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[Mac, PC, and a Hedgehog]

Bankrupting Microsoft? Way to go.

Well, I know both a person called 'Mac' and one called 'PC' Both nicknames of theirs, but they still count :P

Right, this isn't a bad cartoon for the humour value - I'm not so sure about the animation as it looks crudely drawn, at best. Perhaps zooming in on the image you're drawing will give you greater control and then you can make a better looking picture to finish the cartoon off.

The other thing I will advise about is lip-syncing - the mouths change size too much - forget the shape that they make for a second or two, as when the size of the mouth changes so radically that it gets bigger than the face it's on, you've made a mistake.

Keeping the proportions right will help, but not only on that aspect - the bullet hole will be smaller than what you used and it would look a less basic colourscheme than you chose. Perhaps when sonic activates his MobianWare, it would have removed the wound itself?

[Review Request Club]

RecD responds:

yeah, you're right. I promise the next one will be better!

[Watchmen Rorschach]

Continuity errors

Not a bad take on the Watchmen Grapic Novel and movie, but there are continuity errors that could do with being addressed over the course of the movie - Rorschach never called Jacobi by his first name, only by Moloch (save for when he addressed him as all of his alternate names). Also, he called himself by his Walter Kovacs name when he said that he died that night, with Rorschach taking over from then. It's quite a big difference, with the way it plays out in the film.

I think that the drawing style is quite nice - more cartoon like than even the Graphic Novel, but it seems to work. Perhaps with the animation, you need to make it more like the characters are moving, particularly the dogs, which just seem like a layer that moves over the top of another.

Still, it's a good piece, but with the way that you've chosen these scenes from the film, perhaps you could have had the talk with the psychiatrist and the Rorschach blot tests for the two of them.

[Review Request Club]

PyroSpriteProduction responds:

Thanks for the criticism, but you are wrong about the Jacobi thing.He says
"good evening Jacobi,got your note,been wondering why you wanted to see me"

[Professor Fucking Layton]

Make this into a series

I love the way that you've made this piece - it's a great piece of animation and the plot, while completely disjointed is brilliant. Now you can take this on and make it into a movie with mini games. The way that the piece pans out, you can have the movie go on and whenever Professor Layton gets given a puzzle, you have to solve it before continuing with the mystery. How does that sound?

The drawing style is pretty cool, especially when you zoom out and the characters become cyclopses, which is a nice touch. I'd love to see you take this further and can't wait to see further submissions from you :)

Perhaps put subtitles in and make them in a uniform place - moving them around the screen distracts the viewer from the task at hand, which is watching the movie and potentially solving the puzzles.

[Review Request Club]

backwardcompatible responds:

You're fucking awesome.
Thanks for the feedback, i might just do this...

[Interrogation]

Could use subtitles

It's not a bad piece, but the audio quality was a little sucky and there wasn't really enough animation for my liking, but it's got potential.

Perhaps ask your sister to stay a little further away from the microphone when she does her lines - it gives a little static overtone when she speaks.

There could be a little more animation, as it's just a head moving, which is quite basic. Perhaps fade something into the background, like the detail of the interrogation cell - the light will give off enough effect for you to put some greys in there, so make the most of it.

Hand drawing is always good as well - the character looks weird with the eyes being different sizes and lopsided, so play to that as it is, just make it look a little more normal. You'll get there, but making the guy look like a complete freak isn't the way to go - a few more subtle things would help, so straighten the head up a little, make the eyes more uniform sized and as the tweaks become more subtle, you'll find that they have more impact.

Finally, adding a subtitle bar would really help you - I could understand about 1 word in 10, which is a real shame.

[Review Request Club]

bloodclots99 responds:

aha, well the real reason i posted this animation was to see what tips people would give me and im currently working on one with a better mic and lots of animation, thanks for the tips man its helpful

[Chibi Theatre 1]

Hmm...

It's not bad, but it could do with a few more bits and pieces, just to develop the animation a bit further.

