Reviews for Mr. Sneaks - episode 2

[clockh8r]

I was very impressed by the animation and sound design during the drink-stealing scenes. Especially with the creativity of the scenes. Some very nice homages to a seemingly bygone era.

Was one of the dances a reference to "The Big Snit"?

In the latter half, I found myself wishing for more beautiful, fluid animation as seen in the first half.

Good color design & visually distinct style for Mr. Sneaks, less so for most of the background characters - especially in the scene where they're all filming him. There was clearly an opportunity for visual gags there, but (as far as I could tell) you played it straight.

Please keep up the good work.

Ant0on responds:

Thanks for the well written review!!
This film was a big experiment, as I my goal was to do a much longer version of Sneaks episode as fast as possible. You are very right that the animation changes throughout the whole film, so its never quite constant, as I was trying some things with limited animation as well.

Its really interesting you mentioned the Big Snit!! I knew about this film from the animation books, but I never really saw it. So now looking at the youtube clips, I can see some similar design choices there with Sneaks (big nose etc.).

The BG and other characters are very bland, indeed. I didnt really focus on that, as all the effort I put on Sneaks, to make him stand out more than in the previous cartoon of him (Ep.1). Its true that there were many gag opportunities that I missed, but I hope in the future episodes I will be more prepared to squeeze every bit of a situation :)

Thanks again , and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[FlamingPlatypus]

This is amazing: style, texture, timing, audio, sense of humor, etc. I'm surprised there's not that many views yet.

Honestly the only thing I didn't like about this was a blank gap at the end of the animation. Maybe there's something wrong with how I'm viewing it, so I'm not sure. Regardless, it's not worth any deduction for my review.

I do thoroughly like the statement on cell phones, btw. Clever cartoon! 5 stars! Thanks for sharing it!

Ant0on responds:

Wow, thank you so much for the kind feedback! Really feels like a huge achievement when people have fun watching this independent stuff :)

And thank you for letting me know about the long gap at the end. Its weird since I thought I used the same file I used when uploading to youtube (without the long gap), so I didnt check the ending here after uploading.

BTW, speaking about youtube, I have more videos, so I hope you find something more you might like on my channel :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgxdd4tVLyI

Also, stay tuned for more soon!

[CoolCatDaddio]

I like the animations, I dont like however are the sound effects and music uses sometimes
for example the music when the girl turned into a vampire sounded awful
Its hard to put into words what it is that I dont like, so sorry for not going into more detail or giving more examples

Ant0on responds:

Thanks for feedback! And yeah, this was one of the first attempts to make sfx for a cartoon, so there was little experience on this matter.

Still, Im glad you liked the animation! :) Stay tuned for more!