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Reviews for "The Last Hour: Chapter 3"

Strackenz is right WAY more time is needed

A couple plot hole notes: Is the pilot dude named MadFalconX13 (what unfortunate parents he must have had) or is his ship named that? Because you say in this movie MadFalconX13 is dead, which indicates its the pilot.

What rebellion are you talking about? I see no rebellion? If it Jaibidians rebellion, that seems fairly well exposed, if it's the humans rebellion, then I think your miss using rebellion. Unless I'm missing something.

Animation: Your characters are just statically standing there, no arm gestures, nothing aside from the lip movement. Do you do this in real life? No, there needs to be reactions, arm gestures, facial changes, blinking, etc. This all must be done through (you guessed it) time consuming fbf animation. The lip syncing needs work too, try checking out the lip syncing tutorial on this fine website for help there. The second half of the movie is just on fixed picture? Never hold a static picture for any longer than absolutely necessary. Never, for 1/4 as long as you did here. Do you think you can have an animation without animating?

Artwork: I liked the increased detail in the artwork in this movie. It's a definite start. The facial features needed more detail though. I did like the better drawn asteroids in the opening though.

Sound: Yeah... not so hot in this one. Wayyyy to loud and high pitched. Turning down the sound of the voice acting would be a great start. Maybe consider soliciting a Newgrounds voice actor, or just try to sound more natural and... uh... act better with the voices you got.

Story: Again you try to let text and voice acting tell the story, when, in fact your animation should be doing most of the story telling. I think with all my animations you could at least get a vague idea of the story with the sound off. I think this a good thing. Still, I think you have a good story in your head you just need to give it the right foil in your animation.

OVERALL SUMMARY OF YOUR WORK SO FAR:
I hope if my and other reviews have planted any idea its this: Good animation takes time. Most shortcuts you take will be blatantly obvious to the viewer and will not be smiled upon by him or her. Your movies are too short and lack fbf animation, If you really want to make this series get noticed on Newgrounds you need to take several steps these are just some of them. Make the individual movies much longer. Fbf animation DON'T tween most everything. Work on voice acting. Get away from telling your story almost entirely through text and voice acting. Better voice acting. Accept the fact that animation is a lot of work. It takes time, time, and more time.

I hate to keep referencing myself, but I'm the only real example I have to go by. My animations take a minimum of 30-40 hours for me to do. Some have taken much longer. I don't think this unusual, in fact, I'm willing to be the elite animator spend 10 times as long. So what's the rush with your series? Nobody is demanding you produce a quota of 20 feet of film a week. Take time, and in the end you will be rewarded. If nothing else, than with personal satisfaction at a job well done. Good luck!

Jaiba responds:

just wait till you see chapter 5, currently in production

hmm...

well... I think I see what your doing here. Your posting these submissions as a joke right? If not then you need to spend much more time on the animating and the art rather than depending on your colourful voice overs. The music is too loud for the audio and the length is too short to keep people coming back for more.

Jaiba responds:

no sir, this is a serious major series by the jaiba production crew. and the voice acting is the key feature by the legendary voice actor jaiba himself! but i will make the movie longer, more animated, better drawing

Good

I like the star-wars like entrance. There is an improvement from what i've seen so far, this one is fairly decent. Keep at it!

Jaiba responds:

As promised I shall respond to all reviews! thank you for the review. the next one will be even better! be on the look out for the upcoming chapter 4 of the great legendary series, The Last Hour.

Good...

Well better than the other episodes, I can see you're improving, that's good. Not much action and animation though, and you should make the voices more...like it's actually happening you know? Overall 7.

Jaiba responds:

thank you kind sir for your review. as promised here is your +1 responds

Hmm

Didn't actually watch much so have a nice review (:
Tbh I'm not into the biblical sorta thing
So I loaded it, closed, voted a 4, then gave you a nice review score and wrote this, but tbh I dont think anybody reads these things > >

Jaiba responds:

why thank you kind sir. and here is your reward for your efforts. responds +1