Okaaaay?!
I found this subtly amusing. But the thing that made it a 10 for me was the originality in it and the corny "WTF?!" kind of ending you put in there. Good work brah!
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Galneda responds:
This animation is based on Peter Chimaera's awful fan fiction based on the game Doom, so it's not very original at all, really. I won't be blamed for writing this crap :D
Glad you liked it!
no john
you are a zombie!!!
funny.
Wow
I had honestly never heard of this meme before I saw this but I must say I laughed my freaking ass off from both reading the story and watching your short flash, please do more stuff like this, it's gold... And then I was a zombie!
Excellent. Thanks for the credit too!
Pretty damn funny. I remember reading this online when it first came out and I was like "what the f am I reading."
But you sir, did an excellent job animating it! Thanks for the credit too, btw.
Keep up the good work.
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... pretty good stuff here, specially the quality of the drawings, although I'd question some of the decisions you made for this movie, which I'll elaborate below:
- The drawing quality and animation level is pretty high throughout, especially for the characters themselves. The backgrounds could have used a little more work sometimes, but the biggest issue on this aspect (in my opinion) is actually due to the inconsistent drawing style; you mix some highly atmospheric and stylized drawings (with shadows, mono-colours and whatnot) that are mostly static, with some more 'standard' stuff for the animated parts.
Now, that's not too much of a bad thing, but it is jarring to see the different styles mixing like that, it makes us unsure on how we should look at the movie (but more on that later). Still, as I mentioned before, the animation/drawing quality is pretty high and is pretty polished (even the tweens you use) making this aspect the best of the movie. Special kudos for the 'father animation', that was particularly good.
- The audio is a bit of a mixed bag, the music is well selected and fits well (i.e., good choice of remixes), as our the sparse but well used sound effects, but the voice overs... well, it's complicated. The voices are well recorded and sounds appropriate with a good-to-decent delivery, but we what was the tone you were going for? Was the narration meant to be over-the-top or were you playing it straight? Both?
- In fact, let me address this question now: was the movie meant to be funny by playing the Chimera's story straight, by being over-the-top or by inserting original humour? I mean, the ending scene and 'atmospheric' scenes are clearly reaching for the first (and play things almost too straight, it's particularly jarring), the 'father/son' scene achieves the 2nd really well and the 'colonel warning' and 'plasma cracker' scenes go for the 3rd.
It seems almost like you couldn't quite decide what to do with the material and this inconsistency weakens the overall movie, despite the fact that each individual segment is pretty well made. Heck, even the character design seems to reflect this (compare the Cyberdemon with everyone else, for example). Something akin to the sum being greater the whole, unfortunately. Next time I'd recommend that you go for one, maybe two different things and try to stick with it.
So, overall, this is a pretty good movie that has polish and is pretty good in each separate aspect, but is inconsistent in what style and what it seems to be trying to achieve, which let's it down a bit. Still, it's another step up and showcases your talents pretty well, so kudos!
Galneda responds:
Thanks for the awesome review!
The tone really was all over the place, but I had the idea in my head that by playing the absurd story straight would have subtle humor in it's own. That anyone who would take Chimaera's story seriously was just preposterous. It also served as practice for me to try out a dramatic voice (an earlier attempt would be the Dickneck Trailer, by means of comparison.)
This was a project for "Advanced 2D Flash Animation" and the only thing advanced about it was our professor demonstrating uses of the bone tool. I didn't learn anything new except how to make a replay button thanks to a friend sitting next to me. Because of this, I also used this flash as a platform to expirement with different styles...suffice to say, I guess that's why I didn't really focus on an overall tone, but I absolutely agree with you that the clashing styles can be a little jarring.
Having said that, I'm grateful that neither of the styles outright sucked, in your opinion! lol
I aim to outdo myself with each flash, so I hope you like whatever comes out next! Thanks again for taking the time to view and review.