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[21 Pains]

Too little animation

Man, this piece got to be annoying after a while, listening to Fro's high pitched attempt to make the female voice was a little cringe-worthy, but after all, there was a decent reason to carry on watching. I carried on, hoping to see some animation there, as opposed to just the guy getting shot in the back. Not having seen the video for 21 Guns, I probably couldn't appreciate it enough, but there you go.

With how it all presented itself, you could have given subtitles, to assist people's understanding of the female voice (sorry, Fro) I think that more could have been done on the colour scheme, which was bland and pretty unimaginitive. Sure, if you want to parody the video, why not show us how you think it should have been made? Did the conversation really drown out the entirety of the song? If it did, you could do with showing us how the music video should really have gone.

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MonoFlauta responds:

"With how it all presented itself, you could have given subtitles, to assist people's understanding of the female voice (sorry, Fro)"
it wasnt his fault, i told him to make it if he could because her girlfriend didnt want to.
And yeah thanks for another view of the video because you give at least more ideas :P many reviews didnt make that
Thanks for reviewing.

[SHIT! Redux]

Great reaction shot

Well, we've been told by the fat cats for years to "eat shit", now we finally have the motivation to do so!

I think that you've got a great cartoony look for the piece, it does kind of remind me of Blockhead, but with a more macabre and sinister front to it. Don't get me wrong, you've made this style your own, but I can certainly see some inspiration from "other sources" :P

With the kid's reaction, I think that would be the reaction of about 90% of your audience when they watch that, particularly with the Grandma giving herself a hernia over the plate / bowl. I think that you need to get the voice actor to speed read all of the warnings, just to have it make more of a joke there, that would probably complete the piece.

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Skrupsakken responds:

To be honest, I didn't get any inspiration from the Blockhead series. Of course, I've seen them and Swain's a great animator, but thinking about it, I didn't do anything, but using the same shape as blockhead's head. The animation and art wasn't anything like Swain's, so I don't get what you mean. Hell, the actual storyline didn't have anything to do with Blockhead or Swain.
Thanks for the review though.

[CoolJaw: T.T. I-V]

Difficult to follow

You've certainly got the very creepy writing style of this piece down to a tee and I think that it's because of this the the piece becomes a little difficult to follow after a while. Not that it's going to stop me from reading the comic, but it's something to bear in mind.

With the menu of episodes that you've created. Perhaps have just one contents page that shows the different books and the chapters thus far, as opposed to having 2 pages for that - we could get to a situation here that means you go through more pages of contents than actual pages of the strip at some point, which would be unnecessary and ugly, I'm afraid. The programming forum could help you there, with issues about making a more usable interface.

I think that there is a new sinister plot afoot, with this sadistic piece of work that wants body parts to be mailed to him in a ziplock bag. However, I'm going to have to stick with it and see where this takes us.

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Celx-Requin responds:

About the page content, I did think about that, I doubt there is anything that could be done to make it any "cleaner" though.

This chapter is really short which adds to that whole feeling of the contents, overshadowing the actual content, the other chapters are longer so hopefully it won't feel the same way in the next ones.

Thanks for the review!
- Celx

["EXTINCT"]

Evocative and fun

I like this piece, especially the deeper meaning of how you've played along with the curious nature of the cat and how it pursues the butterfly across the scenes. I think that you would have benefited more from a wider ranging study of feline mannerisms, as you would have been better off with it curling up into a ball, opening one eye lazily and then considering waking up for starters, possibly with the "hunter's crouch" when it starts to stalk the butterfly.

It was a shame that the video quality couldn't match up with the rest of the quality of the flash, since I tried to expand it, which wasn't possible, since it cost a lot in the picture quality, even with the lights dimmed, which was a shame. You've done a great job with the 3D stuff, so please continue to work at that and give is some more great works :)

Other than that, the last part could have done with some voice acting, since speech bubbles are a little primitive nowadays.

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manuelberja responds:

right..!
i'll try hard next project.
thanks!

[Cunt Burgers]

Needs work, but there is potential.

I think that you've got a decent amount of potential here - the drawing could use a little refining and I'm sure you can get that over time, while you need to turn up the mic sensitivity or the output volume of the voice acting, to really get the most out of it. Still at least you had subtitles :P

When it comes to subtitles, perhaps just have a bar there at the bottom of the screen constantly, so that you can put the subtitles in there when required. This would pave the way for more sound effects, possibly even some backing music, who knows?

