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[Death Eagle]

Requires work

This flash is the type that we regularly see fail to pass judgement, to be honest. The sticks are about the only thing that is well drawn - the guns are all disproportianate to the size of the stick figures, the tank was way too small and the mounted guns looked nothing like guns - only the sound indicated that they might be guns as well.

What I'd suggest is that you use Google Searches, to look for what you want to draw and spend some time drawing them - zoom in and make your cursor smaller, to give you greater control.

When you shoot, the flash of flame from the muzzle should not stay there, nor should you just scribble over dead characters with red, to indicate bloodshed. Watch some movies like Die Hard, you'll see that they get some blood splaters, but not really a lot of blood hanging around in ugly lines.

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Phantox responds:

Alright. Thanks for the review. I know the guns didn't look all that well but I tried. I'll try that thing you said about Google next time.

[Chaos Sonic Chapter 1]

A little long, but good.

What a flash of this quality desperately needs is some proper vocals. Search the BBS for voice artists, as there are bound to be some good ones out there, who can do decent impressions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Dr. Robotnik.

I'm glad to see old skool Sonic back here, with the correct name for Robotnik, rather than Eggman, or whatever the fuck they chose to call him - messing with the original details like that rarely works.

Sonic's intro has him running and jumping through the air, while he holds a pose. For me, that didn't really work, as the pose was held for a second or two too long.

Other than the above points, the scrip was well written and the whole flash was well presented.

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knuxrouge responds:

Is "flash of this quality" good? I may or may not be adding VOs.

I'm glad you like the old fashioned concept.

...Noted.

Thank you for your review.

[HALOMEN2]

Primed for HALOMEN 3?

Well, as predictably happens with sequels, this one didn't make me laugh as much as the first one. However, it did tell a decent enough story and leave one hell of a question mark hanging over it.

What I'd really like to see is more of Steve's days with the Flood infection - he was so badass on that one move and we never heard of it again for the whole episode.

I like the Gordon Freeman references in this one. Who's next, Duke Nukem? I certainly think that you're onto a winner with this series - just looking at the cross-references you've developed for this episode alone shows that you've got a very diverse background when you come to writing the script. Very well done.

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[Christmas In Jimtopia]

If only...

If only Arnold Rimmer had thought of that way around the problems with the game "Better than Life", Red Dwarf would have ended sooner, so it's a good job that he didn't really.

From my point of view, it's unusual seeing female characters, as most of your movies feature Jim and Gary, amongst others, but the females are definately in the minority.

I liked this and your animations are now going from strength to strength. I'll definately be suggesting this for the Xmas 2007 collection and I'm looking forward to seeing further productions from you.

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Jimtopia responds:

The cast includes:

Jim
Gary
Sarah
Kortni
Bob

I barely ever include Kortni in cartoons, so seeing her is a rarity, but that's mainly because I never have a use for her character. Touching on the other thing you said (about my animations going from "strength to strength"). I'm glad you think so. I really do work hard on these cartoons, and really think that my characters are going to go somewhere.

[Skullhead Ep11 : The Bat]

Spiderman / Van Helsing

Well, that's an interesting crossover, as far as contemporary movies go. What I think is the best part of this would be the way that Skullhead screams like a girl when he gets 'skullfucked' by the bat.

Of course, all the jokes about baseball bats were present as well, when Spider came across and temporarily saved the day. He's such a hero, despite getting an amazing amount of shit from Skullhead.

A shame that the bunnies didn't do much this episode, but we can always see more of them next time around, I'm sure. I'm beginning to wonder where Skullhead gets all of the things inside his toybox, as he's developed quite a collection of goodies.

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[Yellow Snow-X-mas Short]

Old Joke, different angle

A nice little short here, with a twist for the nasty. I quite liked the music, because lots of Xmas tunes should be performed with electric guitar at that sort of speed.

The drawing is obviously your own style and it's plesant to see a different animation style once in a while. I'd suggest that perhaps the snowball needs to be sped up a little bit and perhaps make the snowball a little more yellow, for emphasis.

The cat laughing was just an extra punchline that wasn't exactly needed, but hell, it did end the toon in a way that, although predicatble, was sickly funny.

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Random-SPED responds:

LOL, thanx for the review, yeah i noticed the snow ball thing too, i'll fix it soon. The cat thing wasnt needed i just added that to make it alittle bit longer, thanx for the score and review, its about time i get a review!!

[Romulus vs Remus]

Nice aside

I quite liked this movie, when it is taken in the context of it being part of a history report. It was a little short and never actually educated me at all on the subject of the two brothers fighting for control over what would eventually become Rome.

What I'd suggest that you do for an ammendment is actually squeeze a little of the history into the movie, as without it, the whole thing could be seen as a needless aside to the project.

Still, don't be disheartened, at least you got an 'A', although I don't think that the flash particularly helped :P

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MinusNick responds:

Thank you for the review. I made it as more of a joke than a history thing, and I know it's not what got me the A, lol. I just thought thought I'd submit this for the heck of it, but I'm glad you "quite liked" it. I guess i might put in an intro sequence if I ever remake it.

[LL - Lemming Shorts!]

Awesome ending tune!

Thin Lizzy rock, so kudos for adding them.

Now, as regards the random parts of the flash, I've seen a lot worse, to be honest. At least yours was well animated and funny. I particularly liked the part with SporkLock, who talks in essays, not that I'm going to make mine into one now, because I never go on and on about stuff when I should have stoppped hours ago...

*ahem*

Still, when Lemming got everyone to look up, I thought that he'd just walk off at some point, leaving everyone else staring into space and wondering why. Promoting LockLegion.co.uk was also a good idea though, but not as funny.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot - I Love Walruses too :)

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shaka-zulu responds:

Thin Lizzy rocks so hard :D

[Speed-tooning Cows Xmas 3]

Simple and effective

Merry Xmas!

This is a very nice insight into the world of flies and their rather varied sense of humour they must posess when they hang around faeces all day. Love the fact that you considered it to be impossible for one fly to carry the pen, so you added a few more, as if it would make a difference :P Little details like that make all the comic difference :)

Are the flies regulars to your strip, or just a seasonal addition, while they appear to have joined a health club in the second one - you've given them access to the sauna, which has made me re-iterate that I will never use that particular facility in my own gym.

Just a quick idea for your project of videoing the production - have you considered using a program like Flash to record the action on the screen, to save you messing around setting up the video camera?

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stik responds:

The flies are regulars. They have to be, they are part of the cow universe.

I didn't realise you could record using Flash. I'd be interested to hear how.

Ta very much for you insight.