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[Vince The Voodoo doll]

Brilliant!

Well, that's a great interpretation of the piece by Steve Kirk - I love the sound and the way that you've built the scene through the introduction to the track. If anything, I wish it could have been a little longer, just to give more impetus to the piece, as a couple of verses seemed to make me want to see more of this, as his escapades could be brilliantly made.

Have you considered making this into a comic strip? I could certainly see this becoming a hit of the Art Portal, if you made the leap.

The animation is very well designed, with a hint of Ren & Stimpey thrown in there that adds flavour to it. The way that the lights counted down the tower block was fantastic and it really helps to build a nice mood to the piece, though I was kind of dismayed that the band didn't finish with a flourish.

If you were going to use similar sounding tracks and do interpretations in the same vein as this, perhaps you'd consider trying "The Man With The Golden Gun", by Alice Cooper. A very similar sound and the band in the background just adds something to the whole piece here as well.

[Review Request Club]

Emanhattan responds:

thanks for your review and I will be sure to check that song later!!!

[Marlin Talks To A Girl]

Standard gags

Ah, the standard gags of "Biggest erection ever", followed by "I don't see anything" is always a good way to compensate for a lack of plot generally. I was a little confused as to why the girl got sidetracked by the conversation, as opposed to either saying thank you and wandering off, or pushing harder for an answer, as opposed to discussing micro-cocks.

The animation isn't that bad - the cutting out of the woman was a little cursory, especially where it looks like you've taken a swathe out of her front lobe, leaving enough space for a generous helping of ice cream in there. Did you get Marlin Clock from the Florida Marlins baseball logo, or somewhere similar?

To complete this sketch, you might want to add the bit at the end where Marlin actually speaks to his friends at the Anime club about his brush with a girl. I'm sure they'd be able to take the piss in one way or another.

[Review Request Club]

PatriotClock responds:

marlins friends most likely dont exist. thanks

[Tomffrey 2: Gangland]

Not your best

Well, this needs to be looked at from a subjective point of view, since there are a few little things you can do to make this piece so much better - widen the frame, so that you have a better presented frame and the subtitles fit onto the piece properly. With that in mind, you might as well get yourself a black strip across the base of the screen to get the most from the subtitles.

With the audio, the piece needs to get a better layout, since some of the voice acting either has poor mics, poor audio recording software, or just the artist standing too close to the mic. A pop-guard would certainly help this issue.

An interesting form of animation style, with a brief plot that could have been made a little longer, you've got a good start, but please endeavour to take it further.

[Review Request Club]

PatriotClock responds:

the voices were purposely recorded that way, thanks for review

[Who Wields the Staff]

Pure 1980s!

Well, here we go with a lot of symbolism from the 1980s cult and cartoon series. You've got the A-Team (Mr. T rip off); He-Man taking the lead role and inanimate cardboard box man obviously reflecting the usual acting capabilities of the guy that played Panthro in Thundercats... oh, ana bad guy that could easily have been Skeletor or Mumm-Ra

There is some great work, with the gags and the backgrounds that you've drawn, though a little more work is required when it comes to the lip syncing of the characters, leading to something that looks a little ugly on certain words, since it doesn't seem to move fluidly enough between the stills. Perhaps tweak the tweens, to help you out here?

Still, I'd love to see more episodes of this potential series, though try not to overdo the Inanimate Cardboard Box Man jokes, as they get old quickly.

[Review Request Club]

[CoolJaw: P.S. IIII-V]

Bridging

I can see that you've made some notable changes in this piece - the way that the narrator's annotations have been added in - perhaps try to make them a little smaller and out of the way, since they have a tendency to dominate the scene at the moment.

I think that plot wise, you're bridging the way the the action-packed finale, which will blow us all away. I'm looking forward to reading that and taking the whole enormity of the ending in.

When it comes to the contents, you might wish to consider an alternative idea - create a news post with them all in and on the front page (where you might like to put a larger advert, so you don't have to have it flickering distractingly across every single frame) put a link to this news post, so that people could get straight to whichever episode that concerns them. I'm trying to save you frames at the start, since this seems to be where streamlining is required.

[Review Request Club]

Celx-Requin responds:

I'll be doing something that should hopefully streamline everything in the last one.
I think you will approve.

I don't know if the finale will be action packed, but it hopefully will be haunting (whatever the hell that means).

Anyway thanks for the review,
and I hope to see you on the last one!

Sincerely,
- Celx

[Vintage Voicemail 3]

So... I wanna be a sherrif

Great timing and delivery - I love the way that you guys kept quiet in the background, while the purely comic delivery took place and the memorable scale of the joke panned out for one and all.

With the animation and drawing style, is this guy's head really that full of life colour and his hands / neck so grey? It just looked very weird. Both of you having chin strap beards is pretty nice as well, though it does look a little limited on the front of the animation, but if that's the way you are, then fine.

I'd love to have seen the screen shot of this post, even if the number was replaced with a blackout stripe or an inaccurate one, just for the setup of the whole piece.

Did you ever get a reply?

[Review Request Club]

[Mastermind 5]

More evil genius

Well, the gags just keep getting better and better for this piece and you're still one of the best animators on this site. Whatever next? The volcano missile silo has a problem, because no-one installed the iris-opening for the missiles to fly out of? The vending machines have all been configured to run with Windows Vista? The evil bookshop empire (game plug!) is in danger of giving away Mastermind's secret hideout locations, due to it being the only place where you can get a copy of his autobiography?

The cartoon is evolving and the scar that you've drawn on Mastermind's head has really transformed, making him look less comedy and a lot more sinister. With this in mind, I think that we need to see new henchmen characters popping up to add a little more flavour to the proceedings. How about a double agent - a sultry blonde that tries to get into Mastermind's bed and learn his inner secrets, which he tells her in detail, before blowing her head off, or something?

Keep these works coming - more Mastermind, more Blockhead and more "other projects" that would really show off your skills to the maximum.

[Review Request Club]