You have very good animation skills. Alot of your shorts demonstrated some animation principles rather well. Like the stretching, although it's not nomally used the way have used it, it was still done well.
Some of them however were not so good. The Thrust was one that really stuck out to me as one that could have been done better. Also your anticipation short didn't really show anticipation effectively. For an anticipation to work well it should quickly stretch or snap to the intended anticipated action.
It's also a shame that you used some very good animation talent on stick figures. Get some good art going on in there and you'll have a winner.
4 for the animation and 0 for the art. Keep up the good work, but put some artistic effort into it.
Well, some parts of I agree with, but I consider stick animation to be a form of art. I mean, anyone can animate sticks, but it takes a good animator to do it well.
I commend your cause and agree with you whole heartedly. The flash content that is front paged and adored here is sometimes ridiculous. This brawl funnies crap is a shinning example, the clock crew should be viewed as a cancer on the lungs of animation, and the glorified red B on a white page is stupid.
I see your point, validate it, and hope that other NG users grow a brain and blam this sort of crap.
But, the flash you have submitted, along with your heart felt soap box speech, almost shoots down your cause, no matter how noble it may be. Your point would have been far better recieved had it come with an example of what sort of things should be front paged.
Also this unoriginal game humor you refer to isn't all bad. I think the awesome toons are very good. Yes the art isn't the best (I kinda like it), but if you watch the actual animation, it is pretty good. I love to play games, I love the game characters and a little humor that springs from gaming experiences, that I can also relate to, is fun to watch. Also Egoraptor is a very talented voice actor and his view on what he animates is very interesting, more so in how he presents it.
All is not lost however. There are many good animations and animators on NG. There's Adam Phillips with the Brackenwood series. The Swain with Blockhead and Mastermind. Harry Partridge with his animations, I especially liked A Slice of The Action and Timmy Tickles. I'm a fan of the Tankmen animations by Johnny Utah, it's all here.
There is alot of crap on New Grounds and I won't deny that at all. I'm not out to defend New Grounds at all. But, there are good animations here. If you don't like what turns up on front page the most you can really do about it is vote against things on the portal. This sorta thing isn't going to stop the idiots, it's only going to fuel them.
I commend your effort, but feel it may land on deaf ears. If I were to rate the animation I would give it no stars. But I give you 5 for speaking out on what is very apparent on New Grounds.
A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".
Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".
I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?
I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.
Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.
I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.
Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.
But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.
I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.
I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.
People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.
For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.
Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important
This was fun to listen to and interact with. The art was very nice and the story was nothing short of charming.
As said below it reminded me of the story books you could get as a kid on tapes. The sound effects, the background dialogue, the music that lasted untill the narrator had finished. It took me back to my days as a kid.
Nice voice for the narration, well read and very very well written. 10 stars for u sir!
I liked the first FAUX and I liked this one. I'm very interested in whats going on and would love to see more. Other reviews have said some of the facial expressions are over exaggerated, I think it's good, it's easy to tell the emotion of the character and gives the character some actual personality as opposed to them being incredibly blank and hard to read.
I think you're doing some good work, just couple suggestions. Maybe you could have a few establishing shots when environments change so that viewers can get an idea of where things are being held. Lastly if things start getting intense, say with the gunfire or even when things are happy, have some different music or something to suggest this and in intense parts have some quick cuts or something along with music changes or even absence of music to show that trouble is about etc.
I loved the dying creme eggs, awesome they were. Just one thing I'm not the quickest reader in the world, my class, or my house for that matter, but some of the bubbles flashed off before I could lay my eyes on them. Feel free to ignore this however worries me none. Have a 9 though
I liked the way you conveyed your message in this. The animation in places left a bit to be desired but what you have here is effective it just isn't very pretty. Well done overall though have an 8.
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