Atzu's Reviews

[me blinking]

Somebody else already recommended you Richard William's Animator's survival kit. I suggest you to look for the chapter about straight ahead, pose to pose, and the third method which is a combination of both. That, and onion skin, will be your friends for keeping proportions.

"AlanBeckerTutorials" Youtube channel has a video about the twelve principles of animation. The part about pose to pose and straight ahead will give you more insight about that.

Something else that will help you as an animator. Act what you want to animate,imagine the action well or search for a reference and measure the time. Of course, as an animator time is something you can play, so you can increase or decrease the timing when interpreting the action as you desire. Imagine yourself as a sort of actor.

Blinks can be both fast or slow. Just be sure which you want.

[shape shiftier]

The frame rate is too low.

Reduce the ammount of exposition for each drawing and check your scene frame rate.
I've seen some animations pulling fluency when animating at 6 or 8 fps, but thats because the poses were very dynamic or the movement worked fine looking slow (one of those was an Oni turning into stone).

Imagine that you're animating three-dimensional shapes instead of moving lines. That will make a world of difference in whatever you animate. Unless you're animating something that looks flat on purpouse.

[FLEX CALIBUR]

Fucking good timing

[Surviving the Storm]

There's a point where the game over menu and the gameplay overlaps and you cant play.

Make sure everything refreshes to play again.

[impossible shooter2.0]

I think you should reconsider another keys to control the character, with the current ones is not comfortable trying to move, jump and shoot at the same time because changing the hands position is needed.
Perhaps having the wasd instead of the arrow keys would help, unless you're actually trying to make this shooter "impossible" in which case I recommend you to look for the game or videos about "The Unfair Platformer".

benjachok responds:

thanks i'm rebuilding this game in new version.

[Omega Shooter (v 1.31)]

There are a lot of small details still to work on like the fonts, the item graphics, perhaps a background design not so dull, etc.
But a really important detail missing is a reward system. The recipe for games is to challenge the player and give her / him a reward for succeed. And then, give new challenges, not so easy to get dull, but neither to hard to frustrate the player.

The game already has a score system, but there's nothing you can do with them; when you die it just repeats erasing completely your last score. You could at least have a "Highest Score" value, perhaps even a badge / highest score online system later. A store where you can buy upgrades is also a known formula. It's very discouraging having the main character like that, with no music, black screen or something. Something that told you "Superb, you just took 2000 wicked bugs along with you to the grave" or "Come on! How could you not shoot a single one?" etc etc

In any case, I read this is your first game, and overall it works fine, I did find no bugs so far, and is fun, but it could be much more fun to play with some tweaks. For example,

Btw The yellow foes remind me of the protoss dragoons. Which I think is cool.

Keep it up rBewowulf.

[Beethoven Moonlight Mvt3 Remix]

This is the best remix of the Moonlight Sonata I've heard. I love how you treated the arpegios going up and down.
This piece has some good rhythm / mood changes and that's why I chose for my last demo reel over others.

["Balcony Rain" - Piano]

Very nice, calmed and smooth. Pretty easy to modify / edit to use as background music.

I added your music in a video presentation about what to do after some critical success, it's the final work for some course of my sister and I helped her a bit gathering the pieces.
Your music helped a lot making it more bearable adding mood and timing.
It's on youtube and the vid Id is " WdEeaLmwMII ".

For the time being, you're being credited on the video description because of time limits restrictions. The plan is adding the credit inside the video after it is evaluated (I wanted to upload it to vimeo so I could just reupload it, but it doesn't seem to work uploading stuff right now).

I'll check another of your songs. Keep up the good work.

XayberOptix responds:

Thank you for your encouragement!

[An Accordion Sample]

Very entertaining to hear.
Used it here:
http:// youtu. be/SQa3HTS-AZg