really great work! It's always refreshing to see smoothly animated, well edited, non-parody work on NewGrounds. Don't listen to anything people say about knocking off style etc. All of that just leads to writers block. Emulation is a natural part of learning and creation, and when the more you do it, the more individualized each release becomes. I know you'll be working on a webcomic, but please consider working on another animation. I'd love to see more content like this floating around the web.
Reviews for "Donaji & the Magical Poncho"
Shi-Gu responds:
Thanks a lot!
I think it's important to take in the criticism, but of course that doesn't mean I agree 100% with them, I'll take what I find valuable from their points only.
I'm very glad you liked the animation!
Indeed, I'm gonna work on a webcomic, but I'll also try to add animated parts into it, from fully animated videos with music, to animated gifs.
I don't know if I'll do another one with the same amount of work as this one, because getting to work with voice actors was really complicated and along other things I don't know if I'll manage to pull it off again, at least while I'm in college.
However, I might do something like it for other projects.
I appreciate your interest though, hope to be able to do some more animation soon! :D
Este material esta echo con lo que se pide a gritos que este en los cines y que rara vez llegan, felicidades es lo mejor que he visto por aquí en mucho tiempo les deseo de todo corazón lo mejor para su siguiente material, realmente un trabajo de puta madre :)
Nice work.
i dont have much else to say.
i wasnt expecting something like this from newgrounds.
I just started watching Las Leyendas on Netflix so this caught my interests. Great animation btw. I'm glad it's told in the original language and not dubbed into english. Really absorbs you into the story making it authentic like that.
Shi-Gu responds:
Thanks!
I originally wanted to do the voice acting in Zapotec, the original language these characters would have spoken during that age, but finding good voice actors with the right voices that could speak that language would have been impossible, so I went for spanish.
Still I'm glad it managed to catch you into the story! :D
I really loved the animation in this! My only complaint is that it was kind of sappy with the story. I mean, she just wears the thing and is protected. Of course, this is apparently base on some mythology. I wish I was more familiar with it. I appreciate the great artwork.
Yeah, I don't understand most of the Spanish. That always makes me feel bad about my work in High School. Well, I felt this worked well for how long it was. You have to keep up the viewer's interest that long. The colors are so wonderfully bright too.
Shi-Gu responds:
Thankyou!
I do agree, story could have had a bigger developement. I wrote it 6 years ago as a folkloric tale for highschool, and it was pretty simple. Heroine obtains magic object, villain fools her to relinquish it. Hero comes and save the victim, lesson learned, happy ending.
It is loosely based on mesoamerican mythologies, but I took many liberties with it.
I would love to get into more depth with it, but I rather continue the story in the webcomic and make a more complex work there.