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[Annoying Orange: Cartoon!]

Pretty annoying

Well, the joke was pretty much like it said on the tin, annoying. Even when he gets stabbed, it wasn't that much of a relief.

Right, what needs to be worked on here? You've got a decent setup of the mouth sets that you want to use, but there seems to be an issue with the tweening in that the pieces need to move too far - perhaps a middle frame to tween to would help? That could help you to get the lip sync right, which would improve this flash no end. On top of that, will we ever see the annoying orange again, or will there just be a glass of OJ making these appalling jokes?

When it bleeds, the spurts of juice would die down a little and would probably splatter more, as in across the scenery and even over the hand - the dynamics of a bleed when the knife is in the wound is fantastically different to how it goes when the knife is removed. (The great stuff you can learn from forensics lectures)

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up-a-notch responds:

umm thanks

[Assassin's Creed II]

Not bad

It may need some work to smooth out a few areas of this piece, but overall, you've done a good job of staying faithful to the moves that are picked up within the game and even some of Ezio's mannerisms are clearly on show.

Perhaps consider the use of Eagle Vision as the next logical step in improving this piece, as that was the one major piece of the puzzle I felt was missing. The combat did seem a little jerky and lacked flow in areas where the real Ezio moves smoothly between killing one opponent and being ready to block the overhand slash coming in from behind him.

Still, for a third animation, you've done really well - next time, voices would be the best addition, to make it more of an impressive piece, so you can have vocal plot exposition, as well as through the animation itself. Speak to me if you want some voices done, I can help :)

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[Teacher's Cake]

Good, but needs work

I love the joke that you used at the end - straight out of Malachy's BBS Signature ;)

Still, what we have here is a great concept, but it was really lacking in places and as a result, I marked it down. You cut corners with the animation - when Mr. Landis enters the room and double takes the fat kid that ate the cake. You ran this loop a few times over and it really ruined the effect for me, personally. The same could be said for the fact that the characters stopped lip-synch about a tenth of the way through the piece. If you're not going to lip-sync, then don't, but equally, don't do a whole piece, where they do some and not for the rest. If you're trying to say that they are thinking, have them look thoughtful - eyes towards the ceiling, stroke their chin, or something like that.

Perhaps, you would have had more of a reaction from the class, that looked a little wooden, as if you're just sitting them in the background for filler material - they wouldn't sit perfectly still in real life, so why have them do that here.

Finally, we come to the audio - it needs to be better quality - move slightly further from the mic an see what you can do. Failing that, go to the Audio Forum and search for the voice actors wanted thread, where you can get some specialists in for it.

You're getting there, but aren't quite home yet.

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EKublai responds:

Thanks for the review Coop!

[D4ilytoon # 316]

Well, that was worth it.

Hmm, how can I possibly get myself around this work of masterful animation? I can't, so let's be realistic.

You've done this for the reaction, which isn't actually why I'm doing this, it's because you requested it on the Review Request Club. Still, I'll try to be subjective.

UltraPop's fight scene was pretty bad, with the stick figures poorly animated and the blood gushing from the open wound being the single most convincing piece of animation in the whole skit. Surely, they would have fallen down though?

Jeremy Bush's part, where some stolen Manga cartoon spins around with some completely inaudible Audio plays on a loop ad nauseum, isn't really worthy of further comment.

Anigen's Star falling down the stairs was the single best piece of animation here, though it was too short. Make it longer, throw a joke in and you're set.

Oliver Reipschlager's piece with spongebob doing some sort of dodgy rap / rock shouting crap wasn't bad, but the audio quality reduced the overall quality.

Sinitran's effort that would be a nice bridge for a 1980s pop video, except for the writing was a decent effort and could be built upon, as a border between the rest of the pieces, for example.

PowerRangerYellow's comic strip started well, but fell apart, as the animation stopped. The music was decent and as the piece progressed to freeze framed comic strip, it was lost on me. Too many cock jokes and a the humour was clearly lost in translation.

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[The Lil' Clock That Could]

Gotta Love Clock Day

Well, what can one really say about this, except for it's a practice piece - there is animation there, so that's a start, but it needs to be developed. Take what you've learned and head forwards, with better drawing and the animation will come along soon.

Right, try to get some background sorted, to differentiate between the sky and the ground. That's a basic thing and then work on the drawing of the stick figure - use a slightly bigger pencil tool and zoom in for better control. Perhaps make it a manikin, then do some animation with separate parts of the being, as it punches Strawberry.

Some voices would be useful as well, so do a search for Speakonia, as that's traditional Clock faire. some sort of dialogue first would help, before the killing blow is struck. Then stop it from looping.

[Review Request Club]

[OBAMA - Land Of Free]

Rather strange

Well, some of the animation actually works here, so it was quite surprising to see that everything almost worked.

With the way that you had the car driving sideways, it did throw me a curveball, so I was a little surprised to see that for the animation, which made me think that you weren't all that bothered by the perception of the piece a s a whole.

The main suggestion of improvement here would be the addition of a subtitles bar, since Speakonia doesn't always make the speech understandable. Showing us what you're trying to say would help so much.

On top of everything there, when you messed about with Livin' In America and whatever other tunes that you mixed in there, it was going quite well until you started throwing the pitch of the tunes up and down.

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[Orange tells a joke]

Can't believe I listened

Sorry man, I really can't believe I listened to that ear rape of a joke. My reaction would be similar to Strawberry's but then I couldn't really tell what he was on about.

Give us subtitles and do something about the drawing. Perhaps even animate the joke, but that would be a lot to ask of a Clock Day flash, I suppose.

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Auz responds:

Sorry Coop :(

I'll try to do my best next time.