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... nice to see your latest movie, Skaijo! And I was just about to PM you asking if you were working on something, the coincidence is almost creepy. Fortunately, the movie's a keeper. =]
Anyway, I'll keep this short and sweet:
- The movie had some very nice use of different camera angles, the "bottom looking up" being particularly different and interesting.
- Some nice drawings and animation.
- Great voice acting as usual, with the "...Hey, I'm going to *** in..." and the "...b**** c***** is <pause> totally bad..." parts exceptionally well executed!
- Very funny, even more so the second time you see it! And the movie has a nice flow too.
It also parodied the Professor Layton pretty well (the "puzzle screens" come out perfectly!), as far as I can tell, never having played the game but seen gameplay videos and screenshots before.
I do have some criticisms, however:
- The backgrounds were far less detailed then from your previous movies and the fact they lacked colour (I know that it's a doctors clinic, but they have some colour) made the movie at little "blander". On the plus side, this is only a criticism because I've come to expect more of you!
- The fact that the voices sometimes played out at the same time, although realistic, was slightly confusing.
- I also found the cell phone part, although funny, slightly clichéd and slightly out of place with the rest of the movie.
So, over all, although not your best movie, it still was pretty dammed good! Cheers and kudos, and I hope this movie gets the recognition it deserves!
Author's Response:
I appreciate the good and lengthy review (as always), Vert! :D
I am working on a major project, but this animation, as far as style goes, had a goal of maintaining a simple look. The varied camera angles helped me from approaching a level of laziness.
I'm very glad you liked the VA. <3 Next time I'll get opt for more different sounding voices. Usually for recordings like this, the best lines are the ones done as Ty is slipping out of character. So when I compile the best of the clips, the characters sound more similar than I like, which makes overlap difficult. I'll keep that in mind.
The cellphone gag is a way for me to add at least one joke that people who've never heard of Prof. Layton will understand. As with my Yotsuba animations, I just tend to throw out my jokes like pasta on a wall and hoping that something sticks.
I recommend you check out Prof. Layton if you ever get the chance. : 3
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... right, this might sound a little harsh, but for reasons that will come forth, this is definitivly my last and final review for your "The Last Hour" series. So I'm going to kindly ask that you no longer send out any more PM's requesting reviews, ok? On the other hand, I will give you a detailed review.
Right, let's start with the good. The voice acting for this movie shows improvement when compared to previous efforst, specially in regards to recording quality. However, it still sounds 'forced' and is exagerated, not to mention the fact that your voice actor has the voice of a pre-teen.
Also, the animation and drawing quality of this movie is a definitive improvement over the last movie I saw. The drawings were much more detailed and overall better, the look of the planet was pretty good, even the ship had some style.
However, if I'm not mistaken the leg animation at the end was traced, right? I so, then I should tell you that tracing dosen't really improve animation techniques and you should really try to get the hang of things without using it. If not, then I'm sorry for the accusing on doing so and, in which case, I'm greatly impressed by how your animation has improved. It's much, much better than before (although the ship could use better animation).
The biggest problem with this movie, however, is it size. It's short. It's beyond short. It's mindboggling short, made worse by the fact that the intro is probably longer than the movie although, thankfully, you've included the vital skip button.
However, the fact that after 9 chapters you're still making movies that ridiculously short, despite being told before by several reviews that that is completly unacceptable, means I'm forced to conclude that you simply don't care. Which is a shame, since you have shown significant evolution and I belive that you can become a good flash artist in the future.
But this disregard for your viewers means that I've stoped caring too. So I'm going to give you one last piece of advice: make your movies longer. It's as simple as that. It dosen't have to last 10 minutes, but a movie as short as yours are have to have something significant to be real movies.
Allow me to explain. A movie that lasts twenty seconds can be considered reasonable (for example) if it is a humourous movie, or is extremely intense (action wise), or has beggining, development and an end (there are other possibilities too). Your movies, in comparison, are all ridiculously short developments of an ongoing story, having none of the previous elements.
So, in short, you really have improved and I wish you luck, but I'm not going to review any other movie from your "The Last Hour" series. Please don't PM me again requesting a review as such, unless you want to be blocked.
Author's Response:
I'm sad you feel that way, but Chapter 10 is going to change your mind. I won't PM you or anything anymore, but you will notice it, so you can review it if you want to or not, but it will be noticed. Jaiba productions won't take short cuts. No unions and long hours of work will produce things that will rival the best. Chapter 10 may just be the last chapter of the season. So you all will get your wish of us to stop making movies and develop more skills. But before we do that. Chapter 10 (Redemption) will prove just that, we will redeem our selves like the Phoenix we will rise again, and change your mind.
-Jaiba
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... that was suitably random and funny! Nice use of non-sequiturs certainly brought a smile to my face and quite a few laughs too. But let's get technical:
- The graphics were very simply drawn, but were quite polished and had a 'clean' look. A bit more detail could have been nice, but might have clashd with the style you used. The animation was spot on, very nicely done.
- The voice acting was very good. Just over the top, but not excessivly so ("Daddy!"), so that the humour worked pretty well. This, with the humour, was the best aspect of the movie.
- The use of sound effects and music was sparse, but well placed, with adequate sound effects (i.e., the gun shot sounded as such etc.). The music was itself pretty good.
All in all, quite simple, but still a very nice execution of good jokes, with abundant use of non-sequiturs, which make for a fine movie! Cheers!
Author's Response:
Thanks man!
The 1st Detailed comment ive had! xD
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