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[Love Adventure]

Pixelated surrealism

Not your best piece, I have to say, sadly.

I think that this is a decent piece of music that you've chosen to interpret, I like the way that you've come up with a great deal of scenarios for this, but I felt that the main issue I had with staying with the piece was the lack of detail. Don't get me wrong, sprites are all well and good, especially when someone as accomplished as you comes to manipulating them, but in this case, I felt that you were zoomed in too much on the whole of the flash, so details were lost, particularly on the girls faces. Perhaps you could have progressed from Atari to Amiga for the graphics package and still send out the same message

The plot is quite wide-ranging, so you've worked well on that. A good obscure reference for the the whole piece, you could say, so it works quite well, even leaving me a little confused from time to time as to what is actually happening.

With regards to your question in an earlier review, you're responding to the reviews, erg, you're reading them. I like people that listen to what I have to say :)

[Review Request Club]

Emptygoddess responds:

Actualy if anything i was to clear. I should have used less colors and bigger pixels! BIGGER!

[VERONICA: Dark hobbies]

Nicely detailled

I think that you could certainly do with adding a little colour to the proceedings - it would be like Sin City, with making the blood stand out, for example. I think that the drawing style is excellent and even the occasional regressions (Yaoi?) frames that look a little simplistic with the art are well placed for the effect.

It's not a bad plot and the characters are certainly there for the pervert vote in the audience :P I think that developing these characters would be a wonderful thing.

The covers were nice and I think that perhaps some sort of 'centrefold' where you see a wonderfully animate picture of the girls doing something like when Veronica ran the guy over in the car - do that like the cover art in full colour and you'll have a great impact, before continuing the story to a triumphant conclusion.

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Emptygoddess responds:

Your reviews are well thought out, verbose, and thoughtful.

I'm not sure why you're here.

[Google Adventure]

Cutting edge satire

I can certainly see this being a highly topical news item from back in the days when Google was a massive company that just bought up everything that resembled a rival, much like Microsoft before it (Now owned by Google) and various other insidious companies.

I love the way that you've shown us a Mario-style animation that has very limited playability and an almost non-existent variation style. Will this be released on PS3 in the near future?

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Emptygoddess responds:

Hopefully.

[Logic]

A wonderful way of thinking

I love this piece for the humour and for the fact that the logic is something that you can barely argue with. The introduction was funny, if a little crude, talking about how everything for this piece was either begged, borrowed or stolen, enabling you to make such savings and pass them on to the consumer.

With some of the points that you make for the actual logic, I would like to bring the following to your attention:

1) The human bladder is much like a balloon - while strong enough to contain itself, it will grow and shrink with direct correlation to the amount of fluid contained within. Have you considered kidney stones could be causing such a blockage. How did it go with your doctor?

2) Ninja Powers = The One. I love this concept, though you should surely have considered that there is one more thing to consider about Ninjas - they are invisible against a black screen. Perhaps consider telling us all that since the ninjas could not be seen, you have painted them in bright colours, to make them instantly recognisable.

3) Cowboys. One thing greater than cowboys would be Chuck Norris, since he owns most things internet. Perhaps a little aside there would have just dragged this on a little further for even more laughs. Say 40 / 30 / 17 / 13, perhaps?

With regards to the animation, I would suggest that you do something to work on the background around the characters - I clearly saw the boxes around everything, which was a shame - you've got some good animation techniques, it would be a shame to spoil them with something like that.

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Emptygoddess responds:

Chuck Norris is a cowboy ninja multi classer. Everyone knows that.

[Pirate Day 09 TotaMoto]

Could have used a preloader.

Not a bad piece, but it lacked interpretation in places, I'm afraid. I think that the switch from the "Tortuga Tavern" to the "Choke & Puke" was poor, but could be vastly improved - try something like having the face of the pirate talking and then the cutaway scenes that show the things like "the shameful end at the end of the plank". Perhaps that one could have been interpreted as a guy walking the plank, instead.

I'd have made the guy look like a Pirate for that and when it came to the shop scene, I'd have cut from the pirate face (the guy talking for most of the voice over) to the normal guy, who now doesn't have pirate peripherals. When you cut from the pirate to him, he should just be an average Joe and then the joke really hits home.

Like all good comedy, the secret is great timing.

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CrzyNinjaMonkeyGamer responds:

I know its bad is alot of places. I was really rushed in the end because my comp tried its hardest to completely destroy the cartoon. I think in reality trying to make an animation in 4 days when I'm still new at this might have been a dumb idea.

