Strange though well animated
It was dark, creepy and odd - showing convincingly a disturbed mind
Reviews for "It's Cold Inside"
good theme
but i hate this style of animation
*shrugs*
this sort of thing is incredibly subjective, so i shouldn't really criticize it - it was never meant to be mainstream enough for that. for what i've seen in experimental films though i felt this sort of missed the mark for the heavy mood it was going for. it did however employ some interesting transitional effects before the titles came up, and haze over the preloader screen looked really good. that may have been a drawback. the preloader looked cool so i was expecting a little more.
as for the writing... it was nothing new, very easy to telegraph the lines, but they were cued well to the images.
it would have been nice to include more hand drawn sketches, primarily at points that lacked words and needed a punch, like the last few seconds of the short where he's looking down. but, whatever. you already said you weren't going to check back so this is pretty futile :\
Music is your friend.
Without music, a piece like this is tremendously boring. What music does is connect the audience to the feelings of the actions and words, the art, etc. In a piece like this, where there is no intellectual build up, you need music to make a fast emotional connection, otherwise its too hard for the audience to really get into it first time around.
Even having actual speech instead of just text, would help big time in making that connection with the audience.
I feel this would probably be pretty good with some music but without it its a non-starter for me.
Stylish.
I quite enjoyed the way the flash looked but i did find myself rolling my eyes a bit at the plot and the dialogue. Seems a bit clichéd to me. But still, it was pretty interesting visually.