awesome
wow this flash was very good a bit slow at the beginning but very interesting
nice job
Boy with Nails for Eyes
June 12, 2010 –November 30, 2020
Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.
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***VIEWING IN FULLSCREEN STRONGLY RECOMMENDED***
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The Boy with Nails for Eyes is an independent motion comic, set in a grimy, grey little seaside town trapped by a brick-and-iron wall of factories. The story follows a young boy as he undertakes a quest that will draw him to the town's knotted heart, and into the domain of the shadowy hunger that stalks its streets.
The prologue tells of the days, unknown years ago, when a murder of crows swarmed upon the town. Haunted by their cries from daybreak to dark, the townsfolk experience strange visions...
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The story is best viewed in FULLSCREEN MODE, so that the text is clearly legibile without having to use the zoom function. Full instructions on viewing the story are given in the loading screen.
A lofi version of the comic, featuring the images and text only, is available on my website (www.basement-garden.co.uk), which is linked from my profile. Also available are wallpapers and music downloads, plus the next chapter of the story itself (I'll be posting a Newgrounds version of this fairly soon, but my focus at the moment is on a comic commission, and on getting the art for the third chapter finished!)
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Really pleased with the response so far - thanks to everyone for the encouragement and feedback. [In fact, I'm now quite overwhelmed by the level of response - thanks again to everyone who reviewed, whether you liked it or not. And cheers to Newgrounds for featuring this! I'll try to reply to everyone but I can't promise I will - if you really want to get an answer, the best idea is to email me through my website.]
I always intended the comic to be viewed fullscreen (I even considered making it obligatory, or automatically going to fullscreen when the comic starts, but I don't like that idea any more than, probably, anyone else does), but I do hear everyone on the text.
Later stages of the story will be a little heavier on the text (which is why I had to go for a small font size from the get-go) so in all honesty I think the text may well stay as it is, for the sake of consistency (and at the risk of pissing off a few people). Again, I *strongly* suggest *fullscreen viewing*, if the text is too small for you; unfortunately the highest file dimensions allowed by Newgrounds is even smaller than the original file dimensions(1060px/745px), so for this reason fullscreen is an even better idea from my point of view.
Cheers
S
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<deleted> responds:
Thanks very much
amazing
this was brilliantly crafted and ingeniously mastered!
<deleted> responds:
Cheers, I really appreciate that!
oh i like this!
but i have a question the first view is the only drawing or not?
but to me i like it ^^
<deleted> responds:
Hey Danilo - fraid I'm not exactly sure what you mean. If by that you mean 'Is the first drawing the only hand drawing?' then no, most (but not all) of the other images all start as hand drawn. The big exeption are the behemoths towards the end, which are constructed from loads of photos of cathedrals and other buildings. Anyway, glad you enjoyed it!
Damn near perfect!
Yeah, it was pretty awesome. However, me being such an annoying person, I'm going to comment on things that could be better.
While you had done some excellent things with the actual text on the pages, the problem cannot be avoided that the pacing is dependant on the viewer's reading speed. The epicness could no doubt be multiplied if you had a good narrator to keep the pace stable.
Oh, I almost forgot. What's up with the bad guys? Might be just me, but that design was more comical than frightening, but that is of course, like everything else, just an opinion.
It was awesome. (If my words didn't say it, my rating should.)
<deleted> responds:
No worries Hemfrik - constructive criticism isn't an annoyance. On the narrator issue, I decided against a narrator because (basically) it would be another massive stage to be included in the whole process. I'm a one man band, and having to sync up the words to audio, while possible, would be a massive chew-on, as they say! In fact, I quite like the fact that readers are able to govern the pace of the story themselves - I consider this to be a great strength of comics, that they combine the visual immediacy of images with the depth and descriptive power of the written word. A lot motion comics have abandoned this, and gone too far down the animation route for them to be properly comics anymore, and I wanted to avoid that.
But it's probably mainly the time thing...
And cheers!
The future...
Gives a very saddening feeling of what the future may turn out to be... Huge war machines destroying the land. Tons of factories polluting the sky. Only scavengers(crows) and humans can survive but only just barely.
Excellent human mood manipulation with this one. Good job =D
<deleted> responds:
Thanks very much player
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