Age/Gender: 30, Male
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Job: Kindergarten Teacher
I have a great deal of experiance with video, animation and am a software engineer by hobby. I also have helped 6th graders in an after school program make a 20 minute short and their own animations using Appleworks.
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I felt it discussed the problem of being a pregnant teenager but it did not really educate either the female or the male viewer of how to avoid it. It just spouted it out as problem and gave the consequences. Sexuality among teenagers must be made clear that it is taking a large amount of responsibility on ones self especially the female. Luckily, in the US men are forced to take responsibility. Yet, many cultures lay the blame on the female when it does take 2 people to make a baby.
Your images are strong and build a good case for the problems of fooling around with sex. I would love to see you make a message for all your teenage friends to think about it deeper. Sex comes with responsibility not just for the female but males too. Although many societies do not put the responsibility on the male; they should.
Author's Response:
Wow. Thanks. ^^
I'm happy that you criticized the animation very well.
I really appreciated it.
Yeah, I too think that men should take responsibility.
I haven't managed to show it on the film though. O.O
I just focused on the views of the female..
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I felt it was a well animated piece from backgrounds, characters and even the magical Christmas ending. One problem, Santa planted an acorn and a pine tree appeared. You may want to have Santa plant a pine cone or perhaps look for a picture of an oak tree. Everything else was picture perfect.
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I love the drawings for both the people and your backgrounds. The story although abrupt was good. I think this would have been better if your character was talking from while being pictured in a further part of the story. We all need to know about the beginnings but where in time is your character explaining is poorly executed.
Music, well if you want more people watching it seriously lose the music with F-bombs it limits your piece to 13 and older. Also when your music changed from her bumping into the main character and fight scene there was no pause in music or a good transition between the songs. You are good at visuals and visual transitions work on the music.
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"Amatuer drawings but professional style"
I really enjoyed this because I could not really know what to expect. It was very inspiring with obvious styles of many animated forms. You also took advantage of the genre of magicians and put a step forward with the flaming rabbit. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
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Why does mine have a better rating? It was the first. It explains why the original 1.0 gets more views than version 2. Your version sadly does not have the snap shot option so it does not quite surpass my version 2. I think you have done astonding work and can see you making my original obsolete. I am happy see improvements. You sadly suffer as not being the first to use flash to make a web cam paint program. I would try to outdo yours but being a kindergarten teacher does not give me a mountain of time.
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I agree we are all human and we share many of the same things in common but the same in every aspect would be rather boring. I teach beauty in difference and beliefs. We don't all share exactly the same experiences. People are made fun of because they are colored and the same goes if one is "white". I use quotes because there is no such thing as a true race. I admit there is racism but its basis for existence is hate and not science. All the same is what politicians have tried to preach for years and look at what it has brought us a dysfunctional melting pot. I feel your piece has value but it is not balanced. Until both sides decide to compromise there will be no peace.
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I cannot say this is hard to follow at all. This seems like the day in the life of a teenager. The title even fits. The drawings are fantastic and really though out. The shower scene with the water flowing was really well portrayed. I believed the water was trickling down his body. Movement was smooth and story did not move too fast. I like it but I am not certain it does enough for me.
Author's Response:
hey man , thanks for a very constructive comment. thank you
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Hooking it up was always fun for me. I always wondered about the audio/video cables which I never used till the SNES added the 3 cables verses the mono audio plug. I remember fiddling with the cartridges all the time. I miss my NES but I love my Wii. Thanks for the reminiscence of fun memories.
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I loved the combination of frame by frame with multimedia stills. It could have just been a simple battle but you gave your audience and really catchy tune. I can see children and adults really enjoying your style.
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I do not know how you could have made this better. It matched the time period perfectly. I loved the style mimicked from the classic silent films. I can see it bothered you that they did not even take time to do anything with the antique car transformer. I love how the transformer has a monocle.
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