Amazing animation very good flow to it and the cannibalistic birds were really interesting
Reviews for "Waterhole"
Amazing purely Amazing. The style of the music, pacing and the backgrounds remind me of Felix Colgrave.
I greatly enjoyed the friendship of the lizard and the snail. The clouds and sun were my favorite parts artistically. =)
Fascinating hints at a larger story, I like it!
The animation and artwork is amazing! Your sound choice is spot on, the entire presentation in general is professional grade all around and I can certainly appreciate the amount of time this must have took to make.
That aside, your storytelling needs work, a lizard and his pet (friend maybe?) snail are traveling the desert looking for water, a bird in a tower also just ran out of water and they both find the water at the end. A stork scares the bird in the tower and then he shoots him down with an admittedly impressive shot from a trebuchet, and the stork lands on the cultists altar and they eat him. That's it?
It's really easy to make a story with no dialog, the main thing to remember is goals, conflict and resolution, what is each character's goal in the film? what is the conflict that keeps them from achieving that goal, and finally, how do they overcome it? This is basic story composition, now of course you can turn it on it's head and twist it and flip it around and by all means be creative with it, but those are the the basics and they need to exist in some way for a cohesive story.