An impressive battle! :D The way they remain friends even at the end though, hmm, Hinata sure is nice. Smooth work with voices, animation and all. The movement between sprites and normal drawings work well too, and it's definitely not just a quick battle! Living up to it's name.
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Much appreciated. I'm glad you found enjoyment in it! I worked really hard on this and really appreciate your comment.
That is great, the choregraphy could be better but its still an amazing job you did there, remind me of the old day of pixel fight animation, mbz and such. Will look foward for futur work of yours, keep on improving. ^^
Thank you. I'll keep it in mind. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Great animation but i do have to point something out, Sakura wasn't called useless because she was weak no, She was called that because throughout the show she always left things to others. Mainly naruto, while hinata always strived to do things herself, thats why she's called the better ninja, and sakura even though she was trained by tsunade, still relied too much on others especially in fights, so sadly even if she beat hinata (even though im sure turning off chakara points actually prevents her from using that powered state) Hinata is still the better ninja in terms of character
Sakura did not always leave things up to others. She is a medic first, fighter second. Tsunade told her to never fight up front, but she did anyway. She went beyond what her role in the group was. On top of that, she could only barely fight a little because of her chakra reserves being low, due to the 3 year long period of her preparing her seal, which weakened her SEVERELY throughout the entire story until the war arc. Hinata never really had many fights in the story, and also never won a single encounter in her life. I don't think her drive to get stronger outweighs all the stuff Sakura contributed that she could not. Especially since in the Epilogue Novels, Sakura defeated a Nine Tails Jinchuriki named Kido, who stole Naruto and Sasuke's DNA to make him as strong as them. She beat him by herself, while weakened by poisons. She is a force to be reckoned with, and is a better ninja in my opinion. She brings more to the table and contributed more to the cause.
Regarding the "powered state" its actually the Diamond Seal on her forehead. It contains all the chakra she was storing for the collective 5 years of her chakra pool training. It is not linked to her chakra points, and when activated, it fills her body with chakra no matter what. Meaning if Hinata closes off her points, Sakura can simply turn on the seal to have her chakra points opened up by the Seal.
I'll be uploading a video explaining why Sakura won, and why it makes sense soon.
The pixel animation during the fight scenes was well planned and fun to watch.
The voice acting was good.
Though,
There was a lot of dialogue and yet no indication of lip sync animation.
Not to mention the 4 minute of shaky pixel conversation they had in the beginning.
I know its naruto and you had no choice but
There was a lot of copyrighted material including music, pictures that seemed to be downloaded right off of google images.
I may be wrong,
but it seemed to me that nothing was hand drawn, modeled, etc.
Except for maybe during fight scenes.
Otherwise,
I can appreciate the planning and effort that was put into this.
I could tell that this was a labor of love from a fan.
I appreciate the input and compliments, I really appreciate it. Honestly.
Yeah, regarding the dialogue and lack of lip sync, I was actually very hesitant to use the mouth sprites that I have, due to them being a bit too big to fit on the characters' faces properly. The bouncing was lazy, and not very fun, I admit that. Also, I'm sure the dialogue was far too lengthy. It took over 3 minutes of the animation.
As for the music, the first song is an original track by a friend, the second track was a cover of the Naruto fighting theme, and third track was the original OST (I should have changed it), and the fourth song was a cover by Raon Lee, and the last track was Sakura's theme, which I should have changed.
As for the drawings, those were actually redrawn screenshots from the anime. My friend Tessa drew them over on Photoshop. In essence, she traced some closeup images from scenes in the anime. Not the most original approach, but I thought it would be the most pleasing to the eye, and possibly nostalgic.
This criticism is good, and I'm glad to hear someone else's thoughts on this project. Thanks.
Where is my comment?
Where did you leave it