It was ok but I'm in a good mood...
"You gave this entry a 5!
You're the saviour! You are one of a number of people who have helped keep this entry in the Portal!"
you can thank me later
=)
Reviews for "DS Ibby's Hair Restorer"
IceDragon64 responds:
It takes generous people like you to make up for the noobs who vote zero on work taking hours and hours to do.
Thank you!
nice
it's nice to see the occasional animation where someone doesn't get their head blown off. there should be more people like you :D
loved the use of windows noises btw
IceDragon64 responds:
I will PM you when I do more then. I have lots of projects on the way and no-one loses their head in any of them! there ARE more people like me- the Dragons & Spirits include a number of Flash authors who have similar values- all working on projects at present.
You liked the Windows sounds? OMG! Your the first!
Sadly, IHR is being maliciously voted down by someone regularly. You can see by the slow tick of votes against the flow of good reviews. Whoever it is tracks the reviews too. Sad individual with no life!
Thanks for your support.
Best Wishes,
IceDragon of the Dragons & Spirits
PS. Congratulations on the award.
Coolies
I'm really shocked that you only used Windows Media stock sound files to pull this off. I never would have guessed--and it fits the animation so well.
++Very nice quality--I love the colorful world. Nice attention to detail, especially with the smoke coming out of the carts at the airport.
-When the car screeched to a hault, the streak lines stopped before the car did, which shouldn't have happened.
-The beginning Ibby's Hair Restorer title shot had far too high of a contrast between the red text and the blue bg.
++I love the facial expressions of Ibby's lips. How did you do that? I'm guessing you fbf'd that. I'm not sure, but it's a fantastic effect that you pulled off. I've never see something like that before.
+Nice factory shots and inside jokes with the labels. They were on screen for just the amount of time needed to get the joke, which was expertly done.
I really liked the simple story but it would have been nice if there was more conflict as a whole. Still, it was a wonderfully made flash animation.
IceDragon64 responds:
Thank you so much for your detailed review.
1. I am proud of the sounds. I set my heart on doing it this way and some of the scenes, such as the lift, were created to use the sound! The sounds are made speeding up, slowing down and mixing sounds- the car, the lorry and the plane are the same sound! The smoke out of the forklift truck took 21/2hours of getting it wrong before I got it right!
3. I will imporve the skid marks
4. I will check out the contrast
5. Lips were FBF. I took ed77's 2 second animation and developed it, altering each frame of his FBF and inserting another 30 frames. ed77 (the real Ibby) is such an over the top, expressive person he doesn't do small smiles!
This is SUCH a controversial movie! people LOVE or HATE the MS sounds and after all that effort on the lips, for example, it got blammed 3 times! This is already a labour of love and its far from finished yet!
Very well done!
The backgrounds on every scene was done with care, time and precision.
It looked very well.
The sounds gave it a comical effect which I enjoyed.
It added nicely to the rest of the animation.
The character looked a bit strange but was still good!
Work on that a bit.
Some of the animation wasnt the greatest but still worked very well with the overall animation.
The story was a little weak but that was good for a first flash.
Its better than the usual fight to the death.
I loved the little jokes you left here and there.
It was great because you didnt even need spoken words.
Overall I thought it was very well done for a first flash and all you need is to brush up on your animation skills.
Good luck in future flashes.
IceDragon64 responds:
Thank you very much for your time and attention.
It is true that the story isn't quite there yet; it needs a better ending, which we will make.
The basic character was simply what I was given by earthdragon77 to make a flash with, although I have improved it quite a bit, believe it or not!
I was tempted to change crazy eyes, but somehow it is part of the eccentric appeal to those who like it.
I assure you there are more on the way with our own distinctive and original style.- and better sounds!
Cool
I think it would be alot better if you woked on your drawing skills. Now I know it's in flash, but there are simple solutions to incoporate quality drawings. Firstly, you must first make a sketch. Secondly you must scan in this sketch, and couler the sketch. Thirdly you must import it to flash. This is the hardest part, so read carfully. Make sure your image is saved in either a bitmap or J-peg format. Import things like you normally would, then click on it; goto the modifier menu and click trace bitmap. Set the settings, you may have to play around with it somewhat. And erase the uncoulered part of your drawings. This is the best way to aquire quality graphics on your flash. You may want to practice drawing more, but you definatly have potential. I'm assuming you drew this on flash, so i'm interested on what you could do out of flash. Theres many books out there on drawing, so get to it. Your concept was a great idea, but the lack of voices made it impersonal and bleak. The over use of sound effects lowered the quality of your flash, if used a little less it would make all the difference. Great idea, great concept just rework it and you'll have a front pager for sure;)
IceDragon64 responds:
Thank you very much for your detailed and helpful review. If I ever need to use art that detailed I will learn the tracing method you described. The biggest lesson I have learnt in IHR is start with high quality- it is so much harder to add it afterwards. ed77's original 2 second hair-restored image is a case in point- I should have taken the idea and work with it from scratch (in a higher frame rate!) When I was blammed I was impatient to put in ideas and get through. All my drawings in IHR were freehand from the top of my head except the basin, which was pencil sketched first.
In future all full-scale drawings will have 3d perpective. re the sounds- I didn't have a mic! If you care to view (review?) DS Dragon Quiz you can hear that we have borrowed one.
IHR will be rework one last time (it has been through judgement 5 times already)There will be real photos, slightly improved graphics, new scenes a better ending and a tiny amount of real voice. If you get any further thoughts pleasePM me I really do use them.
Ice