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[Pixtropolis City]

Pretty Neat

I think that you guys have spent quite a bit of time collectively making something slightly random, but based around a city made of pixels - a shame that you didn't have some sort of plot line to work towards, as I was thinking that it was going to be something along the lines of 'Sin City' in the first place.

Kudos to Jimtopia for having the best style here - drawing something and then making it look like pixels rocks for you, my good man :)

I'd certainly like to see some story lines within the city of Pixtropolis, so that gives you guys good scope for a sequel to this fine piece.

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[Once When I Was A Kid SE]

Good joke

A nice set up play, great animation and a twisted, if not entirely wholesome sense of humour.

I think that you've got it set up nicely, but I could see this piece as a part of a whole 2-5 minute episode. It just seems like there's more to the piece than we all saw here.

I think that I'd certainly like to see something more from your work, as it's got a great twist to them, which kind of reminds me of Ren and Stimpy in the animating style, especially with the dangling balls, for some reason.

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tacobuttfish responds:

If you check out our collection you can watch Once When I was a Kid 2 and 3 and 4 is coming soon as it's still in the animation process! Glad you enjoyed, and being compared to Ren and Stimpy brings me great joy!

-Taco Buttfish.

[Warthog flash project]

Needs more depth

Okay, so it's a decent start - you've got the art of tracing down nicely, but people do appreciate it when it is your own drawing, rather than something you've roughly copied off someone else.

With regards to the music file that you used, I'd suggest that you make a spot on the information for it - a direct link would be best, but without that, just a credit for it would be good news for the artist who wrote the track.

Finally, you could do with making some sort of plotline, rather than just a few random gags that are funny on their own. If you can tie them together with some conversations between the characters, they become funnier, if you see what I mean.

Still, it's a good start.

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Hybrid-Of-Souls responds:

I'll admit, I'm no real artist, and making my own things would probably take a while.

As for the music, I got it off a YTMND (the site itself was also along the lines of an 8-bit halo thing), but wasn't sure of the exact source.

And for plot, I probably would've wished for there to be voices, similar to those that I hear a lot from Xbox live.

Thanks for watching.

[Join The Red Bull Collab!]

A little short

I think this piece could have been a little more explanatory, even though it does convey the message quickly and effectively.

I think that you've got a nice animating style and it does work quite well, with a good advertising tagline that you could certainly take into marketing. Have you considered a career making flash banner adverts?

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Vincoid responds:

Thanks man

I would never make banners though :P
I like to make longer animations and would much rather commit myself to a longer project instead of making 5 banners each day :P

[MSLand C3E2]

Interesting

I still don't see why this can't be combined with the first episode - it's far too short, to be honest. What I would suggest is that you go looking in the forums for 'Voice Acting', as your flash really would benefit from a sound or two, like the rumble of the tanks passing by, as well as the voices for everyone in the piece.

I think that a little animation of the tank tracks moving as well would be of enormous benefit to you - it will make the thing look much more realistic and give it a feel that you didn't just loop the animation of the tank driving by four times ;)

I'm not quite sure of the plot at this point, but it is getting a little more clear than it was in part 1, so it looks like you're making progress on that front. Perhaps if you tried to zoom in and spend more time with the drawing aspect, you'd be able to give us something that is a very well ronded project and worth those extra points from me.

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Grimasen responds:

Hi, thanks.

[Old Lady Vs. Chicken]

Terry Gilliam

Was a great animator from Monty Python's Flying Circus. However, this piece lost a lot when you decided to go with the lack of voice acting in this piece. Your original one was a lot better, with a brilliant animation and this one lacked so much in comparison.

Again, it's too short, so try coming up with something more dynamic to stretch the run time of the gag out - think like Monty Python, when you link two sketches together, to make it longer and not seem like it's taking a break from the action.

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ForNoReason responds:

Thank you!

[Precious Little Chicken]

Interesting short

Well, it's certainly something I didn't really expect to start with. I think that your animating style is a very nice, smooth one, where you've concentrated on the simplicity of the art and have left yourself with not a lot of work to do with the manipulation.

The thing that I would certainly change about it is to make the toon longer than the credits, as it doesn't seem to work very well with the credits being almost 3 times longer than the actual piece. Maybe come up with something else from the chicken's point of view - giving one of the females a gift of an old lady's eye, for example? Maybe this wouldn't work, as the chicken should be female, but that can always be worked on.

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ForNoReason responds:

I enjoy writing short scripts. I dont know if its my style or if I am lazy lol! Thanks for the review!

[***The Pixelmas Shorts***]

An interesting mix

Okay, so we're in a situation where I can't really criticise the animation, per se, as where there are some awesome manipulations of sprites in there, some people have gone out and thrown together a piece that is synonymous with pixels = low quality, where this is obvious that it's not what it is all about.

I think that the jokes have been well written and, overall, well delivered. With the way that it did run on a little too long for my liking, I think you could certainly have used a select scene menu, just to allow people to check out one or two particular pieces of the flash, should they wish to send a festive message to friends, for example.

It's a well formed collab and it is clear that you have spent a lot of time, collectively on it all. Will you be doing something for Easter? I see that some of you have already alluded to that, with the Easter Bunny making Cameos :P

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Emanhattan responds:

thanks for the review. yeah it seems it was "almost too long".

I hope next time we make a collab of this nature we rise up the bar.

[The Importance of Blocks]

Not bad

I think that you laboured the point without being too informative of how things work, which really could have helped the flash - show how pixels work, with their square shape and that how the human eye perceives it all, as you pan further out, assisting the visual process.

This is a good flash, as it has quite a bit of depth, though I would stress that you need to integrate the 3D pieces into it a little better. I think that it has been quite informative about the importance of Blocks to people and I'll make sure that next time I go to the shop, I will ask for blocks.

Also, I live in a tree house, so mine was not built from block shapes :P

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Mariofan9 responds:

You're right. But what I tried to do was a funny Flash short, not a real documentary.

Thank you for your good review! :)

[Ghost Motel 9 (3D)]

A little short

This piece shows so much potential for your animating skills, I'm so surprised that you haven't taken it further. You've done a good job with the 3D and then gave us so little of the demonstration of it that it left me frustrated that you didn't explore it a little more.

I like the fact that this piece steps out from the traditional storyline a little, so that it doesn't mess things up. Now with more modern versions of Flash, you'd be able to make a movie like this entirely in Flash, which would lead to much higher quality and a much smoother piece overall.

Please have another go at it and bring Ghost Motel to even more users on the Internet!

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Violet-AIM responds:

Thank you once again, we will try and bring more to the net :)