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[Knife Shorts 1]

Awful

You've proven that you can handle animation, but it really is the most basic grasp of the concept that I've seen in quite some time.

You need to work on your drawing - zoom in and use a smaller brush tool, to give yourself greater command of the drawing itself. You'll end up with much better detail on your drawings. I'd also consider getting a tablet, if you're serious about this sort of thing.

Watch some movies with knife crime in them. Kill Bill or Resevoir Dogs, for example. These will show you what a blood stained blade should look like. Don't have a red line dancing around on the blade, it just doesn't look real. Maybe darken the colour of the blood to theatrical scale as well, it would really help you.

Other than that, great advertisment for Coca-Cola :P

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SCUMBALL responds:

I know about the blood, but it was my first attempt at frame by frame, and I have learned a lot by then, I can actually draw real people getting stabbed now, isn't that great, more violence for the world, just what we need :).

Yeah I'll zoom for this next one I will make.
Ok, thanks.

Damn, you found by subliminal advertising plan! =}

Thanks for the review.

[Wesley Snipes Goes 2 Jail]

Blade or Demolition Man?

I love the way that you've just downloaded some of the talk radio skits and have turned a seemingly harmless piece of fun into a kick ass animation.

I only wish that they'd covered Wesley going into prison and handing over all of his Blade Gear and the prison guard demanding that he hand over his sunglasses. That would be pretty fucked up, considering how Blade is about the shades.

Another classy animation, with great topical bearing and a great few laughs of your own devising thrown in there, like the Will Stamper look-alike trying to get some good lovin from Mr. Snipes.

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JohnnyUtah responds:

the actual conversation was 14 minutes long...i cut it down to 4. i think you can find the whole thing on youtube (just the audio).

[Ruptonia Trailer]

Work on your drawing

What this flash needs, above all is more attention to detail - zoom in and use a smaller drawing tool to get a better quality image. Don't be afraid to use the eraser, as the commanding ASG officer had a pen tail on his helmet, which looked awful.

I'd concentrate on a few other minor detail issues as well - put the subtitles at the bottom of the screen in a black strip, like they do in the movies, as it looks so much better. The other piece of advice I can give is that you work on the mini-game controls and tell us what they are before we get into the game itself - a help option might be of assistance here.

The plot sucks and so did the people all acting like they've got tourette's syndrome or something with the way that their heads bobbed up and down like that. Rip off the clock crew and have a vibrating icon or something to keep the viewer informed of who is speaking.

The other thing I've got to ask is: Isn't it a little long for a trailer?!

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DPlato responds:

thank you.

[Jim Day 08]

Happy Birthday, Jim!

Though it's certainly not your best flash for plot, you've certainly given us a few good laughs with the jokes that you've put into this piece. I think that this is really a result of your Jim & Pals shorts that you've been writing over the past year - you've been setting up one gag, followed by the punchline.

The graphics are great, as always and to be honest, I'd just try to come up with something a little longer that isn't just a slapstick reel. Slapstick is your best medium, but putting something a little more serious in there wouldn't hurt your cause as well - kind of like Laurel and Hardy

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Jimtopia responds:

Yeah well, given the time constraints and blah-dee blah yeah, glad you enjoyed it though, I'll try to come up with something a little more... IDK better for next year.

[On The Moon (episode 14)]

Might Hot Royalty!

Wow, what an amazing installment of this successful series that you're presented us with. You carried it on really well from the ending of Episode 13, I must say :)

The animation is awesome, as always - you've produced some wonderful hitches and given the crowd some nice little tidbits in the background as well - loved the call back to Walk in the Woods as well. I'm just wondering how long it's going to take you to shoehorn Weebl and Bob into one of these episodes, or indeed shoehorn The Toast King into an episode of Weebl and Bob...

Great stuff, keep them coming!

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[Best present ever]

Ah, meddling kids

There really isn't anything that you can do to prevent a meddling child with foiling your evil plans, is there?

Anyway, aside from that, I think that you could do with working on sharpening up your imagery, as the quality looks like it has been taken straight from The Jetsons. The music was good and so was the humour, though the other aspect that I felt let you down was the 'other creatures' that you drew, as they didn't have the same detail. It just screamed at me "Extras", as they weren't going to be in it for long, so wouldn't need that much detail.

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[Happy 18th Bahamut!]

Happy Birthday Bahamut!

Well, the restriction is clear for Speakonia. You really should have prepared bahamut for this by getting him to provide you with the lines himself, as it would have sounded so much better.

I quite like the hand drawn approach, compared to bahamut's usual approach to the way of his animations - thing slook a little too square in his drawings, yet they have gone a little too far the other way with your freehand drawings...

Still, at least you didn't give us too nasty a piece of Slayer for the loading of the ultimate dragon power, though now I must cleanse myself from the slayer contamination that has afflicted my computer.

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Casualty responds:

Thanks for this honest review, Coop, I appreciate it =D

[Please help me!]

You'll get there!

This is a great first attempt at a movie and you can't really go wrong with the technique of a music video - the music is there, you just concentrate on expressing yourself as an individual.

Expressing yourself is exactly why I'm not going to lay into you for going black and white. Leave it as it is, it's a good look at the tune itself. I would suggest that you spend some time looking at the lip-sync aspects - try singing the parts that you are going to lip sync in front of a mirror, so you can see how your own mouth forms the words.

I'm not exactly sure about the cupping of the hands around the mouths of the lean ins in the middle - I am aware of the shout for help might require cupped hands, but the rest is backing singing.

I'd also tell that you're not a guitar player - you had the guitarist's hands going the wrong way up and down the neck of the guitar. Up the neck (screen left) for lower notes, down the neck (screen right) for higher notes ;)

I'm looking forward to your next piece.

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[SF Series Episode 1]

Too combat orientated

It's not that the combat wasn't well illustrated or coreographed, but the whole thing concentrated too much on the aspects of the fighting, rather than the actual storyline which you gave us.

The voices were too quiet compared to the sound effects and the fight music that you used. I was forever reaching for the volume control, to turn up the speach and then turn it down a load for the fighting.

To be honest, at the start, you've got too much going on in the background, without much happening at all - make those characters do something, rather than just pose, they only clutter up the storyboard.

I'd also consider either using better prepared and compressed music files or not using such large swathes of individual tracks - 9.4Mb is quite a filesize, considering how short the piece was.

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mortis5000 responds:

Well I did optimize the best I could...

[The Pirate Collab]

Drink up me hearties, yo ho!

A fine flash with plenty of pirate related pieces. I would recommend that the menu button is re made so that it says 'play movie' or some such thing, as it took me a while to figure that part out. While the mini game is quite addictive, it is pretty damned easy to maintain a streak on - you don't get anything really testing, like a jump, then duck straight away or duck twice, for example.

A solid choice of tune for the movie itself and although some people's animating styles could use a little refining, the overall appearance is good. A shame really that the music doesn't quite last as long as the animation.

Certain authors could use a review of their plot, as their pieces don't tend to lead anywhere. While the pirate drawing an Uzi was certainly not what we come to expect from the stereotypical pirate, it certainly drew a good laugh.

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Bertn responds:

Thanks for the review! :3

Very well writen and it made me happy. :D