it really did pay off. the animation was awesome and the level of detail was icing on the cake. i did appreciate the backgrounds, especially the ramp he sees for like a second :P nice colors. do you think you've gotten faster at animating by the end? Maybe next time it won't take as long?
I plan on animating stuff the rest of my life... sure hope I don't get my hands cut off.... that'd be rough
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I wish I could say yes to that. If I have gotten faster, it was such a gradual improvement that I can't tell the difference. I think I'll test myself by picking a less complicated art style for my next project.
Masterpiece !!! : O (I lose a tear)
I'll help you find it!
That....was....AWESOME! 500 hours though... Well at least your determined! (I can never go over ten hours on something, or else I'll get bored of it :P)
determination. that's what it is.
That was an incredible animation. And I adored the cartoony aspect to the expressions and motions. Really great work and I hope you get some kind of honorable mention at least! You are a very talented artist :] do you have any art sites/blogs to watch for your next works?
My website is a work-in-progress. Until I get that up (hopefully by the end of the year), Newgrounds is really my only outlet.
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that animation was just simply amazing. i've never seen lip syching like that on a flash animation. it was just like realy insanely fluent. and the art work was just great. and to top it off the song was catchy
That was really good man and well worth the wait. I loved all the attention to little details and the backgrounds were brilliant. The animation was really one of the highlights of the movie and how fluent it was. I couldn't get the Easter egg to work though,but it doesn't really matter for me because the movie itself was amazing.
I find 24fps to be a lot easier to work with and it can still give you some really nice looking animations if done right. I always found 30 a little bit weird with timing for me.
Shame about Flash Dancer 2 though :/ But I'm sure that whatever you have cooking up next is well worth it!
easter egg didnt work? just to be clear, the easter egg wasn't that tombstone at the end. that was just a clue
I'm going to continue not writing anything here, because I already wrote a review :P
the fewer posts from JordanD I get, the better.
Awesome work man, the attention to detail is always cool, but not a deal-breaker, so good luck and lookin forward to the change in animation. Always makes things interesting. Also, awesome pick of a halloween song and animation/sync for it, I've gotten the brains of my buddies like a good zombie with it and they keep replaying it like myself. XD Still haven't found a version with more solo vocals like the one you used though, where didja get the song so clean souding? >.> It's lively zombie crack! lol
I failed to mention this in my review of this Flash, but that is one of the most physically built kids that i've ever seen, i mean what kid is that stong. I really did enjoy the main Zombie. his design is pretty nice.
yeah, he's pretty jacked. but again, its a costume. lets say its part of the costume
The animation was fantastic. I love you. Long time.
Dude, you work at 30fps? Theres a problem right there! So to help you out I'm gonna suggest a couple of things:
Work at 24fps (industry standard) and even then animate on twos, (1 drawing every 2 frames, I'm sure you know this) the human eye won't pick up frames any quicker, so why bother putting up with the work?
Secondly, learn how to use After Effects and Photoshop, this will save you an awful lot of time and make your animations look even prettier. If you want to see beautiful student animations using a combination of Photoshop, After Effects and Flash, please PM me because I know where to find absolutely hours worth. Working solely in Flash really doesn't come close to the quality.
and finally, well, thats it, hope this helps!
the thing about after effects is that when you bring it into flash, to output as a swf, you get grainy compression bullshit. photoshop probably would have been better for the more complicated backgrounds. ahh well.
How did you achieve this level of skill? (both drawing and animating)
Those Rockapella guys should pay you for "promoting" this song. Wasn't aware of it until your flash;
and your level of detail is amazing. Withouth exaggeration, this is one of the best flash movies I ever saw.
why thank you! i achieved this level of skill by throwing my life away and sitting in front of my computer
I watched this flash so many times, I hear the song in my head when I go to sleep.
When I showed my family this they thought it was going to be MJ.
Why did you hate your own flash? It's the best flash of seen on Newgrounds so far 5/5
i never said i hated this. i am very happy with how it turned out
honestly, i wish i could say i'd done 500 hours of work. i'm a master procrastinator and so my ZERO hours of work is really sad in comparison. Anyway, i loved the video, its epic, i've already watched it thrice tonight...
First off, you're an excellent animator. Even if your drawings weren't top-notch I think I'd love your work because of the timing and imagery - particularly in your last two submissions.
While you probably put more detail than you needed into each frame, I'd be careful about taking too much out if you want to animate professionally or semi-professionally. Companies don't really care how much time goes into a freelancer's work - they just want totally polished results at a painlessly low price. Fair? Not really. Unfortunately, a lot of people compete for the few creative jobs around, so the market favors employers. That said, don't worry about total perfection. Your corners-cut work would probably be better than what most NG artists could produce, to say the least. A matter of timing and imagery, mainly.
That brings me to a last point - I think you should try to get tips from Zeurel if that's at all possible. As one of his AlbinoBlacksheep reviewers pointed out, he can produce vast amounts of work at ridiculous speeds in large part because he knows exactly what to animate thoroughly, what to skimp on, and what to leave as background. His style isn't completely different than yours - the character design is, but some of the movement patterns are similar (though Zeurel's choreography tends to focus a bit more on angular movements) and the way you use colors is almost the same. Anyway, I don't know too much about animating, so I'm not sure what tricks there are to the trade. Still, I think Zeurel's got the answers you need, though, after years of following his work (long before he got recognized as one of the best animators on the web) I've come to suspect he understands what to do instinctively. Hopefully he can explain it, if not, make sure Black Ace chops your head off. Not good to get caught by that guy. ^_^
Zeurel's absolutely incredible. I don't know how he does what he does in the time that he does it. Thanks for your thoughts!
Keep up the great work man. A lot of effort was put into that flash and that is how it should be. Too many people take popularity for granted and end up disappointing. Keep taking your time with projects and you undoubtedly could be as great as Alvin Earthworm (creator of SMBZ takes a year to make each flash), Monty Oum (the god we know to have created Dead Fantasy and takes well over a year to make not just one, but three episodes to his series at the same time), and hopefully soon to be you for not a series but just pure awesome flashes.
It was worth it man! Now your flash is the top scoring flash in NG, congrats! You did yourself proud. :D
I'd rather have one of the greatest flashes on newgrounds done in 500 hours than another shitty flash done in five hours. Your halloween video was amazing -- incredible, detailed, stylized animation with an interesting story and a remarkably catchy song.
Clatform
lol holy shit that was so funny :D
and awesomly animated.
~Clatform
DonkeysBazooka
thanks!