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[Produce Prank Day]

Interesting work

I think that the way this is all put together, you've clearly been inspired by something like The Grinch and various other pieces which cause you to lose it, because everyone is so nice about the festive season.

With that in mind, I think that you've done a decent job with this cartoon, though I would stress that a little more work is required to get the drawing up to standard, without which, the animation does suffer a tad. Make the images better rounded and perhaps draw the detail on the face in "softer lines", as they can look a little harsh, especially if you catch them as straight where the brain feels a curve should be.

I'd love to see you lampoon Easter with this fellow as well. Up for it?

[Review Request Club]

[R.O.C. Ep002]

Incredibly awful

Am I seriously supposed to mark something that you barely even wrote here?! Good god, man - there's no animation that you've done, it's all created by this program in incredibly low quality, with hardly any reference to grammar from the speech translation program either. The only think that it tries to do right is raising the inflexion at the end of a sentence that concludes with a question mark.

Yes, for a few seconds, the Hot Pocket idea was interesting, even enjoyable, but repeating the same thing over and again, without human emotion in there, you suffer. Next time, if you get one of these movies going, get some proper voice actors and sync it all up, you'll get more kudos from me. Perhaps trying to animate it would make a nice difference - we'd really love it if you made another Clock Crew effort out of this one, since that's the benchmark there and at least those guys animate their own stuff.

It needs a lot of work, before I'd be happy with it, let's put it like that.

[Review Request Club]

ninjadezombidetueur responds:

A+ effort for your review assignment........lol.

[On The Moon (Episode 21)]

Merry Tuesday!

Wow, the fact that you included Bit from Tron in there as well was such a nice touch. I've got to say, I love the Toast KIng and Insanity Prawn Boy, even for their masses of faults.

Still, that aside, I think that they really do get well together and I must ask who it was that the Toast King was enjoying some time in the stationary cupboard with. Was she going to spread him with Marmite, or is that just too kinky for his Toastness?

NASA at least have managed to send a probe to visit the moon and they have found Martinis on there, but the problem being that now, they may have stumbled upon a massive mountain of Shrimp-based fertiliser. This could provoke an invasion by Earth. How on earth (or the moon, in this case) would the Toast King cope with an invasion?! This calls for a flashback scene to 1969, showing us how he coped with it, I feel.

What do you think, Jonty? Or am I going to have to pester you about this at the August meet?

[Review Request Club]

TheWeebl responds:

We prefer to come up with our own ideas I'm afraid. Also giving plot suggestions isn't reviewing.

[That Damn Project]

Good work

A good few examples of what you've learned in class, combined with decent artwork and a fine finish. You can clearly write a good plot and make use of the tools at your disposal to come up with something that looks polished and presentable.

I would like to see more effort on the cheated part over the few days and nights, as the protagonist here didn't really do much, except for wave his arms around for three days. Have him move around and do something, even if he opens the curtains every morning, or goes to get coffee. Just something that you can do in time lapse that will make it seem like he's not just waving hands overhead like a demented lunatic.

The experience of the joke is one that we've all had to bear, but I'd have at least thrown the computer out of the window to end it all - granted, as this was created for a class, you might have had time constraints and so forth, but you have proven that this is the tip of the iceberg.

I look forward to more of your work.

[Review Request Club]

Linksys17 responds:

Thank you I really appreciate the advice, and yes the time constraints did sort of reduce what it could have been.

[oh god not you again]

Required refining.

A short, barely even purposeful animation of a guy flexing his knees to a piece of music. Did you write the music, or did you borrow it from elsewhere? If you borrowed from elsewhere, you need to credit it, especially if it's an Audio Portal piece that you used - those artists need credit too.

If you wrote the music yourself, brilliant. Just scroll down a little more on the submit your work page and click on the one marked "Audio Portal Submit Page" upload to there and watch the positive reviews flow.

The art is good, but with little actual animation to speak of, you've not got me convinced. Sorry.

[Review Request Club]

w33n responds:

But I didn't request a review!

[Print Lab Panic!]

Could have been better

I can see that this was building up to something, but I was genuinely disappointed, as I thought that you were going to at least make something from the buildup. Have you peaked? Not judging by your later works, but this does need a little prod in the right direction.

The scene is set for something horror based, like Left 4 Dead or Resident Evil, but you left us hanging there with a massive plot hole that I wouldn't have expected from you. Some sort of punchline about the print lab guy being really helpful, after printing out the work for the kid, or something like that - how about the disc was blank and the kid drops to his knees and lets out a mighty "NOOOOO!", before fading to black, while the long legged thing says "Can I eat your brain now?" Something a little funny, but maudlin.

This animation style is coming along and I want to see these two guys featuring in more flash soon. Get to work on your next one, your latest project is already a few days old!

[Review Request Club]

Battosai810 responds:

This cartoon was originally going to go a little further - the creeper guy was going to try and return the disc to him as Dave ran off into the light, only to pat himself down to find he forgot his homework.

