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[I love the HALO World]

Catchy

I think that this piece is a triumph for vocal work, with the way that someone has made it sound like some of the singing voices are being sung through radios, which gives a nice effect on the whole video itself.

It's well arranged and the resulting piece is one that's shown a proper effort to get the pieces moving right, explosions in the right places, timing being everything and so forth. I can see it growing on me over time, but let's focus on the fact that it was a little short, possibly needing to be about another minute longer and just showing people that there is more out there than just the audio file.

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Greenfrost6 responds:

I appreciate the detailed review, it's a good break from the 5 worded ones I usually get here. Thanks. ;D

[60 Seconds of Awesome]

Well, it's pretty awesome

I think that this is a damned fine collection of funny flash pieces, which only means that we need more and more of them. Now that you've got enough to make one episode, you need to come back with more episodes of this length and show us a big showcase of your ability and schtick.

I think that the graphics are great and the way that you cross the fourth wall in your pieces is certainly humorous and well delivered. Perhaps these could be extended a little longer each, but the way that you've set up at the moment is absolutely fine.

The next step is sound effects and voices, so these will present more of a challenge to you, unless you stick with the faceless characters that you currently employ, so perhaps a hybrid of the two would be even more awesome?

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Emrox responds:

Sound effects would definitely improve my next submission. I will be sticking with the faceless people, though. I'm not ignoring your suggestion, it's just that "10 seconds of pure awesome 7" came out before this was posted on newgrounds, and that keeps the same character design as seen in these clips. I may be taking on a new style soon, though!

[One Cold Christmas]

Needs tidying up

I certainly think that a piece like this is worthy of Daily 5th, but it looks to me a little messy. I can appreciate that you spend a lot of time drawing the images and animating everything and so forth, but it wouldn't hurt to tidy it up a little. At the moment, it looks like a Ren & Stimpey cartoon, which while it's a good impression of one, doesn't seem to be the best direction to start with.

Moving on from there, a couple of the voices could have either been more refined, or had additional lines to act like filler - the child protagonist could have said "underwear?" as the shocked musical cue played - it just might have helped me recognised that there was a pile of underwear there, as opposed to something that I have no idea what it is.

Good writing, other than that and while the punchline was weaker than expected, it was still well delivered.

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MrAbnormal responds:

hey thanks bro. ill be sure to work on it

[JPB '09 Animation History]

Hmm

Hardly a concise history of Animation, but I think this is well worked through. With the way that you started with Sticks and reasonably well drawn figures, then graduating to sprites, I think that you may have gone the wrong way about it, but if that's how you learned to animate, then who am I to judge.

I'd suggest that you come up with a narrative for that and have a voice actor come up with a nice sound for a narrator, just to alleviate the monotony of just the music, with short, sharp sound effects. It's a nice flash, but it could do with a little more, just to show what sort of a task it was to learn the finer points of animation.

Perhaps other chapters like getting a tablet would have helped, for example, as it's a little short and the progression steps are rather big jumps, which can take away from the finished article.

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[The Things We Never Said]

Nice work

A good music video, with some good additions, like the 'talking text', that just seems to fit in so well for this piece. I think that you've certainly got a talent for making these pieces and I can't wait to see the next one of them, in all honesty.

There's quite a sexual overtone for this piece, with the tentacles (hentai?) and the final tender scene in the alley, where they share a moment and he's groping her boobs. Just what a real man would do :P

I like the way that you've integrated certain 'abstract' scenes for the instrumentals, like the smoke and fire in soft focus, with the birds and flowers flying across the screen in stark contrast to the whole piece. That certainly indicates turmoil, as most relationships can go through from time to time. I like the way that you've either subconsciously or consciously used symbolism to your advantage there.

Certainly worth of a daily third, if not higher. Keep up the good work :)

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tacobuttfish responds:

Haha, the sexual overtone was a bit of an accident I have to admit, as for the other symbolism, it was definitely thought out, and looking back there was a lot more I wish I had done. I'm glad everybody was able to catch the story as I was a bit worried it was too "inside" for anyone else to really grasp. However in retrospect I can now see that it is a fairly common story that everyone can generally relate to. I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for coming to review another of our entries. I always enjoy reading what you have to say! See you later this month with our next release!

-Taco Buttfish.

[Conscience and Therapy]

Interesting symbolism

A rather dark piece that really does hit home with the whole gamut of emotions about killing an innocent person and then sinking into a downward spiral, eventually leading to suicide.

