Encore!
Very very clean and professional animation and graphics. The character designs were perfectly suited for Flash, and the facial expressions were nothing short of ingenious! This deserves a far higher score than anything on the Top 50 list right now, and ranks with classics like Kong, Xiaoxiao and From My Room as one of the classics of Newgrounds.
Well done!
Yay animation, boo stupid political message
Water(along with fire, fur, and hair) has long been one of the holy grails of 3-d animation. While this is no Finding Nemo, I applaud you on the attempt.
With that done, what the hell were you thinking with your idiotic attempt at political propaganda at the end? It had absolutely no relevance to the movie and completely erased whatever artistic merits the movie had in the first place. I couldn't believe my eyes when it first appeared, then burst out laughing.
Stick to animation, or come up with better political ad material. (I suggest Gray Davis getting "Terminated")
Mediocre
A lot of work went into this, but God, watching this reminded me of reading a book! Forget the wannabe sci-fi writing and the cheesy dialogue, Flash isn't suited for long rambling plots filled with every sci-fi cliche known to man.
Focus on your animation and your graphics-right now your characters consists of badly shaded polygons and your fight scenes are extended motion tweens.
Flash is suited for whatever I or anybody else wants it to be suited for! There are no rules! The next episode might just give you something to think about, Istari...
Ambitious!
What an ambitious flash! You tried to pull off some crazy, crazy shots, and even though the lack of enough frames and the roughness of the drawings prevented them from working completly, props to you for the concept, choreography, and pure balls of this film. Plus it was frame by framed by hand!
3D doesnt equal good
And the fact that you didn't show the characters raises suspicions. I might be being a bit over critical here, but the cheesy music, cheesy writing, and arrogant author comments rubbed me the wrong way. We shall see. Nice 3D landscapes, though.
Read Naruto?
Very well done character graphics- too well done, in fact. You spent so much time shading that your animation had no real animation or movement, just tweened body parts moving slightly.
And what the hell was with that orange haired ninja? He(and his horrible voice actor) completely ruined what mood there was.
Far exceeded expectations
Good directing, spot-on music selection, smooth animation, awesome movie.
I thought this would be another "Newgrounds" parody filled with crude humor and choppy animation, boy was I wrong.
Make the sequel!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Man, that was so bad it was funny. HILARIOUSLY FINNY!
Learn to compress music, and learn to animate.
Nice!
I watched your trailer and loved it. This animation was just as good, and I look forward to your future works on this site.
My only gripe is that the action moved too slow. The entire fight scene was carried out in slo-mo, which is very useful, but only if applied judiciously.
Not to sound pretentious, but check out the movie "Yukino" in my profile to see what I mean.
Yah, this has been put to my attention. I will try harder with the next ones... I'm still really new to animating.
That Yukino animation looked awesome. Nice work.
Very nice intro!
Good graphics, intriguing character, nice use of the music to emphasize your text - cool intro!
I disagree with what a previous user said, I do not think you should use voices at all. Due to the lack of competent voice actors and the heavy price in file size, I avoid voice acting in my flashes like the plague. Sure, you gotta do some creative backflips to avoid dialogue, but it also saves you from writing dialogue in the first place.
Tell me, what effect did you use for that motion blur thingy at the text? Did you do it in photoshop and then fade it in over the original image?
And what major lets you spend 2 months on a flash project??? I gotta take time outta my studies to do flash..
Hi there...
Yah I hear ya, my tutor said the same thing about the voices. I would put voices in...even if it dosent fit on newgrounds I could host it on my own server. Its just I dont want to bring down the level of my film due to bad acting. ~~; SO, I WILL put voices IF I can get good actors.
Yah, I did the effect in photoshop. A simple Zoom blur and I did the fade.
Really I was doing this for my own enjoyment but seeing as our final project allowed us to do digitally what we wanted I chose to continue this on. I spent around 3 weeks just developing ideas and characters... the rest I spent on animation and learning Flash.
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