Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

Your animation is spectacular, Zach.  Easily some of the best on this site.  You truly incorporate animation elements of weight and anticipation with brilliance and craftsmanship.  But... once again I've been underwhelmed with the comedy and storyline of your films.  I'd love to see a film out of you that didn't involve somebody being mauled, or contained a painfully long awkward pause.

Also, (and I'm guilty of this to some degree with my live action work,) but I'm beginning to become absolutely disgusted with the current trend in brickfilming of gratuitous swearing for the sake of making lines funnier, in a cheap, unoriginal way.  The f-bomb, while bleeped, was completely unnecessary and took away from the final moment of the film, making the punchline a real cop-out.

So, for this film, I must praise the technical aspects, which were masterfully executed, but I have to take points off for the rather unimaginative and unoriginal plot and comedy.

3.5/5

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Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

The f-bomb added some zing to the final line. It worked for me because I didn't expect sweet old MindGame to use it, and I think it'd work for many people because they don't expect it in a brickfilm.

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Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

I'd actually enjoy it without the bleep.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

I mean, I'm happy that the joke worked out for you two, but I just don't think it's necessary.  Shock value shouldn't be the reason why a joke is funny.

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Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

I just liked it... I don't mind of find imperfection, because It's just amazing and I enjoy it... I don't think it's unoriginally at 100%, Dave...

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

Dave wrote:

Shock value shouldn't be the reason why a joke is funny.

joke |jōk|
noun
a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter


Shock value can be hilarious if it's done right.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

Night Owl wrote:

I'd actually enjoy it without the bleep.

Personally, I find censored swearing to be several times funnier than uncensored swearing.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

brick4brains wrote:

How did you get the voices sounding so helmety?

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

I used the Equalization filter in Audacity, similar to this:

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Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

thats awesome, I just tried it and it worked perfectly, thank you! mini/bigsmile

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Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

Just awesome animation.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

cheers mindgame

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

I thought it was enjoyable. I did notice some light flickers, but it wasn't distracting. I think you should have taken about two seconds off the pause so it would work better. I felt like I was waiting for the ending; that's not a good thing.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

Night Owl wrote:

I'd actually enjoy it without the bleep.

Now, now, nick, we don't want to have another 'weed cops fiasco', now do we?

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

*bump*

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Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

excuse me?

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

livinglego wrote:
Night Owl wrote:

I'd actually enjoy it without the bleep.

Now, now, nick, we don't want to have another 'weed cops fiasco', now do we?

The fiasco only begins when someone reacts strongly to content like that, Livinglego.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

yeah yeah.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

Yeah.

Re: The Emperor's Royal Guard

No he's right, if you didn't complain about weed cops there wouldn't have been a "Fiasco".

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