Very nice...
I like the flash effects, as I myself am very partial to them. As for the guy below me I don't know what he means about the action script being wrong, I had no problems through the whole film. If you're in need of better sounds I'll send you my vast collection of them, and a link to some fantastic videogame music from any game you need. So other than your lack of audio resources this was very good. Keep up the good work.
God Bless
Shade
Generic Sprite film with programming problems
Hello,
I don't know what to say other than I've seen this kind of thing before,
the sonic characters have been used so many times before, that it takes something
really fantastic to make a sonic sprite animation stand out.
The sprite animation is good by the standards of the genre, however there wasn't any real innovation, plot, and actionwise.
I guess my biggest grip however was the actionscript problems made it impossible for me to watch the film unless I used the flash menu to advance the film.
Work on these things and I feel you'll have a significantly better product...
Thanks,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~
how did it make it impossible....
~ Review Request Club ~
I'll start off saying that I know you didn't request this submission in the review request club, but I am a part of that club and noticed that your submission didn't have a lot of reviews so I spotlighted it for the members to review. Expect a couple more reviews to pop in after this one slowly throughout the week.
~ Animation/Graphics ~
I usually separate animation and graphics into two different groups, but with sprite submissions it's really hard to comment on the graphics that much so I'll just put them together.
The first thing that I noticed that looked like an error was in the forest scene when Knuckles was chasing the hedgehog was that you didn't put the forest background together very well as you could see exactly where you put the two pictures together.
The good thing though was the animation was pretty good all around and that you added a lot of action scenes so there was more complex things added in.
~ Story/Content ~
The story seemed a little generic, but it's so short in the series to really tell where you are going to go with it. I wouldn't mind seeing some things that you wouldn't expect coming in future submissions, perhaps new characters that have never been seen in a Sonic sprite flash before.
So yeah, just don't get too generic with it and I think you are heading in the right direction. Along with that you give no directions in the submission of how to go along and you have to right click to get further or push space. Thing is you might not know that because you don't give any directions on how to do it. I would not only put it in your author comments, but also include it in the submission itself so people don't lower the score because they can't watch the submission.
~ Audio ~
I really felt like you should have had the Sega voice in the beginning when you had the Sega symbol. I feel this because the first whistle was great, it got my attention, but it also made me expect more sounds, which I didn't get. The song that played during the introduction was great all around, but you didn't make it loop. So if someone were to start this, leave the room, and then come back to it they might miss the song all together.
I really didn't like the first song that you used there. I thought it would have been more fitting if you were to use something along the lines of birds chirping, wind blowing, etc..., but the song you used didn't seem to fit. I did enjoy the song there when the screen went dark, but I felt that it needed some sort of sound showing that something made it dark. The song didn't loop well either so I think you need to take away the empty space in between and make it loop better.
I rather enjoyed the sound effects though, but the sound effects were so good that it made me feel that the submission needed voices. If you are interested in voices send me a PM or responds saying so here.
~ Overall ~
You are lacking in a few spots in the audio, but I think they are things that you can fix easily. Be careful when setting up backgrounds because some people will notice like me. Don't get too generic with the story and don't be scared to try voices because I think it might be very fitting, even though it would involve some mouth animation.
I feel strongly about the voices because having to stop and read can take away from the flow of the submission.
~ Review Request Club ~
if u wanted to tell me this crap you could have just PM'd me ya know >.>
and did u read my comments on the animation before you watched it?
Not bad..not bad...
And I knew it... You didn't fix the parts I told you before xD But, oh well... It's pretty good..........for an Echidna.. D:
thanks
^.^
Some of the best sprite animation I have seen in ages, I give it to you on that one. I would have bagged you next on the sound effects but since you said you didn't have all the sounds you wanted I'll let you go on that one. And your use of the sounds you did have was rather good. I don't see why anyone would want to complain about your music selection, I rather liked it.
This is shaping up to be a good series, keep it up I'd like to see more!
thanks for that. =D