How have I only just seen this? I thought you'd dropped off the face of the Earth as I hadn't heard of any new things from you in a while. Guess I was just looking the other way.
Great stuff as always SpeedoSausage, especially your different facial animations which are really becoming something that is expected of you. Good voice acting in this one too. It's nice to see your work becoming slowly more polished.
I'll start watching the second one now.
A good little short. I like the fact that you have kept it as just black and grey line art on a white background for the esthetic simplicity it gives.
If it was me though I would have been tempted to animate some kind of visual gag happening in the background, possibly on the shelves. Some of the liquid gets on a teddy bear from the explosion who probably comes to life and get's down from the shelf. Just a little additional background thing to notice.
Keep them coming, you clearly have some skill at frame by frame animation.
A good little flash, especially as you stated that it's your first animation. I like what I'm guessing was a use of rotorscoping and frame by frame animation although I would work on neatening up your frames as some had the odd little bit of to the side of the figure that accumulated it random dots that appear for a split second. I would also have like to see this carry on further into another room say but as you stated, it's a test.
Thing to work on for your next upload would be: Putting a preloader in, thinking about making something longer, dialog, maybe and some of the background looks low resolution possibly due to resizing, especially around the shading.
A good short, great choice of music and a great first stab at animation. Well done.
A good cartoon, I liked the classic two characters facing each other format especially the little touches such as Tater's nostril flares, Randy's wand pointing and the squirrel in the background. I'm not too up on the whole Harry Potter thing but I can see that this is pretty well written and some time has been taken in the planning of this flash.
Though I think that this is visually better then 80% of animations in the portal nowadays, I think that with the level of detail in the characters the fact that there is no shading or much to good about the roots of the tree, which are visible for a large period of the flash is a shame. I also feel that the animation of Tater's can sips could have been better.
A humorous, well lip synced and written cartoon. Just spend a little more time on the backgrounds and maybe even a little background joke somewhere to get another laugh in there.
I like the idea behind this flash, it reminded me of the Africa Dudes flash from back in '10. Having said that I think it would of been improved by added a little bit more character movement, an arm moving, the TV guys head turning. I understand that this would have been more work and you didn't wish to sleep until you had finished but maybe it wouldhave been better if you had given it a bit more time. Maybe stay up an see what you write/record and then spend time animating it the following day. That way you get the "Improv" feel but with a better quality animation.
I'm not too sure about the breaking of the fourth wall at 01:08, it all seems to fall apart at this point. I'd suggest get a few random cue cards or something to bring up in the conversation. More things to bring up like the Heroin at the beginning.
I think you took the Improv thing to seriously. Like your character said "you gotta plan shit out". I do like the idea behind it though.
I was gonna go on and on about why I really did this animation, but I'll just try to explain it in short. I haven't had the time or energy to animate for a long time, so I told myself "I need to make a cartoon tonight, no matter what". And I did. This was completed in 2 hours. I figured the cheap look would sort of drive that point, but it seems people didn't get that, because I'm getting really judgmental and condescending comments about it anyway. I equate this to a quick drawing in my sketchbook, it's just practice, just like everything else I've put up here. in no way is this the full extent of my skill.
if you want to see me actually animate, check out "Limbo Stuff", that's what it looks like when I actually put effort into something.
An interesting sprite animation, good dialog although it has to be said that I would have preferred it if it was voice acted. At the format the dialog is currently it has the feel that I'm slowly clicking through an RPG, not sure if that's a good thing.
I'm also not a fan of people submitting previews in this way either, I'm an old fashioned "The Portal is for finished pieces only" kinda guy, although I guess this is over three minutes long so exceptions can be made and I think this could just be me. I would have also made separate sprites for the close ups. At parts such as 00:32 and 00:45 the sprites become so pixelated that it's visually unpleasing.
Other then these little bits it's a good animation, great character movements with good touches such as one of the pumpkin guys falling over. I'll be keeping an eye out for the finished episode. One last thing might be to think of reducing the length of your ident at the beginning. 10 seconds is long enough, 22 seconds is far too long.
Good points. I'll be sure to look into these issues and see what i can improve on. Thanks a lot for the critique, I was honestly hoping someone would tell me how I could improve~
As always this is a brilliantly written animation. You truly have a gift for dark comedy and this Health Reminder series of flashes are becoming my favorite of your works. The addition of headline flashes such as "diagnosis" and the epically funny "mad as a swan" was a nice touch.
I'm always happy to see a good example of British satire mixed with the mad and I will always remember that the circle of life is all about dead swans.
Good laughs, great simple styled graphics and another add to my favorites. Keep them coming Mr. Firth.
It's always good to see claymation on Newgrounds. In my opinion there isn't enough people trying to create using this medium. Possibly because they are put off by the amount of effort that it can take to produce something half decent. So, hats off for giving it a try.
Firstly, I think that more time could have been spent on creating the character. Maybe more then one colour would have been a nice and also little details such as markings on the wings (?), seeing as they didn't need to be moved in the clip making me feel that you could have taken the opportunity to make them look good without ruining them between frames.
The character movements are quite flowing and well done up until around 00:10 where I have no idea really what it is you are trying to get him to do. Is he meant to be covering his mouth, about to vomit? It looks like he's doing a little dance. It also would have been funnier to have him fall quicker at the end.
The only other thing that I picked up on was the lighting. Make sure in future you use fixed lighting like a lamp so that the light levels stay the same through out the clip no matter how long it takes to produce.
It's a hard medium to master and I know that you stated in the author comments that you made it to "test out a camera" but I think it's not a bad attempt for a first go.
I guess, in my opinion, claymation doesn't look as appealing as flash animations nowadays. Efforts aren't that much recognized especially when the end results aren't that good.
I must admit, the character design and the entire animation itself is half - butt. I just put a slab of clay at the back and didn't give much attention to it thinking that its going to be off camera most of the time. As for the color, maybe I would have added something if I had other colors for the clay but sadly, I didn't.
I personally think the timing and framing sucks too, I had that huge frame gap cause I knocked the model over by accident and was too lazy to start the entire thing over. I also tipped my light over a lot of times. I'll make sure to be careful of my light source next time.
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