not bad..
its pretty good(i think)
Reviews for "NG Army: Recruitment"
Vaslious responds:
lol, thanks, I appreciate it (i think):P
NG Army, eh? Sound's wicked cool!
First off it is nice to see that some artists care enough to write responces to reviews (sometimes I feel like the ones I write are just falling on deaf ears). Thanks for giving us the curtiousy of both recognizing our efforts and helping US be better reviewers (via explanations of the issues we comment on ^-^).
Well this flash had some ups and downs (and might I add that for a first flash this was really quite impressive!). Lets break it down.
Graphics: Pretty good, particularly so in backgrounds (loved the headquarters and the bitchin' logo for the NG Army.). Some of the moving pieces needed work. In particular the...senior general I guess YOUR character was responding to (movements were to stiff, even for such a simple model). Also the portal (cool idea by the way) was kinda sloppily drawn (again, first flash so I more than understand). However I was really impressed with your characters appearance and movement (you obviously spent alot of time on him, and it shows). Also the guitar guy looked pretty cool (as did the armory! ^-^).
Sound: Voices were a bit to forced at times, but they were crisp and intelligable (I would've obscured their voices each time a mortar shell went off outside, but that's just me). The dialogue was ok, but I was hoping for more action for a recruitment video (I site the old Blam Club's "All Your Base" recruitment video). The music was absolutely superb, but hey anytime you use Evil-Dog's stuff you can't go wrong ( Evil-Dog Rocks!).
Premise: Wasn't very flashy, but it got the message across: check out the NG Army...we protect NG. Just enough to get people to explore the thread (hopefully I'm saying that right...I don't know jack about the BBC system).
Overall I thought it was a competant flash that if nothing else has piqued my interest about what you guys do for NG. Maybe I'll look you guys up.
Nice job and hope you keep making flashes!
P.S. I've always thought of making a flash of an ultimate showdown between all the forces of NG and an unholy alliance of every major company that's tried to kill the site...the possibilities are limitless...
If you ever make a huge battle flash akin to that, two suggestions: make a hunter/killer special ops. squad made up of Pico, Alien Homenid, and the shotgun-toting "Assasin" guy. And for the eventual victory music, use Evil-Dog's "Metal Frenzy". Good luck and may the NG Army never die! ^-^
Vaslious responds:
Wow, thanks for this great review. I hadn't come up with a standard setting for fps which is why I left it at the preset of 12fps. This accounts for a lot of the choppyness issues. It was really brief because in retrospect i didn't plan it out very well. The tweening was horrendious but at the time that was the best i could do.
The next Army flash which is advertised at the end will be better as a result of all the helpful reviews i recieved in my early flash and my growing skills as an animator. It will also include many of the factions of NG on a battlefield, it should be a lot of fun.
Thanks again for the review and i'll check of Evil-Dog's "Metal Frenzy", i love that guy's music.
if only
i was here back then, i would have joined. too bad the navy is the way for me. oh well. it's really good. i'm pretty sure that it was effective.
Vaslious responds:
Hehe, ya was good times, thanks for the review.
Not bad, but a little confusing
im sorry, but that just didnt make much sense to me...maybe its because i couldnt hear the audio too well or something but other than that it was ok. It really didnt have a point but im sure the next episode will be good
Vaslious responds:
I will be including captions on the next movie. Thanks for the review, it helps.
((( COOL )))
Hey that was awsome, it needs more of the members to be introduced aswell as abit longer, but i liked it, the music was awsome, great NG ARMY Movie...
MOVIE COMMENTARY: Simply the best of the rest..
~X~
Vaslious responds:
Thanks ~X~, I have a few ideas as far as a preloader, that can (by using buttons) scroll to different pics of members characters with bios for each. It might be too much for a preloader, but it's an idea i had.