[HILT: issue #1]

Not bad

A few spelling errors crept into the piece at strip 14, but by then, the story had all but played itself out. Executioner, protest and "too much of the public" were the ones that I spotted. Typing the manuscript in MS Word and running it by a spell checker would sort these, but I would urge you to proof read, before publication.

A nicely drawn piece, that could have used a splash or two of colour, just to give a little more life to it - not necessarily totally coloured in, but a few pastel shades in the right places could have really brought the story to life.

Please, make more of these, they look very nice and it seemed like a story that I coul;d actually get into, despite it being Manga, which I've never liked. It reminds me a little of the game system from White Wolf - Exalted. The supernatural beings that channel essence to do incredible things that seem like magic to the mortal man. Perhaps it could be a direction used in this story?

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Emptygoddess responds:

Could be. Probably won't be. Glad you liked it. I am lazy though, so more might never happen.

[A Pirate's Ghost Story]

Could use some colour

I like the way this sounds, though I'm not sure about the look of it all - colouring and shading needs to be employed to make this piece much more interesting. I like the way that you've put the little kid in and the way his eyes open in excited wonderment, but when you hear that the voice over is talking about colours, you don't need to add just one bit of red - we're not watching Schindler's List, after all.

Something didn't look quite right about the pirate narrator's chin - it didn't seem to move naturally for me and if you could fix that, I'd certainly see you talking to legolas-969 with a view to making this into a more permanent series.

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Phlashtastix responds:

Well its not to say I wouldn't do more to make it better, like shading, and refining the animation. But it is time sensitive. I sort of ran out of time. Thanks for the critique though.

[LF2:The Alliance Ch.3]

Very good

The animation is great - you've captured the essence of a good series in a few easy moves, providing a great looking piece overall. I think that with the way you've set your stall out for this, it's well worth me looking back at previousm episodes in the series now.

You could use some work with your voice actors - I'd recommend that you download Audacity and get the mic settings turned up - it's too quiet, which you've tried to compensate for, but it only gives you static. Some equalisation work should help there, which Audacity can do. Either that, or buy a better mic.

The combats looked good, except when the bats were deployed - they could have done more moves than just the basic slashing that they did. Perhaps they would have performed better against the archers?

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PyronX responds:

Thank you very much for your review

It's funny you mention Audacity because I did use that program this time around, I plan to for movies to come.
I took your advice and tried what you suggested and I see what you mean. But I know it's a mic issue, it's an ongoing problem. But I do intend on getting a new better one for all oncoming movies.

I'm glad you enjoyed the fight scenes. I do apologized for the lack of entertainment I put into the bats. I will put them to better use next time.

Once again thank you for your review, it has been very helpful and knowledge.

[The Transformer]

Rather!

What a jolly fine romp this is - the social side of certain early Transformers. Since you've gone all English with this one, what would this chap's name have been? Prime Minister?

Regardless of that, you've delivered a wonderfully attentive piece, that shows off a propensity to pay attentions to details, which I for one find brilliantly complimentary to your pieces. From things like the sneeze accruing on the windscreen, to the shoe flying overhead as the chap faints, it's got that all the way through.

Two questions - 1) Why didn't you animate a windscreen wiper for the transformer? He could surely do with a clean windscreen. 2) Did you make the transformer out of the constituent parts for the vehicle or vice versa?

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JohnnyUtah responds:

1. good god man , what did I do.

2.i made the car first, and cut it apart, but there was obviously alot of cheating involved...that damn robot has WAY more mass than a model t.

[small war]

Needs some work

Let's start with the basics - You need to work on the spelling, as there are plenty of errors here. Weapons are semi-automatic (not simi) and others besides. You can download spell checkers for free, so have a look and give one of those a shot. Failing that, you can download a dictionary for Firefox and use that one, if you need to ;)

Subtitles tend to look better if they are within a bar at the bottom of the screen - yours tend to look a little out of focus, which is perhaps a problem from the video converter software.

The animation isn't that bad and I'd certainly like the look of seeing this taken further, because the ending looked a little abrupt. It can be longer and give us more of a cliffhanger. Perhaps more research, by watching things like Madness and XiaoXiao would help your productions further.

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m103904 responds:

thanks i rushed w the spelling and the words were made in paint. the movie was made w pivot.