hm... am i doing good with the dark comedy on my animated series?
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Which series is that?
@CIEIRMusic i am an animator, i have a project by which i do all the animation, the writing, the voice action, production, etc, etc... you can check it out here at newgrounds at my movies or on my youtube channel, reviews and honest constructive criticism are always welcome! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQzTzdxELP3zPMdZXWAgzhg/videos
Ok. Any recommendations on where to start?
@CIEIRMusic i would recommend starting by the first ep by which is 53 seconds long, it's an experimental poem like intro https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/844445
then the promo of my first full lenght ep it's 23m44s but if you don't feel like watching all that you can skip to around 10m00s by which we have some cool action https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/842385
Well having watched the 53 second intro. I will say, it's very dark, scary and downright disturbing, so you did a damn good job. Only negative criticism I have, is a mere nitpick, but the subtitles were too fast. I had to pause it to read them. Other than that great so far.
Having watched your 23 minute promo, I can honestly say. WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH!?
Ok in terms of technical stuff, the animation is smooth, there are some funny moments, some disturbing moments and all those random images throw me off guard. IT took till said fight scene for me to figure out you were doing magical girl parodies, specifically Sailor Moon. The only thing I kinda don't find cool is the main character's perverted bondness with her mother, but other than that, the comedy is solid, the disturbing stuff is timed right. Not something I would watch myself, but seeing how you got a lot of votes and faves on this, odds are you may have an audience somewhere. Adult Swim fans would especially find this fun to watch.
Having said that the only criticism I have is that it's limited by the language barrier. Don't get me wrong, it's cool each character has their own uniquely colour coded subtitles, but I think in the near future you should have this along with the rest of your series dubbed so it can reach more audience. Not just English, but other languages too.
@CIEIRMusic thanks! i'm glad to see a review like that. Dubbing on other languages is a lot of work, recording, listening to the takes, lip sync, since i do everything myself i gotta handle tasks and time strategically in order to don't take a very long time between animaton releases. I still got a few months to see if this cartoon will work, people who watch it compares to the old school adult cartoons from mtv or adult swim. Thank you for your review!
No problem. This may help a little regarding Dubbing. Nothing big, but a few things professional VAs do when dubbing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7Zk_YldYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLeDLAoDts
Quality is shitty, but the voices are still comprehensible on these ones. It's Johnny Yong Bosch and Stephanie Sheh on how they do the dubbing for Eureka Seven.
@CIEIRMusic yeah i do some of these stuff, i don't have a director , i'm the voice actor and the director lol, but i had recorded with a director before, it's kinda annoying "again, do it again, do it more like that, do that it again but like that" i'm not a very good voice actor. I eat an apple and/or a piece of ginger root before dubbing, i act a little crazy while voice acting the character, the metal fiendish like vocals are fun to act while doing
RosieUV
pretty useful info. dark comedy is great when done correctly but cringe when done badly
CIEIRMusic
Oh ya. Though some times even the cringe stuff can be funny. There's a dark comedy horror movie called Re-Animator. Based on the book by H.P. Lovecraft, also a horror comedy. There were a lot of stuff that happened in it that wouldn't fly today. Yet it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.