the story .. yeah whatever it's hard to figure out a good one after ~6? years of making silkroad movies. You dont get a lot of new ideas.
But the editing is great. It's a new idea with the sword, and it takes enough time to anmiate that. It seems simple but try do that on your own. You need to animate a 2d object(the sword) in the 3d world of silkroad. So if sword is far away you need to scale it down etc. not easy.
The water effect is a nice idea, but it's low quality. What did you use for that? Createt it on your own? Or took a pre-keyed footage and changed to silkroad like(color, quality..)?
So you get 7/10 points from me
I'd like to know how you cut out your character so well. It's nearlly perfect. What background did you use(to key the color out)? What location? But okay , theif suite is all black, should find a nice place. But do you have some places for chars not in job mode? Im searching but to now did not find a good one.