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Time Chasers
This is my entry for the STAR contest
Sorry about the premiere, trust me, I'm not happy with Vimeo and I guess it doesn't like XVID...
~Casey
Last edited by cwr89 (July 27, 2009 (04:23pm))
Let me be the the 1st to say well done. I liked the story and there was some ambitious camera tracks.
Very nice work. I enjoyed it a lot.
Wow, a really nice story to go along with some fantastic sets and effects. Loved every second of that! 
Thanks guys!
I am glad that you all seem to enjoy the story!
if there is much demand I can post a small tutorial on my truck shots and how I built my dolly.
~Casey
This deserves more than 3 reviews.
I liked it, though I felt it was rather dialougue heavy at times, and occasionally began to lose interest. It had a strong story, and there was some good scriptting and voice acting, though some of the dialougue could have been cut shorter. The animation was mostly good, and I enjoyed the film overall.
3.5/5, I'd say
Thanks CheeseyBricks!
I am currently working on continuing the story and turning it into a mini series. I agree with the dialog heavy, I figured since I've been out of animation for like a year, I'm rusty, and I've got a new setup that I'd never used for animation, it was better to have a well written story than beautiful animation. I've been consistantly told through my script writing and copy writing classes that without a story its nothing.
thanks for the review!
in the future look for more "Time Chasers"!
~Casey
I enjoyed this film very much I like the sub-plot with the main character struggling with the Martin's morals. You might want to try to equalize the volume though some characters and sounds were very loud and other were to quiet.
This film has a remarkable story. I loved every second of it and most of the time 10 minute brickfilms
I don't bother watch all of.
*cheers Sequel*
thanks guys!
Goliathan-- I tried my best to equalize the volume, I screwed up though, premiere lets you "set all peaks to equalize" or "set max peaks to equalize". where it gets louder it did the set all peaks. I also had a lot of trouble getting music volumes correct as the preview and the compiled video file has different volumes. I think this was 14 or 15 tracks which also lead to my almost pulling out of hair.
I am glad you enjoyed it. I am really working on my character development. I think the next story will involve a look into Martin's past and why he's so cold.
thanks!
~Casey
Very nice story, I liked that a lot! 
-Jon64
It felt like you compressed a lot of the story into 10 minutes of animation. I would suggest instead of continuing it, remake it to that the story and dialogue can be evenly distributed to however many episodes you want to make to convey the story.
The story had potential, the delivery fell short.
Interesting idea Lechnology, That could work. I feel like I would just have to do a 45 min brickfilm rather than a single story broken into episodic parts. I'm no good at writing little snipits of story with no resolution.
I might try and tackle a longer version. I also plan to switch from just arm motion to actual mouth animation as well. once I get back situated in school and have the time to figure it all out. I think that mouth movement would break up the dialog a bit because its something more to watch.
thanks for the comments!
~Casey
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