GReat Song.. but
That Vid was crap. Im sorry but it seemed more like you just wanted a free flash by submitting a good song made by someone else.
Using Shape tweens is not difficult so it should have taken you 10 minutes tops to make that movie.
Reviews for "Up is Down Music Video"
noob
your obviously new to flash. No one will get tricked by a shape tween. It is the easiest and worst looking form of animation. Learn to animate.
Have a nice day,
Cody
Just a bunch o' shape tweens
Well, I will admit, the music you chose to "animate" for is quite good. I'm sad to say that your concept wasn't as well thought out.
I don't want to sound like a guy that's just saying, "no, you're wrong," but, serriously, I don't think this is a good concept for a video. Maybe you were trying to pull off the type of video that relies on crazy visuals to simulate the trippy nature of the music, but if that was your intent, than this was the wrong way to go about it. Shape tweens aren't that amazing, they tend to slow down the animation, and they just look unrefined. It looked like you just drew a bunch of random shapes with the pen tool, and then shape tweened the crud out of them.
I might be more lenient if the shape tweens were in time with the music, but they weren't even synched at all. The soundfile was an stream type, which meant that if I pressed rewind, I could get the song to play over itself, which, again, just looks unrefined when you're trying to make a video.
So, in an effort to keep my rantings short: think of a good idea before you start animating. You have to come up with something that people will enjoy seeing, and not just a slow-moving trip enducer. Please don't feel bad if this gets blammed, which I'm sure it will.