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Reviews for "Night of the Redead"

zelda terror

Zelda is a beautiful game, but these dark parts with monsters are really terrifying, I remember spending the night swimming at lakes because I was terrified of stalchildren.. nice for you noticing this and make a short terror movie in zelda universe. These monsters really scared the hell out me when I was a child, they have deep and very depressing stories...

Eastbeast responds:

Indeed most monsters do. Glad you took something out of it :)

Good for a second flash!

Nice original story based in the Zelda world. I was expecting Link to appear at some point but it was still interesting none the less!

I didn't know this was only your second attempt at making an animation! Great work for your second attempt (my second attempt was much worse lol) My favorite thing about this was the use of color- very vibrant and you chose lots of great purples and stark contrasts that really remind me of the majora's mask art style. I also loved the cinematic camera angles- you really have an eye for setting the mood in that way.

The thing that bothered me the most was the character animation. If seems like nearly all of this was tweened. In some places that works just fine but in others it looks very awkward. I used to only tween when I first started using flash but after reading some books on traditional 2D animation I realized that frame by frame animation is MUCH more effective and much less restrictive. Try learning some frame by frame techniques and implimenting that into the tweening techniques that work well in your animations.

Thanks for sharing this! :D

Eastbeast responds:

Yeah I wanted to have the charcters try to hold their own without Link because I really admire them :) So far I am incredibley grateful for the constructive comments I've recieved about this, especially from and artist that inspires me such as you. Yeah this wouldn't have made it without the darkness of major that I love so much. The most that I could ask is that people want to revisit the game after this.

You know you are absolutely right! Frame by frame is my logical next step, so maybe you could pm me some pointers on where to begin with that. haha I sure love to throw that camera around. ffex is showing me how to make it less squishy, thank you for your review :)

I liked it.

Nostalgia and whatnot. I liked how you mostly used sound effects from the game. The animation was solid and some things were genuinely creepy. Though I think I remember that redeads were not corpses; rather magical monsters made by Ganondorf, and wouldn't necessarily come from a reanimated corpse. But I'm probably wrong.

Eastbeast responds:

I guess I was just bending a bit of zelda logic there, but so is using characters from different games in the same movie. Thanks for the review :)

pretty good

i thought it had said 'redhead' when i saw it first but good story nonetheless

plot hole

I remembered that the undead from Zelda disappear or disintegrate when touched by sunlight. Yet nothing happened to him when they left him out in the sun. The reason they didn't die when link was older was because of either the cloud (clouds = no sunlight) or because of Ganondorf's stronger magic.

(I don't mean anything by this) If someone is going to base the storyline in a movie, game, another story, or real life, they need to stick with the reasoning in that world.

THEN AGAIN, I don't remember when this part in the game took place. If it was after he traveled to the future then ignore all that;s above.(Which now that I think about, might be when he went to the future)

But I haven't played the old Zeldas in sooo long. :C

I miss them, and you brought back some memories of the game.

Well, the animation wasn't horrible, but not great either. Like you said though, you're still learning.

I think you should still try and work on this, fixing the (maybe) plot hole and animation. It's a pretty good size as well, but maybe it could be longer.

In order to get some good angles, might I suggest walking around in the Zelda game and use the angles in the game to use as a model. I'm pretty sure this'll help tremendously.

- side note

When you get a lot better, I would suggest making perhaps a series for the time when link traveled through time. When the zombies took over the castle town.

Eastbeast responds:

It doesnt say anywhere in the game that about the redead dying from the sun. If you can find it I'd love to hear it, and you should pm me, but I think you are refering to the "Sun Song" which when played stunned them for a bit, not even killing them. Anyway I'm not out to prove you wrong, just showing that I did my homework ;) Thanks for the review