Reviews for There Was This One Time

[cantflyman]

Erm, I don't know

Really, for your first original flash, it was pretty poorly executed. I honestly didn't laugh once throughout the whole movie, and the animation was pretty sloppy. I'm not sure if you wanted to make it look that way or you had a short amount of time, but it seemed like there was no structure to the characters whatsoever. In regards to the humor, I could feel myself predicting some of the jokes from a mile away, and even the ending was easy to figure out before it happened. Plus, what's with the background? They can't just be sitting in the middle of a dark abyss. If they're in a basement, draw in basement walls to add more atmosphere.

Part of making a functional animation in my opinion is to have every aspect neatly put into place and cooperating together, and to me personally, it was all loosely tied with little to no sense of focus. I hate coming across as harsh about this subject, especially when I myself have yet to make animation myself, but for someone who wants to become a professional animator, it hopefully won't be bad to take in constructive criticism.

[WorldWalker128]

I'm with the bat on this one.

Even though he stole my first name. :P

and bats aren't blind. >_<
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voices were funny, but it went on longer than it had to, and other than the voices I wasn't really all that entertained.

[final-fantasy-guy]

The concept is arbitarily aloof.

Sure, the concept of a ferret, a rhino, a bat, and an old man interacting in some way is "different" and potentially comical, but this combination, simply for the sake of itself, isn't interesting.

You could argue that we're supposed to be taken in by each of the characters' individual personalities, but they're all very underdeveloped and archetypal.

You could argue that archetypes/stock characters (the small, spunky one, the aristocrat with a humbling disposition, the big, dim one, the crazy, old man) can be used to great effect with a script that manages to drive a point with them. This is not the case, in this film. This is a random series of events with unintersting characters meandering about in it, trying desperately to find humor in obscured facets of pop-culture (card games) and the obvious (but...YOU'RE BLIND). The entrapment deal at the end did nothing to evoke a sense of drama or irony that would make a tasteful person either gasp or laugh.

The animation wasn't a spectacle, but it certainly wasn't terrible. I would say that it was, at the very least, par, for a student project. The backdrop and envirnomental objects were painfully rudimentary. The character design was very bland, though I understand that simpler designs are easier to animate. I would say that there was a moderate balance between animation quality and character design. I would suggest spending more time on visual concepts, regardless. You can never practice or learn too much.

[shinobitechno]

eh...

The story was not well-written, and the characters seemed shallow. Not a whole lot was there, honestly how can this take anyone more than a few weeks to create?

[ThePunisher789]

overrated

it made me chuckle twice, but that's about it. I'm sorry, it's just that I don't like the kind of 5 year old humor where I am laughing at a retard. Maybe if you gave it a purpose instead of making it completely and utterly random, and not having to do at all with what happened before, it would be better. I don't get why this got 2nd place, but the 5 year olds must be doing the ratings today.