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[Fancy Dog: 14]

You can do better

Well, this started off reasonably well, but you've shown in the animation itself that you're capable of moving parts to the animations. Work on improving the intro and losing that "temporary intro" crap would make this a lot better.

Getting Fancy Dog to the moon was the best part of the piece - I like the tween that you put at the back of the craft for the flame. Perhaps a little more in the way of things to see during the flight itself. I think that you've put yourself in a position to develop this a lot further and give the public a much better finished product.

The ending was a little poor, losing out only to giving a badly drawn line image of a dog, that barely did anything. If you thought of other things to do when you're on the moon, then this could certainly improve the plot.

[Review Request Club]

BobtehLog responds:

If you bothered to watch the other episodes, you WOULD OF SEEN THIS IS REALLY A TEMP PRELOADER/INTRO/MENU!!

Ofcourse getting Fancy Dog to the moon was the best piece, it was the goal! And the flame wasn't a tween. It was a fbf.

The ending was perfect, because Fancy Dog gets to the moon. There was a plot, and it was Fancy Dog going to the moon, which we achieved.

Next time you or your buddies in that review request club review a movie that isn't the first in the series, please be sure to watch the previous parts. If you can't be bothered watching them, then don't bother leaving me a review.

[Once When I Was a Kid 4]

Truly bizarre

Well, that's certainly an interesting story that you've told here. I love the way that very few people will use a piece of horn music to portray a piece like you have and you've taken this to the extremes of well designed and indeed of good taste.

I'd certainly try to encourage you to draw your own backgrounds as that's the major thing that lets the productions down, to be honest. It looks good with your own drawings flying across the screen, but it would look even better if the designs were your own.

I think that you've certainly got a gift for writing and this truly does take quite a stroll around the block for abstract qualities of writing, but in order to make it slightly more acceptable to the mainstream, you need to reign that in just a little, which will give you something that more people will appreciate.

[Review Request Club]

tacobuttfish responds:

Thanks for coming back and checking out more of our stuff! Yeah, we started doing the jpeg real life pics in this series when we started it in 2006 and have just stuck with that formula, although we have a few ideas we'll be implementing later to spice things up a bit. Glad you enjoyed it overall, and as always thanks for the informative and constructive criticism. Hope to see you back next time!

-Taco Buttfish.

[Resident Hall Evil]

A very good piece

What a wonderful play on the original Resident Evil game. It takes me back to my teenage years. Thanks guys.

I love how the graphics are largely better than those of the first game - it just shows how far video has come in that time, as well as gaming :P

The few pieces which need a little tweaking are the door animations - the door goes, but the handles don't move with it and the stair animations don't move as if you're going down them, more like a conveyor belt.

Subtitles would have helped here with the vocals, as it's really difficult to understand Jill & Barry... erm, I mean Nick and Corey.

Finally, a little tweak to the ending - it came up and dissappeared too quickly about the character dying. Perhaps have that as the end screen, because it then went straight back to the main play button at the end of the pre-loader.

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

I'm happy you liked it. We messed up a lot in the animations and stuff because it was a lost project. We pretty much gave up on it. As you can tell this was made when there was still snow on the ground. I saw a slow day on the portal and it was a rainy day so I decided to throw some stuff together and submit it.

We never really planned on finishing it, but we still wanted people to see it. It has quite a bit of favorites and fans so I am happy I submitted it.

Thanks man.

[Generic Sprite Flash: 2]

Not bad

It's improving. Slowly in places, but you're getting there, I've got to give you that :P

I think that you could do with working on the sounds of this more - the jingle you play for picking up something is so loud compared to the rest of the sounds that it knocks you back a little. Perhaps make the other sounds a little louder, or just tone this one down a little.

I'd have said that the fireball was the wrong way around. It would act like a comet and have a tail following it, rather than preceding it. Other than that, you've done a decent job and I couldn't spot any errors.

Decent sprite manipulation and a well devised plot line. I'm wondering what the next part might be...

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

Oh shit.. your right about the fire ball... hahaha I'll fix that if I ever make a new submission with it.

