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Inspired by Greatness

Well, that's the best Tankmen 'parody' I've ever seen. Considering the amount of shite we've seen about that, you're the first one to make a decent use of the Tankmen animations and their mouths in particular since JohnnyUtah did in his own creation.

But enough name dropping, lets concentrate on this flash. I loved the lip-sync, it really worked. I like the drawing of Pico you used and the way you used the tankmen mouth outline to get his lip-sync as well.

There was one part, when Pico was walking along and you can still hear the lyrics, but not see any movement. Maybe a chance to fade in the Tankman's head to sing for a while? Just a thought.

I love the way that the feet twitch while the song is paused during Pico's walk as well. Nice little secret :P

Keep it up, will we be seeing any further music videos like this, or will you concentrate on something else?

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ShortMonkey responds:

I'm glad you liked it! I'm working on a website at the moment but I may make more music videos when I get the time. Also, keep up your great reviews!

[Strawberry goes Shopping]

Over sounded

This is a decent submision, but I feel that you over egged the sound a little in places - sometimes, there was too much static on various effects and they sounded way too loud for the purpose in the context of the animation.

Now that I've over-used my allotment of long words for this review, I'll get onto the good stuff. The drawing of SBC was good and it seemed to fit very well with the animation, but I'm not really a fan of the 'chunky' background that you drew.

Are you going to do something clock related for anything other than Clock Day?

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Imacow responds:

Yea alot of the sounds were alot more lo quality then I would of hoped.

I was dissapointed with most of the backgrounds myself.

Maybe, most likely no.

[Canadian Idiot!]

Nicely done

I was a little late on getting on this particular band wagon, but hell, it's a good song. A shame that there's the occasional bit of static on the audio track, but I feel you can rarely have it all.

What I did appreciate was the South Park Canadian animation, which was really nicely used, though I must pull you up on the interpretation of one particular line. Did you think it was "They treat Hurling just like it's a real sport"? The look on the face of the Canuck seemed to give that impression, because I've not seen people with faces that smashed in from playing Curling, which is the line :P

Still, you've done a great job, give us more Wierd Al flash!

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[Graham's Birthday]

Review #508

Well, this was a pretty good use of the TARDIS effect on animations - the way that Afro_Stud flew out of Graham's house twice - once into the sun.

What difference does it really make? They are all sick images, which are designed to freak people out. I'm surprised (but endlessly relieved) that Graham doesn't have it set as his background image.

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kinggila responds:

If he had it as his background, this flash would've been flagged and that would make Graham angry (angrier than when he threw his friends out of the house).

[SONIC: The Skaters!]

Some decent stuff

Hmm, where to start with this one? I'll go from the beginning, as the physics was all screwed up - on a treadmill, if the belt goes too fast for you, you would fall off the back, not the front.

There just isn't enough sound effects for my liking, the ones you used were poor - using the sounds of explosions for Sonic crashing off the treadmill and Tails / Knuckles colliding. Using the Super Mario Jingle seemed a little wierd, as well.

When it comes to the contest itself, you used some pretty neat moves, but you didn't have the best methods of communicating the names of them. Namely that you didn't know some of the names that Eggman did, like the Noseslide / Nosegrind.

Still, I'm willing to give you the credit where it's due - you've come up with a decent flash and the sprite manipulation is good. I'd be more impressed if you managed to get the voices for each character done and some lip-sync for them all, but it's something to work towards

wolfinator-x responds:

This movie started off when Kirbynator first started flash, that's why it sucks.

[Retro Collab]

Different

I think that this is a really well designed piece. The one place that you really let yourselves down is by the fact that I viewed it best on my sofa, which was 20 feet from the screen. The images are too square to be watched close up and concisely deciding what they are.

Still, I'll merit the piece when actually watched from the sofa. It's really good. You've all managed to capture the essence of sprite drawing from the 1980s and 90s and you've turned it into a whole heap of abstract animations, ranging from sublime, to ridiculous, to completely abstract.

I don't really know why, but my personal favourite was the prism, splitting the light beam into the 7 colours.

Are we to expect more collabs from you guys?

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[Vivi]

Nice improvements

This is a well constructed flash where you've shown us the techniques of manipulation and also backgrounds. I think you've made a few basic errors though:

1) The music was wrong. Not bad quality wise, but it sets the wrong mood for the whole flash. That's similar to boss fight music, rather than 'tutorial jingles'. The tempo wasn't right in the tune to keep me interested either.

2)The speed of the flash was wrong - I found myself reading the contents of each speech bubble and then waiting for too long to get the next one or next action, which was slightly more drawn out than needed. Perhaps a 'next' box on the speech could speed things up and some work on tweening to speed the movements up slightly.

With these improvements, I'm sure you're onto a winner though :)

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[craziness in a jar]

Nicely done overall

At first, the blue background didn't look like it suited the flash, but after about 10 seconds, it really fit in quite well. I thought it was a bit random, but when it's taken in the context of the whole thing, it is very nicely worked.

I think you could do better with the sound quality, as it was a little static-laden in places. Are you thinking of making further flash of this style, or are you going to branch out into other styles, as you've proven that you are a good animator when it comes to Frame by Frame.

Perhaps the next project is worthy of more depth to the pictures - colours and maybe backrounds as well?

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[:: Hot Enough For Ya? ::]

Toasty Warm

Personally, the views expressed in this are spot on the money. I thinkl that if a reporter ever asked me is it hot enough for me, I'd zip my coat up and say "No, we need more heat yet.", possibly followed by some sort of fire-worshipping.

Still, this is the usual blend of sexual themed near-naked cartoon women and a squirrelly rant, this time directed at the news reporters, who feel that they could obviously walk across the surface of the sun without it being too hot. Genius.

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[Spaceoidz]

Reminds me of On The Moon

Although it is less insane and a lot shorter, this is a quality piece of animation. I love the fact that Darth Vader was having brunch with a Stormtrooper just behind Red.

Now for something like this, you need to come up with plenty more episodes for us. How long did this one take you and therefore how many could you produce in a year? That way, people become more accustomed to it and generally would enjoy the cartoons more.

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