Very nice
The song was great and the animation was beautiful. It really shows that you put alot of effort into this.
Reviews for "Captain's Burden"
nightshade-pheonix responds:
Thankyou very much!
Very nice.
Although some of the animation is rather jerky and some of the art is a bit hurried, it's obvious that a lot of effort was put into this. I assume that you've learned your lesson about not putting the credits 1/4th of the way into the animation by now, so I'll move on. :P
I have no idea who did the voices (I don't really watch THAT much Star Trek...), but everything fitted in pretty well and the song went quite well with the video as well.
As I said, the only bad part was that some of the animation was somewhat jerky and unpolished. I think you should really think about a different art style, or at least find a quicker way to do this one than tracing bitmaps. There's probably some kind of effect that you can use in graphical programs to make actual faces look like cartoons, or at least you could find something that would help you quicken the process. Try downloading Paint.NET and tinker around with it - it's a simpler, free program like Photoshop.
There's actually an animated movie coming out soon called "A Scanner Darkly" that uses graphics rather similar to yours - perhaps you could see what programs they used for it and see if you can afford them.
Well, that's all I got - I hope it was some help at least. :P
Good luck on your future efforts!
nightshade-pheonix responds:
:D Thankyou for your balanced review. For the voices, I used real Captain Janeway soundbytes and my own "alien" tones (woohoo for audio filters!)
I didn't trace any bitmap, that's why it took so ruddy long, I drew it all by hand. Some might look like traced bitmaps because I drew them far too complex and had to smooth 'em down a log.
I'll definately look out for the movie you mentioned, thanks again!
I'm not a star trek fan
But your artwork is beautiful, it was like looking at animated paintings !
Good but could improve
I thought it was a great piece of animation but the walking animation could be improved especially when Jane is walking out of the brig in the first scene (think thats what its called).
it's prologue not prequel
it was fairly well drawn and animated. the plot didn't make much sense. but at the risk of sounding like a nerd, you should have more closely examined your logic. i just think it's odd that after meeting with her crew, the best they could come up with was shoot at it alot. apparently even in her dreams janeway isn't a very good tactician.