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[Cows Pooping]

Pile of shit

Was exactly what I was expecting from this piece. The animation is basic, crude and not very deep (except in faeces)

I know that you're capable of so much more when it comes down to your animating and writing abilities, so why not give us something that is worth your time?

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Imacow responds:

:(

Yeah, really just submitted it for fun, hopefully I can put out something better soon.

[lalalooloo]

Music > Animation

I can't give you any credit for putting these pieces of music to this animation - it's hardly representative of any kind of justice for these artists. The animation needs a lot of work. Try giving us something that is actually representative of the music itself, then combine it with the beat and get a nice tempo going.

Perhaps, with an animation so short, you will need to hit just one song at a time, as this looks as though you've got several songs too many for the animation, which isn't even as long as one piece.

Once you've got the hang of drawing the animation properly, you'll be able to add a splash of colour, that will certainly help the overall look of the piece.

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mikkim responds:

sigh. people don't understand me. only the animation. sigh.

[Don't eat that Sandwich!!]

Genius

Great animation, great comedy and a well rehearsed routine. I think that this piece really does an excellent satire on what happens to people who work as security guards in shopping malls. Trapped within the same walls day after day, with only a few shops to patrol (mostly Starbucks), they really do need some excitement in their lives.

Did you come up with this from personal experience or from just a few random ideas about mall cops?

I loved the deadpan of the punchline, as it was delivered with a great sense of timing, with everything else that has transpired being taken into consideration... that and the bear standing there in the shop growling in a rather effeminate, non-committal way.

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[MSLand Ch 2 Ep 1]

Interesting

Not a bad little animation, although I would suggest that you don't break the episodes down so much - there is a lot to be said for getting the whole episode into one block. If you look at what has happened with GunChest, for example, there is a lot of detail in those episodes and they are always over the filesize limit, so you've got a lot of stuff that you can do with one 10mB limit.

A nice job, but I would look for the spelling correction - you've missed the final e off of Milkshake a few times, which people do notice, but it's not the be all and end all of the project. If you put that right, it looks like you've got something good going.

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Grimasen responds:

hi, thanks.

[Halloween night intro.]

Great stuff

A lovely little trailer, although I do believe that it was a little large for the purposes of being a trailer for a game - the real thing is going to have to be massive to put this one to bed adequately.

An awesome drawing style, with some great suspenseful music and an unusual style of adding the writing to the whole thing, but it is quite effective.

I might have moved the whole images to put the writing on , with maybe one or two of the images opening mouths, as it just doesn't seem right doing it for everything.

I look forward to the finished product.

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[Ghost Motel 3]

Steepled in mystery

Not a bad continuation of the story here - I think that there may be one or two areas of the plot and the animation to work on, with perhaps a little better a flow for the pieces of writing. I know it's easier for some people to read, but changing the buttons to something resembling a play button, rather than a note stating "click this when you're done reading" would improve the flow and make it look less messy.

I think that the plot was good and it is developing the relationship between Joseph and Tabitha, while giving us a greater insight into what Joseph wants to get out of his death.

Still, as you go on making these, I'm sure that the animation will become easier to make and as the animation progresses, I'm sure that you will find easier ways to draw the characters and scenes.

I would have suggested a better approach to the music, with possibly a better selection of strings, to promote a more creepy atmosphere and while it was a little loud, compared to the vocals, but it didn't sound too bad, that's all I'm trying to say.

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Violet-AIM responds:

As for the music yeah, I understand but it was just something i felt needed to be there, thank you for the review.

[Ghost Motel 2]

A good series

Though it wouldn't have scored as highly in the current climate as it did back in the day, this is still good quality material, that I'm enjoying. I think that it is starting to explore a lot of areas that relate to the human psyche and the whole system of belief. Currently, with the way I stand, I think I'm going to end up in a place like this one, but that's fine with me, if I can watch all of these and see how to cope with it all.

An interesting blend of the interactivity on this movie - the controls are limited, rather than a proper point and click adventure, but I would suggest that it could be made into a game now. I'll bet that the equipment available to the pair of you is vastly superior now and that you could deal with little issues like making the animation look so much better - waggly tails for the ghosts, perhaps? Maybe an opaque finish, so you can see through them a little as well.

Of course, the voice acting will get a lot better too, with a better mic, to pick up the sounds better, with less static.

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Violet-AIM responds:

I dont remember if we had a new mic for later stuff, but as the content i liked it because i myself wanted to understand that element aswell.

[AIC: I Stay Away Lyrics]

Hmm

Well, it's not the greatest flash I've ever seen, but that means you've got a good scope to work with in the development of the project as a whole.

I think that you need to try looking at the lyrics and seeing what it visualises - present some sort of story through the lyrics and the music - animate a story and not just present the words to us all with the occasional picture of hearts and eyes.

I think that working on the drawing aspect would help as well - zoom in and spend more time tidying up the pieces that you're drawing, as it would make a huge difference to the piece. That and picking two colours for the text and background that wouldn't clash so badly.

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[MilkshakeL Ch.1 Ep.2 [EN]]

Almost Monochrome

Not a bad production, but like other reviewers have mentioned, it does need more than just the occasional sporadic splash of colour. Without the colour, Mr. Jonathan really stands out like a sore thumb when he is put onto the real life images.

I think that you could do with a few more alterations as well, such as the addition of a subtitles bar, so that they don't jump around all over the place - either that or get yourself a good voiceover artist to save you that effort. The second thing is to really concentrate on animating all of the piece, as those bits that you've done seem reasonably competent, although when the rest of the animation consists of still images, it does let it down a little.

The plot does tend to drag on a little as well, especially through the long dialogues that don't have the skip buttons attached to them. Editing or adding skip buttons would certainly be your best bet here.

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Grimasen responds:

Hi, thanks for that review.

[Chickenscratch: Episode 1]

Weird

A nice little flash, that has a slightly deranged plot line. I like it.

I think that you could use a slightly better quality mic, or move a little further from it - the voices did sound a little muffled, as if you were breathing a little too heavily into the mic itself. Try maybe turning it down a little, so that you can hear what is being said properly.

I think that for the first episode, you could still have expanded the plot line slightly - this is more of a set up and knock down play, where little introduction is needed, but if you're going for a series, you need to juxtapose the characters properly - we don't even know their names, just that they disagree about the wax / plastic elements of the toy soldiers.

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malestro responds:

As said before we are working on getting real voice actors. The names were at the beginning. :)