The Crystal of Zanthar series seems like it would be an epic one, especially since it has the warrior be the son of the king, making him the prince. My expectations are high in this expertly-animated video, and I believe that this won't disappoint.
Also, is it me or does the dragon kind of sound like Duke Fishron from Terraria?
Really nice work on the scenery! Both the effects and visual details. The plot kicks in right away, our hero nears whatever place he's nearing, a nemesis appears, and the king fares his fears just before the hero appears and gets that sphere. Looking forward to the continuation!
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I sure hope this gets continued.
Hey man!
First of all I enjoyed the anymation a whole lot. The story was fun and I liked how the boy seemed very sure of himself, keep the good work up, definately would want too see more of you. Though the setting confused me rather much. The music and the backgrounds reminded me of Asian influences, most likely Japan, yet the characters and the castle were more European style, now this is all fine if that was your intention, it was just a bit odd.
And why you get 4 stars instead of 5 is because the animation could have been a bit more fluent and polished, plus the music really did not work that well. The drums through the rest of the soundtrack constantly made me wonder if I was having two tabs open or some other music playing, so I hope you might find a way to make it more one soundtrack.
But in any case, keep the good work up!
Love to see more of this guy!
Hey Xeha!
Thanks for taking the time out to write a review and I'm glad that you liked my piece! I didn't really have an overarching theme to the location and wanted the pieces to kind of come organically. It's set in a fictional world that was actually originally inspired by a combination of China's floating mountains, standard Medieval Castles and whatnot, with a splash of steampunky stuff here and there. The design of the prince's airship has an Asian influence as well.
I really wish I had more time to polish this piece up too. I agree there is a lot of potential for improvement in the smoothness of the animation and the balance of the music. Unfortunately when you have to write, design characters and worlds, animated the character and worlds, and write and create music in 20 days, some thing unfortunately get left by the wayside.
Thanks again!
Cheers.
i think you need to rework the sound, the drums are EVERY overpowering and the effects and voices are too quiet and get overpowered
Yeah, I feel you. I only had a little less than a month to do the writing, animation, and music so unfortunately I only was able to spend time doing music and my levels got away from me. I wanted a punchy percussion based track, but I may have gone a bit overboard. Next time I'll try to budget more time to audio. Thanks for the review!