No worries Pam, I understood what you meant and appreciate your concern.
I may have come off as easily offended, but I'm not. I do really like criticism, but some comments are less helpful than others. Words can be taken in a myriad of ways. I think the the interpretation of a "mean-spirited" remark is left mostly to the reader, but sometimes they are blatantly obvious. For example here is part of a 1 star review left for Scripture Bugs "... After my kids saw this they went and stomped on an ant hill". Obviously mean spirited and I think the person posting such a comment had ulterior motives in posting a poor review as I have good evidence to suggest that this comment was made by someone connected to a competing product in the LDS market.
Communication on the internet is interesting since there is no consequence or sense of reciprocity because it is mostly anonymous. It's easy for someone to say something they might not otherwise say while in person.
I would love to make a second episode of Scripture Bugs, but again, we're a small business getting started and BrioCyrain the ideals you speak to are not the realities we have to deal with. I wish I had money fall from heaven in the form of investors so we could really give Scripture Bugs the royal treatment as far as animation and story goes, but we have to start from the ground up. We can't simply say "Dear Excel, I want Scripture Bugs to look like Toy Story 2, please send monies to me so I can put together our studio". It took Pixar years to get where they're at and they started off making short films and commercials.
I don't want to further defend our efforts because our work should speak for itself. We will continue to build our company until maybe some fine day yes, we will have a studio that can produce Pixar quality films for the LDS Market. Until then, your constructive criticism is very welcome!
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