With the animation in question, we need to see a little more work on the moving the characters, as opposed to the current state of affairs which is moving a piece from point A to point B, without any animation to show them moving, except for them bouncing up and down. I can see the potential there, as the characters have moving parts, so taking this to the next level would be a great thing, especially with walking animations, for example.

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TheReturnOfTomsPulp responds:

Eat my fat dick

[Animation Kills]

Brutal and catchy

I'm not sure why I like this piece so much - the simplicity of the animation in itself is a great thing to look at with how the perception of the line changes in the early going. I think that you could have gone a little slower with the evolution of the sword from a whip. Perhaps have him tie a knot in the whip to make the guard and turn it into a rapier, with the swoosh noises, then stab it into the wall and draw it out as that sword, which leads on nicer.

I think that there's real promise for this piece and it's just a case of making it take that extra step, before you kill everyone off. A good use of the red, but I'd have preferred that you used more colours throughout. Maybe that's the next one - fighting with the paint palette? Still, keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more of your work :)

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Soupcat responds:

Wow more great tips! You guys really know your deal!

Ha..Fighting with the palette...That's a good one ^^

No I this was like "practice" in doing something more "pro" and I thought I'd start off simple ^^
Not too much pondering about shading/lighting and get the basic movements under the wraps...If you know what I mean.

I'll be sure to make a note out of it to use all these great tips in whatever comes next! :D

xx <3
Thanks guys, you're the best.

[Snow Wars]

Finally here

What a spectacle. Well written, pretty good direction and some good fun in the snow - just what you need on a winter evening like this :P

I think that there is some great plot there that could have been made a little better in places, with perhaps a little more exposition of how Kurt stole Nick's guns, while he was taking a break. I did like the jokes with the blind soldier, though they may have been a little laboured towards the end. Perhaps put some guys in red shirts next time and just have them killed off. I know it's Star Trek, but you guys can pull it off :P

Finally, there was a real issue with the video quality of how Nick's top kept blending in with the snow - not even real winter camouflage blends in that well! I know that you've sacrificed quality to get this on here, so is there a higher quality link anywhere? I might have to download this and run it through a TV!

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Fro responds:

This actually looks quite good when it's played on TV with surround sound. High quality version here:

http://fronickproductions.webs.com/ap ps/videos/videos/show/6509181-snow-wa rs

[Left4Fulp]

Subtitles needed

Quite a funny little piece, this is well written, with a decent animation style that really rams the point home, with the parody style of Left4Dead.

I think that you could certainly have benefited from the use of subtitles, since it was a little difficult to hear this piece at what I use for a "regular volume". With those added, you would be able to concentrate on perhaps writing a little more for this piece, as it just seemed a little short.

Finally, I think that you could have had Stamper and JohnnyUtah call each other by their first names (Will & Jeff, respectively), as it's what they probably do in the office. For the subtitles, you might just put their screen names on there, for clarity, but that's being a little anal.

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darthnebula responds:

Originally I was going to have them say thier real names but figured a higher % of people probably knew them by thier Newgrounds name, also originally I was making Johnny Utah really really gay and rubbing stamper as he talked but it didnt seem right so I decided to go kinda more deadpan
To be honest I was having a lot of problems just figuring out which one is stamper and which one is Johnny from their pics.

Sorry about the volume I was using headphones the whole time

what is a review request club ?

[CoolJaw: O.S. V-V]

Well written

I still think you could so better with the writing in this, as it looks too sketchy when you're looking through the comic page by page - the lack of detail seems to contribute to this, leading to a more scruffy look overall. More work on some sort of standard typeface for sound effects would certainly help you out here.

The plot is very dark and rather macabre in places, leading to more questions, which shows just how well you've written it. I know that you should be more capable of making this longer, as in the combination of more than one of these pieces together, in order to give a well rounded product, that is capable of being published.

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Celx-Requin responds:

I try to end them when the story feels "right" to do so.
The next act has some chapters which are pretty long, so that may make some people happy...

Thanks for all your awesome reviews Will!
Sincerely,
- Celx