Reviews for Lost Rhapsody 2

[TheNewAmazing]

A great idea!

I have a feeling you let flash autotrace a little more than you are willing to admit, because the people who made movies like A scanner Darkley and Waking Life had a whole bunch of animators and I forget the exact number but they spent an amazing ammount of hours into it. Other than the beggining where you see the guy get up from bed and put on a record, it's not all that amazing...the characters barely move and it's really boring. But, the begging blew me away with how realistically the character moved. I would like to see a movie that really pushed your talents to their maximum abilities because I would like to see more movement and a better story. It reminded me of Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children, stunning animation but not a great storyline. Overall, though, great job being different than every other animator, I can't imagine how long this must have taken you.

CapnBob responds:

My estimation is that I spent around 400 hours on this. The autotraces images should be almost immediately obvious. The ones I drew by hand range from rounded and cartoony to smoothly photorealistic, while the flash autotrace ranges from looking pixelated photorealism to angular triangles. If you have spent any time working with flash there should not be a question in your mind which is which. The contents of the song are meant to be silly and the main focus is on connecting events from the show to lyrics to create implications that become more amusing the longer you think about them. If you aren't familiar enough with the source material and you don't want to put the effort into following the implications of the juxtapositions, then I'm afraid you may not be in my target audience. Whatever enjoyment you can derive from your perspective is appreciated but at best a "happy accident."

[death114]

Great job!

I am a huge LOST fan and you did an amazing job with this show. It touched back on so many great moments in all the seasons! Amazing Achievment!!!!!!!!

[Squishy69]

Huh......

Wow......... That was certainly different. I mean the whole art and animation style was totally freaky realistic. And to think you used such artistic prowess for a Weird Al polka. Still, it was a very well-made flash. I can definitely tell you put a lot of time into making this thing. Maybe for the next one you use a better Weird Al song.

CapnBob responds:

Weird... that's one of my favorite tracks from Weird Al. What are you suggesting, maybe Nature Trail to Hell?

[MintVanilla]

Great Animations

I love the way you retrospected everything but from the beginning and end scenes, I saw that you could've taken a lot more effort into making the whole animations just as good. For the music.. We all have different tastes in music but I think that you could've chosen a better song! @_@

CapnBob responds:

Sure... but... consider for a moment how long the opening and closing animations likely took. I would wager they were over 70% of the time I spent on the entire movie, yet take up far less than half of the total runtime of the movie. Had I done the entire video at the same ridiculous standard of the opening, It would not have been completed until probably the middle of next year. I have already spent every moment of my free time for 4 months building this, and continuing that trend out to a full year to achieve an effect that would not make the movie funnier in the slightest does not seem to be the best use of my time. Consider also that I am not paid to do this.

In light of the reality of the situation, I hope you will forgive me for finding your point of contention to be more than slightly ridiculous and irrelevant.

There is no accounting for musical taste, this is true, but I think you are quite mistaken. I could not have chosen a better song, as there is no other song that fits so much of the second season so well. The movie is what it is entirely because of that song and virtually none of the visual gags or flow would have come into existance without it. It would have been an entirely different animal, to the point that making comparisons to what might have been is entirely meaningless.

Next time, consider the totality of your suggestions before making them. If you think a better song exists, you should start out by naming that song and presenting a well-formed argument with specific points why it would have been a better fit.

Without that, you leave the interpretation of your own musical selections entirely up to me. I'm choosing to believe that the song you have in mind is "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull, and that is a really terrible song. What were you thinking?

[billyisbored]

the score wood be better if it wont so long

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CapnBob responds:

Where does the punctuation go? I'll take a crack at it.

"The score: wood. Be better! If it won't? So long."

I see what you're saying. You have just hijacked a freight truck and it turns out that, instead of valuables, the cargo was lumber. You are telling yourself to do a better job of planning next time, and if your next heist doesn't produce improved results then you will say goodbye to this life of crime you have led. I wish you would reconsider and try going legitimate now, all it takes is one bad job to end up in prison or the ground.