Nice Work
It's good to see people still go back to the Xiao-Xiao type of stick animation. Keep itup, Haxxy.
Reviews for "Dead Silent 2"
Haxxy responds:
...It's a real shame how all the stick figure veterans concentrate only on explosions, fireballs, and special effects these days. Everyone says that plain stick fighting isn't unique and it's too common, but there really aren't too many around anymore.
Wow Very Nice
Wow that was simply amazing, very very nice a++ keep it up hax
Haxxy responds:
Thanks =) It's gonna be a while before DS3, though. A couple years, maybe.
great!
thats so good how did you get the movements so lifelike.. i hurt for the amount of layers u had to go through for that =D GREAT JOB
Haxxy responds:
Too, too many layers. That's what folders are for =)
Another great movie from Sticktoons ;)
Great Job Haxxy. I am really impressed with this. Graphics are great the stick moves very smoothly. Although the red guys could use some work while like running. The sound was great and went well with the motions but not quite as good as it went with the first movie. The violence was good but I would have liked to see some blood =). The kick in the balls I'd assume was the humor, but since it's cliche I only gave it a 4. Great Job overall and I hope to see more soon and I don't want to have to wait over a year for it to come out like this one ;).
Haxxy responds:
Yeah, I didn't like my running animation, it was better when the black stick figure was running towards the hammer, but I made that one later on. Dead Silent 3 will have more audio syncing because it's fun to do and adds greatly to the appeal of the animation. I talked about blood in an earlier response. And it's going to take more than a year before Dead Silent 3 comes out. First you have to wait for me to get a new computer, and I'm not even old enough to get a job yet >.<
Brilliant!
i saw the first one last year, and i just decided to go to sfdt today and saw this. i obviously decided to come here cuz i knew it would be here. and its awesome, at first i was like...oh no, wtf the screen is tiny, but it was cool with the explosion and making it bigger.
so yeah, ive already seen dead silent one, and this was an exellent sequel, and im with you, there isnt many fighting toons out there now, so i too try to keep them going with the xiaoness, and thats why i make them. although there is always those people who say 'omfg xiao style, sux' or 'omfg sticks, sux' but i love making em and thats why. and finally ive seen a brilliant author who can make them plain fights great. i applaud you.
so yeah, the bg wasnt much, but thats fine, flat surface, flat ground fight, fine. and i know its hard to get lots of them on the screen at once without them dieing quickly, but alternatively you could have loads and they could get knocked down easy, but get back up again, and after a couple of knock downs, they die, that would make it more realistic.
so keep it up, ill be looking out for the next one (in a couple of years ;p). but if you can, sooner :p. erm yeah, thats about all i have to say. and it is brilliant, but im gonna give a meer 9/10 rather than the full 10, as it can always be improved...and i know you wont dissapoint.
flaws: died too easily
i suppose there could be more weapons
mabey a background, although without one is fine, it'd be good to have the sticks be interactive with the background.
coolness stuff: great fight moves
overall thing was just great
im glad to see a fight like this again, its been a long time since ive seen one of these as good as this, well done.
Haxxy responds:
I'm glad to see that people remember Dead Silent 1 from last year, but now that I look back at it, the physics and some of the moves aren't too great. Although it's still entertaining to watch.
ZT and I wanted to make the background simple so it wasn't distracting. I was thinking of having silhouettes or blurred out moving machinery, but that would be too much on the viewer and would have them take their eyes away from the stick figures themselves.
It'll be a while before I make a mass-fighting animation with tons of stick figures, but I've planned to add some more realistic things like that since there's not much else to improve on. I'm glad to see other animators can give me constructive criticism so I can improve even more in the future. Thanks =)