I'm curious how just 3 strangers can defeat all of humanity. The strangers only conquered them with trust, and some kind of mind control, along with the fact that there was a lot more of them back then. At this point though, humanity hates the strangers now, humanity may have something to fight back at them, and there are very few of them. How can they possibly have any chance of winning? Good animation, good voice acting, however the story plot seems to have a few holes here and there.
Reviews for "The Eyes of a Stranger"
Man, I just love your character designs, posing, and shot choices. Great work all around. Like SpikeVallentine said, the narration over dialogue isn't the best choice, but I didn't mind it all that much since the dialogue was more ambiance/character stuff than story related. Might have been a good idea to mess with the eq to keep it all a bit more separated, though. Or maybe just intercut it
Only other thing I can say is that it might have been nice to give us an extra quarter second on that last shot, feels like that cut comes just barely too quickly. Can't wait to see more from you!
Dude, your animation. I can't even describe how amazing all of your visuals are. I got lost in the story bit, but I was still captivated the whole time.
Cant wait to see you what you do next round haha
Love the style. That LOOONG neck, awesome dude. I'd say this peice's strength is the animation (absolutely, you did great), and the visual art. And wow, you can paint your backgrounds, too? Good deal, man.
However, I do NOT support the combination of narration + the voice acting, that's a bad unatural mix. At least the way it was done. I even paused your vid to see if the narration would stop or keep talking (to double check if it was in the vid or not) The narration ruined it. If it wasn't there I'd be way more immersed, lol. Not just becuase it didn't mix well, but becuase even the content of what was narrarated didn'td o it for me. I didn't care and I don't even remember what she said.
Not sure if you did that as a 'quick move' to 'wrap up' your cartoon out of being in a pinch for time.
If you did want to do an intentional narration, I would think one of the strongest voices it can come from is the main character. The girl we see on screen. What story, emotions, point of views, or secrets can she share with the audience? Anyway, 3 weeks or less is not a lot of time so yeah, don't worry mate, I got you. I know you can do better and understand that what people produce for their NATA entries may not reflect their true abilities.
Hope this feedback helps you in your future NATA battles. :)
StejkRobot responds:
Thank you so much man! And you're totally right! The narration over the character voice was a bad idea, i realized that when i cut it all together 20 min before the deadline.
The original idea was to put explanatory wall paintings in the backgrounds that told the story/prophecy
instead of the narration, but i knew that i wouldn't be able to make that in time.
I feel kinda bad because these incredibly talented voice actresses put up and made this for me and i kinda screwed it up. But ill be sure to make it up to them somehow!
Thanks for the review, really helpful!
That panties though