WOW
this flash was great , you have improved quite a bit since your last one
you are an inspiration to other people learning flash
keep up the good work
Reviews for "The Silent Protagonists"
I never empathised
I loved link's face - his sorta 'scared, worried look was great and made me chuckle as he walked away from the jail and - earlier - from the phone.
I really like all the silent protagonists - how they don't have mouths (apart from that one shot with Link).
The movie didn't really concentrate on them that much, though, which slightly disappointed me.
A lot of the movie kinda bored me. The Leroy Jenkins and Lightsaber Kid and all the police stuff... I felt slightly sorry for Gary after he was practically accused of Ash's crime...
For the most part though, I just didn't empathise with the characters at all. Gary just seemed completely shallow; a 1-dimensional chirpy character. The homages I mentioned were vaguely 'nice' to spot, but I felt that beyond the nod of recognition, there was nothing there. It was like you wedged them in there, rather than having them in the background or whatever.
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Maybe other folk will love this and I feel like an arse for writing this after you've obviously worked fairly hard.
Essentialy though, it bored me for the most part.
Sorry.
Aeonstars responds:
Bezman... First off, I'd like to say thank you for liking the characters that are the silent protagonists. As for Gary, I see how you can see him as a 1 dimensional chirpy character and maybe in some respects he is. But if you look closely, You'll see that Gary's favorite hobby is to call up people at their homes and perform surveys over the phone. Why he does this is beyond me. He just likes to know things I guess. That's why in the bathroom scene he says to Ash: "Did you know that the razor is the most feared object in the household?". This means that Gary has actually called up people and asked them what their most feared object was. This is also the primary reason the police are chasing him. This is just a little insight into who Gary is. If you right click and pause very quickly at the beginning and zoom into his bookshelf you can also see his collection of survey books. I consider this a funny character trait and I also like to think this takes away a bit from your 1-dimensional view of him. I did, however, build him up to be a happy guy because it's that much more funnier when you see him scream and run for his life with the silent protagonists shaking their heads in the background. Gary essentially became the flash for me. When I started working on it, 8 months ago... I came up with a whole bunch of funny situations Gary and The silent protagonists could get involved in and I basically narrowed it down to the best ones. He's even become a sort of inside joke between me and my friends. They even made me a Gary shirt for my birthday a few months back lol. You didn't enjoy this flash and that's unfortunate but a lot of other people have so I guess that I have gotten an overall positive response. I'm not going to say this review doesn't hurt me because it does... You gave me 3... Over the last 8 months, I poured my entire heart and soul into this project and I completely surpassed my limits. Doing this for me was incredibly ambitious considering when I started, I didn't know what a movieclip was. I know that this deserves more than 3... That I deserve more than a 30% rating. Like I said before, It's too bad you didn't enjoy it... When I finish my new stuff I'll be sure to send you a PM because I want you to tell me what you think. Thank you..
-Aeonstars
Great movie
That was an excellent movie. It was funny, had some of the best 2d graphics I have ever seen, and it was funny. You don't get any better than that.
Graphics: 9 Amazing. Were they hand drawn on paper and scanned or do you have a tablet? However you did it keep on going becuase it was awesome.
Style: 8 It was a good movie. One big thing that I liked about it was the file size. It was nice and small which made it fast enough to download on my slow ass computer.
Sound: 9 I don't know where you got your voice actors but they were really good.
Violence: 2 There was a gun and a guy falling out of a dam. I am pretty sure that there is some kind of FCC rule against me giving any lower of a score even though you really didn't show anything nasty. For some reason I figured you were gonna show blood start squirting out of Ash's face when he was getting ready to shave.
Interactivity: 2 It had a menu and 2 is about the highest interactivity score I will ever give for a movie.
Humor: 9 It was funny as hell. When Link went to see him in the jail and he ran up to the window I almost fell out of my chair. Seriously make more stuff like this.
P.S. I always knew that they wouldn't talk.
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Aeonstars responds:
I drew everything using the mouse. :P The file size was small because I compacted everything like a madman. Thanks for complimenting the voices too! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
-Aeonstars
Wicked flash!
That was a really nice flash animation. It was extremely good especially the graphics. The sound was good and the voices were brilliant. The humor in there was really funny, I could watch it over and over again. You could have added in a pause button and added more of a plot as it was mainly jokes and about silent protaganists.
But overall, it was fantastic, one of the best flash animation that I seen.
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Aeonstars responds:
Thank you! I will take your criticisms to the drawing board lol. As for a pause button, though, The characters are mainly movie clips so Pausing wouldn't stop them from moving. But I'll be sure to try to integrate one in my next flash. Thanks!
-Aeonstars
Guess what?
You go straight to number one on my favourites list. That was absolutely amazing.
Graphics:
So solid and vivid, with birllaint animation and seom excellent effects you threw in there!
styke:
Incredible, I loved the way you drew the people, and the way it was set out. Like he was reccounting his life, but things overlapped.
Sound:
Brillaint voices and sounds in there.
Violence:
Not much, but the scene were he was falling down the staris was really imaginative.
Interativity:
you put in a menu and everything, but I reccomend you put in a pause button.
Humour:
As well as many other things, this was a very funny flash, and not just mindless jokes. Real, good animation you speant time with.
Overall:
Awesome flash. My favourite.
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