your an effects master...
or so it seems, but the animation itself is pretty lacking. THe guns are pointed... who knows where, but they sure don't point where they are supposed to half the time, They look straight out of a cartoon when they run, and they seem exceedingly stiff. Still, it was pretty godd.
i know there were some problems with my animation abilities, but hey, I'm still learning here.
I'm just glad you enjoyed the movie and hope it made you think
Interesting
The graphics and camera effects were great. The animation was a little sloppy, and the building blowing up could have used an explosion effect. But, it was good, nonetheless. Keep up the good work!
in the shot with the building blowing up the original plan was to have an explosion effect but it just ended up looking really stupid and out of place so i just decided to leave it out and add more blur and camera shake.
thanks for watching and keep tuned for my next movie whenever I feel the urge to make one
Not bad
Weird to see an ANTI-violence cartoon on Newgrounds, but don't get me wrong you have a good message in this.
The thing is, the song did most of the talking. Everybody is critiquing the animation in these reviews, but I think they're too preoccupied with the technical stuff. I just wonder if maybe there could have been a little more development. Also, the jet bombing them seemed kind of cheap; that is, why have this long story, without any allusion to imminent threat, and then a long shot ofthe jet coming in, withoutreferencingthe story? I don't know, man...aproject on this kindof topic shouldbe a little more cinematic.
Huh...I didn't really mean to go smashing up your work, because overall you did get me thinking, so good job.
thanks, good to see that it made you think. originally the jet part was going to be much more cinematic but then the move to Austria rushed up and i really had to get it finished and out there before i moved so the jet sequence really ended up just getting slimmed down. I'm not happy to see the expanded version go but you live and you learn...
Good stuff
this is a great start, i guess you just need to spend more time on it (which apparently you don't have) - on backgrounds, on observing things like what people look like when they run, on improving explosions and other physics-y things - things need to bounce, in explosions stuff flies everywhere..
well it seems like you have some good technical ability there anyways :)
thanks, and next time round i am going to just have to manage to find time that i don't have even if it causes the release to be delayed so that i can make it the best that i can
Not so great
Coming from a 3ds max background it was rather.... Iffy on what I should say and how I should review it. You had some goods and bads but mostly I saw bad. I'm sorry but I'm going to give you my honest opinion here. I'll review you as a 3d artist perspective because I've done a little animating (mostly modeling).
Your animation was... terrible at times. Max has a walking and running with the nice foot step animation settings. I realize animating in max can be a tedious thing but alot more effort could of gone into your frames. I felt it was rather lacking though.
Your lighting was good, I felt you did fine with that.
Your modeling and texturing was very simple. You could of modeled more detail and textured more precise but I suppose that wasn't the effect you were trying to achieve with this animation. Texturing is a pain and runs up the render time so I realize you might have kept it simple for the sake of rendering. All together some of your models looked imported (aka the gun and maybe the airplane) the human characters were iffy. You did fine other then that I suppose.
The animation in a whole was thought out and the use of camera was good. The idea of the animation was conveyed. Pixar quality is a pain to achieve and just all around long to render. I know from the past that making a 3 second animation took me over 3 hours to set up and render. To comlplete a full animation takes a long time as you stated. So I congratulate you on your award and hope to see something again from you. Don't take anything I said personally because I hope to see more of this on newgrounds. Maybe even get a section on the sight for 3d eh?
Good luck.
yeah, the gun and plane were found on turbosquid. good to see you like the lighting and if a 3d collection was added it would be awsome