Reviews for human actions drawing tut

[Twisstamation]

helpful

Pretty helpful to new animators that really need help drawing people...

piggy123 responds:

thank you

[KrevZabijak]

Extremely short.

( Animation/Visuals/Effects )
I was waiting for more than four colours to appear, but for a basic tutorial, I guess more colours aren't necessarily needed.
The text could be a bit more readable, grammatically correct, and presented in a more orderly fashion. With regards to your text and its spacial relation to the drawings, you should have kept the text in one set area, and made sure the drawings stayed either centered or in their own static section as well.
Pressing next and seeing the text shoot to another part of the flash, and the drawings to yet another place is somewhat disconcerting. It also made it kind of difficult to see the progression of detail in some places. (A back button would have been extremely helpful, as well.) But, to each their own, I guess.
Spell-checking your work is something any author should do, in my humblest of opinions.

( Method of Conveyance/What I got from it overall)
A menu button in every section would be nice, so we could go to said menu and select which parts we would like to skip to or go back and review.
At the very end, I would have also liked an option to return to the beginning, or even a horizontal bar at the bottom to select the parts I would like to see again.
You did indeed cover the basics, and it's an okay tutorial for someone who's never touched a tablet or flash, ever, in their life. Not something for experienced artists, though.
This is where I took off the largest amount of my rating.

( Sound/Music )
Right at the beginning, I noticed a lack of a mute button. This option for the users should always be present.
The music quality is good for the file size. But, it did not loop. I'm not sure if you intended this or not.

piggy123 responds:

thanks

[Step]

Hmm...

This wasn't too good for a tutorial. It was quite helpful, but it needs to be a little more attractive. Black and white, and a little colour at the beginning and the 'Next' button isn't that good.

This also needs a neater layout and graphics. The text was a little annoying to read, plus I noticed a few grammatical mistakes (not that it's a big problem, though, but it makes it a little better...).

It needs some more buttons as well in my opinion, like a back button, mute button and menu button (like KrevZabijak said). The art of the body parts wasn't bad, though :).

Well, in conclusion, it is quite helpful, but too simple, and unattractive. Needs some work in it, but it's a good start.
5/10
3/5

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piggy123 responds:

thanks

[Haggard]

Not too detailed

I didn't really understand what exactly you did when you drew the body. More explanations would be nice here. Also, a short clip of a body being drawn could help as well.

The steps for the body parts where more detailed, but still short clips would help more than just the drawing steps.

Also, the navigation only has the most basic part, a forward button. I cannot go back; if I want to see a previous step again I have to start over the whole flash.
A little menue where I can jump to certain steps would also be a good idea.

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piggy123 responds:

i know thanks

[Fro]

Crude, but not terrible

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The graphics were terrible in this submission all around. Your drawings weren't great, but you don't have to be amazing to give tips to other people. My biggest complaint was just the organization and lack of it. Things were just kind of thrown all over the screen wherever. Text was sometimes too small to read good and you started getting more and more sloppy as the submission went on.

I think the best thing to do to improve this is to organize it a bit more. Put pictures in one part of the screen, text on one part, and title at one part, etc... Keep it neat and consistent. Adding a colored background would be very helpful also. Something more detailed and not just a random color though.

~ Story/Content ~

I usually like guides and things like that. It did help me a little bit as I saw some of the steps that need to be taken to make some things that I wasn't good at such as legs, arms, eyes, and ears. The lack of good graphics makes it seem like you don't know what your talking about and the lack of organization and professionalism in the submission to me would make me think people may skip over it. Length of the submission was pretty good, but I think a back and forth button would be good along with a replay button. You also spell a word wrong on the ending screen. I just forget which one now. :P

~ Audio ~

Not bad music for a submission like this. Perhaps introducing a mute/unmute button for people who don't like to listen to music while they read would be helpful.

~ Overall ~

Helpful to some beginners, but content and organization made it not so great. Keep on working though.

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piggy123 responds:

thanks corky i mean fro lol