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Now that that's out of the way... did I not comment on this one yet? Cause I honestly don't remember doing so.
Anyway fantastic job as usual. You just keep on pumping out these awesome cartoons for TOFA like it's nothing, you crazy son of a gun. Great job on the expressiveness of the robot. Interesting how you used scanned drawings for the background too, but it worked really well.
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... great stuff, Andrew, although WALL-E comparisons are inevitable (if a little unfair). Let me do a breakdown on everything:
- Graphicly, that was very, very good. Great animation and drawings, eveything was pretty much spot on (specially the animations, be them tweens or otherwise) and I'm particulary impressed with the level of detail you've put. I mean, the mini 3-D animations that appear (top left) when the robot is looking must taken quite some effort and they barely appear for more than a couple of seconds! That shows lots of dedication.
I'm also impressed with the emotions that the robot manages to show, despite not having, well, a face. The only grahpical aspect that didn't seem as good were the backgrounds, to be honest. They somehow felt slightly out of place, being drawn in a diferent manner from the rest.
- The sound effects were above average. I mean, there was some repetition, but they still complemented the movie very, very well. A small example, the ping pong sound when the ball falls down was great!
- Story wise, I must admit that I did see where the movie was going before the ending actually occured, but that I was "lucky" more than anything (i.e., you didn't tell us the ending beforehand) and that didn't take away the joy of movie. Still, the story has been done before (a few times) in similar ways, but the overall polish that the movie has makes it more than worthwhile to see. The story also had pretty much the right length and a nice flow.
So, pretty much a top notch work, all round! But regarding the WALL-E comparisons, they inevitable given of the timing of the release of this movie (and because I'm assuming you were inspired by WALL-E), but they are a little unfair because this movie stands well on its own rights.
Kudos for a nice, simple and enjoyably movie!
Thanks for taking the time to write the big analysis. I agree that the backgrounds weren't quite up to scratch as I'd never tried that style before, and had very little idea of where I was going with it, but I don't think it was because of their contrasting art style that they were weak. With the characters having no "outlines", I had to do backgrounds that were very different so that the robots could have a similar colour scheme to the environments and still show up clearly. I'm exploring the "scan-n-brush" technique further and want to keep improving at it. Maybe next time I'll do backgrounds that are more interesting than just piles of trash, lol.
I deserve all the WALL-E comparisons I get. While the idea of lonely robots inhabiting a junkyard is by no means a new idea for a story, I mean, what was I thinking, putting this movie out there NOW of all times? Sometimes I like to be cheeky like that. >:3 The only specific WALL-E "nod", as such, in this movie, is the title.
Entertaining
I dont know why people are comparing this to WALL-E, if anything WALL-E is a rip-off of Wallace and GrommIt where they go to the moon. I really enjoyed watching this, one of the few animations that deserves good reviews!
W&G are awesome. Imagine what WALL-E would be like if Aardman Animation had done it instead of Pixar... hehe.
Great stuff
I've read some reviews saying it was too similar to WALL-E, well I haven't seen it, so I don't care! I thought it was really well animated, great use of visual communication and sound for stroy telling.
You are very talented - also considering you made this in ten days? How many hours a day did you put it? I must have an attention disorder, I envy you.
I haven't seen WALL-E either, so I wouldn't know how similar it is.
I dunno how long I worked on it for... "all day" seems to cover it. :]
AHHH NOOO WTF!?!?
WHY BLUE GUY? WHY!?!?