Reviews for Shattered Heaven Ep. 1

[ArmyofDorkness]

sorry guys, I hate to be a dick, but...
this cartoon embodies everything I hate about anime.
lure us in with the promise of fighting robots, and then have humans complaining to each other for the whole time. I was far to bored to care about any of these characters, and there was a lot of them to bore me. You did so much work with voice acting and lip syncing that you would think something good would come of it, but it was all that voice acting that causes this cartoon to fail.

I really liked the history line you laid out in the opening, it is an interesting world that could be developed. My advice would be to concentrate on your fighting robot animation skills, and then cut 80 % of the human characters.

just my opinion.

[AndyOfTheArcticDucks]

It's very ambitious and I like the amount of world building that's being done. One thing dragging it down though is that you desperately need to adjust the audio levels to be consistent.

Also, the noses on the female characters are a bit off. I see what you're trying to do, but that kind of 80's style needs a lot bolder shading and lines in the right places to work. Basically what indicates the tip of the nose is too bold and makes it appear strange. If you want to improve that you could study how noses look in real life and in anime as well. For example, the anime movie Patlabor 2 has some good realistic ones.

[TheSirKnite]

Great, compelling story, given great animation and art design, makes this awesome.

[A-Genius]

the beginning really killed the animation! nothing interesting happens just pictures flowing around 1 minute just hearing someone and looking at pictures isn't really good for the viewer! take that in mind in the next animation! I can't say that the characters looked bad because it's better than the previous ones and the fact that your still developing your self ! the ads movements were really funny! the hair movement when they were in the window like your trying develop wind blow!! just focus on getting a better stroke and everything will be fine the stroke at the end is better than the whole animation stroke quality ! also maybe you could change the background quality into blur in some areas because that will help focus on more at the characters ! just like the one at the end! and good luck with your animation!

[NewgroundsSurfer08]

Well damn... i'm really glad you made it on the front page otherwise i would have missed this.
Being massively into mecha thought i would give this a try and i wasn't disappointed.
So i have to ask being a massive fan of the xin series... are we gonna be seeing more of xin and hanto or was that kind of an easter egg. xD

AdamTilford responds:

They were an Easter egg, but their voice actors however, will be making future appearances ;).

Glad you enjoyed it! I'm so grateful that this was featured on the front page.