Needs a better story
I have to second loofawash here. The animation was really amazing and it looked incredible, but your plot leaves much to be desired. Apart from the overly cliche lines and the 180 degree flip in two seconds, the little suspense you tried to build with the 'not being able to place the characters' fell flat on its face. You've got the talent to make something really amazing, just spend more time writing a more captivating story, or work with a writer or something.
nice...
Wow, that's really good! It's great to have more submissions like this in newgrounds. You should make more like this, it's heart warming in the sound fits perfectly and adds to the mood.
Great job!
Brilliant
Fresh, uplifting and I loved it. Keep it up and we'll be hearing a lot more of your name I'm sure.
Nice style, but Cliche
I'm sorry to say, but the story and it's dialog felt very dry. Sure the animation was beautiful and it seemed to have all the elements of an excellent flash, but the dictating seemed to waste all of this work. First off, the boy without the father is old news, and the happy ending made no sense because it was a 180 degree flip from horribly sad to happy. Just because the dad tells the boy to accept his mom suddenly changes his entire life etc. The whole story tries to be too epic; there are many sadder things that can happen to a kid.
The talk between the boy and his father was soo cliche; "I thought you were dead" "I'm afraid i still am" "i do not have much time" etc. I've heard all those lines a hundred times. There is no creativity in the story line......
Long story short, nice animation, but the dictation and dialog 's overly cliche style wastes all of the beauty that lied within (yes it is in kid/fairy tale form, but that does not mean it can't be original).
Warning.
DO NOT WATCH THIS WHILST TRIPPING!... Yea super good fluid and I seen how in some close up shots you framed it, which I really liked, super clean looking but at some points it looked like the main character had severe clay scabies....Maybe different clay or something to help that not look so ...weird....Other then that beautiful work and I see nothing wrong with voting 5 and putting a nice big ten star up for ya.
Hope to see more.