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[[SG] TFAS Preview]

Nice work

A great tune to work on - it's a wonderful tune, but that might just lead to a project being a little over-ambitious. You've given us a good animation of AxeShades playing Guitar Hero III, but I would suggest that you move the hand on the neck, even if it's to suggest that you know which notes to play ;)

The animation is pretty damned good, but it's the plot that really lacks - you've given us an animation that shows your talents, but a few groups of Shades wandering almost aimlessly around the place just doesn't seem like you've thought through what they are doing.

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AxeShades responds:

Good points. I intend to go through everything a little more before i submit the completed version of course, adding more animation here and there (For example, when the guys are running with weapons maybe take out the motion tweens and draw some running animation)

The plot is not really obvious at this point. At the moment it is the struggle between our original founder: lampshades (who is the enormous big guy in the movie) and the rest of the gang who eventually find a new place to stay and continue being members of the shades gang. All of this will be, of course, explained before the video in the completed version.

Thanks for your review, Coop.

[Ichi Vs Byaku]

Hmm... different

Okay, so I think that you've certainly produced a flash that was original in concept and animation style, though I can see where you've borrowed from certain genres.

I think that you dragged it out a little much for my particular tastes. I would have recommended that you cut a few of the fight scenes, because the production of a script of about 3 secret moves one after the other just didn't seem right to me. The characters broke the fight up with the conversation pieces, which would flow much better if you could gain a voice artist.

I would also have added a black bar along the base of the screen, to put the subtitles on. Sure, using different colours for the different characters would help to avoid confusion. I think this would allow you to concentrate on the combat to a greater degree.

The other thing that could use a little improvement would be the work on the drawing style - it's pretty good throughout, but the occasional close up and when the ginger lad gets the Phantom of the Opera / Medieval style skull mask, it does show a few minor issues with your drawing style. A little more work here to round off the edges and perhaps add a little shading in (cheekbones?) would be highly beneficial to this piece.

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Ogiyose responds:

the black bar at the bottem of the screen for subtitles is a gd idea, i might do that next time thx.

[In my mind]

Nice, but random

Certainly an interesting piece, with some cross-discipline style of animation. The frame by frame was well made, but is certainly not the best part of the piece. I like the scene setting and the way that you drew it.

With the well drawn parts, you need to concentrate on those a bit more, but it's at least something to work towards. I think that it shows your quality as an animator and I would love to see you develop this sort of thing to a full flash or even a series.

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Lochie responds:

A series, I never thought of doing that, I might now actually.

I will work towards drawing more detailed pictures from now on, thank you.

[Corky52's Birthday Collab]

Jesus

I think I've just had a seizure from watching MinusNick's piece - did you have to go with the funny coloured bar sliding across the screen to distract me from the whole stats part of the flash - the one meaningful piece of information in the flash and I was distracted from it!

FamilyGuy05 - why? That's all I need to know, as you've done less animation that in one of Afro_Stud's Adolf Hitler flash. That's saying a lot. Produce something with animation, so that it's worthy of being on the thing, rather than just spouting a 16-bit Happy Birthday tune.

Still, at least we've still got yosh-AAAAAAARGH! Fuck, why did I even bother to tempt providence.

[Review Request Club]

[fbf something]

Utter garbage

I'm sorry, I have little praise for this piece, as it really barely merits a review - the only saving grace is that I can point out where to improve, i.e. everywhere.

Start by losing the background - this sort of animation would be better off on a white screen, or any other colour, for that matter. You then need to work on the frame-by frame animation. It needs to have a certain oomf, by going further than the outline of a rocket. With this in mind, you need to take it further and not loop in when you get to the rocket - take the rocket further, increase the fps speed and really go for it. Plenty of tutorials on this site can help with FBF skills.

Also, the music - a nice piece, but I think it needs to have further animation to justify such a nice piece being a part of this. Try searching for some shorter tunes, which might be better suited to the length of the tune.

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mikkim responds:

Losing the background- If I remade this, I wouldn't do that... I think it looks good. improve the animation to make it longer- exactly what I would do... btw, I don't need tutorials to do that, I just need to stop being so lazy... lol- the music- I made this for the music, not the other way around, so... Nope. I agree with the extend the piece alot, but I don't agree with remove background, music, or learn how to do fbf, because I don't need to learn what I alredy know/knew.

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 8]

Great fun

Always good to see Jim and Gary having some fun together. So now that youv'e got Flash CS3, will you be putting the explosion tools to good use?

In short, more explosions please!

Never seen a demonstration of this kind of technique outside of a tutorial. You've got a nice spread across the board with these new techniques. Happy playing with them and I look forward to improved productions.

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Jimtopia responds:

Yeah it does kind of give off a "tutorial" vibe doesn't it? The only difference is that in this, you don't learn anything. I'm pretty excited myself to see what all Flash CS3 offers as well.

[Can I Play With Madness]

Nice work

All these years that I've been both a fan of Madness and of Iron Maiden and I never considered anything like this. It's great work, though I really wish that you'd taken it a lot further - get through the main bulk of the song before you have Jesus and Hank meet up - then some sort of awesome battle between the two during the instrumental, as there are plenty of guitar cues for the more exotic of weapons, should we say?

I think that you've got a great little animating styl;e here - it really adds to the whole madness style of things and you've taken Krinkles' own work and given it your own personal flair. When you consider the volume of Madness themed flash submitted on Madness day, they mostly tried to copy Krinkles exactly. You're artistic tweak has really improved it nicely.

[Review Request Club]

[MD08: Cliffs of Dover]

Work on the guitar

It's not a bad submission - I would suggest that you focus on how to move the hands while playing the guitar, as sometimes, you're wandering up the neck for higher notes. To get higher notes, the rule of thumb is bring the hands closer together.

I quite liked the joke at the end, but it was a real shame that you didn't see the whole song through, as I'd have loved to hear the whole thing played by a madness guy :)

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[ifone]

Cutting Edge Satire

Well, this certainly sums up what features are available to me with the new ifone. Personally, I think that I'd love to buy a phone that I can use to make phone calls and write text messages, since that's all I've really used mine for since about the late 90s.

Anyway, moving on from that, the satire is good, as is the animation style and joke nature. Its good humoured, without being too abrasive and potentially offensive. Personally, I'd have gone into more depth about these aditional features that you would never use, probably giving more animation to show how it isn't worth buying, even if they were giving them away and your other choice was to contract a particularly painful disease.

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RhysMus responds:

haha thats a mighty fine idea :D
maybe an ifone 2...... nah prolly not
thanks anyways man :D

[PINEAPPLE]

Hmm

I think that this piece has great potential to be something much more than you currently have. You don't really have much of a plot, but it is something that can be worked on, as the tune that you started with is pretty good until you reach the trippy bit towards the end.

I think that it was going well until you decided to reverse, which just seemed like a bit of an animation cheat to me, so it needs to be taken further and given more form - give the guy arms and give him some sort of purpose that he can be used with on the whole scale of things.

A good start, but it needs a little more.

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