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[Friendship.]

Really well created

Wow, this is something that I never expected. The whole experience is one of joy, then tinged with something sad and even a little sinister towards the end. I loved the way that the emotions that are being conveyed blend nicely into one another, presenting a very nice animation as a whole.

Granted, I can see the joins between your animation styles, but is that really a problem here? I don't think it is, even though one is smooth, detailed and flows as an animation almost as much as something filmed professionally would, while another is made by the almost rough lines of the crow's wings and so forth. The way that it became angry with the boy was impressively put across with the drawing and animation style. I had to read the notes for that part, but now the voice makes sense.

I wonder from the script itself, how much you actually deviated? The whole script seems to have given you a very stiff challenge, that you've made a very good piece from this.

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funkycaveman responds:

Thank you for the very informative review. The animation style during the fire scene was exactly to portray the shift from positive to negative emotions, then you know something is wrong(in the story). From the script itself we actually changed a lot, initially it was set in the African Sahara, and also the ending we actually wanted to show the bird when the script implied that the ending was of a shocked boys face, looking at the bird. We felt this left too much up to the viewer, and even more questions would be asked.
Thanks for the review.

[Hyperborea]

Very nice!

Wow, this is just what I'd been looking for - a wonderful little piece that was symbolic and full of little tidbits of information, subtext and intrigue, while also having a solid plot, in spite of there being no real voice acting to speak of.

I was totally enthralled by this piece from start to finish, I'd love to see it made into further episodes, especially with what goes on with the character upon his arrival in Hyperborea. It seems that the circumstances got the better of him and the way he flipped was very dark and thoroughly understandable. I'd just love to see more of it.

With the animation and drawing style, I thought that the nose / upper lip that you'd given him wasn't going to work, but I stuck with it and behold, it came good. The different shapes of the noses and other facial features that you've given your characters gives the piece some real depth and it only serves to make it more complete. Even the butterfly's flight style is forgiveable, considering it's wielding a carving knife, some hundreds or thousands of times its own body weight.

Did the tree have to die in the end? because of what it did to the main character, I think so, but if that was to be the case, the tree that he tried to steal a plank from should have trapped his fingers or smacked him in the face with the plank, before he was kidnapped by the ogres.

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exotworking responds:

Thanks for the extensive review Coop. Maybe the hero was just clearing the way for upcoming travellers like him. Or he was just finishing off the things he left behind. Who knows but him?

[Marshmallow Squad 6]

Hmm... I'm going to need to watch the rest

Well, it's certainly dramatic and loud. There are parts there that need better animation, (What's with the marshmallow with the upside down face?) and while the 3D was good, it didn't really set me up for a massive expression of me being in love with the series (yet) Great work on that part, Battosai!

When it started, I was presented with the poser of "Hmm, those Roman Numerals are wrong" and while I was mulling over that, it all went to shit and the ship had a hole blown in the side of it. Don't these people know what energy shields are?! But I digress. It's probably in there for a reason and the graphically detailed entrail spread, while quite close the the epicentre and not very charred, considering a plummet from orbit was a nice touch.

Perhaps you would consider subtitles for the hard of hearing, since some of the voices were a little difficult to get a handle on and as a result, I was hampered with trying to work out the plot. Granted, some of this was my fault, for entering at episode 6, as opposed to episode 1, but that should be remedied soon, I feel.

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[thdrk and Golden Clock]

Needs more animation

Well, it started out so well, with thdrk bouncing along in the fashion of various clocks that I've seen before, though with him not being a clock (technically, I know), it makes things a little difficult to relate to.

If only GoldenClock had actually been animated in reaching down to take the hat off of thdrk's head, things would have looked so much better. What became of thdrk? Did he run home and cry, lamenting the loss of his hat? Did he get someone else to try and get the hat back, or come back, trying to trade some sort of other hat for the one that GoldenClock took? The piece is too short to leave all of these questions unanswered, so a few more pointers in the plot would have really helped.

The drawing style worked quite nicely, being amateurish and not quite as good as the more recognisable members of the Clock Crew, so I'd recommend that you stay there. With the way that your finished product looks, consider adding length to it and also some voice acting, as that always helps make a piece seem more complete.

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KombuchananClock responds:

All those unanswered questions are so needless. But hey, if you're DYING to know the "answers", you have my permission to write fanfiction for my glorious flash masterpieces. In fact, I encourage it, especially if it's erotic slash fiction. That way, you can make up your own frivolous details the plot ignored for the sake of brevity, like how thdrk turns out to be a classic tsundere and admits his true love for the CC WHOOPS I DUN GONE AND ANSWERED IT ANYWAY, SHEEEEET.

That last thing actually happened, by the way. So there's your answer. thdrk stopped being an anti-clock. Kind of a bummer, really.

As for his hat? Well, let's just say you don't really want to know what happened to it. Golden did horrible things to that poor hat. To include them in the flash would be endangering the sanity of my viewers.

[The Dot of Excellence 30]

Pretty poor slideshow

From the preloader with a white line on the left side of the screen, to the dodgy "animation" where the preloader changes to a play button, I thought that things can only get better. How wrong I seem to have been proven.

Seriously, if you put in just a little more effort, you'd be able to make just substandard flash projects. This one really does need some serious help to progress. Go an search for "Button tutorial", as you need one - making us skip through the pages to try and find something useful out about this "series" of movies isn't going to win you any friends soon. You need to buck up the ideas to make something of it, otherwise, there is nothing to support the writing, which can only be described as flimsy.

The picture quality is poor, to say the least, while you only give us a highly limited number of slides. More time and effort spent here might give us some animation for these slides, so it looks at least on a par with a powerpoint presentation.

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[Get Your Free Tank!]

Not bad

I think that when you did this, there was a pretty decent script, a little let down by the overall quality of the sound, but bolstered by the overall animation. You could have given more to the sketch guy in the tank, but there was something about him that seemed to be right for this to work.

When he laughed, there was a little lapse, where I felt that he should have his mouth moving a little more, rather than just holding the fixed [XD] grin. If you laugh like that, more than likely the shape of your mouth will change.

Other than that, you've done a decent motion capture of the NG tank and if you'd have made the end board look more professional, you'd certainly have made a very good looking NG advert here.

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DanThelVlan responds:

Consider it 'playing' with the viewers head. I'm not done with this project.. I'll leave you all to ponder on that~

[Facebook Girl]

Sad, but true

If I were the teacher in this class, I'd have confiscated the phone from her, so no updating faceache in class for her.

The sad thing is, from what I've seen of colleagues updating their statuses at work, there are more and more people out there that get this sort of crap spewing out of their Shitter feeds than we care for and it seems that everyone is desperate to have people listen to them.

A shame that no-one else commented on her updates, like you, perhaps linking to Facebook Twitter by JohnnyUtah, would have been a nice touch, just to show what her reaction would be to all of this.

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Dosensuppen responds:

Hmmm ... it's an idea.

[RECYCLE...]

A little short, but good

I think that the drawing and the animation were pretty good, but there was so much more you could have done for this little "test piece". With the lip sync, I liked that you used four or five different mouth shapes to convey the speech, as opposed to oscillating between open and closed.

The joke was funny, but if the voice acting was yours, I'd ask that you try to get the punchline to sound like the word "recycled", as opposed to "recycle", since it just sounded like you were cut off in your prime there.

There is an opportunity to increase the length of the film there, by coming up with other bits and pieces - showing us the family of things that are made from Aluminium - cans, aeroplanes, I forget the rest, but Google can help there (sorry for that pun). Giving each one a line and a different accent would help the longevity of the piece thoroughly.

It was good practice, I'd like to see more of your stuff.

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