Age/Gender: 19, Male
Location: Birmingham, England
Job: Graphic Designer.
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Latest Flash Reviews
"Narration was such a bad idea..."
The score is mainly for the animation as per usual it was excellent.
I Personally believe you made a HUGE mistake adding naration, it was poor story telling and often the atmospheric/background music was way to loud and overpowered the narration. Her voice wasn't really that soothing and the script she was given seems to have been hugely rushed.
"Deep down, he harboured loneliness" etc, really didn't need to be told. You could of easily shown this through facial expressions and camera movement, i mean if there was no narration at all at that one part it would of worked alot better. (Personally)
Overall, i'm not a huge fan of this in comparison to your other work as i can tell this was a rushed job (4 weeks) and i'm pretty sure if you had longer, it would of came out alot better.
Think more about the sound next time, as sound is often more important than the animation itself (Don't mean to sound patronising as i couldn't animate as well as you, but i think you know yourself the story was hugely rushed and the narration was a huge slip up).
Author's Response:
Everything would look better with more time spent on it, and yes I admit I'd like to have dedicated some extra weeks to tweaking. That happens on every project though, but at the end of the day, I'm happy with this one and ready to move onto the next. Lessons learned, new plans drawn up, etc ;)
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Nice to know people actualy WATCH the documentaries the BBC flood out. Was an intresting watch i'll admit that much.
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I have to admit all these 10's i personaly believe were just jumping on the band wagon, after watching it 3 times i found the start to be utterly boring, the music was the only thing keeping me hooked to which i applaud Danman.
The character designs were lacking and were pretty boring to look at, the main guy (with the trilby) was nicely designed but then everything after that just looked recycled from other things seen in movies viral and not.
That said the end chunk of animation was slightly amusing even though i feel you abused the blur tool and overdid the camera work.
Once again i have to applaud Danman as the music was beautifuly written, and without it i personaly would of rated this 6/10 i expect great things from the actual FULL animation but this trailer lacked something special.
Good luck with the project.
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Latest Audio Reviews
This is awsome ive always liked the originalaty of Chinese/Japanese Oriental style Music. I also like the way it is slow and keeps one Solom Mood all the way thru good job.
Author's Response:
Peach flower in Chinese also means a playful lady, so now you'll under stand why my song is so.....
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