Very nice work! The clockwork imagery was all very nice and I like your use of colors and light. There are a few things i think could be improved on though: the camera movements. You open with a zoom out, which is nice and helps the viewer feel like they're entering an environment. Then you cut to a still shot; fair enough. Then it's a pan diagonally down; this feels a little disorienting. Then a still, then a pan diagonally down. This is an odd pattern and the motion erally doesn't flow. It's hard to work out the spatial relationship between the things being shown and some scenes feel like repeats. There are a few establishing shots but again, scenes feel repeated and the different pieces the viewers seen are never really slotted together.
I loved the tension built with the two entirely separate scenes (and colors) obviously happening synchronously gradually coming together and then colliding.
That said the pacing is pretty bad. Things happen far too slowly and any intelligent viewer will have anticipated events a few scenes ahead. For example there are about 40 seconds during which all the man does is gesture "Stay back!" (though i do like the battering in sync with the drums in this scene).
Whilst I do like the concept I think it could have done with some padding out to help keep up the videos pace. A really enjoyable animation regardless, good luck with future work!
Reviews for "Lumberjack Loveshack"
Hey thanks! This is actually my favorite criticism of my work. Super constructive. I agree with you about all of it. There were parts when I didn't have the time to make new content in order to get the timing right later in the video, so I did have to pad a bit in places.
Decent sound design/music selection, animation was well done and unique. Interesting concept for a music video. Pretty enjoyable.
I'd like to see part 2.. that was pretty nice work
Thanks, bud. I'm not sure what the likelihood of part 2 getting made is. Depends if the band wants it and I have the time to make it. The part two music can be found through their facebook page though
Amazing Quality, The only thing I disliked was that the characters were flat. If you spent Considerable more amount of time to make them completely three dimensional the video would undoubtedly go VIRAL.
4.5 STARS
Hey thanks! I wish I had the kind of time to make it 3d!