Broken Saints Finale Available

An anonymous reader writes "The hour-and-a-half finale to the killer animated Web comic Broken Saints is finally available. I just finished watching it, and I can't believe that only three guys made the damn thing. The story is intense, the music kicks, and the art's cool if you dig anime. Nice effects, really cool style, and even some nice Linux hacking scenes." We've covered this award-winning Flash-animated series previously.

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stuff like this

[Transient0]

makes me incredibly happy as an artist. We are slowly but surely moving away from the paradigm of a handful of millionaire artists with corporate backing to a new world where every other person is an artist. The community is once again entertaining itself in the tradition of the tribal storyteller, only now the community is global.

gives you a warm feeling inside if you can get past the pervading cynicism of the times for a moment.

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[Lord_Dweomer]

"It makes no difference how ceesy the "global village paradigm schtick" may be, a time is coming where people are producing art and putting it out there simply because the community wants to be entertained and it feels good to be the entertainer."

Wow, I don't think I've seen a better job of someone summing up the original definition of "entertainment". That is what it used to be all about. Now its going through its whole corporate phase because thats the only way to get heard. But thanks to the internet, that is slowly starting to change. Eventually, it will compete with/replace those who do it for profit because the desire to be heard is worth more to some people than making money. And suddenly there's a lot more passion behind the work too. Distribute it for free...and guess what? Corporate garbage entertainment is then seeing a direct, free, LEGAL competitor who they have no control over. If its hippies that are starting all this, I say PASS ME THAT JOINT!!!!.

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[adrianbye]

What is happening is that it is becoming easier for individuals to get their content out.

In the past it was much harder - and thus we had record company royalties of 5%-12%. The reason those rates are so low is that getting content out by traditional methods is hard. But now that is changing and the balance of power is shifting to the artists.

Its a good thing.

As a person non-interested in comics and anime...

[garcia]

I found the animation (while small in size) to be rather boring and slow-paced. I suppose that was the point.

The animation was VERY well done and the sound-effects and graphics were actually pretty amazing.

The story-line was slow and didn't hold my attention.

While I appreciate the artistry it wouldn't be good for the mainstream unless the pace was quickened.

Just my worthless .02

Looked lame, but I'll try it

[mao che minh]

I watch the trailer and some of the first spisode. It looked awkward and messy to me (animation and artwork). I wasn't sold on the average storyline either. But, considering the fact that it won a Sundance award, I'll give it a shot (I can only assume that it gets better).

The whole "treatment of Iraq" based character is ignorant though. I bet the creators are punk rock slackers - you know the kind, they attend the riots but never know what they're fighting for, they ramble on all day about imaginery politics and "fighting the man" (which is usually their rich white dad), they are always in a "band", etc.

Only three guys made this?

[djeaux]

Heck, I figured they'd need a team of at least a dozen just to wait for it to load & review it.

And I still can't comment on the artwork -- after a 5 minute wait for the "50K skinny site" to download, my browser locked up. OK, I'm probably not running the latest-and-greatest: this is "only" a 1.8 GHz Wintel PC with 255 MB RAM & a T1 connection with Netscape 7.02... I'm sure the site looks fine on a 3.0 GHz Linux box with a gig of RAM & a T3...

The point of this rant is that it's a damned shame that excellent artwork gets flushed down the tube of Flash.

Re:As a person non-interested in comics and anime.

[MagPulse]

I agree that it's technically good but the story is slow. Slow stories are okay if there are things happening to think about or pay attention to. But this animation could be compressed to a third of its length and lose nothing.