Nice Parody
A great parody of a ridiculous scene in "Titanic". Yea, it's a little disturbing... okay, it's quite disturbing. But it's still funny. I don't know how well this is going to be received at Newgrounds though, there are a lot of people around here who will probably take it the wrong way.
Yeah i know, now people think im gay when im not in the movie...idiots. and second its a joke
Comparitevly Decent.
This stop motion is better than most others of its kind on Newgrounds, if you ask me (except maybe for KNOX, but he's just crazy). Especially if this is your first oe, Id say you did a damned good job. I do have one suggestion for you though that may add some polish to your technique.
On scenes where you're not animating anything - for instance, there's about 5 seconds of dead time when we're just staring at the "easter egg" object - you still need to animate some stop motion even though nothing is happening. This simulates the "film grain" that the JPEG compression causes. You don't need 5 whole seconds of frames - actually, you only need three frames. Set up your camera and shoot 3 pictures of the same shot, then loop those three frames for 5 seconds (or however long you want the static shot to last). It will make it look like the camera is "rolling" and it shouldn't add too much more file size.
Good flash! Let's see some more!
Thank you for the constructive post. I will try and do better next time :)
Endless Dialogue.
Your movie is nothing more than a lot of glorified dialogue. You need to work on your storytelling. We're forced to endure a long scene regarding ammunition that seems to go on and on forever, which is more or less pointless, since in the next scene we're not focusing on any one person anyways. And then they all get killed, rendering that dialogue even more useless.
Why were the robots bickering? This is not a plot point. You seem to be filling in time.
Fifteen people cannot repopulate a large force in fifty years.
Your epilogue borders on ridiculous. It's convoluted; you've got 5 minutes worth of story in the animation, then hundreds of years of story in text? And then all is for naught? Why even bother telling the story at all?
I don't mean to sound harsh, but you've got to work on your storytelling skills. I would go back, re-write it, and try again.
Did you miss the skip button? It was on the left side
I liked it.
Ignore BigBoy_PDB, I checked his profile and he IS a low level person who knows nothing about flash :) I found it humorous, and I liked your color palette. The storytelling was good too; I was expecting one thing but then something completely different happened, which got me to laugh. I'd say this piece was a success, and it's definitely different from all the endless stick garbage that NG usually gets flooded with.
Nice!
Simple, but effective! Super-small file size, but the comedy works. Good job!
Great Direction.
This was a great film. The directing was fantastic and I especially enjoyed the attention to details, like the bullet hole through the cowboy hat, and even the way water kicks up when the helicopter blades come up out of the ocean.
Here's some constructive criticism, just me nitpicking. Feel free to ignore. :) Your compositions are a little flat. You're using some generic gradients, but a lot of shapes are simple, one color fills. I think you'd notice a considerable raise in quality if you broke down your fills into subtle two or three color shades.
The plot is a little cliche... it reminds me on a Steven Segal movie. I personally think the "slow motion gun attack" has been done to death. But hey, it's your movie, you can do whatever you like with it. :)
Otherwise, this is a damned good flick. A lot of NG users could learn a thing or two about directing and planning from this film.
I'm a rediculous perfectionist, that's why there's alot of detail. I'm still trying to improve on my skills so thanks for the graphics advice. Yeah the plot's pretty cliche but heck, it's fun and it'll get better. I know the slow-mo is overused but it's still cool so i tried to do something at least a little different with it. Thanks Tons!!!
Decent Skills.
On the subject of copying: whether or not you've seen Titanium Rhapsody, you are a victim of circumstance. Your intent to copy doesn't really matter, as long as your version comes out second. hat said, there is a sense of unoriginality, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
With that out of the way, you've still done a pretty good job of animating the spriates. There could have been a little bit more variety than just lip-sync in some places. Overall, it's a decent submission.
Cliche.
This film was sent near the end of July. It's now almost Thanksgivng and you haven't submitted a followup. I guess it's safe to assume the project is dead. Not surprising, really.
Copying the Matrix is a cop out. Slow motion in Flash doesn't make it look cool; it's just a way of avoiding animation. A lot of these cliches are so overused in today's mdeia that the movie isn't even fun to watch anymore.
Using sticks certainly doesn't help.
I hope since the time you submitted this, you've moved on to better and more original concepts.
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