B++
this must have taken you forever. i commend you on your will to finish a flash animation of this length. i know i can't go past a month working on any one of mine without giving up on it.
- the music was great. i thought your choices fit very well with their scenes. i was kinda hoping there would be more narration, though. you had some in the beginning and at the end but putting some in the middle would have made it more consistent and would have brought out the characters more, imo. since the quality wasn't at it's best, i think some narration could fill in what we might overlook. for example, when the inventor's dog died, i thought he moved on rather quick. i thought some narration would have been good to describe some of his emotions to really drag out the sadness of the scene.
- the animation was pretty good considering how long this thing is. nothing really stood out though. it was just good enough to tell the story.
- the story itself was good but also a bit disappointing. personally, it bothered me that the story lacked a character to really hate. the inventor was looking to be this character but then he goes and shows us his soft side with the dog scene (one of my favorite parts, btw) and also gives lucy new arms and the toy shop. with the inventor being both evil and nice, i think it took away the possible emotional build up for when lucy finally escapes his hold on her. but the story takes an unexpected turn with him leaving everything to her so it kinda dampens the satisfaction of her freedom at the end a bit.
overall, this was a good animation but i thought it could have been more powerful than it was.