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[CoolJaw: P.S. III-V]

Narration?

Perhaps this piece would be better with the traditional comic book narrator role, that appears in the frame's top left corner, perhaps just setting the scene. "I went to the victim's house and found that a light was on inside." If that helps to set the scene for the first frame and you'll get people into the story quicker.

I think that something needs to be done to make the writing of the speech bubbles more legible, since it will help to keep the audience there. The ragged state of the speech should be able to stand up on the state of the drawing alone, so I don't think you'll suffer there.

Keep them coming, I'm getting into this series.

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Celx-Requin responds:

Hello,

I wanted to keep the narration something that only occurs when Colin's segments are on, I just felt it would be darker, and more in tune with the overall feel I wanted to convey...

Thanks,
- Celx

P.S. Next one is out tonight!

[World Cup 2010 Champion]

Genius

Well, what a great little portrayal of what the outcome is predicted for the game - it would certainly add a bit of drama if a rampaging bull stomped around the ground, as the pansies would have something to cry about when they get injured, as opposed to all of this play acting.

Whilst I'm not particularly bothered about the outcome of the final, it has been a good tournament (except for the English performance) and this piece has done everything to that effect, except for putting the vuvuzela noise over the top. I believe that there are websites that can deal with that though, for added realism. Perhaps just a button to get that playing if you want it.

Good animation, good jokes, but why not have the Netherlands score one as well, in the interests of fair play?

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[Phalanx]

Great interpretation

I love the way that you interpreted this piece largely with Tetris blocks, as this really seemed to work. Incorporating some sort of Mario action in there to go along with the blocks would have been a nice achievement - the block build up the face of the smiling plumber and you zoom out for one of the sound effects on the track. Of course, you could have had him run along and punch a block, as that's also his style.

A great piece of music that you chose and it really does reflect with the way you've created the video and made it work so well. With the way that everything seems to fit together, perhaps the only thing that you really need is a longer tune and someone to bounce ideas off of, so that your creative powers are showcased to their maximum.

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ZenMicroClock responds:

Thanks again mate! Since this was a class assignment, we had to follow the rules set forth and one of those rules happened to be we're not allowed to use characters of any sort; it has to remain abstract. Also, the length of it had to be less than a minute so that's why it's so short. If we were allowed to break those two rules then I would have put out something much better than this. But thanks for the review!

[CoolJaw P.S. II-V]

A little too bright

Another well laid out story piece and the surreal storyline rumbles onward. I like how you get these complex pieces to come together for the writing, but the art work does still require some work.

With the way that you've blended white in to signify some sort of dream sequence - or at least that's what I could gather from the strip itself, you've added a little too much white and it does make it slightly difficult to pay attention to what is going on. Tone it down ever so slightly and you'll see instant results.

There isn't really much I can add to this, as you're just setting it up for future episodes of this series.

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Celx-Requin responds:

Hello,

It wasn't really a dream sequence, more like a flashback, but I think you got the jist of what I wanted to get across with the color scheme.

Thanks for the review,
- Celx

[Spring: Part II]

Very well done

Well, this is one of those flash that brings a smile to my face, seeing the input from a very different source to the one which I was expecting. The way that this piece just seemed to breathe a whole new lease of life into the song as well was fantastic.

I liked the way that the clocks themselves are represented, as opposed to the usual cartoon drawings of them situated on the characters, you've gone and used what looks like the clock face off an antique pocket watch, which was a very nice touch. A shame that there wasn't a credit for the cast list as I'm sure that people would love to know where you got the audio from, for example.

Sometimes, you don't need to be funny, to be good, but it helps. The crossing of the genres here really did work out nicely for you.

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ZenMicroClock responds:

Thank you for your review! I appreciate it mate and I'm glad you liked it!

[The Neon Forest]

Shame

It started out as a decent concept and then it just kind of fell apart, when it looped so badly, both in the animation and the music. A lot more work is required to get this piece up to standard and as a result, you would be able to create a much better piece.

Stick with the concept, but get some other things to use in the piece perhaps some plot would be able to have a guy that was trying to make the forest neon again, after some chromatic thief had stolen the colours out of it and the forest lost it's cool glow.

Try experimenting with phosphorescence and darker backgrounds - not everything needs to be bright, to make an impression. I can see a lot of potential, but it needs some work to turn that into real progress.

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[Worlds End Umbrella]

There She Is! Budget Step

This piece seems like the series There She Is, while putting a spin of various symbolic images into people's heads, such as the scenario in The Simpsons, where Burns blocks out the sun. No-one got shot in this piece, but you've gone forward and have portrayed it well.

I think that you could have done slightly better with the end product of the cats, since they just looked like blobs of colour and didn't have much detail to them, save for their facial features and even they were somewhat muted in design. Spend a little more time getting these right and reap the rewards.

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[Rolling Girl]

I'm genuinely impressed.

Now, I was thinking "spam" when I first saw it, but there really is a case of "Don't judge a book by it's cover" going on in this very flash. The animation is a little crude in places and could use a little tidying up, but overall, it's a rather impressive piece.

The colour scheme was pretty good and the way that you mercilessly crushed the other clocks beneath Rolling Girl, enabling her to grow bigger was a sinister, yet intriguing part of the plot.

The lyrics were pretty well matched up with the subtitles, as far as I could tell. This will enhance the viewing pleasure of those people that like to sing along.

Where I think you could have improved was a little more time on details like the squashed clocks - they just seem like splodges of colour and don't really have much detail. Sorting that out would be a real boon for your piece.

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[Tails and his GBA 5]

Surprisingly catchy

Well, I can't say that I was impressed with the animation style of this piece, but for some reason, the imagery and the music just seemed to blend together well enough to actually raise a smile on my face.

With the way that Tails seemed to cover all of the women's faces, I may be developing a complex with it all, but thankfully, you broke it towards the end of the track. Given that there isn't much scope for this piece to be continued, would it have been a better idea to just play the song to the end and then break it?

I didn't really like it when Tails was moving across the screen with his decks and the larger image of him with the decks appears in the background for the scratches, then disappears again. It just seemed a little out of the ordinary, even for this piece.

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[Pruit Igoe]

Loved the music

Watchmen does have an amazingly profound soundtrack and you've used Dr. Manhattan's Mars / History montage music to wonderful effect, as the Earth is destroyed, by StrawberryClock in a few years time, leaving the giant fruit to float off into space.

There is genuine emotion here, only held back by the relatively crude forms that some of the animation takes - you've got a great chance to take it to another level and just tighten up on the drawing style - Madagascar shouldn't be that big, the UK is missing, that sort of thing, but it's easily rectified, by something such as tracing an image of the world.

Perhaps some sort of vocals were needed there, just as a punchline with StrawberryClock floating away "Where did everybody go?" for example, would have delivered a classy laugh.

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