I have to work on my sound a lot. I'm not very good at it, so I found a person that would do the songs/sound effects for me next time. It'll be much better. Plus I'm doing voices so I'm going to have and tone the music down a little.

I don't know where I'm going with this either. I'm thinking just another episode or two and then I'm finished with it.

[Strawberry Goes Camping]

Get me my tent!

Well, here's a movie that makes me want to get out the tent and head for the woods! Strewberry and the gang take a camping trip in probably their funniest adventure to celebrate Clock Day 2006. I seriously hope that you're thinking of something for Clock Day 2009!

A chilling tale of some friends that wanted to go camping, their manservant and a serial killer / rapist, who has a penchant for Motorhead.

It could have done with more activities in the camp, rather than just drinking, tea bagging and SBC beating turdclock senseless with a frying pan, but the jokes that you had in there were highly entertaining. Also some damned good music thrown in there for good measure :)

[Review Request Club]

[Yu-Gi-Oh DUB Style]

A little short

I think if you're going to do dubbed movies that you need to get longer pieces and make the writing a lot better.

For me, the next logical step is to start taking these characters and trying to draw them yourself. It will take time, but gradually, you will be able to make a better Yu-Gi-Oh parody if it's something that's been drawn yourself, rather than poor quality video from other sources.

The voice acting was a little quiet and somewhat muffled. Perhaps adding another dimension to the project, by having voices that were vastly different to the original wasn't the way to go, who knows?

All in all, making a piece that is more your own work would be more beneficial to yourself and to the viewers. Increasing the length and possibly searching through lots of relevant fanfics to come up with some ideas will help your writing.

[Review Request Club]

ForNoReason responds:

I appreciate the review. It was in a way an experiment I was doing, and now I can work off of it. Especially with the help/ideas I get from reviews. Which was the main reason I requested help from the RRC. I am happy with the way it came out for the aspect of the steps I am taking to make my next project, and I think once that project comes out it will all come together. I am not trying to throw half assed crap on the portal, not saying you are calling it crap, but instead show a progression of work. Whether or not it will be a success is still up in the air, but I hope this will at least help explain this submission a little more. At any rate, I understand why you might not have enjoyed this movie, but I guess those are the same reasons some people did enjoy this movie.

Also I find the most important thing to do is to first and foremost create things that you enjoy. That's what I did here, and that's why I submitted it. For some strange reason this little experiment made me giggle, and I felt like sharing that, knowing that a lot of people might not exactly enjoy it =p. However this is not the standard I am setting myself too. This is merely a beginning. I hope that with some hard work and long hours/days the quality will improve greatly.

Look at me ranting for no particular reason. Thanks for the review!

[Tendril]

Interesting

A little short, but overall a really nice effort. I think that's you've put a lot of effort into getting this piece right, from the background of what looks like brown parcel paper and the frame-by-frame imagery. Perhaps a few issues within the flash, but it's one hell of an experience to watch.

I think that the eye looked weird, especially when it winked - it should technically have the lower lid rush up to meet the top lid in the middle - with the top lid doing all of the work, it looks slightly misplaced. Nothing major, I note, but still something that may have been overlooked.

A good piece of music, but perhaps a little long, thus contributing to the large file size. Perhaps a little searching will find some sort of ambient loop that would be suited equally well, or perhaps some conversation with the author of the audio will give you some pleasing results?

[Review Request Club]

[Madness Assasination: KT]

Needs more

I was decently animated, but too short, for my liking.

Since you've chosen to make a flash based on one of the events of the 20th Century that gained the most media hype, you're not short of sources for research and chances to improve the storyline dramatically.

I'd suggest that you have some sort of madness fight within the book depository, where the assassin was rumoured to be hiding inside. This could compromise the shot of the sniper from there, so a second sniper has to be deployed from behind the grassy gnoll, in order to complete the mission. This would make the thing so much longer and better to watch.

Also, please spend more time drawing the boobs of the women, they look so weird - closer together, not perfect half-spheres, that sort of thing. There's plenty of research you can do online for this ;)

[Review Request Club]