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    DemonBotsubscriberbotuc-winner-lvl1 2020-11-15 19:30:14 UTC

    Hello everyone

    It’s that special time of the week again, my little nodelings…

    A new animation has been spotlighted, “Catastrophic Warfare [EPISODE 1] Darkness Rising” by Radon.

    http://sticknodes.com/spotlight/catastrophic-warfare-episode-1-darkness-rising/

    Congratulations!

    Everyone else, get to voting. Now.

    Catastrophic Warfare [EPISODE 1] Darkness Rising

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    • aw yiss @radon21

      2020-11-15 19:33:47 UTC 1
    • Here is my review of it. I’m gonna try be as non biased as possible meaning I am going to go harder on you for this because of hype.

      Now lets start with the cons:

      *CONS*

      1: Too much close up. During fight scenes it was hard to tell what is going on with all the close up shots. Its usually best to go with old reliable and have both the characters in frame and have them duke it out.

      2: Establishing shots. There was pretty close to non of these. If you don’t know what they are, they are some camera shots where you get to see the surrounding area. For example in Stick nodes Calamity: Episode 3 you would get to see the outside of the hospital before actually seeing Thoughts.

      3: Easing. Please, Ease. You will not believe how much that can help in a fight scene. Speaking of fight scenes:

      4: Fight scenes. Look at 1 and 3 for these. Thats basically it.

      5: Introducing characters. So one problem about this was introducing characters. It pretty much seemed as if you were throwing people in left and right. It got confusing fast. When introducing a charterer say, for someone you know but the audience don’t establish their name fast. Like ‘Oh hey [Persons name]’ Then continue with what you want the character to say.

      6: This is similar to five but when there was a bunch of darkness creatures all around this one dude you should NOT have made the dude surrounded by them. It made it very confusing and the best choice is to just have the two different groups be on the left and right. The way I would have went about on this scene would be: A establishing shot then a semi close up of the darkness creatures of the left side of the frame and the dude on the right side. The dude says “The fuck do you want?” Then Darkness says “[Insert thing it wants then] Or else my darkness creatures will kill you” then maybe have one of them roar or something.

      7: No personality. At all. Give people some personality. Now I wont talk too much on it since I am still working on this myself. But everyone had the same personality but since EVERYONE was the same it seemed pretty plain in that department.

      8: Ease up in the refrances cause holy shit. The interaction between Squi, Urban, Radon, Darkness, SN Demon seemed totally taken from SNC. Like I don’t mind a donut radon reference but that there was a bit much.

      9: Make sure to use the blur filter. Especially for things like when the dude was being interrogated by Darkness.

      *PROS*

      The fight scenes were pretty decent.

      The song placing were really good!

      I’m not too good with pros since I really only see the cons of animations. But thats my reveiw. Lots of more work to do but a solid start.

      5 being average I would give it a 5/10

      2020-11-15 19:53:15 UTC 1
    • I moderately dislike the demon backing Natalie up against a tree

      2020-11-15 20:07:01 UTC 0
    • shut up

      2020-11-15 20:42:13 UTC 1
    • F u c k

      2020-12-05 16:59:23 UTC 0