LoooooooooooooooooooooL
Very Well done!!!
(i also waited to listen to the music lol)
I wait for sequels...
:D see ya
Reviews for "Fullmetal Arithmetist"
Loved it
I can imagine the series now:
The Algebra Arithmetist: "YOU COMMITTED THE ULTIMATE TABOO IN ARITMETICS DIDNT YOU! HAHAHA! YOU FOOLS DIVIDED BY ZERO
Full metal: So what if we did!?!?
haha
lol
soo what happen with the brother?? edward did sacrificie his arm for him? :( moreeee hahaha, i start this comment just to listen the fma music XD
very good animation since u start flash , it will be better if u learn frame animation instead of tweening alot , but i liked alot the mask animation, congratulations
interesting
an interesting take, to be sure. made me laugh. as did the description!
and any FMA fan should remember that it's leg first. that detail is crucial in the original comic alone XD
I was so into it
at first , upon seeing the arithmetics, I thought to myself how this was just a flash to promote some school project.. then , the opening sequence came in and I was like : holy shit, this might actually be a good parody! .. and then it ended..
Great flash art! I wish there was more animation happening between the two brothers and the ''knowledge'' grabing them.. Alphonse getting grabbed by it didnt seem to schock him all that much... And that was my lowest point
Voice wise : Step it up a little, And by that i mean a octave. While your text was spot on, It needs to be higher pitch a bit. Maybe its the recording quality. That I wouldnt know. But yea..
Im in a 2d-3d animating course at cdi college, so tame your animal instinct and bear with me. Want a real critic, I'll give you a professional one ( and keep in mind ive watch your animation 4 times so far to make sure i spot the problems : and lets face it, what critics dont talk about = great)
I really like how the brothers look at each others before attempting the 'calculus'? It gave a real feeling of depth to it. The end felt a bit rushed tho.
The backgrounds were great and nothing felt too similar or copy/pasted. I had some issues with the school board at the begining. (Resembol Elementary) .. To me, it could've been written in a more professional way.. Actually, looking at it again, the whole introduction scene couldve used some more details. (looking at it again, the tree animation was a real nice touch! add more of these next time!)
Scenes where you see both brothers in a back view couldve use some tweens... either an arm moving or just a leg twitching... anything happening in between the zooming sequence to keep things moving without having the watcher (us) fix on a single frame for mre than 3 seconds without anything happening besides a zoom.
Here you have it : a honest, animator to animator critic. What I havnt talked about it awesome, and I really thing you could do something cool if you work those points out. More random animations, more ''energenic'' animations ( like those arms comming out, make em faster!) better sound quality and an overall better attention to details.
Please keep in mind that while i am doing a heavy critic about your work, I also took 20 mins to watch it again and again, and wrote this lengthy paragraph. I see potential, alot! Your characters presention was spot on. but I just want more... I'm sure you understand exactly what I'm saying. Keep it up!
10/10 for the work, effort, and wasting my time haha ;)
BoobMarley responds:
Other posters, this is how you do it ^^^^^^^^^
Hm, I actually did raise the pitch in my voice recording with the program Audacity. I guess just not quite enough. I suppose it sounded plenty high to me when I was comparing it to the original, and didn't have fresh ears to hear it objectively. Now that I go back over it though, I'll have to agree that it can afford to be a good bit higher.
I had a fun time drawing the interior of that room. I tried to think back to what math classrooms looked like when I was in grade school, so naturally I included some posters, a detention list (minor detail, to the left of the chalkboard with Ed and Al's names on it), and some cubbies. Glad to hear that it didn't seem copy-and-pasted throughout the different perspectives.
The school sign at the beginning was intended to look more hand-painted than machine-printed. Sort of like something a little, rural school house would have. My handwriting + the brush tool probably just wasn't rough enough to convey that feeling to everyone.
More small animations going on in the frame. Definitely. Their arms and legs twitching, things like that - golden.
Your rule about the consequence of nothing happening other than a zoom for 3 seconds seems sound. It reminds me of a rule I heard about film-making - don't have a scene in one location last for more than 3 minutes. It causes the audience to get bored, no matter what kind of action is happening.
I'll definitely keep that in mind for future projects. Great tip.
If it feels rushed towards the end, that's probably because it was. By the time I had finished drawing Ed's bloody stump, I just wanted to post this damn thing to Newgrounds and share the laughs. This is something that I can easily do better with in the future. Newgrounds isn't going anywhere, I can post my animations in a few days after they're "done" when I've had time to go over them again and again and add last minute changes and details. I can hardly say patience had much influence on this.
I really appreciate you taking some time to watch this and share your thoughts and critiques. I won't let them go to waste.
*Update - Forgot to mention one thing. In the Author's Comments I advised people to be prepared for disagreements and arguments from a vicious animal, and yet you still wrote this lengthy, critical review.
Got to admire the balls.