heheh this was great keep up the good work
Reviews for "WHOOKOS [CONCEPT] - Episode: 1"
Love it! A lot has been approved since the old episodes and still just as enjoyable! Keep it up yo!
Really can't wait for the next one! The characters were really well animated, and the flow of the audio with the mouth sync was superb!
But on a side note, how long did this project take you, and how hard is it to learn how to use the Cinema 4D?
I admit I'm somewhat unimpressed, because I've seen a large handful of animated series like this on NG, it seems to be a silent recurring theme. Have really laid back sort of pace and very low speed plot development, lingering exposition, a bit of dick-around humor and overdone character setups, maybe follows some anime influenced trends (ie medium, pointy hair for all the guys, except for long haired bro) and generally some stuff about backgrounds.
This is not to say this is not good in many regards, but somehow I've seen this a lot and it's starting to get to me at this stage. Another side note: it's kind of a sausage fest. Only introduced 5 main characters abruptly and they're all males. The only other characters this episode were unique trees.
The drawing was excellent, the animation was acceptable, posing and gripping on 3d-like environments, all superb.
Complaints: Really quiet in a lot of areas. Wasn't sure if volume was even set right a lot of times, huge lack of music or more ambiance. Characters had very few redeeming and unique traits, in both appearance and behavior. Some of the ACTUAL 3d backgrounds had really poor lighting done in-program and some textures were a tad screwy or overly repeated. Your 2d drawing in a mock-3d is better than your actual 3d, which I find interesting and actually rather impressive and unimpressive at the same time.
We'll see what the future brings, but for now I'm really just raising an eyebrow and noting I've seen tons of animations done in this sort of awkward and empty feeling/stereotypical style, and I wish you only the best. Some of these aspects (such as character development) might be resolved with good time. I'll definitely watch a part 2 to help evaluate further.
7/10, 3/5 ~WCCC
WHOOKOS responds:
Thanks for the critique. I'll see what I can do. :)
This has potential! I'm digging the music style and the pacing of this episode; however, there doesn't seem to be enough exposition to let me know what's going on. The tree, for example, All the characters are looking at the tree and I'm just sitting in front of the screen, confused. I know that there is an expository dialogue that tries to fix this issue but it doesn't really answer enough of the questions: What's up with this tree? What about this tree physically that is so particularly astonishing?(There tons of big trees everywhere) and also why was the tree emitting such a heat signature. This was cool to watch, but there isn't enough story here and could definitely be a lot denser.