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[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 5]

Portals Bandwagon

Everyone seems to be jumping on the protal bandwagon these days. I wonder what all the fuss is about.

On mishap #2, you didn't quite manage to get the images of Jim cut in exactly the right places - he seems to have grown slightly as a result of adding part of his middle twice.

I really liked the jokes though and the writing is coming on great guns. I'd love to see what sort of jokes you could come up with for some sort of parody of, say, Lord of the Rings, for example. That bandwagon seems to have run out of impetus right about now.

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Jimtopia responds:

That's pretty cool that you were the first one to review it Coop83. I'm glad you liked it. The reason people are jumping on the "Portal Bandwagon" is because it's a fun game.

[Weebl and Bob : Raiders]

Don't open your eyes!

A wonderful pardoy of the final 20 minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now we've seen two parts of the series, I'm looking forward to seeing the final episode. Which movie will it be? I think we could be in for a Star Wars or Star Trek theme.

The animation is superb and what I'd really like to see is the director's cut version, with deleted scenes and a blooper reel. We've already had the blooper reel, but deleted scenes from this mini-series would be awesome.

You sir, are a complete genius and one of the greatest flash artists ever. I'm looking forward to this so much that I've almost worn out the edge of my seat.

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[Pot Head Bob and a gennie]

Wow

First things first, you really need to work on getting an acceptable sound quality for your voiceovers - I could barely hear the vocals of the characters. If you're recording using MS Sound recorder, once you've recorded it, increase the volume of the sound file about 200% to get a decent sound

The animation, while Terrence & Philip-esque is not good enough to get me raving. I like the way that you made the genie quite opaque, as that was really worked well. The main problem with the genie, was that his shape was too rigid - gasses don't tend to form perfect circles unless poured into bottles.

There needs to be more of a plot, rather than just this one guy getting stoned, finding a genie and then the pair of them getting stoned together.

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D3m0n1c707 responds:

Thanks- your feedback was very informative and will keep that in mind for sure. Although i do have to say that 1. it was only suposed to be a quick chuckle thing and also, when ever i record i get a noise in the background that is produced by my laptop and that is why i had the sound so low.

[The Fairy Future Mother]

Nice work

I mean, seriously, who would want to do somethign that stupid, like living on their own as a teenager, when you can't afford to pay for some of the essentials.

Obviously the kid is messed up - please don't tell me you modeled him on you :P

But I digress. What you could really do with sorting out is things like the drawing - dimensions of eyes for a start. Solid blocks of colour for the irises doesn't work - they have interlaced blacks and even a second colour. My green eyes tend to be tinged with hazel, for example. When his eyes go bloodshot, the capileries need to be a lot smaller, so that the larger ones in the eye show more, then maybe spray tool the rest of the white with a little red, to give the impression of bloodshot, ratehr than making them grey.

I think you've got talent as an animator, but you really need to work on the drawing aspect of it - without that, you will suffer, but if you zoom right in, to get better control, your creative mind will allow you to harness this talent that you have.

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OxSox responds:

No, I personally think the kids is a complete tool. If I did model him after me it wasn't purposely and certainly not to highlight my positive characteristics.

I just purchased a book on sketching so hopefully that'll help me in the future. I hate the fact that I'm hampered by lack of artistic ability, or I should say drafting ability, but your right I'll never get a highly ranked movie if I can't overcome it. Thanks for the review... I have to admit for a little while after I got the score I was thinking about quiting animation altogether, so time consuming to have like 300 people look at it. But after reading you guys reviews I feel more confident in it again.

[CandyHolics]

Nice cameos

I liked the fact that you've used so many Newgroudns favourites in this little flash. I'm not really sure that peopel of the age you've used would / should be going out candy hunting when it comes to Halowe'en - shouldn't you have better things to do by now?

What I'd like to see is the use of Spellchecker in the subtitles - copy / paste them into Word and press F7 to get your spellchecker working. Little things like that make quite a difference to the overall presentation.

I liked the menu, which is always a welcome addition to the flash, as skipping between scenes and looking at something you've missed becomes a lot easier in that context.

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PostTimeskipSam responds:

Thanks, I used Word's spell check for other things, but I guess it completely slipped my mind to use it for the subtitles. I'll keep it in mind the next time I use subtitles. It might have been helpful if I made a backstory to why the Trio is still Trick or Treating at their age, but due to their extensive planning for trick or treating. They are oblivious addicted candy (CandyHolics).And they can't stop it.

Thanks for the Review

+Hylian-Mafia+

[TANKMEN .5]

Character building.

Now all we need are some references to the Homosexual Overtones in Lord of the Rings and we're on easy street :)

What an amazing way to show us how two pivotal characters came into being, with Skittles and Phil. So touching, but I really wanted to see how Steve came to enroll in the Tank corps. Somebody like that needs to have something seriously wrong with him from say, preschool, to wind up joining the tank corps and still not be swearing like a fishwife.

Now that these two characters have been well chartered, we could move on to episode 3 and slowly see the rest of your plotline develop, possibly throwing a few flashback scenes, to give us this much needed character background. Though you could also come up with Tankmen.25, I suppose.

Mind you, doing that would be taking things a little far.

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[Mastermind 2]

Just Ice.

Ah, so now we are onto the day to day running of the evil empire. I can see why the Mastermind just wants to have a glass of ice - living in a volcano is probably pretty warm.

I love the red colour scheme that you've given the place, it really does make the whole effect look a lot more sinister than Blockhead. Are they ever going to meet? Would this spawn some other short series, like Time Squad?

If ever you do another one of these, you need a James Bond style bad guy, who gets trapped and is expecting the Mastermind to gloat - only the Mastermind isn't called a Mastermind, because he's dumb. He just congratulates the guards, says 'Ah, Generic Bond style good guy, I have been expecting you. I would take the time to tell you all of my evil plans, but *bang* Instead, I'll just shoot you'

How does that sound?

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The-Swain responds:

Perhaps the glass of ice was for Gaylord's drink...but this is just speculation. Who among us can truly compete with the scheming of the Mastermind?!

And I love Bond parodies; I think that this series is just my way of expressing what a laugh I got out of the third Austin Powers (which has gone stale for me now, but was incredible the first time I watched it in theaters).

Who knows if Mastermind might run into The Cop from Time Squad one day...