Reviews for 777 - Part 1

[Vreal-Studios]

Impressive!

(Answering to Crida, the one that reviewed this submission before me.)

Crida>>> I see you still have a LOT to learn about flash animation. In flash, there are two types of animation. There are frame-by-frame and motiontweening. FBF isn't better than motiontweening, and motiontweening isn't better than FBF.

It's a decision the director takes (the animator). It's depending on what style your flashanimation should be.
It's two different styles. And a mix of FBF and Motiontweening looks even more good, but again, it's a decision the animator takes.

If you can't stand motiontweening, I suggest you stop watching flashanimtions, cause 80% of all flash animations are motiontweening.
Only the best of the best can do smooth fbf, grats to them!.

.. Now back to this submission:

I really liked it. The style on the robot was really well done, and you really managed to get some action into your flashanimation. Thumps up!
Keep up the good work!

Regards
X-Stream.

[Cridia]

not especially breathtaking...

(please dont mind any grammatical errors I made, English is not my native language)

Now I dont know how much experience you have with actual Flash animation, but it seems you have still quite some ways to go. To explain the low ratings:

Graphics: I personally tend to dislike any gradients used in flash, as they seem out of place mixed in with vectors. Furthermore, there is no variation in enemy hordes, apart from the flying robot and the big collosus like robot at the end. Animation (no offense) is horrible. You really ought to get some books on animation in general if you want to continue with this kind of thing, as the animation in this movie is very bland. Take for example the last part where she "climbs" up the robot, which is nothing but a static image moving up. I also agree with the previous review, there is too much repetition in the animation sequences you use and motion tweening complete characters is not exactly a good technique to make them credible.

Style: well, not paticularly breathtaking either. I dont dislike the whole style, but it doesnt offer anything new or tantalizing either. It just didnt have that wow feel.

Sound: Pretty good, it fitted well with this movie. The collosus soundtrack during the last battle was also pretty nice, even though completely different in style compared to the first track. If I were you, I would have taken something more like this first track.

Violence: Well, there was some... Nothing great though...

Interactivity/Humor: well, ignore those. I had to fill in something...

Overall: While it wasnt extremely bad, it still needs quite some improvement. You would do good to try something else besides motion tweening everything, but instead try animating it by hand for example. Well, hope it helps...

[PiGPEN]

mmmmm.....

Body part tweening! Two frame loops! Reused clips to make enemy hordes!
777™ you have it all!

[Derugo]

Very nice.

This was a pretty good flash. Took me a minute to recall where that music was from in the final battle though. Of course the almost immeadiate reference to Shadow of the Colossus reminded me (her stabbing him in the leg, and it gushing, followed by the climb to the head and the stabbing several times) I liked this one pretty well, but I do believe you're supposed to cite your sources, so you may want to put in that you used music from (I think it was) Shadow of the Colossus.

Anywho, good job.
--Derugo

[KWAS71KCK]

nice one

that was a very nice animation. this 777 series looks like that it has a lot of potential. the graphics in this one were very impressive, a great idea and concept to it. i really liked this one... very very nice. congrats on getting this one an award too.