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Reviews for "Thief: Rent's Due"

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I really enjoyed this, the backgrounds were amazing and all of the details were very cool. You obviously put alot of work into this and it definitely shows. The voices actually sounded pretty good, although some of the saying were pretty cheesy :/ "huh, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" for example. I couldn't help but say, awwww, that was lame.

Everything ran pretty smooth and fluid although at times the animation skipped a bit but that might be my shitty computer. I like how you took something as simple as paying rent and developed an entire plot and expanded upon it. I know he's a thief but why isn't he killing anyone? It's not like if he gets caught, they will go easier on him for thievery than murder. He might as well kill everybody because stealing something like that would you get you hanged back then. But I digress...

Now you are probably wondering why I gave you a 6 when i loved the flash so much. Well, I'm disappointed that they are stick people. I know you love stick people and I do too but sometimes you have to use real characters when the situation calls for it. You have such beautiful artwork and backgrounds in here and it is completely ruined by shapeless, mono-colored stickmen. You're flash is on a very high level that stickmen just cannot reach, they bring the whole flash down. If you had an actual thief with a cloak and clothes, and full face articulation; I would be giving this a 10.

Don't take my 6 as a negative thing though, because I really do love this flash and I hope you make another. I just want to see you put even half the work into the characters as you did the backgrounds. You also might want to stay away from the cheesy one-liners as I said before, they were offensive to all 5 senses. Yes... i can taste, smell and feel the cheese.

Manfreak responds:

You really havent played the games have you. Sorry but I truly did lol when you said he should have killed everyone in the building THEN taken everything. What kind of master of stealth kills everyone lol? Also the cheesy one liners are in the games and thats something I really wanted to show in this animation but I understand your hate of them :P. This is fkn redicules with everyone giving me shit ratings for using stickmen. If I had them doing the usual killing stuff Im sure no one would think twice. Dont think its being critical by giving a low vote. You give 6/10 to animation less than 10 minutes long and with alot less work put into it. Im getting really sick of these responses becuase its annoying that people vote me down because the animation had more potential. Just vote on what you see not on what you could have seen and then maybe you might not get so dissapointed! sorry but this is really starting to piss me off badly.

Good flash here.

So for a stick flash the "ANIMATION" was very fantastic, even for stick characters, so that was the first great thing i noticed, how the animation flowed very nice, and just rolled into each and next seen easily, always nice to have that in a flash, and as for it being a robin hood it gave it some sort of adventure, and the content kept me interested, so nice job on those elements, The "VOICES" cameout pretty good aswell i thought, fit the parts perfectly, so if there are any tips at all i can give for making this better, i believe the onlything i can suggest might be that maybe broaden your ideas with more then just stick characters, give them more character style characters, with the animating you can really make the flash shine, anyways nice work here.

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Great flash here, if any suggestion of tips and ideas to make it better maybe, Make Characters not the stick kind, while this does take more time and effort but it will make your flash better and with more details for the characters like color, hair clothing some facial detail, it will improve on this and your characters, something to think about for this or your next film, for improvment.

I'm gonna take a shot in the dark here...

But it straaaangely feels like ... Splinter Cell to me... Just robin hood style.... I mean, don't get me wrong, the animation is good... it's just... the idea isn't very original...

Manfreak responds:

Umm lol? Thief, the game of which this animation is based, came out years before splinter cell. Get your facts right. If anything, splinter cell isnt original.

Who Is The Music By?

How about a clue on the soundtrack.

yawn...

Animating stick figures is for those who can't draw actual characters, take a look at Egoraptor, Johnny Utah, and Stamper's work; you see many details in their facial features, but not only that, the rest of their bodies, this could have been so much better with actual people than moving bars with a sphere at the top! Honestly, stick figures are for the lazy and talentless. However, I give it points for time and effort.

Manfreak responds:

So your saying I'm lazy and talentless because I havent learn fullbody aniamtion yet? Whats your talent huh? Get your head out of you ass. What moron thinks people who animate sticks are talentless, your an ignorant prick you know :D