Perhaps the use of shapes is a good base to start with for the drawing of the chibi, but I'm not sure if you should leave them like that - get the drawing tools and fill in the gaps between the ellipses, as it will make the imagery look so much more advanced.

Perhaps taking a little more time with the football would be the next thing, as the laces shouldn't be that long and the ball should end in points, with hoops around either end. These small details will make the world of difference.

Then the plot - perhaps the fire chibi could have run away, or the greenish one could have tried in vain to dive for cover. I'm sure that as this was just a pilot, you'll be giving a more in depth plot to future episodes.

[Review Request Club]

PikaRobo responds:

I'll try to improve. As for the plot the fire guy DID run away at the very end of the video, he just dissapeared for a split second and that was by complete accident. I said in my description I couldn't fix it. The football part was probably just a plothole, but thanks to you bringing that up I will no doubt explain that in future episodes (As to why he didn't just throw the thing away or why the fire one didn't die as well.) I could probably explain that right now, but I don't want to ruin it on just a feedback response. ;)

[Zone of the Awesome]

Impressive

A nicely detailed parody of the Awesome series, as made famous by Egoraptor and friends over the years. I can see the humour in there, despite never having played "Zone of the Enders" before.

While some of the jokes may be a little lost on me, the general gist of the flash is one of sharp humour and wit, that will leave lots of people with smiles on their faces.

The animation can't really be commented on, save for the fact that it matches the style of awesome pretty much perfectly. I know that you can make better animation than this, but the real skill is in parodying someone else's style, which you've managed to do more than capably :)

I think the combat sequences were a little too brief, but that might be down to the style of the flash again - there's got to be more of a window for writing material on this game though and I'd have appreciated more material, so that you can be a little more generous with the cutting process.

Finally, congratulations on responding to all 510 reviews before mine - let's just hope I'm not the one to break the chain :P

[Review Request Club]

Galneda responds:

Nah, I do my best to respond to all; no exceptions.

This flash was a mess, if you want my honest opinion; I chose an obscure video game barely anyone has played before, done to a minimalistic styled parody, but rushed over-and-over again as I kept setting deadlines for myself, and then RE-setting deadlines when I missed them.

I had cut corners left and right, not fully understanding what I'm doing, either. This was only my second flash animation ever, mind you. lol

The combat sequences were brief because it was my first intensely challenging frame-by-frame animations...the very first being that head-explosion on the ":D" robot...that took me hours, and yet, it was over in a snap. That Jehuty vs. Raptor scene took me days...I couldn't wait for it to be over with, and in hindsight, I guess that's pretty evident. Soooo....yyyeah, sorry.. lol

But the briefness of everything can be blamed on both the "Awesome VG Parody" genre, and myself for my impatience and inexperience...but upon completing this, I gained experience, and I've (hopefully) learned from many of my mistakes in this.

Thanks for the review, Coop! You 'da man!

[Rorschach's End]

Awesome!

While it could have done with better sound - voice actors can duplicate these voices quite well, you have produced a brilliant piece of animation here.

I was half expecting there to be giant blue cock jokes here, but kudos to you for staying away from that area, which has been lampooned far too much since this film came out :)

A brilliantly surreal take on how the film should have ended, as I totall agree that there's no way that Rorschach should have died, although he would never have been able to live a lie.

[Review Request Club]

Galneda responds:

One of hogabeast's main points was actually using as much of the original audio as possible, to help concrete the connection with the scene. Although, I agree the quality could've at least been improved if I were to record from the DVD, I have no software that can do it perfectly; I pretty much just stuck my microphone a few inches from my speaker...as if that had to be said, you could probably tell with the slight fuzz in the background.

Yeah...Manhattan's cock jokes are way overdone. Thanks for agreeing!

True, true...Rorschach was a badass, but if his character wasn't established to be so Goddamn cool, the audience wouldn't have given a fuck if he died.

Thanks for the detailed review! This is my first impression of the [RRC] since I first heard about you guys months ago. You guys seem to be good at what you do!