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The After Life Experience - BIM 2010
Here's my entry that I'm very surprised (and proud) at how fast I churned it out, while still making it descent. 
Excellent, other than your camera color problem it was good.
the only plot problems were:
~The accident was a little strange, I have never seen a whole car wheel fly off.
~He technically didn't die so it wasn't an afterlife experience.
~If he was a good man, why was he tortured?
Some of the effects weren't great, like when the flowers fell down you could see fuzzy edges and stuff, but the animation was good and the story was interesting. The goofiness of how he "died" was my favorite part. 
Nice job!
-JK
Yes, I was going to mention the effects.
Excellent, other than your camera color problem it was good.
the only plot problems were:
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~The accident was a little strange, I have never seen a whole car wheel fly off.
~He technically didn't die so it wasn't an afterlife experience.
~If he was a good man, why was he tortured?
Thanks, bro. And yes, I do need a new camera. 
Here's my response to your points:
1, HE WAS DRIVING REALLY FAST no I'm kidding, it's just usually when I get an idea I just go with it without asking any questions, which is something I probably should do in the future, ask myself how realistic it is that the situation could occur in real life. I'm glad you pointed that out.
2, I guess you could say he got a tour.
3, I expected people would come around with this question. Where he was was neither heaven nor hell or limbo, he was in a place that's just another interpretation of what the after life could be like. So yeah, it's just another idea.
The excellent lighting is worth mentioning as was the animation. Quality of animation is often overlooked in the judging but it scores big points in my books. The scene in the house at the start was very fluid and believable and the lighting just made it better.
It did look like you rushed it in spots where the quality dropped.
It's a shame you ran out of time. Perhaps the last Tim and Fred release could have waited?
I facepalmed when he was in a white expance after the accident, but you rescued that.
The lightning and medical treatment was a stroke of genius, I love that bit the most. Even if it wasn't original.
Overall it's a brilliant entry. Fantastic work and a very enjoyable film.
Last edited by bodville (July 24, 2010 (08:00pm))
The moment he was revived, I was like: "That's it? No, there has to be more!"
This had so much potential, so much more you could have added, it could have been a full feature, but our adventure ended after 3 minutes. There's a lot in this "after-life" you could explore. But I guess within a contest deadline, you can only cover so much. I'd say, if you wanted to, you can do much more.
Aside from the keying (a lot of people seem to have edge problems, wonder why), it had excellent animation, although I find some of the movements overly exaggerated (like the woman pulling out the chair to sit down.
Edit:
Avant-Garde-worthy? Absolutely.
Last edited by Lechnology (July 24, 2010 (09:06pm))
Fantastic lighting, brilliant animation...
bad camera.... grrrr...
But seriously those technical qualities were brilliant. Now onto the story...
I liked the concept of the story, but the whole things pacing seemed way too fast. Normally when you see a 4-5 minute brickfilm you usually think it's pretty long, I found this blazingly fast for some reason. Maybe dialog would have given it a bit more length to it. All in all, I liked it a lot 4/5
-Tejas VIM
Very well executed. I could see a bit of a rush though. I could see some aspects that wern't as good as our other great entries. Nevertheless you did great, good animation, pretty good story, and great effects. 4/5. Third best entry so far.
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Very well done! The animation was quite good, as well as the idea. However, there were some things that bugged us. For example, the camera quality and the flickering of the chroma-keying was a bit annoying. Other than that though, congratulations on a great entry!
Third best entry so far.
What were the first two best entries?
Jocopoco's, and that one with the large minifigs, who got the new house and couldn't even fit in was second.
.that one with the large minifigs, who got the new house and couldn't even fit in
Huh? What entry was that?
I believe it's AncientBricks' entry.
-JK
But he hasn't even posted his yet, has he?
He has on his YouTube channel.
GET BACK ON TOPIC EVERYONE BLAAARGH
-JK
You might want to submit this to the Avant-Garde contest, because you haven't.
Just fyi.
That's...odd. Just pm the youtube link to BiM 2010 I guess.
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