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[Somewhere Other: Made a Fool]

Pretty engaging plot. Decent art & animations.
However I wish there was more SFX other than just looped music. Voice acting prob wouldn't be necessary since the visuals by themselves already do a good job at telling the story but, SFX like the cloth being pulled, or footsteps, or spaceship ambient sounds, or other little things like that would add a little more depth.
Can't wait to see more!

cecameron responds:

Thanks so much! There was some sfx for the cloth, but it does sound drowned out. I'll work on my audio skills in the future!

[Get Your Art On]

Idk who's been sending you those messages or is giving you that impression, but I wouldn't focus on those people's "opinion" too much. Like you said, you had fun making this, and that's what counts.
If other people wanna be dicks about expressing their own opinion, it's probably because their either trying to mask their own insecurity, or they're literally too stupid to give any kind of constructive feedback (whether the feedback expresses why something is good or bad).
Keep practicing your craft, and one day you'll be able to show'em who's boss.

ThothyGoodneth responds:

Thank you for the very kind reply! It's just something that has haunted me since elementary school. It's kinda funny now. But yeah, even grown ass adults have done this. And it's also disturbing how, for many of them, their first reaction is to destroy it....tempted to see how I'd "react". lol

[LARRY WHO LOST HIS LEGS]

Well, that escalated quickly.
Music was great, art and animation was alright. Pretty good pacing overall though, I just don't really understand Larry's character. I know I probably shouldn't be trying to put logic to this but, just hear me out.

If Larry lost half of his body and was still "alive" enough to go searching for his legs, that'd make him kinda like a zombie, right? I was under the impression that he was. Anyway, if he's a lifeless zombie, how would he be able to lose his sense of life and then kill himself if he didn't have a sense of life in the first place? It probably would've worked better if Larry killed himself before he turned into a zombie, then became a soccer-loving zombie, and THEN went looking for his lost legs (after mysteriously losing them, or forgetting where he put them).

Also, why add speech bubbles in a silent movie? Why not just let Larry say what he needs to say during text caption scenes?

GillBates responds:

thanks) well, Larry didn't turn into a zombie) to be honest, there was nothing about the zombies in my movie) he just lost his legs and then he found them and that's it) but some time after that, he lost his sense of life, and that's the problem that he couldn't solve. you kinda overthinking about the plot) but jeez, i love your version of the plot. i feel kinda bad that i didn't thought about the zombies, your idea is great!

and about that speech bubbles...you know, i thought that it will be interesting cuz i never saw that in other movies. i just saw this cartoon exactly in that way, with all those speech bubbles like in comic book, you know. but anyway, i always trying to find something that would be different from other movies.

thanks a lot for your review))

[A Samurai Story]

Lol was not expecting that ending. Audio and animation are very well done. The overall pacing could be improved a bit, like some of the fights and dialogue could've been faster paced.

Twin-Tales responds:

Thanks man, and thanks for the feedback, means alot.

[Skids]

Unbelievable animation skills! Dialogue/script of Skids thinking to himself gets old pretty fast though. Maybe dial it back a little bit and let the visuals tell your story more, similar to how Genndy Tartakovsky talked about the importance of visuals in Samurai Jack more so than dialogue.

Trunchbull responds:

yeahhh if i animate a future scene from the comments im probably gonna remove some dialogue; the stuff here was every speech bubble from the comic; comics can get away with wordiness but ahhh... animation cannot in the same situation
thank you much =)