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[Duality Complete]

Shame it wasn't longer

Ah, a nice refreshing piece to view after such a melancholy day. I love the way that you've constructed this world and have given both sides of the piece an avatar of some kind, to give some sort of personality to the metaphors of Machina and Natural effectively living at odds with one another.

The pencil sketched piece was great for the portrayal, but the video quality did let it down a little - not necessarily your fault, perhaps something to do with the conversion software or compression. Perhaps you need to ask Tom for a bigger allowance to upload these files to Newgrounds? Going over 10 meg would give you better quality and allow you to really push the boundaries with pieces like this.

I really would love to see if this story leads somewhere, as I do feel strangely unfulfilled by watching this piece, as if it is leading into something bigger...

[Review Request Club]

Weenog responds:

Thanks for the review, Like you said it's the conversion software that made it all pixelish. But you can check my profile for a youtube link if you like. I should familiarise myself somemore with flash in order to make larger movies and do something about that quality and lack of preloader, and i will...in time ^^

[FutureShock]

Ah, psychology!

The idea of someone getting freaked out by a radically different time is nothing new, but the way you have done it works, with a practical joke gone radically wrong.

I think that you need subtitles across the bottom of the piece here, since it seems that the sound is muffled for certain lines. With the way that everything else works, it does make up for it a little, but the discussion at the front door was a little muffled. Perhaps have the one clock start the other laughing and they both laugh together and then calm down before Patriot returns?

The other think I'd suggest is that the pieces move while they're talking, instead of the speech indicator. That would make your piece work well.

[Review Request Club]

PatriotClock responds:

Thanks

[Dont Shave Pubes On Plane]

Well...

Shouldn't it have been a "Pubic Service Announcement"?

With the way that you started this piece out, you've got a balance of satire, sick humour and some interesting effects to make the film look older. I love the use of Troy McClock as well, as that makes for some interesting comparisons with the Simpsons.

Sure, it was an 11/9 joke, but we could all see it coming and there was a groan from the audience, mainly for the fact that we knew it was corny, as opposed to being offended. I did like how you'd doctored the CNN footage (Clock News Network?)

[Review Request Club]

PatriotClock responds:

Haha thank you

[Bahamut's Bday Card]

Happy Birthday, Bahamut!

Well, it's a simple concept and the way that you've expressed a lot of good feelings for the Wi/Ht members for their favourite dragon. A shame that no-one here actually gave him a present of any description.

The program there is simple and all I really need is for Bahamut to give us a password to get in to the secret letter, though you could keep it a secret and petition Tom for an NG Secret Medal to get the secret password figured out, before moving on from there.

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ThePigeonMaster responds:

Thanks for your review and for your time in writing something special to our favorite dragon.

It means a lot for me, and of course, Bahamut :P

[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.

[Review Request Club]

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!

[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.

[Review Request Club]

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.

[Review Request Club]

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