HMM...
too slow and reminds me of samurai jack
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Movie was indeed too slow, artwork was good though.
But slow... need to make it draw the viewer in more.
I'm seeing a lot of influence from Samurai Jack, no?
that's samurai jack alright
as soon as the spartan started killing the robot bugs, and you did that shot from the 3 perspectives, i immediately thought to myself, "this is samurai jack... with a spartan.".... then i saw Aku.... or Aku's brother or something.... and i thought to myself, "....oh.... this is samurai jack... with a spartan... and without originality of any kind."
look, it's one thing to borrow the look and style of the show. i love the show, and it has a fantastic art style. but as soon as you start copying the action shots, ideas and enemies (don't try to argue, that guy was fuckin' Aku) it unfortunately does come off more as a rip-off than a tribute.
don't get me wrong, it was not a bad flash. clearly a lot of work was put into it, and you did a very successful job mimicking the samurai jack art style. but unfortunately, you didnt achieve what i think you were trying to, in that it very much seems like a rip-off.
there wasn't enough story here for anyone to distinguish it from samurai jack. perhaps in the coming episodes we will see if it has a completely different story. but as of right now, this was a lot of work put into copying samurai jack with a different main character.
i suggest you make the story COMPLETELY different from samurai jacks for episode 2, or else people will see it as nothing but a rip off. fortunately, you have 12 more episodes to show your own creativity and ideas. good luck
i dont know what to say
other than its obviously Samurai Jack. Well animated obviously. :] and I look forward to seeing what comes of the series. (I miss Samurai Jack).
Samurai Jack? Why?
Donkey is right this is a copy of samurai jack. Although I liek the show I have to give this a low rateing for no originality. Although if you put up another episode with more of a mix insted of a dead set seeing I got Jack out from the beginning I may rate it better:)
MonkeyPal-Media responds:
Thank you everyone for your opinions. This all was created from scratch, some original and perhaps most not perhaps. But it did take me a LOT of time to create this and I'll continue to make more Spartan the Martin, because my vision for this short is different then Samurai Jacks. Learning Flash is a learning experience and I had fun making this. People who want to continue belittling the short and me can. Most people have to start somewhere and grow. I am sorry if I offend anyone because this short is not entirely original.