Dude
The music is making love to my ears. The story is both funny and sad, and has some really interesting moments.
As always, my friend, great work :)
Reviews for "Strawberry's Hour"
Merol responds:
THANKS A LOT, MAN!
Great
I don't give a lot of 10s nowadays, and that's a compliment ;) I'll elaborate on the points of this movie later, but I'll tell you this: it was indeed wonderful.
The art: The art was done wonderfully, with the full emotions of StrawberryClock being displayed as he saw the face of the grim reaper (clock?); I could very much make out the different emotions he felt: Horror, joy and suspense while SBC was waiting. The grim reaper and the stork, along with the backgrounds were drawn very nicely indeed; I don't know how you managed to pull off the shading bit but it's wonderful. I'm way far from being an art expert, and I can't draw to save my life, but I thought this was great indeed.
The music: The music...hmm, let's see, the music. It fit well with the movie; it also helped supplement the emotions SBC was experiencing and built up suspense when required, and slowed down the pace when not. A very nice choice of music indeed.
The animation: The animation was fluid and smooth; it was, in my opinion, flawless, although you could improve on the dog's part -- I just saw the dog turning around and walking, with no walk animation, but rather just....floating on the topsoil. Nevertheless, overall, it was wonderfully animated.
The story: I see SBC standing on a hook, waiting, when a flashback plays; he faces the grim reaper, and tries desperately to escape from him, and near the end, he does escape from him, but there's a small hiccup -- he realizes death will always come, whether or not you escape from the grim reaper. A very nice storyline indeed, and of the first I've seen. The time is also balanced, with it being neither too short or too long. Good job.
~~ Summary ~~
~~ Good points ~~
1) Nice art
2) Fluid animation
3) Lovely music
4) Great storyline
5) Not too short, not too long
~~ Bad points ~~
None that I can think of.
[Review Request Club]
Merol responds:
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
I love it!
I got to admit that one of the best Clock Day submission I've seen.
The animation was fluid and came out very smoothly. I especially like the music you selected for this only because it was very beautiful and followed the story extremely well. Speaking of that, I enjoyed the story of this flash a lot and it was pretty well written from the beginning to the end of it. Though, it's sad that StrawberryClock had to die, like they say, you could never kill StrawberryClock. I also love the characters in the flash too, especially the Grim Reaper character when he encounters StrawberryClock so he will be ready to be perished and to face his own death.
But overall, I enjoyed seeing this flash and you did an extremely well job on making this for Clock Day 2011! I am expecting to see much more flashes like this one from you in the future only because you are a pretty excellent flash artist. So good job, MasterMerol!
~Psych
Merol responds:
THANKS A LOT!
Top shelf!
Mozart, Tchaikovsky, AND Beethoven? Come on that's cheating. I really did like your use of Le Lac des Cygnes, I thought it fit wonderfully with the aging scene.
This was a brilliant and beautifully animated flash. I'm a bit ashamed to say I'm glad I didn't have to compete with it this clockday, it truly is a remarkable bit of flash. I really liked the frame by frame portions and how the clock contracted to show fear was very stylish.
You should definitely drop by clockcrew.cc some time, your abilities would definitely be appreciated there.
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The Stawberry KINDOM WILL ALWAYS BE ALIVE. No matter how many times they bury it.............It will always grow up again and each time stronger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very good animation always funny
Merol responds:
THANKS A BUNCH!