a good start.
The animation, as you know, is choppy, though the writing and pacing of it is great.
Reviews for "FrogMan the Series Episode 1"
artistunknown responds:
So ya finally review the first episode, eh? Why the fuck was I not notified of this?! Ah well. Yep, the animation is pretty sub par in this, and it's amazing how far I've come since then. I'm not sure if I dislike this one or episode 4 more, probably this one just because episode 4 at least looks pretty :3. Thanks for the review!
A funny story
but painful art. this could be a very succesful series and i was disapointed at the animation. if you put more effort into the drawings, this would be a series i could look forward to
artistunknown responds:
Trust me, the other episodes in the series look a lot better. The first 2 episodes were made with anime studio, so they look like crap. When I get better at drawing in flash, things will get a lot better.
There's a lot wrong with this. I could barely get through the first two minutes. The animation, for one is horrible. It feels 2-D and the sounds are half decent. It feels really forced, like the lines they're saying her choppy and barely relate to each other line.
The thing that is worst is that I feel the animation plus the comedy that tries to happen here does not work out. I think the best way to describe this is to say some comedy doesn't work out in certain forms.
Overall, I'll say I'm glad you gave it effort and kept the series going.
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artistunknown responds:
I completely agree with this. It's a shame how bad of a first episode this is, I really think it's turned a lot of people off for the rest of a series that does get really good (in my opinion anyways). The animation gets a lot better in the 4th episode (and it's really a lot better in the 5th) because I finally switched over to flash. There is a lot of back story to this world and its characters, but no one except me knows about that, so that's probably why some of the setups and comedy don't work. Even though this is old and I have fixed some things with the episodes that haven't been made yet, it's still helpful. Thanks for the review!
Well, what can I say. The quality of this is poor, and you know that already. In fact, it is so poor that I couldn't even watch it to the end. Also, the animations plainly suck... but you know that too.
But if I look past bad quality and poor animations, I see a flash that I would consider at least decent. Maybe not Front Page material, but I've seen far worse submissions than this one. What I like the most here is the voice acting. The voices are pretty clear and everything can be understood just fine. Another plus point is, that you have different voices (ie voice actors) for the characters. This helps a lot to get who is saying what. Another good thing is that you put sound effects into the flash.
So, overall the animations and the quality are bad, but the rest is good. I hope that you can put the animations and quality problems behind you in future episodes.
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artistunknown responds:
Don't worry, the animation gets a lot better starting the 4th episode, and is actually pretty decent in the 5th. I'm still working on the 6th episode and since then I have learned so much more about animation. Thanks for the review!
Well judging by your earthbound flash I can imagine you've come a HELL of a long way since then huh?
artistunknown responds:
And I've come even farther since I started animating. Not going to find those on the internet though ;3