Beautiful
Very artistic. This movie and the one before it show incredible skill. Beautiful music, sketchbook animation and a mystical storyline really draw the audience into this world, despite its lack of color (which really isn't a drawback...it's part of the story.)
I'll be following this series.
Thanks, glad to know you'll be following it.
Very good.
You've just became one of my fav. flash artists.
WoW
very impressive i really want to check out the rest of the series, Style was incredible, graphics were a bit crude but the story more than made up for it. a couple suggesttiong, add backgrounds so that theres a point of comparison for movements and running, there were parts were it looked like he was running and flipping in place, and... well thats about it other than the drakins running looked a bit off, but thats minor and technical, loved it!
Exellent series
Ok, I just finished watching the whole series, And I will paste this review on to the others.
The ideal of this series is exellent, The main char, as well as supporting chars. It seems to me however if he aquired blue, that blue color should be added to the following films, and progressivly increase depth of that color as he aquires new colors. And as for the final episode comes, it should be in full color.(just my opinion) I also noticed the background dosent do what it should for the chars movment. My cousin does comic book art, and he constructs his backgrounds in "widescreen" so to speak, and takes frames from set parimaters as the character moves along that background. I'm no animator, but it seems this technique could be used for your story boards to add more depth to the physical movments of you charactors. like so:
(this would be the whole background)
[----------------------------------------------------------
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[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 121314
(these squares would be frame numbers on that piece of background as the main object moved along it walking)
Thats the theory anyway, and you would more or less only need x number backgrounds for your entire episode, say 2-5 depending on lenghth of film. Some of yours were short and could have done with 2 max. I also belive creating 1 large background for x# of frames could save you actual "At the drawing-board" time. As you already have the sceane set up, and dont have to re-start from scratch each time, you want to change the light or make a transition to a new look for the same sceane. My couzin buys paper on a large uninterupted roll (no preforations or stops) and cuts it off when he is done with that background. And any computer can lay your sepratly drawn charactors over this.
Ok, I don't know if it's really neccesary to copy and paste the same thing into every flash, but thanks for the advice. :P
I like the idea of making a very wide widescreen background and then just using various parts of it to save some time. I did that a little bit in ep5 and 6, but it was probably not nearly as wide as your cousin does it. I'll definitely think about using this technique though in the future. Thanks.
That was really good.
I like this hero story. It was done well.