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Reviews for "Voyage Ep1: Departure"

nicely done

A beautifully designed abstract piece, although not at all frame by frame as you stated. Also for the future episodes, have the scrolling text go from right to left, not left to right, by cutting off the first few words or letters of the sentence, you make it hard for viewer to fallow it.

SmilingJoe343 responds:

I'm glad you liked it, and I'll take note of your advice for future episodes.

This really captured me.

While in the house I actually felt somewhat nervous for the boy and anxious just because of how eerie, scary and unpredictable it was.

Stylish, Consitent (although not all FbF), and very tonal. I liked it alot.

I'm kinda taken into the movie.... pretty eerie.

SmilingJoe343 responds:

That's good, because as a storyteller, you need to attach the audience to your characters, or they won't care. See you when the next one is out!

fbf, amazing!!

amazingly animated, love the music...perfect touch to the perfect story

PeopleOfOceanPlanet...you need to look at what your saying, even if he did use tweens it was for pure graphical effect, doesnet change the fact that everything else was hand grafter.

Well Done :P

That was amazing!

so deep and full of story, i cant wait for the next episode!

Not bad

The vibe was defiantly one of eeriness ( like a David Firth animation), it had the tripped out music and odd looking characters and a twisted and confusing story line that should slowly unwind through out the series making it entertaining and interesting to watch. (so basically it had all the right elements)
I liked the use of blurring and fading in and out regularly.
It helped with the eeriness and was a good way to swap scenes.
The animation was a tad lacking ( it felt a bit rushed) it was often hard to work out what was going on as the character(s) would blend into the background.
But like most series your animation should improve through out :)
TIPZ:
Make the characters and the background less matching in color ( so not just varying shades of Grey) this will help with distinguish the character from his/her environment.
Another way to improve the clarity and help people distinguish between characters and the backgrounds is;
You could convert the characters to movie clips and go filters: glow: blur 1.5px: strength 1000%: color black,red or white ( which ever you prefer).
Fidel with the smoothing.
Choose the paint brush tool and go to the properties inspector and increase or decrease the smoothing.
Have a go and mess around to find the optimal level. ( 70-80 is usually pretty good)
Also just sit back and take your time with the art as much as possible.
All in all quite good, and I'm looking forward to episode 2.
7.5/10 and 4/5