God this whole thing flashbanged me with these old plush YouTube channels I used to be addicted to when I was younger.
All of it was cringe looking back on it, and this captured all of it perfectly. I can't put the score too low because I know it was being authentic to a tee.
I may not be able to tolerate that kind content anymore, but I know 10 year old me would have loved this.
Alternate title:
Florida woman yells at alien dinosaur. Gets roasted.
Well this was a blast from the past. In more ways than one.
Haven't heard that song since Flipnotes Hatena was still alive and well. The style of your animation also matches the era this would have been heard, which some may call bad, but I actually like the charming simplicity and basic effects.
It's like you managed to bottle-up 2000s nostalgia with your style. I'll definitely look into your stuff.
Really love the animation, and this review is WAY too long for this really short animation...but that's how it be sometimes.
This fits so well. I'm dying of laughter from it all.
Wow. That escalated quickly. Pretty graphic too, but despite all that it was still a really fun watch. I can really see the improvement from the first episode you made all these years ago. Still a little hard to keep track the character switches in the story, but it's leagues better than before.
I'm trying to think of potential way to improve it, but the only thing that comes to mind are specific musical cues. Something like characters having either their own specific melody or instruments that represents them whenever it's their turn to be on screen.
I know sound design is tough because I haven't even made it to that stage myself with my animations. I'm still learning how to inbetween more efficiently. I'm not sure how you and your husband work with adding sound, but maybe you two can make a few experimental shorts where both of you can play around with the music and sounds to get something more harmonious with the animation. Kinda like what they did back in cartoons from the 20s, 30s and 40s, but you don't have to be all wacky and silly with it. Those techniques still apply with more serious animations (even movies and games do this), and you'd be surprised how these small changes makes a world of difference to an already great animation. Not critiquing the music, I'm pretty sure it sounds great on it's own. It's just with more involved animations like this it's better to be a little extra with it. But in the end it's just my personal preference.
The story in this is shockingly grim, and almost "realistic" with the way it depicts things. By the end I just wanted to hug these characters to make them feel better, and the credits left me feeling haunted. Not even sure if Flare is in a good spot either now that I think about it.
I'm struggling to even think of things to say about the story. I just hope the next episode is a little more lighthearted by comparison. Feels a little too soon to descend into madness with characters we barely got to know.
Although, I will say even if it's not meant to be funny, Flare sliding on her face for like a good 10 feet, and the guard accidentally chucking one of the kids up a tree gave me a good chuckle with how ridiculous it looked. I mean that guard must have been SWOLE to be able to chuck-em that high up without trying.
Overall, still pretty interested to see what will be in episode 3. I've got no idea what's gonna happen next, but I don't think these characters are gonna have a good time from the looks of things.
You know, a musical cue does sound like a pretty good idea. I brought this up to him and we talked about a few shows we know did this and how we felt about how it ended up in practice. We can definitely see if we can experiment with that, but I do wonder how that might affect the flow as right now we do rely on music that fits the overall scene that is currently happening. I feel like this could work for longer, slower episodes or scenes that are mostly ambient, but we will see. The story switching will become more complex, but it should be a gradual change. Right now, the stories are connected in ways we have yet to unravel, even though that separating the characters is generally good practice I try to not force it. It's like when we meet strangers, some stand out and we build a relationship, and our memory makes them stand out. The way I imagine is that different people will separate characters that somewhat speak to them. I think with more episodes and screen time we will be able to separate the characters more. Right now, they are part of the crowd but soon they will have their time to shine!
Overcoming Reality is a tale about dealing with the struggles of life. Everyone goes through something, and things do get better. I figured the way to show these is by starting with one of the worsts circumstances people can find themselves in and slowly building up to smaller struggles. The stories may not be fully realistic, but I do want it to somewhat resemble reality to some degree. Flare herself might be in the best spot right now but that will be up to the viewer to decide, especially with more information coming out on new episodes. It's all a perspective thing and I am excited to hear other people's perspective when there is more to the story to take in and think about.
In the next episode I hope to allow both the characters and viewer process what has happened together. However, perhaps it could be too soon for the characters themselves to process, and we might need more episodes for the true lightheartedness to settle in.
But hey even if it's not meant to be funny, I am glad you could find a break in the madness to have a chuckle! though the one with the child, she was not thrown upward on purpose. There was an explosion that happened behind them that manage to shove her upwards and the invader got thrown somewhere else. I could have probably made that a little clearer by adding a few more frames or maybe zooming in on a bomb, but I wasn't thinking of it. I will see if I can keep this in mind for future scenes that need more clarity, thanks for your perspective!
I can tell you that episode 3 will have a new character that was foreshadow in this episode! It is definitely a bit too soon for the characters to have a good time. Even when good things happen it might not seem like enough, but it will be something to reflex on a bit later. Hope to not disappoint, thanks for the review!
Pretty cute little animation. Love the colours, and the way the squirrel moved around in the beginning.
The fuzzy little creatures almost look like monsters you'd find in Drawn to Life. Wonder if that was an inspiration
Just casually ripping a humanoid plant's head off for a nice tasty meal.
Nope, nothing wrong here. Only good vibes lol!
Damn, this episode feels like it's plunging right into the deep end with the dark stuff. It's gotten me pretty curious now.
Can't wait!
Damn, that was pretty good. Kinda wished I'd joined this one, as I had a really cool idea. But I was already busy enough at the time with a bunch of other things (that I only JUST finished BTW), and this would have killed me.
There's always next time though.
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