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[Lost Rhapsody 2]

good job in general

Ok, so...

I think that I don't need to say that the opening is the best part. The ending is really good too, and I didn't expect the Monty Python ending at all.

However, you set the standarts too high with the opening, and since there is almost no animation in the rest of piece (almost), it kind of threw me down. It's all just stills of Lost, and the mouths.

I agree with most of the comments here, maybe you should stik to your animation from the begining and do a serious short piece. Your rotoscoping techniques are really good, and that would look amazing.

Good job!

CapnBob responds:

I think you overstate the amount of the video that uses the stills/mouth format, but I see your point. Personally, I think I should have made the animation and character rendering during the song much crappier just to have a more obvious disparity. Part of the joke for most everyone else is the abrupt drop in quality itself, and I should have played that up. But seriously, why would I make an entire video up to the standard of the opening animation if it's not my own original property? For all I know, some lawyer at Disney could send me a cease and desist letter at any moment and I'd have to remove the entire video. If I decide to do something entirely original and serious (though chances of anything 100% serious are close to nothing) then that will be a better place to judge a video for an intentionally consistent art style. I'm waiting for the Wii browser to be released before I get into my next project, as I'd like to build and test everything else I do for that environment.

[What is JManga]

Ok, I'm not being mean or anything...

I really like your drawings, but the animation is very very short and limited to just a few tweens. There was no voice so the lipsync was just random...

It's a shame because with the drawings it could have made a really good advertizement.