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good idea for a series..... kinda like red dwarf or something? with the cat n all.. and the robot.... but robots are pretty common in sci-fi.... so i'll let that one go.
graphics were pretty good as was the animation.... humor let it down a bit... just needs worked upon. gj
Thanks. I know the humor needs work, but hopefully that will change with the next episode.
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good grief.. that indeed was EPIC! i liked the music choice and whole story... such a tragic ending.... just the sorta ending i love.
some of the graphics are a bit off... but u get away with it bcoz of the amount of detail u've put in. some real nice touches throughout the movie like the butterfly at the start.
i liked the blur effects to give depth in the movie... but perhaps at times the effect was overused and interfered with the graphics.. (eg, floyds shell is blurred as its in the background.... then the tree falls behind him... and its not blurred) just a small point.. but something to tidy up on.
some great water splash animation really gave the animation a bit of class.. well done.
enjoyed immensely!
hah! thanks will, i never notice the Shell-blur thing, although in another scene, you'll note that the tree is in fact blurred . :P. just one of things that make you go hmmm.
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heyhey. i liked that. especially the bit where the dude is building the bomb. then he does that finger movement and presses in the last bit. that was sweet. did it go out of focus on close ups? or was it just the compression?
so yeah. musta taken a wee while making that. i give respect. only other thing missing was some voices perhaps (even tho the story was obvious enough to do without)
noticed I'm in your favourites list with calderbank. cheers for that.
Hell yes!! I love Calderbank!!
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really boring. graphics were ok. sound sucked as did the whole concept of this. the graphic style didnt stay constant either
The sound is SUPPOSED TO SUCK. And the Graphic stayed constant, you're just blind.
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oh god that was terrible. well i think it was.. i couldnt watch all the way thru. bad sound, bad humor, bad animation, bad graphics, and i'll take a guess at .. bad storyline. i dont understand how u have (at present) a 3.61 score with this. oh well... congrats.
because you never watched the whole thing
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not bad. best thing about this production was the sound quality. gj on that, so many ppl overlook how important sound is to their movies.
Thank you, I try not to compress the audio to the point of distortion. The audio in this Flash movie was rendered at 128kbps stereo mp3. Glad you enjoyed it!
Ben
better than the last
the fire and water examples looked the best imo. the smoke looked a bit gnarly, but the others were ok/good. still just watch out for basic spelling errors and typos, that sorta thing. oh u shouldnt even bother putting the "now just a word here" page in. oh and the last page button cuts the music off.
Thanks for saying the tutorials are getting better. And yes the smoke looks a bit gnarly but it is great for small file sizes. Sorry about the button killing the music. was something I missed I guess. did it so when you hit the button it didn't play another music track on top of the one already playing. And I appologize for any spelllingg errors. I'm not perfect... but hey I want to help people.
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like existentialvoid said. the sound is pretty poor quality. its computer hum. u need to get a better setup if u want to get rid of it. like a better mic and soundcard. u say u cant re-create the problem? just turn your volume up and listen closely for the hum. it will happen on everyones machine. not just some peoples. unless you have poor speakers that just distort everything so its not noticeable.
right, the animation was pretty poor. i dont think you're a good enough animator to be pushing out tuts. people were saying you couldnt make cartoons? they weren't correct but still... this needs alot of work.
the animation seemed out of place. and the intro with the bus was jerky and pretty off putting.
you probably shouldnt have uploaded a teaser. no one really wants to see a teaser. shoulda submitted it to the alpha section of the NG mag instead.
the humor was terrible. you tried to crack some jokes but they fell far short.
WOW! Now that is a review! Makes me feel like I hit your dog with an AXE or something... First off I fixed the audio as best I could after the first mention of it in the reviews... I killed ALOT of the problem but there are Reminants left over that are impossible to fix... Sorry for those but you have to listen for them.
As for audio and animation quality... Clearly you want me to learn from this movie?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=90988
Now everyone is entitled to a few mistakes... and as far as my tutorials are concerned THEY DON'T HURT ANYONE! I have seen peoples animations BEFORE AND AFTER and they improved from watching them... So unless you want to make a tutorial or two about making a tutorial I don't think you can help on that issue.
Shouldn't have uploaded a teaser... YES! FINALLY SOMETHING I AGREE WITH WHOLE HEARTEDLY! I put it up so I would stop getting emails from people wondering why I made tutorials but didn't have any cartoons up... This animation is 10 min long and I didn't want to put half of it up... and this was the best stopping point for it.
Humor... Again this animation is 10 min long... If you are going to be so negitive about lack of humor, bad animation, and awful sound, I'm surprized you didn't close it out and give it a 0 before it was finished...
I'm not one to hold a grudge... and I'm not angry... just feels like a case of pot calling the kettle black to me there pal.
Umm... I gave beastmaster a 3 by the way... saw your toad pirate animations... they are good but they don't move around much and they don't make much sense...
Not very nice to have the shoe on the other foot.
Well... Boys and girls I hope we all learned a valuable lesson from this... Negitivity breeds negitivity...
Sorry if I hurt your feelings with my critique of your work EdibleCastle but it's my honest opinion.
Wow this holds alot of text.
Jack.
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its made quite well and the layout is nice and clean and easy to follow. just not perfect.. got a few typos in there and i dont agree with the "E" head... thats the "ee" head right? using a mouth showing both bottom and top teeth seems to work better i feel. personal prefecnce perhaps. and then you go on to talk about setting the sound to stream so that it syncs with the frames. well yours sure didnt on my machine nor my friends. so that could be a bit confusing to n00bs trying to learn from this tut. oh and your character... u been watching too many episodes of homestar runner? even your layout and nature of your homepage is the same. well anyway. u have design skills. but not much teaching ability. dont think this deserved 1st place. or even 5th place... but then again i havent watched any of the other cartoons for that day.. they musta blowed.
Was wondering when someone was gonna notice that... lol. I had the voice streamed but for some ODD reason half the clips kept coming out HORRIBLE... tryed for a half hour to fix it even reanimated part of it... but 2 of them would not get fixed... so I made them all event sound clips. and to be honest... I was very surprized at feature of the day too.
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haha what a great story. good ending too.
you guys musta looked like such idiots to people watching u film that from their houses. haha great stuff
Yes, plus there's that whole "getting run over by a car" problem!
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