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[House of 1000 Cats]

Pure Bliss

The symbolism of this piece is just what we need here and now. No cat should ever come between a man and Newgrounds!

I like the way that you've aged the characters to show what they are like as late teens / early twenties. The only thing really missing from Pico would be a little ginger stubble on his chin, because we all know he's too manly to shave, just like Tom is. I'll let you off for not including the beard in this, because it's obvious that you've spent absolutely ages working on this flash.

I'm certainly going to have to pass this one on to various people, because they all appreciate good artwork, like we see here. What I've got to ask is what was daily feature, because it had to be something special to knock this baby off top spot, which it rightfully deserved.

The other thing was I thought that Pico's eyes were green, not blue...

[Review Request Club]

[Cat Face ep.3]

But I need money!

These toons are getting us somewhere with plot, but I'd prefer if you gave us slightly more - it's funny, but there's something missing in my opinion, so maybe there is something to have a whack at with the later episodes for you, I don't know, I'm not an animator, am I?

Cat Face is getting a reputation for doing silly things around the place and for having the Cold Feet font in his show, though he hasn't won as many awards yet. Will he ever admit to borrowing those letters?

[Review Request Club]

[A Thousand Frames]

Needs more

I hope that this project ahs shown you how you need to draw more frames to slow the animation down and smooth it out a bit. The way you were with some parts of the animation, it moved far too fast for my liking. This is where frame-by-frame animation gets tedious, I'm afraid.

When the world turned into a gumball, I'm not sure that you really needed to tell us that it was a gumball, before it was bitten. Maybe make it so that the jaw clamps around it, chews it for a while, then blows a bubble, for instance.

Still, you've gone some way to learing the skills that you need, I'd reccomend that you work on making a definative plotline for these things, just to keep it all in perspective.

[Review Request Club]

blackcat2000 responds:

Yeap, it sure has shown me that fbf is tedious :P
The gumball thing is actually a pretty good idea... not sure why I didn't think of it... Oh well, that's what comes of rushing my drawings!
A plot is indeed much needed. For my next animation, there is and will be a plot... no worries :)

[A Thousand Two Frames]

Interestingly Random

This is certainly a piece that I am going to have difficulty describing. The only superlative that I can think of for this is 'abstract', which is a good word for it nonetheless.

Personally, I'd have preferred the presentation to have had a plot, rather than just being a set of randomly designed pieces that have been joined together under the banner of one tune. Perhaps it could have used more insight into the tune to see where it takes your mind when you listen to it. Either that, or you have an interesting mental state, to say the least.

Though, as Frame-by-Frame animations go, this is good. I just think that you could do something so much better if you put your mind to it.

[Review Request Club]

blackcat2000 responds:

I agree with abstract.
I chose the tune first, but didn't animate based on it. The reason for lack of plot is that i took my frame by frame animations (both this and "A Thousand Frames") as sort of a training... into drawing something based on a random idea again and again. Future animations should have a planned out plot, I'm hoping. Or at least a goal.
Thanks for the review :)

[The Beelion]

Needs more.

This isn't that bad a movie, to be honest. (Sorry, that pun was bad)

I would consider getting better audio equipment, as the sound had a bit of an echo. It might just mean that you have to be a little closer to the mic.

The animation loop was what let it down. The nice little interlude with the purple alien fellow was nice, but I had to stop watching it after you went all Lion King on us. I had really lost interest from that point, sorry.

The Dr. Seuss style poem was nice - was it actually the great Doc, or did you write that yourself? I'd suggest that you study reading poetry, as you keep pausing in the wrong places though.

With effort, this could become great. It will be tough, but I think you've got what it takes.

[Review Request Club]

blackcat2000 responds:

Hmm... If I remember correctly, the echo was on purpose... but yeah, the quality isn't as awesome as it could be. And you missed the awesome part where the Beelion got a trophy!
I wrote it myself, and to be honest, if i paused at the wrong times, it was because I had wrote the poem in a book, then put it on flash. Then I had to get the timings right, so the pauses were mostly due to the flash taking a little longer/shorter... I think I can fix that, when I'm not lazy ;)
Thanks for the review! :)

[Resident Merchant]

Stranger

Nicely animated and a simple concept for the plot line. Damn, the punchline was worth waiting for. I'd say that your animation skills are getting better over time, as you've done some good jobs with the lip sync and the drawing of the characters.

A couple of questions that I feel must be asked:

1) Does the lead female have to have oversized "Lara Croft" breasts? Seriously, it looks as if she's hiding a couple of bowling balls down her sweater.

2) The door opening sounded like it was a piece of 2x4 being dropped onto the floor. Any chance you can record or find a better sound for it?

[Review Request Club]

xthesnarfx responds:

I'm not too good at finding sound effects. And I'm not too good at drawing girls yet.

[All Your Leet]

We are not amused

You've only shown us more animation than Afro_Stud's Hitler series by the fact that you've given plenty of different images in a slideshow.

There's very little to be said for the audio, as with the voices that you've provided, some of them are so quiet, it's difficult to understand what they are saying.

To be brutally honest, I'd reccomend that you go back to the drawing board and start over. There's got to be something to be said for the ripping off of Bahamut's intro. That's probably the only half-decent thing in it, but it smacks of you requiring a touch of originality.

[Review Request Club]

Sispri responds:

I really lack ideas and originality. <:(

[Fairwell Ross]

You're better than this!

Why do you guys persist with making decent animations with no effort in plotlines and a shitty bit of animation at the end? It beggars belief, because if I had that kind of talent, I'd be making some of the most slick animations out there, even rivaling Stamper on the scale of "I can offend you with my classy animations!"

Both of the animations in this piece have got decent enough animation for the movement of the characters and your drawing styles. Now take it further. Perhaps introduce a sub plot of how Ross is actually going in there to bring Yahoo to it's knees, just days after Microsoft has taken over the corporation, for example.

That's a plotline that I might have to explore myself...

[Review Request Club]

Little-Rena responds:

I actually do my best with everything I make, sorry if it doesn't look that way but I thought for a while about what I was going to do. It didn't come out how I wanted it and the silly animation I had at the end of my part was just for a laugh. Didn't think too much into what he was going to do at Yahoo, that wasn't the point of the flash.

I can't really speak for iShrim but he seemed to take a diffrent idea, one around Tom, though his didn't have much length, I kind of liked his myself.