It wasnt bad
For your first attempt. But the animation could be a little more fluid. Also maybe sound? But you deff. have some creativity into it!
Reviews for "Madness of Cthulhu"
Needs More Madness (And Sound, too).
You really do got somethin' here, but this Flash animation comes off more as a rough sketch than a finished product. And the addition of some macabre music would have given it more ambience.
Would make a better comic.
You draw well. Very well. Credit where credit is due for that. But the quality of your still art just calls starker attention to the crudeness of your animated elements. The motion tweened limbs maintain poor contact with the joints, and the way the protagonist's hair stands out board-stiff from his head is especially bad. Your jerky shape distortion does not nearly achieve the intended (I assume?) effect of being windswept in the first shot, and the second shot calls worse attention to it by having his ponytail hold still while he moves his head. The way the tentacles move while he struggles against them is another low point that looked especially unrealistic.
The hero's ponytail also appears to be in a different color than the rest of his hair in later shots, kind of a warmer shade of brown. That threw me off a little. Also, at the end, Cthulhu's hand can't seem to make up its mind whether it's bone-grey or green, and in the final shot pulls a grey palm with green fingers. I can only assume that's an error.
Your art really does have potential, but right now attempts to animate it are really detracting a lot more than they add. I think this could have been better presented in a fashion like Broken Saints ( http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/
brokensaints ) at least until you become a lot more comfortable with animation tools.
nice start
You're starting pretty well, but you need to work on a few things.
first and most obvious is the lack of sound.
Next, a preloader would be nice.
The last thing you should work on is your animation, instead of just moving each part side to side and rotating try changing it so it moves together instead of just the one part moving (assuming you've learned how to tween)
dasf
needs sound or music