Certainly a morbid tale...
...and I applaud you are your delivery of it, good sir. Certainly seems like a proper dark ending to a family that would have otherwise been alright. What was the mother doing at the tree though? That is my only question. Still, in the name of poetry, I suppose she doesn't need a reason.
4/5
Scary
It scared me. A lot. But I don't understand it. I don't understand what is the point of the story (or is there a point). I think it was made just to be scary, without rhyme or reason, but that is just my opinion. Animation was limited. It felt like watching a motion comic. Voice was hard to understand, but it is actually scarier that way. Still, I found it hard to read some of the subtitles. The font was...confusing, for the lack of better word. I liked it, but I didn't love it, so, with that said, 3/5 and 7/10.
This was quite good but
As far as terror goes i am getting rather sick of death being the only concept touched upon to incite fear; its not like most of us don't fear death but we all die anyway so so your story can only really be as frightening as life itself. I'm a big fan of David Firth and Poe because they really utilize the concept I'm speaking of, if you noticed they usually don't even bother with the killing off of a main character (or at least use the death as the frightening part) but rather you are entirely creeped out by the oddity and insanity of it all. Also i do believe the only scary movie (or full lengthed regular film that isn't a cartoon i guess) that i will honestly admit to instilling fear was donnie darko, not because he died but because your entire sense of reality and your philosophy thereof was thrown off. Furthermore if you do use death you should try and make it so the characters are really memorably and make the story longer, so that it becomes terrible and relatable when physical harm is done. I dunno you seem like a pretty good author but i figure that i'll die some day anyway so why do i care if its a tree that does it or old age- all the same to me.
Other than that the whispering was kind of annoying, but really the entire atmosphere you created was very creepy and worthy of praise.
Nice story, bad narration
The art and the story being told were interesting and pretty good, but the narration is on the poor side. A majority of the issue was the whisper. It would have been great if you had told it in a voice befitting a lost child, instead of kids trying to tell ghost stories without being caught up late.
Here's what I think...
+The art style wasn't half bad, nothing I can really complain about.
+The idea was a solid one, creepy premise and everything.
- The narration was rather weak, in both tone and delivery. The narrator was reading with a rhyming scheme when no rhyming words were present. This seems to be more along the lines of free-verse and not rhyme poetry (if its even poetry.)
- You need a better voice actor/ your voice actor needs more practice