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[Rescue: part 2]

Nice animation and ideas. See for yourself!

REscue:part 2 is like a paper-mache. With basic materials and great skills the author created interesting film, that many will find good.

The film and the animation are made strictly in 2D (kind of reminds Paper Mario). It looks litle crappy when the characters turns their heads. Thought the characters are drawn and animated very good (movement, also you can see they have style) they lack this smoothness so liked in Flash. Hopefully the the water run effects are just wicked, and the impression of growing city when the female character flies up is wonderful.

In my opinion, the story is just an excuse for the other, better parts of the film. It's just about another hero rescuing another girls from not everyday evil thingy. But I enjoyed the moments when Ken felt down on the street or when he gets slapped by a girl (looked more like being slapped by 1 ton hammer:) Details like that keeps the viewers near the screen. Also thought the story doesn't amaze us, it's always better than a non-story related fighting clip.

The music is the least thing in the film. We notice it for the first time in the opening. It is either badly compiled, or low quality, but neither one is suitable for someone with who appreciate a good piece of audio work. Personally i couldn't make anything of the music in the opening. The only audio i enjoyed was the fighting sounds and Ken sayings (any other charactes were mumbling under their noses).

The overall is good. The grahpics bring fresh ideas in the world of Flash animation, the music not. Worthy viewing to se some great ideas :)
P. S. I would give it 7 if it weren't for the ZEBRA in the beginning and the end of te film. It's not what it was doing there, it's what Ken was doing with it 'o_0'

[Utopia]

Fans of Ghost in The Shell will surely like it -_-

When i saw the title I thought "*Great*, another human-machine philosophical story". But after seeing it ONCE i must say that there is something fresh about it. In Ghost in The Shell (which i find the best related piece of work) the main characters were always robots who live, or try to to live in human society. But in Utopia there is no human world. The main character, who is a robot, must struggle with more ancient, and primitive benig then just humans. It's a small step forward in the history of battle between those created artificial and the creators themselves. I find the story really nice.

The Graphics of robots and his "enemies" (don't won't to spoil) are done nice-looking and can be done simple with only Flash tools. some of the elements were copy pasted(background), but that's tolerable. The best side of the film is it's action. The author used almost every known run-away element in the film, like enemies reaching the unaware victim. Also the robot is not just a solid piece of metal. We can see by the expression of it's face when it's tired, scared, thinking. It moves mostly in 2d dimension, but the the film has many scenes wtih diffrent perspectives of cameras. Also the number of details makes te game in some scenes skipping the frames, which annoys users with less than 2 GHZ one the comp.

And finally, the music. It has the beat, doesn't sound bad and catches attention. It also gives juice to the action. But becouse it's not what really interested me, i'm not giving it more than i had.

All in all this is a nice piece of work. It's better then an avarage film, and thus worth seeing it.

Vuny responds:

Wow, that was a mouth fool. But you're right, alot of people said it was really choppy, didn't run choppy at all on my Comp.