This is a great little video, love the animation style although the end few seconds were a little to quick for me. The difference in style between the kid and the wizard gave this short animation an extra dimension.
Reviews for "Dream Wizard"
KloudKat responds:
Yeah I was working down to the wire on this one so it came out a little sloppy. Now that the pressure is off to submit on time, I can actually fix the speed issues and actually do the soundscape and foley properly.
Nice stuff, loved the animation. Still needs a lot of work, but I think it'll be awesome. Cheers
KloudKat responds:
Thanks! Now that the pressure to submit to the animation jam is over, I can take my time and really build a nicer soundscape and iron out some kinks.
I like it! With some background music and some SFX this would be really solid! Keep up the great work!
KloudKat responds:
Thanks for that! Working on fixing all the issues over the next few days. I'm really fond of this cartoon so I'm nowhere near satisfied with it yet.
It felt very quite, but overall I like it, and it reminded me of the old phrase
"who knows what lurks in the hearts of man?"
I enjoyed the dream wizard's design, and his blithe attitude, but when he was talking about how the system was poorly designed he seemed to enthusiastic to really be delivering that line.
The solution being "Throw his in water." is pretty funny, but I'm surprised you didn't go with a "sleeping with the fishes" joke considering the context.
Thanks for making this
KloudKat responds:
Thanks for the review! Yes, not getting the sound done within the time frame killed me and I'm always toying with the idea of making some time to fix it in the future, or, failing that, just bring this guy back. I had a great time voicing him!
Also AAAAGGGHHHH! That joke would have worked really well!
Voice acting was good, but the lack of sound really hurt this. Imagine some wacky children's cartoon music playing when they went into the nightmare, it would have been infinitely funnier. The idea is cool, and I like the joke, and the animation is good, but this just hurt it a lot. I appreciate the ™at the end of Dream Wizard™.
KloudKat responds:
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Yeah the first thing I thought when I hit upload was just "This sounds super flat". I'll be reposting it in a few days with better sound now that the submission pressure is off.