Cool concept, i want to see their potencial
Reviews for "Hockey, Love, & GUTS!"
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This is a great trailer. I'm not denying that.
An interesting plot revolving around hockey, lots of complicated action scenes, detailed frame by frame animation, sort of a blend between anime-esque proportions and the stylization of Western comic books. I can't imagine being able to make something like that in my lifetime.
However, I don't like how the way mouths are drawn. They may look too big, or placed lower compared to their eyes and nose (the noses themselves are rather big, which sometimes make their faces look derpy, although the 3 guys in 0:45 look fine.
IMO some of the special effects used throughout the trailer seem overdone, if not unnecessary. For example: the screens at 0:11, 0:26 and 1:37 drive my attention away from the character(s) and the text, while the dot pattern oftentimes looks filtered over the background rather than integrated into the art-style.
Although Impact is a good, I feel like you could use other fonts as well.
Overall, a lot of great potential, though there's still a few flaws to iron out. Can't wait for the full thing to come out.
StudioCatch responds:
Yup, agree.
clearly a lot of work went into this and it's got all my love for that!! also, girl's field hockey is hardly a well-loved sport in the grand scale of media so i think it's so wonderful that you gave the sport this much love!
that being said, i think there's wayy too much packed in here, and some of the sequences are so contextually bombastic from scene-to-scene,, part of me just wishes we focused on more actual field hockey and less of the super-charged fighting scenes. likewise, the masquerade/ghost aspect seems a bit confusing -- because the two are banned, they have to fake a new identity, but they can only add one fake person to the team? it's a bit odd, and maybe a bit overstuffed, at least for a 3 minute short.
again, i loved the beginning dynamics. the animation and presentation is cool and sleek throughout.
Man the backgrounds! I tip my hat to you