dissapointed what with all the hype in the reviews below me. i voted a 3 and gaave you a 7 because the art was good. but the animation was very little..a sleigh and some reindeer..a kid blinks and santa takes a cookie.
Esn responds:
It was a conscious sacrifice on my part to forgo an easy-to-animate art direction in favour of a more complex one that I felt suited the tone better, but that reduced the animation possibilities. I actually removed some frames of animation when the boy looks behind him, because it didn't work with the art style.
My wish is for people not to look at it in purely "is it good animation" terms, but in "is it a good film" terms; animation is only one element, after all.
As for the file size, it did end up rather big, didn't it? If I had been using the newest version of Flash rather than FlashMX, I might've been able to make use of some of the new features and cut down the filesize by 1mb or more. But I'm comfortable with Flash MX for now...
pretty good
Pretty good, though soft toned. The animation however, could be better, especially when blinking. The music was good, but the graphics were a little weird for me, with painted pictures