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Reviews for "Playing with Corpses"
guitarrob responds:
Thank you so much. :)
I liked the voice-overs used for this movie; However, the female voices sounded like they came from the same actress.
She did good voice disguises; However, a second actress would have been more ideal for your animation.
That chick is a good voice actress and you should assign roles to her in future flash movies.
She seems to have a good ability for creating a voice disguise.
The music didn't strike me as memorable.
Now on to the graphics department of my review.
I like the multiple camera angles and how you were always trying out different animation poses.
You used a few lights and shadows on your characters; However, the backgrounds were the least polished element of your movie.
I would advise you to take portable art supplies and take inspiration off of environments outside for improvement on backgrounds.
The night time sky does sometimes have clouds and many of your night time backgrounds also had clouds, stars, ect.
The stars can be done in multiple colors and some of them can disappear and reappear.
There really is no wrong way to draw the sky because it is constantly changing.
A well placed motion tween or fbf will help to create a better looking sky.
I like seeing the clouds constantly move in the backgrounds in animations.
It's a certain sense of reality to the fantasy world of animation even if the clouds are drawn poorly.
The backgrounds also need it's own lights and shadows for interaction with the characters.
I'm just saying that your backgrounds can potentially be more polished.
The character drawings themselves can use a bit of improvement as well; However, you are already stepping in the right direction by experimenting with multiple animation poses at a variety of angles.
I love how the sky changed color as night time changed to morning.
You utilized the shape tween feature of flash very well.
You did a great job on drawing the chainsaw.
The grass on the ground can use a bit more detail.
The animations used for blood splatter can use a bit more polish but is generally passable for this movie.
Check out a few movies by the newgrounds use. ''Livecorpse''
Livecorpse did excellent blood effects for his flash movies.
Sickdeathfiend also created gory flash movies but his drawing style was more detailed and complex.
Check both of their flash movies out for inspiration on how to animate your own gory scenes.
Trashy horror movies, Troma movies, Early Peter Jackson will also provide inspiration for ways to animate gore.
It's a good idea to have multiple sources of inspiration for your animations because we all borrow ideas from multiple sources.
To understand how to destroy the body in your cartoons than it is also important to understand putting the forms together.
I just finished reviewing the graphics aspect of movie and provided ideas on improvements for future movies.
The movie itself has a very funny premise about the grave robbers playing around with corpses.
You clearly love trashy horror movies and took a bit inspiration off of that genre.
Horror has many of it's own genres such as splatter, comedy, suspense and others.
This movie was clearly a comedy horror with strong elements of splatter.
This movie wasn't laugh out loud funny in my opinion but it still caused me to smile.
If you can't be funny than at least be entertaining.
You've accomplished creating a very entertaining movie but many of your drawings still need a bit refinement.
I was entertained by your movie.
This was an extremely well made amateur cartoon.
- Mightydein
guitarrob responds:
Thank you so much for the review. I'm glad you liked it.
Although I did use two female voice actresses. Victoria Hutton played as Cloe and Cyber-B played as Vicky. But I can see what you mean by the two sounded similar to one or the other.
And I do intend to practice more drawings and improve my drawing skills. So thanks for the heads up.
I'll check those flash movies that you have recommended soon. They sound like my kind of thing. :)