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[Fairy Sorrow]

I love reflections...

I was awed by some of the visual effects that you've achieved in this short movie. The reflections of the water in the opening scene, the reflection in the buildings in the top down street scene, and the distortions of the water droplet over the city background are all very nicely done. I think that I've learned quite a few good lessons on new flash techniques to use by watching this video alone.

Volo responds:

I love your animating. I used some tricks from your "Spirit of the Sword" game

[Freak : Prelude (Ep. 1)]

Now that you have the publicity you needed...

Replace that annoying voice for the main character! It really stands in my way of enjoyment when a highly educated FBI agent would sound like a mentally challenged patient with speech impairment problems. It really hurts the mood and pacing of the story since his narration was basically half of the story (the other half being the 3D rendered graphics, which nobody can really complain about).

As far as animation is concerned, it's mostly fluid, but some of the cutting can seem awkward (the tentacle-tongue man somehow stood around for a second before grabbing the main character) and classic anticipation techniques are lacking (the main character knocked off a gun and punch a guy out while standing perfectly still; even if he's perfectly trained in martial arts, that was hardly convincing)... but we ARE talking about 3D animations here. The effort alone are worth the props, but the critiques are there in case you're ready to move on to the next step.

You can probably lose the character portrait on the subtitles to give the movie a more cinametic feel.

Kudos!

Evil-Dog responds:

Hi there
We'll work on the voices for next episodes (and probably redo the voices for that one) but I don't think we'll completly change it cause we're proud to make it ourselves. Also, you're talking about how the balance of the character isn'T disturb while he's punching the black-suit guy ? hehe come on give us a break it's just a freaking flash movie :D
Thanks for your constructive comments we're glad that people take the time to write decent comments...not just "That was good" or "man this sucked" hehe
Thanks

[Hyrule High]

By personal request.

Scores given because of an anonymous request.

TapismDotCom responds:

The creator of Ronin, giving my movie a 10?? I'm flattered!! ;)