WOW
Brilliant, I loved every bit of it. You are truely amazing, keep them coming.
Reviews for "the YuYu"
What can I say? Excellent work yet again!
You still have yet to fail to simply amaze me with one of your submissions to Newgrounds. I still believe that you are the most talented flash artist on the entire site, and quite possibly even all the sites that host flash that i have visited before. Of course, the Bitey series is one of the best on Newgrounds, if not its the best depending on what kind of stuff you like to watch. This one was surely not something similar to what you usually do. This was purely "an action sequence" as you called it, while your other movies may have a bit of action, but are usually based around some sort of simple story or problem that Bitey finds himself in. Either that or they are telling a story by itself, for example Hitchhiker. Since this was different i suppose it was a bit of a risk, but you certainly pulled it off. Here is my review.
The visuals....absolutely incredible. This is one of the main things that got you totally famous as an artist. I think this is what many people still know you best for. They were as close to flawless as i have ever seen flash graphics come. The drawings of everything were awesome. From what you ended your last submission i would have thought the YuYu were much bigger. But they still looked really scary and at the same time very interesting. I loved how they sort of resembled a dark shadow. Bitey of course looked great as always. The colours were perfect to show that it was nightime, you always do a great job of sunsets, afternoon, morning and nighttime, showing what time of day it is basically. The backgrounds were fantastic, i have always loved the Brackenwood scenery, its always different but still resembles this mysterious planet. The animation was also extremely well done. The cloud of the YuYu looked very smooth as it chased after Bitey. And you did a great job of making everything seem very fast paced and exciting.
The style was also deserving of a perfect 10. Although i think i prefer the styles of your more story based flash movies, this one was still great, but in another way. As i said, this one was purely action, it was a good way to change things up with your fans. As always the animating style was mind blowing, you have your very own artistic style that i think many people want to be able to do. Its always fun to see continuations, because it makes the plot in the second part much more interesting. The action was definitely fast paced, it was also a bit intense to an extent. But even with all of this, you managed to keep this installment true to the rest of the series. The idea was great and the presentation was fantastic. I can not pick out a single flaw in this aspect.
The sound was not quite as indepth as it usually is, but i still enjoyed it quite a bit. I can see why you loved this song so much for an introduction that you had to make a longer movie showcasing the song. It would have been nice to hear some other sound effects along with the song, but since you used the song so well i couldnt help but love the sound anyways.
Overall this was yet another excellent submission from you. It was worth the wait since your last submission, and i hope i will be able to feel the same way as your upcoming submission. Keep the quality of the visuals high, keep coming with as much humour as littleFoot had, and keep on coming with the amazing sounds andmusic you have been using so far. Congrats!
-Standing Ovation! 5/5
chluaid responds:
Hey Chris! thanks a lot for the in-depth review man.. very much appreciated.
With regards to the point you made about the sound, I totally agree that more sound effects would have been nice. After adding some major sound effects at key points in the movie though (wind and waterfall), the file size was already too high and I didn't wanna push it. When I put this movie on DVD, I will probably add quite a bit more sound to really deepen the audio experience :)
On your point about action vs my usual sprawling atmospheric style, I have always wanted to do a complete action movie, but it has always been quite daunting knowing that there is so much more pencil mileage involved. Even after making this relatively short movie, my entire arm from shoulder to wrist is still recovering. This is because at 30fps, there are (*quick calculation*) well over 10,000 individual drawings of Bitey, YuYu and backgrounds in those 3 minutes. So while I've always wanted to do full-on action, the sweeping beauty shots and limited movement are more practical (at least for as long as I'm working alone).
Thanks once again for taking the time to review so thoroughly. *bows*
-chlu
A true work of art,the chase and music is ALL-PRO!
Very nice,even without a storyline this flash music video Rules!
wow
the best animation ever. you have talent. ALOT of talent.
i want to be the Bitey
it's speed and jump power is cool :D
i luv this series.