Reviews for The Halloweenator

[Shmossy]

To be honest...

I didn't really like it that much. The explosion looked like you had saved an image from google and selected trace bitmap or whatever, and the plot was predictable.
When he walked away it really annoyed me because he quickly bobbed up and down unrealistically. The art was quite good, but it seemed let down by the animation. I didn't notice any frame by frame in there, but maybe that's just me. Tweening isn't all that hard, but I do appreciate the effort you put into this.
Next time try a less predictable plot that is actually pretty funny.
You may not like FBF, but in my opinion, fully tweened movies look a little unrealistic and robotic.
It was alright, I guess. Just not worth the score it has.

Lambinvoker responds:

There was actually very little tweening in the entire animation. In fact, the only tweening I did was when the camera faded in and out or zoomed in and out. All the character movements, lip syncing, and gesters were done completely frame by frame. I actually prefer frame by frame over tweening. It's just that I'm still not very good at it yet, thus it sort of looks like tweening. In my next projects I intend to work on more vibrant animations.

As for the plot, you'd have to talk to my brother about that, he wrote the entire script, and I only followed it word for word.

As for the whole score thing: Yeah, it's been overated. I don't know who, but during an entire week after it was submitted, the score kept on increasing. It literally rose from a 3.60 to almost 3.80 during that time. I felt it was getting out of hand, so I posted on my news profile to tell my friends or whoever to stop feeling compelled to vote on it. It's kind of meaningless at this point. Anywho, thanks for your review.

[NintendoMadness]

I can see ALOT of effort went into this.

- Good stuff -
The sound effects were pretty nice and the song accompinied the VA well. The art was well drawn and the shading had all the right colours.

- Bad stuff and improvments -
The lip-synhcing was pretty bad on the German guy, you should of put effort into is than the children because the German spoke more than the kids.
Also it was too predictable and unoriginal, I could always tell what was happening.
There wasn't enougyh of the brush tool either whihc is what makes a flash cartoon much more effective with all of the things to fit in. also when the German walked away it looked a bit too unrealistic, it looked like you were trying to make it comical but it was a bit too bobbing up and down.

= Review Request Club =

Lambinvoker responds:

Thanks for the review.
I was pressed for time when making this submission. I started this in the middle of October for Newgrounds' 2007 Halloween contest. I managed to get 60th place. Working on this movie taught me a lot about the importance of planning ahead when producing a flash movie. I made loads of mistakes in this movie and every time I re-watch this I am reminded of them all. Even though I have learned from these mistakes, I still have a long way to go.

Also, concerning the brush tool: Yeah, I didn't use the brush tool at all in this movie, nor did I use it in my first movie. Back when I made these I used nothing but my mouse to draw all of the art using the line tool and curving it how I pleased. Now that I have a tablet to work with, I hope to drop this habit of using the line tool excessively.

[ZacDyson]

It could've been better.

I just thought it was too slow paced for me. Maybe try to make it snappy, y'know short and sharp. It was a good idea though.

Lambinvoker responds:

I will see if I can experiment with my pace in my next animation.