I think that it's a powerful piece, with good animation and the powerful message. I think that you could have done a little more work with the raindrops in the puddles, as they looked far too uniform, considering that there was a lot of 'randomness' about the flow of blood from the character's face. I'd have also suggested that you didn't reflect the faces when they come out from in front of the car seats - it looks unnatural and out of place.

[Review Request Club]

[Shadowman & The Garroter]

A little short

There were certainly some creepy bits in this piece and with the combination of the music and the actual animation, it wasn't bad - with how the shadow appeared to migrate, perhaps you could have done more - the tendril like wisps of the shadows could have done something and the hand that we looked at could have shown a normal hand curling up, then suddenly one that opens up with the claws, for example.

It's a god start, but I think that there needs to be more plot to it. Perhaps this guy sneaks into people's houses at night and steals young girls for his sadistic pleasure? I'm sure you can come up with something that fits for the whole piece.

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FAtmat666 responds:

Thanks for the review!
I know that its short, but I wanted to make it in time for Halloween, which gave me less than a week. It's length also made it difficult to explain the plot.
Also, Shadowman is not evil, I want him to be more like conflict and strive for chaos. or something.
Shadowman is also unable to change people, or even scare them alone. He needs a host to be effective.
I also don't see what was wrong with the plot I had. Perhaps it was executed poorly, but I don't think it needs to be replaced for this to be a good short.
Also, the green dude is just supposed to be a tool/ride that shadowman got his kicks on. He'll move on next time.

[More Dragonforce]

Nice parody

This isn't a bad parody of the Bunnykill style - the animation is good, the syncing is pretty effective and overall, you can tell that it's meant to be Snowdrop actually playing the guitar himself. I'm not sure about the black bunnies singing the backing vocals, but the way things panned out with the humour, it's not that bad.

Quick question though - if Snowdrop exploded while playing the riff, who stood over the grave with the Axe embedded in it? In Bunnykill 4, it was Snowdrop, who stood over the grave of his fallen love, but if he's dead... this causes a few issues :P

Good animation, good drawing techniques, as you've fitted the guitar into the style of the original animation, which is the biggest tribute you can make to an artist.

I think I'd like to see a full song performed, but knowing that Dragonforce tend to lean towards the longer songs, this could be a large animation that you have to perform. Good luck with that :P

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Avojaifnot responds:

It was one of the backup singers standing over the grave.

[Fat PinK Panther]

An interesting piece

While I liked the music to start with, the way that it fell apart for me was the morning after scene, where he woke up next to Popeye. I'd have thought that he was at least infatuated with Inspector Clouseau and would have consummated that relationship first.

Perhaps this is the sort of thing that needs more plot initially to get it going - I know that they start off at a rave and as a result, you could have had the Panther snorting a line of coke, downing an E, or injecting with heroin. Judging by the after effects of the anorexia, perhaps heroin would have been the drug of choice.

Yes, we've seen the symbolism of pieces that have been used to make people realise what anorexia or bulimia does to you, so I can sympathise with that part, but you did go a little over the top when you went into the self harm phase. Most people would draw the line at cutting their own guts out.

Still, marks for trying and a great use of some interesting pieces of music.

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golfinho responds:

....?! anorexia? bulimia?!

WTF?!

:<>

[Madness Combat 5.5]

Excellent sub-plot

I love the way that you've woven this story around two seemingly new players in the game that has become Madness. I just had to go back and watch Madness Combat 5 and 6 in order to totally understand this piece from start to finish. I love the way that the time has come to start explaining things along the lines of 'how did this happen?', as I'm sure over the coming episodes, we'll see a much clearer picture of the way tha tthe madness infects us all.

I love the way that you've put the graphics in of things like the people dancing in the one building - it just shows them that there's the most awesome of callbacks to the humble beginnings of this series that has now spiralled out of control of the original intentions... or has it?!

The little details being paid attention to are what really makes me smile here - the two guys patching themselves up as they go through the building and even grabbing a bandanna for their troubles. What next, a dirty vest? :P The way the sky looks like the static on an old TV, combined with the blood red of a Nevada night that has been the backdrop for so long is really a nice touch that I think you're certainly making the most of.

I'm certainly looking forward to seeing where these two get to come back into the main Madness story line. Combat 10, or will we see another chapter of this sub-plot first?

Do these guys have names? Are they as catchy as Hank, Jesus and Clown? I can only wait and see, but I assure you, I really don't want to do that.

Is there any chance that you can make a DVD of all of these episodes together? It's getting to be quite a trial just to find them out amongst your collection of flash submissions. That and I think you deserve some hard earned cash for your efforts with this amazing and long-lived series.

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