Fifty Percent Grey

March... tststs, ruari isnt focusing on animated violence, this just went well with the script and he animated it in a grat way, the devolpment of his characters is simple, but its more than enough, it help to support the story and has great quality. I really think you didnt liked the idea because you couldnt get it. It is nothing like a religious commercial, it is exactly the complete oposite, it critics the idea and consepcion that religion and society have left, and compares then as the same. i dunno whats up with u people nowadays.....

ok I know everyone loves this. and it is good for what it is. the animation is great. the idea is simple and clever. But I didn't like it, I think people should use every person's critique istead of fighting like you all have with this luke person. I mean it's good to hear good things but if you're really trying to be a good animator it's much better to get critical feedback. we're not living in a socialistic regime here anymore, FREE SPEECH!!! I think Ruairi should work on his character design. Look at the character's silhouette... for the viewer to like the appearance of the character is in my opinion a VERY important part of a short film... since you don't get much into the character himself. I also think Ruairi's idea lacked presence as an animation, I mean did this idea really need to be animated? those tv bits really didn't work with the rest of it. If he likes animated violence (which works very well a lot of the time, and he seems to be very good at animating it!!) then he should work on something that uses that more. Anyway it was ok but not great, I wouldn't seperate it from a lot of stuff I've seen. keep at it Ruairi...

Nice animation, but I dont't like the story because the creature in the movie has several lives as it seems to be a human. As the description says ".. here you can rest in eternity and peaces .." . Looks to me like a religious commercial.

The best 3d animation of all time. Great script, direction and the quality of animation. I guess no individual animator has achived something like this. Ruairi you deserve the Oscar.

the animation was incredible it almost looked so real.

Outstanding! Awesome! I love the animation.

Excellent work. I can't figure out WHY this isn't holding a 10/10 rating. From an audience point of view, I think this short works very well. It holds attention, it's artistic and the animation is brilliant. Great stuff Ruairi. Keep up the good work, -Alexander Pappas

The interesting thing to me is that although the environments for heaven, purgatory and hell turned out to be exactly the same, the characters frustration and despair was greatest in hell precisely because he couldn't leave by shooting himself. At least heaven left him with some bullets.

Uff - what an atmosphere, what a story, what an end... Hell!

Hey Ruairi ! :) I really enjoy this movie and i really like your point of view about it...sometimes it is so true/right in real life. ;) Keep up the great work. Sorry for my bad English... See ya :) (And It seems that in fact, Luke Rhineheart is jealous about your movie...nice encouragement / recognition ...isn't it) ;) --------------------------------------------------------- From : Ruairi 2002-02-15 18:18:00 (CET) (Posted from : ---.isdn.dublin.esat.net ) >it was really well done but i didn't see the >point. i mean, if all three levels of the >afterlife were the same, it doesn't seem to make >a difference that he's stuck in hell, right? that was the point. title = fifty percent grey = exact average, i.e. no matter what he does, it makes no difference, he still ends up in the same situation, so his attempts at changing his situation are futile. ---------------------------------------------------------