Beautiful
I loved the mood of the story and how brilliantly it was drawn. It was nice to see something all done with pencil- you don't see that often enough. Its a beautiful simple story and I wouldn't think of over-analyzing it.
Reviews for "Duality Complete"
Creative
Impressive sketches and drawings, very nice animation, nice little short story too! I guess we are left to use our imaginations on what went on after. Nice job representing embracing/fighting, love/hate, and creation/destruction. Yin/Yang is very represented in this flash.
Weenog responds:
balance in all things ^^
Very nice!
The drawing was very good, the animation was smooth. I liked it a lot. The sounds combined with the visuals in a nice way that complimented both. I like the style of it. The story was a bit illusive, probably because of how short it was, but it was moving in a way.
The one thing that I would want from this is maybe a little more length and higher quality. Since you've already explained how long it took you and the reason for the lower quality, I think it's fair to give you a near-perfect score.
You should maybe upload the high-quality version to the NG file dump or something and provide a link in the author comment here. :) Very nice.
~Stargenx
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Weenog responds:
thanks for the review. illusive is not necessarily a bad thing ^^
I checked and unfortunatly the file dump does not support my mp4 version of higher quality. even if it did get the right extension the file would be way to large to get on there. The hd .avi version i have alone is 3gig XD, anyway thanks for the review
Not perfect, but good
Cheers for submitting this. It's always nice to see an animation done in the classic paper-n-pencil style.
You did well on the animation and art side for your first project and to be honest, the animation doesn't need more graphics to tell the story, you kept the look so that all the details had some kind of role in the movie, instead of trying to score in with unnecessary flashyness
My main critique is about the point the movie was making and how it told it. Its obvious your intention was to keep it short and simple, but the problem with short stories with a clear meaning like this is that they have only so much opportunities to utilize symbolism and so on to convey their meaning, and individual people may find these ways, depending on their tastes, good or bad.
I'm not exactly sure but I feel i got the meaning of the animation, its the classical "theres something good and bad about everything", and the struggle and co-existence of the of these forces creates the world we know, like the animation was in the end portraying the world as a field of the crystal flowers with random stuff from the city "evil"-side of the world, the good and evil aspects of it emerged as a unified entity.
Anyway, the reason I didn't give higher score is because I personally found the symbolism slightly awkward at places, the bad side was a lifeless, dark city with a robot emerging from there while the good side was portrayed as lightful nature and creation with a feminine spirit/creature meeting in the middle with the robot. Associating good with nature, life and females and evil as lifeless technology and so on is slightly cliché in my views.
To be more positive again, I liked the music you chose and it fit the work very well.
I may have gone way too far and overanalytic about it, and I'm not sure whether you or many other people feel the same as I do and find the points I were trying to make necessary at all. It was a short after all and you did very good work in driving the meaning you portrayed to the viewer, brief and simple as it was, I liked it overall.
You're a talented guy and I'd love to see more work from you, best wishes.
Weenog responds:
This was a great review and i enjoyed reading this, the only thing i really hafto say about it is that although things like good and evil and the two oposing sides of the brain (calculated/intuitive) did indeed cross my mind, the main reason i chose the two opposing genders was because i wanted that specific tension between the characters and have another duality with love and hate going on, It wasent my intent to tie characteristic's like like good and evil to a specific gender. or even to assign any good guys or villains to the story, just to have these two opposing forces collide.
thanks alot for the review, take care ^^
the flower will divawer you
not shor what the story is mabey yin and yan. but still i like it.