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... not perfect, but with a lot of heart and passion, this is a pretty good movie. It does use one too many animation shortcuts, but that's more than compensated by how interesting and fun it is! Anyway, allow me to detail my review:
- Graphics, well, a bit of mixed bag here. I like your drawing style, it's pretty clean and somewhat minimalistic, but it's nice to look at and just works with some nice details here and there. Backgrounds were a bit sparse and you did re-use them, but it's a lot better than, say, just a white background. Your characters look great too, it's very easy to see the Wolf as a 'sexy predator' and Green as something of an average Joe, and their facial expressions are very clear and well done.
The animation itself varied greatly in quality. The frame-by-frame stuff you did, such as the Wolf's movement and Green Hood's fall in the 'two path forest' part is excellent, being fluid and detailed, so kudos there! Even the tweens you use are, for the most part, well done and fit the overall movie well.
However, the chase sequences are a little bit off, particularly when we see through Green Hood's eyes as he looks backs and you use a static piece of background that's slowly pulling back and shaking to convey a sense of movement; it's a simple technique that's easy to do, but doesn't look very good, specially since you're pulling back so slowly, but when we see Green Hood running, the background is flying past him. Also, as you mentioned, the last two scenes or so are off lesser quality when compared to everything else.
Nevertheless, if I criticize this point so heavily, it's only because your fbf stuff is so good that I feel that, had the whole movie been done as such, this would have been an exceptional animation. And it still is much better than average!
- Your choice of soundtrack is perfect, it's a great Franz Ferdinand song that fits the tone of the movie well. I like how you coordinate the on-screen action with the song as, for the most part, it works really well (such as the intro!).
However, in one or two parts, you stretch a single piece of action, such as Green Hood running from the Wolf and then into the branch or he untying the ropes, a bit too much; you probably should have tried to change our perspective of the action from some other angle or simply shown something else. Again, if I'm critical, it's because when you got it right, it looks great!
- The story is an interesting and fun twist on the familiar fairytale. I like how the characters interact and the story plays out, it gives a few clever twists that keeps things interesting and you manage to convey a lot without using any sort of dialogue. It also flows, for the most part, well and because the song isn't too long, it's also short and to the point.
So, overall, this is a pretty good movie that has some excellent parts and some, well, slightly lazy parts, but nevertheless is interesting, fun and well made enough that it should be deservedly on the front page, so cheers and kudos! I can't wait to see what new movies and/or animations you'll bring us in the future.
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