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While the animation wasn't the best I've seen, you are good at conveying an emotion. I think you should try to expand on that. It's so rare in a flash movie (or even a Hollywood movie) to dread the death of one of the main characters. In this I really didn't want her to die, and I never feel that usually.
Don't listen to some of these reviews. People don't realize we are trying to make simple flash movies by ourselves without some kind of production team, so they pick every little detail apart.
Good luck on the next ones!
-Seth
Author's Response:
Thanks, I appreciate your review.
You explain yourself really well, and that motivates me to do something better.
Again, thank you. I'll mind about the emotional thing being good.
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Ive never really laughed at just animation before. When Bitey was slowly walking to the water swatting I was laughing so hard. This was by far the most entertaining of your series. I hope to see some tutorials coming soon.
BTW did that autosave plug in I sent you work out?
-Seth
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I'm really happy for you Alex, I know how bad you wanted this.
I liked this one, but oddly enough I favored the first one more. This one is still good it just dosent seem as action packed to me. Your style is very cool and if you spent some more time to do some exta inbetween movement animation I'm sure you will get even better awards than this.
Good luck man!
-Seth
Author's Response:
Thanks for the support, Seth, I'm quite surprised that NF has received such positive response! I know what you mean about less action-packed. With the first, I only had 37 seconds (I did the ending first) and so it was a lot more manic than this one, which was planned more conventionally from beginning to end. That's what I think anyway ^^
Thanks again for the review - I'll try and smoothen up the movememnt in the next one ^^
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Big surprised for me to see you made another movie! Who would have thought that would happen?
Well its cool to see you are playing with a bit of fbf now. I thought it was interesting, and I liked the look of some things, like the sun. However I'm very angry about what your character did to the moon :P
A month or two ago, I was considering remaking Jumanji, that is still one of the best car22ns on here.
Well I hope you keep making movies.
-Seth
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I thought the first two were pretty entertaining, and I almost didnt even watch the mario one because I've seen so much mario shit on here, but I did, and I almost wet myself laughing so hard.
I was really impressed with that clip, because I never really notived how strange that game was, and you captured it perfectly. I thought you could have done more with the RE4 clip though. I was really expecting you to have leon shoot the merchant in the head. That just seems like something you would have in one of your movies.
I found this to be pretty funny
-Seth Johnson
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I havent seen one like this in a long time, and this was great.
A full tale told perfectly through a flash movie. I think you should enter this in a short film contest or something. I just really loved the whole atmosphere of this, everything was pulled off flawlessly. I usually dont like the big head style bodies, but you made it work. The fbf in this was so smooth I couldnt believe it. You showed so many different things in this and I cant find a problem with any of them, and I'm usually really good at finding flaws. All of your futuristic ideas were completely great. The sound effects were superb throughout the entire movie.
There were some things I dont even know how you did. I wasnt sure how you made the edges of the trees glow as the flying green lines of the masked child went across the forest. I didnt know how you made the shine on the lake look so good either. Was that just a bunch of groups of alphaed white dots? Anyways, it was... wow, very good.
I will add this to my favorites for sure.
-Seth Johnson
Author's Response:
Thank you for the compliment :)
The glowing edges and the glittery water were pretty simple actually.
For the trees, I just made a mask that consisted of thin strips following the edges of trunks. Then made a circle filled with a radial gradient - lime green fading from 100% to 0% opacity, and made this circle move from left to right with a simple tween. When the gradient moves under the mask, it gives the effect you saw :)
the glitter is similar - a mask made of dozens of tiny dots, and under the mask multiple circles filled with a white radial gradient are moving randomly...
in both cases it's better to make the strips and dots as thin and small as possible, keeping them visible though.
well hope it makes sense and helps you with your own works :)
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TOM!
I had no idea you are a closet "My So Called Life" fan!!
I wouldnt have expected that, but I know in your heart you were the one hoping to win the best couple award with Jordan Katalano.
-Seth Johnson
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Another good 28 weeks style movie.
The idea to kill the zombie with the fire tennis ball was a little out there, but it looked liked you wanted it to be. I noticed that you did that cool 300 slow mo thing when he was cutting off limbs, that looked good.
The only problem I had was that everything looked kind of rushed and sloppy, your fbf was great, I just wish you had done more detail on everything. If it all had detail then this would be one of my favorite movies for sure. I also thought you needed some different screams and stuff, because they've been used a ton through KDID 1 and 2. Dont get me wrong though, it was still really cool.
-Seth Johnson
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haha good one!
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When I looked at this I was thinking "Oh no, another lame Metal Gear parody", then I got a little interested when you said you used his real voice, but I still thought it must not have been done well.
I had my mind completely changed, you did a great job cutting the sounds into this. I mean there wasnt much to it, but it still made me laugh. I think the first Colonel call made me laugh the most. I was surprised how long you kept that going, it was perfect.
Anyways good job, I liked it.
-Seth
Author's Response:
Heh, thanks. I tend to try something more innovative when I do a parody, there's no point being formulaic.
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This really was a good series, and its sad to see it go.
Don't listen to the people who say the humor wasnt good, because I think they just arent the jokes. The animation wasnt good, and I didnt laugh aloud much, but I was always completely entertained, and thats the most you can hope for in a flash movie.
I started watching when number 3 came out, and I think it kept its entertaining qualities all throughout. I'm sorry it hasnt gotten the attention it deserves, but I guess thats how much animation counts. If you worked on that, it would be great.
-Seth Johnson
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