RULES Theme: Trains Time limit: anything goes Due Date: 3 Days Sungod's animations (Note: I hate swivel it had to convert my video without any sound rip) (With Sound http://www.fastswf.com/-NLycN8 <----------) Kingike75's animation (Note: think I did pretty decent, it could've used lens flare)
Okay, so after watching both animations, here's a short analysis for your short entries. LionPie: The animation was fluid and nice, which was present in your previous MBR. On that topic, like your last MBR, an interesting concept, and again, executed poorly. There was barely any action, despite the set-up of action being better and present in yours as opposed to Ike's, giving an empty and anti-climactic feeling. I should mention that your attempt at rigging and facial expressions far exceed Ike and were done well. The text, while animated nice, presented and added nothing to the animation. It took up around 5 seconds worth of time that could've been used to be animated. Albeit I did like the appearing weapon (despite not being used) and the word "kill" glitching in. Lastly, an explosion to cap things off seems like an easy way out to end it off. With all these points and the fact that the gap between this MBR and your previous one is far too short, with only a couple of days going in-between them; this comes off as rushed. Next time, reflect, take your time, improve and stun us with a better MBR. KingIke75: Wow, I feel a sense of deja vu when typing this out. Likewise with the last MBR involving LionPie, whilst he has interesting ideas with poor execution, you have a lack of any idea or plot but with better execution, in my opinion. I like the initiative in your animating of clothes and hair to simulate the breeze coming from atop a train. Like the aforementioned point, yours is the opposite of LionPie's. Really, the characters themselves were stiff with no rigging or expressions and was just as barren, if not, paling in comparison, to LionPie's crazy. glitchy, text filler. You had an attempt at combat which was nice and I can honestly see more effort put into this than the former. So overall, LionPie needs to take his time between MBR's and focus on improving before jumping head-first, and Ike needs to work on his execution of ideas and not make things so stiff and stale. You both can really learn from each other's points that I've listed; it'll benefit you both. In my opinion, Ike won by a hair, so he gets my vote. Grazie=-e to the both of you.
Spoiler: Ike plz ;-; If you have to, go grab a separate symbol or sorts and try aligning there, then put em on the train. I say that, but I'm still voting for Kingike. While Sungod's anim felt really interesting with the unique sound and environment, aside from that, I didn't really see much to offer compared to Ike. Great ideas, just gotta work on fleshing them out, and possibly adding a little more than that kind of ending. Ike felt like it had more into it involving a fight on a train, the momentum of the shell, and even the wind intro. Like jpg said, try adding more expressions of sorts and a little of minor character movements to express emotion. For instance, the final blast on SunGod coulda given him something aside from blink_0. Nevertheless, nice job you two~
Both of these animations were pretty cool. They leave a lot to be desired but good job to you two. I'm not gonna say much but... Light, I love the way you animate and put that glitch stuff in your animations, it's really appealing to me. You have the potential to make things that are outrageously good, but you just gotta strap down and put in a little more work. In short it just seemed a bit lazy but you know what you're doing for sure. Ike you surprised me with your part honestly, you're getting better but the major issue you have in your animations is that it's stiff most of the time. Also sound design was a bit iffy. Overall Ike seemed to have put more effort in and I enjoyed it more. I especially liked the fact that he moved the hair and clothes on his character to go with the wind, that attention to little detail is what really sold me. It was a pretty tough decision... but my vote's gonna have to go to Ike.
Bravo! I like it alot! @SunGod : Your rigging has improved since my fight with you; you managed to pump out a decent chunk of animation for such a short timeframe; could have helped to make the train a tad larger though, I was entertained! @KingIke75 : Also nice, try adding a few slow camera pans here and there to keep up the flow, also slowing down and adding more frames for the text could work out well in your favor too. My vote is going to have to go to King, his fight was more engaging and held my attention.
I'll start off with KingIke. First off, get a different font, those letters are too close to each other and it makes it hard to read the dialogue. I will give you props for the turtle shell thing, I haven't really seen anybody do that with a maple character before, but that compliment is overshadowed by the poor execution. Spoiler: This is the laziest thing I've ever seen, it just went straight symbol to symbol. And what the hell is this? Spoiler: ...Are you serious? Couldn't you have, oh I don't know, looked over your animation before converting it? Also, is the lack of emotes thing just a joke? Putting emotes on characters does not take that long. Your camera work is bad as well, it's always too zoomed in and whenever the camera finishes shaking, it never eases out of it, it just stops. SunGod more than 3/4 of your animation is completely useless text and the parts that aren't useless just irk me. Spoiler Now...I don't hate memes, but this is just stupid. What's the joke here? Why is there some random advertisement behind him? You should really rethink your abilities because if it's to be a walking advertisement, that's not only useless, but it's not funny either. I wish there was more I could say about your animation, but there really isn't. It's just a meme for the most part. It almost seems like you didn't even put any effort into the animation, I could at least see some kind of effort in Ike's animation, but this looks like you did it all in one day because you forgot about it. So much for taking this one seriously, I suppose. Not voting.
Pretty much everything has been mentioned in the posts before me. Just going to mention why I'm voting for KingIke. SunGod: The glitch effects were fancy, but having a scene go to a blackscreen with text kinda stopped the flow for me. It made it feel like I was watching a 5gum commercial. "How it feels to chew 5gum". Sadly felt rushed and not too much going on. KingIke: Liked the fighting, need to improve the font size and type, more emotions. Felt like it had more effort put into it. Congrats KingIke, you got my vote.
A MBR quick tip: When you got a theme, try to go creative with it! None of yours made much use of the environment but just including a train to follow the theme. Could have skipped the dialogue and do something fun with the theme itself. Put a longer duedate if possible and you will have time to make something very cool :D Good luck!
