This was a complete joy to watch. The animation fit the mood, and the mood was created with such care and attention.
Usually, i HATE when people animate without the smoothing feature on their brush, but in this case you left it off and used it as a creative tool. I thought that the use of blue backgrounds, to make the characters pop was also very unique. A lot of animators, over colour backgrounds, and distract fromt he characters. This on the other hand was making love to my eyes for the full five minutes.
Although the story was quite dark and sinister, with the hooded figures attacking and hurting people, it reminded me of the classic Disney cartoons. It turned a dark event and story into a FUN enjoyable tale.
I'd love to see more of this. I really mean it. I'm not sure if many people her on Newgrounds will realise how many new things you tried out on this movie, but as an animator, i have to tell ya' it was a risk worth taking with he art/animation style and i personally loved it.