Distant Journey

Esrhan · Post by **Esrhan** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:25 am

Since no one else will, here's some rough criticism.

First, after reading this topic, the replies and your video comments, I thought: "cool, this one seems to have some idea in it". It would seem that impression was wrong for me. The mood and atmosphere I felt in that video was extremely light. So light in fact that it became almost hilariously cheesy or non-existent. I just couldn't take it seriously at all. Partly due to lip synching gone bad and a song I didn't like too much.

I don't see why your beta testers didn't criticise your masking enough for you to fix it. That white glowing outline looks ugly as hell. For an intentional decision of style, I don't understand it.

Overall, the main reason I didn't like this was because you lip synched a single voice with many different characters. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Here it didn't. And yeah, the whole vid was rather cheesy to me. The concept of journeys sounds good on writing, but it just didn't work for me with this song and anime used.

Fizziks · Post by **Fizziks** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:18 pm

Esrhan wrote:Since no one else will, here's some rough criticism.

First, after reading this topic, the replies and your video comments, I thought: "cool, this one seems to have some idea in it". It would seem that impression was wrong for me. The mood and atmosphere I felt in that video was extremely light. So light in fact that it became almost hilariously cheesy or non-existent. I just couldn't take it seriously at all. Partly due to lip synching gone bad and a song I didn't like too much.

I don't see why your beta testers didn't criticise your masking enough for you to fix it. That white glowing outline looks ugly as hell. For an intentional decision of style, I don't understand it.

Overall, the main reason I didn't like this was because you lip synched a single voice with many different characters. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Here it didn't. And yeah, the whole vid was rather cheesy to me. The concept of journeys sounds good on writing, but it just didn't work for me with this song and anime used.

Well, thanks for the honest comment. I appreciate getting harsh criticism as much as praise, cuz it's the only real way to improve myself. And yes, in my future vids I will take out those white outlines around my masks. I don't know, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Funky-kun · Post by **Funky-kun** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:42 am

quite an enjoyable amv, but nothing too special about it. I disliked the mask outlines
3.5/5

Fizziks · Post by **Fizziks** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:37 am

Funky-kun wrote:quite an enjoyable amv, but nothing too special about it. I disliked the mask outlines
3.5/5

Thank you!