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Reviews for "Café Catastrophe!?!? - Animated Me"
Crunchlins responds:
Thanks! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
1st time seeing your post..
man, i love the animation! simple and smooth :)
keep up the good work!
Crunchlins responds:
Thanks very much! :)
Hilarious, great work. You have a great sense of timing/humor!
Crunchlins responds:
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback! :)
I had a similar experience once. The lady asked me if I wanted a bag. I said, "One" and she thought I was trying to argue about the price???!!!
Crunchlins responds:
Haha, oh dear!
This is like a sitcom or something. Or a vlog, but actually funny lol! Thanks for the extra creepy smile on barista, now I'll risk nightmares tonight.
On a slightly more serious note: personally, for this episode, I didn't laugh until the very end when you said she didn't put in the tea bags. And that was because of course, your narration switched up to being more excited. Now don't get me wrong, my attention was glued to the story the entire time, which was great. And the narration is concise so I stay focused on the story.
You're great at storytelling with the concise narration and fluid animation. I personally think there's two areas you can improve your comedy in. The first would be acting. You can definitely narrate your stories well, but as I'm sure you noticed, there isn't much diversity in *how* you speak in regards to tonality.
If you don't want to change that, that's perfectly fine. Perhaps you might prefer offering the occasional quip in your regular narrating voice. Ex: "I guess there was an invisible line of ten people, and that's why she had us waiting so long." I've seen some creators do that very well.
And the second part is the animation. Perhaps you like to exaggerate certain qualities more to emphasize comedy, like you did with that creepy barista face lol
That's all the advice I had to offer, and again, quality animation.
Cheers
Crunchlins responds:
Thanks very much for all the feedback! :) I will take that all on board!
Much appreciated!
Edit: I wanted to give a slightly more detailed response now that I have time.
As for the storytelling, thank you, I'm always open to trying new voicing methods and I'm constantly trying to improve my voice acting! I usually try to bring a tone that people will recognise throughout the series as me. However I am always looking to bring more of a vibrant comedic flow to contrast the sarcastic tone that I usually take on. Thanks for the advice!
As for animation, I agree that the animation could be way more complex. When I started making this series it was intended as some original content that I could publish to my YouTube channel regularly without halting other projects for too long and without having too many big gaps in my upload schedule. However as the series has developed I spend longer and longer on each episode to the degree that "Animated Me" pretty much takes as long as a more polished cartoon would. ^_^ Sometimes I add in some more visually exciting animated elements, but in honesty the visuals of this episode in particular were designed to make it easier on me due to time constraints whilst working on commissions etc.
To clarify, that's not me disagreeing with your feedback at all, I agree that the animation could be more exciting and varied throughout and it's certainly something I'll take into account for future episodes :)
Thank you!