This animation really had very little going on in the story department - we were required to make an animation with a walk cycle, a run, an unusual walk, and so many other various animation dealies. In other words, it's very much an exercise and not so much a focused animation. I really wish I could have gone further with this one, but I only had a few weeks to toss it together, as opposed to the 14 weeks I had to make my [Popular Music Game] animation.

Just want to say thanks for reviewing every single cartoon I've got - it's no small feat! I'll be sure to let you know as I make new cartoons. You're one of my favorite viewers, and I always enjoy reading your reviews. And don't worry about a new cartoon - I've got a few ideas stewing around in my head I'd love to make!

[Urban ninja 2 : Revenge]

Improvement, but still a lot to learn

Okay, so you've done a decent job of the drawing and the animation will come together with time and practice, so keep that up. I will offer a few hints and tips:

1) Your logo should be at the start - it's a little long for the episode, so two options present themselves: Put the finished image in, or make the episode longer.

2) Voices could be used really well in this - That would cut out the horrible white screens there and you would be able to make the whole piece flow much better. There are plenty of voice actors here that would help you with this, particularly up-and-coming ones that need the exposure, as much as you need the voices. Getting them together could help both causes.

3) Animation isn't the strong suit of this piece, but that's because you didn't give it a chance to blossom. The spinning shuriken was a nice touch, but I would suggest that you work with a lot more plot for the third part, as you've got so much more to show us, with a little more patience. 1-2 minutes of footage would be a great place to think about cutting, but this is less than 30 seconds, so I think a few viewers will feel a little deprived by watching this.

Don't despair, you can get there - the answers are in your hands.

[Review Request Club]

Turtlepoop responds:

much appreciated
i always listen to tips :)

[Inception in about 1 min]

Reflects the acting well.

Love it - you should make more!

But in all seriousness, you should consider taking some sort of step away from the "pop-up book" look to the piece, where you've got one animated piece sligind behind another, encompassing the whole of the piece.

Yes, there is a good symbolism for DiCaprio's acting for this Matrix remake, but other than that, there really isn't much to comment on. You've got to up your game for next time - something about the spinner, for example and take it from there, where you can explore if either of these worlds are real, or if the whole film was designed to mindfuck and cause the audience more confused and bewildered than they were when they actually bought tickets to see it in the first place.

[Review Request Club]

Sethdd responds:

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[SRM Rock Guitar Band Hero]

Awesomesauce!

Wow, what fortune that I had to stumble on this little beauty as it entered the portal! A great take on [Popular Music Game] and [Popular Music Game] that seem to be dominating the scene of gaming at the moment. While I may not have played either of these games for a while, I can still see that the jokes related to them are current and I would go so far to say that [Popular Music Game] is the better of the two.

The animation is great, especially the parts where SRM gets Hendrixed and then Slashed. You could have made the hat a little bigger for Slash, because it tends to be oversized, to cope with the head, but other than that, it was fantastic.

With the way that you've done this, does this mean that Greg will be getting bigger parts in the later toons? I hope so, he was a really cool character!

I do love that you pay so much attention to detail, putting things like SRMClock on the book shelf and the way that you put little things like that there just make the episode stand out even more.

Award winning? Let's hope so, you deserve it!

[Review Request Club]

Battosai810 responds:

Thanks! I'm glad you got to see my latest and greatest just as it got out of the portal.

I really hope this wins an award - it's been a while since I got the sort of critical attention I used to get. Either way, I'm incredibly happy with how this cartoon turned out.

I'm pretty sure this is the first 10 I've gotten from you - glad you enjoyed this one :) I'm also happy that you caught the little references like the SRMClock and the Jebediahs I scattered around.

Also, it's no doubt that [Popular Music Game] is the superior game.

[W40k Dawn of Awesome 3]

Great start, silly ending

Ah, how great this piece started, with the dramatic buildup, the swapping of the eyepatch (yes, I spotted it!) and the various parts of the re-hash that you've done. Then the Imperial soldier jumping off a cliff?! Damn, that's a waste, even for an Imperial Trooper.

I'd have just loved to see even more "Spehs Mareehns" running toward the enemy and a glorious death, all in the name of the Emprah, that to me seems more in keeping with the series. I love your work and it has certainly grown on me, though this isn't one of your best. Perhaps like you say, it's just you blowing off steam and they just come together so quickly, with little animation quality to speak of, we're not left with a fat lot else to look at.

Still, I'm looking forward to more of your works being of the usual higher quality.

[Review Request Club]

Battosai810 responds:

That wasn't just any soldier, that was Boreale! He died there!

This was just following up on an actual conversation in Dawn of War 2 where the Marines talk about how disastrous the campaign with Boreale was.

This cartoon is my favorite of the Dawn of Awesome cartoons, since I had more creative input by mixing my own audio.

I have one more cartoon like this I've made to date, but it's only on Youtube since it's too terrible to live here on Newgrounds.