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Beautiful designs. backgrounds, and animation.

Like in previous comments,
this reminds me of Ghost in the Shell, and maybe "The Animatrix"
I'd give this 10 stars if it were possible.
Excellent Work my Friend:)

Coutto responds:

Thanks! yes, GITS, Akira, Animatrix, Perfect Dolls was my inspirations for this animation.

The story kind of started out like every other high school romance anime ever made.
It was kind of cliche and cheesy, but after watching the entire animation...it grew on me.

The animation was ok because it wasn't very complex.
The lipsync needs work.
It was matched to the audio perfectly, but the mouths were just shrinking and growing larger very quickly in sync with the dialogue.

Character designs and backgrounds need major improvement.

The backgrounds:
It was colorful, but everything looked so flat.
Their was no detail.

The characters:
work on your human anatomy, especially in faces.
They need a lot of work.

The dialogue was "corny", but the voice acting was good.

Overall,
This was bright, colorful, had a sweet story, but you need to make better character designs and backgrounds.
Strive for some more realism and detail.
Watch some more animes you like and do what they do.

YowLifeProductions responds:

First, thank you for the feedback.

"The animation was ok because it wasn't very complex."
-This project had a long development process, the animation does steadily improve with each chapter though.

"The lipsync needs work.
It was matched to the audio perfectly, but the mouths were just shrinking and growing larger very quickly in sync with the dialogue."
-Mm not quite, with the lip-syncing I was aiming for an "anime-aesthetic", so that it would be much easier to dub(especially into other languages). I can assure you the mouths weren't just "shrinking and growing", but I think you mean they gave you that feeling.
So alright, I'll try to do more varied mouth movements with future animations.

"The backgrounds:
It was colorful, but everything looked so flat.
Their was no detail."
-I wonder how or why you would think that.
Those backgrounds took hours to make, and there is no way all 6 locations(With one appearing 3 times, and improving each time.) had no detailed work.

I don't mean to be rude, but I don't think this was a real criticism.

"The characters:
work on your human anatomy, especially in faces.
They need a lot of work."

-...Did you even watch my animation? HOW is the human anatomy off for you? And did you notice how it slightly changed/improved through all 4 chapters?

"The dialogue was "corny", but the voice acting was good."
-Sadly I agree, but I learned from my mistakes and will never write anything corny in the future(I hope).

"This was bright, colorful, had a sweet story, but you need to make better character designs and backgrounds."

-I'm glad you liked it, but I must severely disagree and disregard those two claims.

Maybe you are on to something when you talk about character designs and background designs, but I cannot see it. I think the designs and backgrounds to a nice job and are well made for this project.

Perhaps if you could elaborate more on these two subjects, I could see what you are referring to more specifically.

Excellent animation and colorful:)

Kubbs responds:

Thank you ;)

The animation was pretty good.

Not a lot of color, and the entire animation seemed kind of "bland" and "flat".

jza963 responds:

Thank you for the feed back

Backgrounds and designs are nice.
Animation was good during the fight scenes, though could use some more frames to make it look smoother.

Audio needs to be cleaned up.
Plot wasn't very interesting.

AguRex responds:

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I'm currently working on the next chapter.

I'm still new at storytelling in films. Hope to improve more in the future.
😊

The pixel animation during the fight scenes was well planned and fun to watch.
The voice acting was good.

Though,
There was a lot of dialogue and yet no indication of lip sync animation.
Not to mention the 4 minute of shaky pixel conversation they had in the beginning.

I know its naruto and you had no choice but
There was a lot of copyrighted material including music, pictures that seemed to be downloaded right off of google images.
I may be wrong,
but it seemed to me that nothing was hand drawn, modeled, etc.
Except for maybe during fight scenes.

Otherwise,
I can appreciate the planning and effort that was put into this.
I could tell that this was a labor of love from a fan.

Jozarto responds:

I appreciate the input and compliments, I really appreciate it. Honestly.

Yeah, regarding the dialogue and lack of lip sync, I was actually very hesitant to use the mouth sprites that I have, due to them being a bit too big to fit on the characters' faces properly. The bouncing was lazy, and not very fun, I admit that. Also, I'm sure the dialogue was far too lengthy. It took over 3 minutes of the animation.

As for the music, the first song is an original track by a friend, the second track was a cover of the Naruto fighting theme, and third track was the original OST (I should have changed it), and the fourth song was a cover by Raon Lee, and the last track was Sakura's theme, which I should have changed.

As for the drawings, those were actually redrawn screenshots from the anime. My friend Tessa drew them over on Photoshop. In essence, she traced some closeup images from scenes in the anime. Not the most original approach, but I thought it would be the most pleasing to the eye, and possibly nostalgic.

This criticism is good, and I'm glad to hear someone else's thoughts on this project. Thanks.

I love British humor.
Very funny and Enjoyable.

The animation was well executed, but looked a bit stiff.

LOTAC responds:

Thanks for the kind words my man and I'm glad you enjoyed it

And yeah, we try and get out out every month so we gotta try and cut corners here and there. Also v. limited budget so that never helps. One day soon I hope we get enough time and money to make these alot better

I really like the background music.
Character designs are very nice.

AntonM responds:

thanks! I love scoring these vids, happy u like the music

The fight scene animation was good.

Character designs and backgrounds looked rough.

AnimatedZorox responds:

I can agree with the bg :3

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