Very Nice
Inspiring to watch, and very touching.
Reviews for "The Heart of Stone"
Interesting interpretation of embracing faith...
I liked everything for the most part, except the mechanical tears.
I gave it a 9/10 also because I felt the music was unfitting in some parts.
nahtanojmal responds:
Thanks
very nicely done, but not what it could've been
I really did like how you portrayed it... lots of meaning behind it, the way a movie should be.
the point off, however, is for quality of the video and continuity (going logically from 1 thing to another)
if your going to make another flash animation like this, try to get at least 1 more frame in between each one, at certain points (if not the entire length of it) you can tell it 'skipping' from frame to frame, making for an animation that is anything but smooth.
also, when watching it, I felt as though there should have been another scene (short, perhaps, but still a scene) in between where the robot takes the other robots hand, and switching to the king riding through the rain. at this point, the robot has just unexplainably jumped from wandering around on her own, to being tied up. was the other robot the same one torturing her? maybe she was kidnapped after they met while in the city and the 'torturer' was someone else? maybe she was in the city and collapsed (due to low catalyst) and was taken there (like a fake doctor...). I know from other comments you made you were trying to keep parts of it to the audience imagination, but you really have to be careful about that for storyline sake because if you go to far people will just be left completely in the dark and no idea what's going on.
other then those 2 points, very well made, I loved the music, the underlying story was well thought out, just I think you could've done better.
nahtanojmal responds:
She was led by the red haired robot/spirit to the hill and a different robot was doing the procedure.
Okay I'll keep it in mind not to keep the audience in the dark too much. Thanks
Expressive
Your animation does something with the story that I've not seen before, it expresses the reaction that many people have to the message "I love you". At first the idea of God loving me was a wonderful one, but over years of silence from heaven, "I love you" was the most hurtful thing anyone could say. I know what it's liked to be loved by a father, and God does not do that. Giving me life is not love, because life is suffering. The continual message "God loves you" becomes meaningless, even the reverse of its message. I like how your animation expresses that at the beginning where the robot crushes the message, I wonder if people in general understand the depth of what's going on there.
nahtanojmal responds:
That's right.
Going up to a stranger and saying "Jesus loves you" is annoying. Most modern churches ignore our inner sinfulness, depravity and rebellion to God but that is the thing which makes the need for Him make sense.
Hmm...
Well, the animation was great and all, but I didnt really catch the story. She was a robot, and went to a town, ad then some evil guy wants to kill her, but she get saved. But how did the evil guy or the savior get in the flash?
Anyways, great job.