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[Chalk Adventure]

Good, but short

I quite liked your idea of a stop-motion chalk-board animation. It works quite well. I have to say that your musical choice was great, with one problem - with a piece of music that good, you need to really come up with the animation goods to do the piece justice. You've come close, but there are one or two parts that let you down, I'm afraid.

It's too short to really capture the essence of Jurian's awesome piano, sadly. That track is almost 5 minutes long and your movie is about 2 minutes, maximum, with most of it being spent with the writing on the board, which I think deprives us of a well animated production.

The abstract nature is good and the whole image that has been counjured up is nice, but it does seem like you got bored and finished it too soon.

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Graeme responds:

He truely does do BEAUTIFUL piano.
I knew as soon as I started it wouldn't be the whole 5 minutes.
But when doing stop motion, it's hard to measure how long your animation is so far.
I think on my next attempt, I have a much better grasp on these things, and it will be better for sure.

And I didn't get bored, it was just a two day weekend, and I kinda ran out ideas
;)

[Street Fighter Series pt2]

A few issues, but broadly good

This can certainly show that you've got skills for manipulating sprites and developing a decent plotline. I would suggest a few ammendments, as the few issues that cropped up need to be dealt with before the good plot and animation can be looked at without distraction:

1) Buttons. You've got the play button made as just the letters P,L,A and Y. If you can find a buttons tutorial on NG (There are hundreds), you'll be able to make proper buttons to your liking.

2) Subtitles bar. When Dan talks and the text descends to the second line, it gets lost in the white for a while, so you can't read a few words.

Fix those two issues and consider adding a voice actor or two and you've got yourself a damned good flash.

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mortis5000 responds:

Thanks...I like the review request club....you all have the best reviewers on the net...

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 238]

Wierd expression

So has the Smoochum seen a child with his tongue stuck to a lamppost or something? The expression on its face looks like it has been just caught at the most awkward moment possible.

Hitler looks like he's gone through some arts surplus store and has provided us with quite a garish outfit.

We definately need more animation, with the fact that you're knocking these out at a rate of knots, a little more animation can be changed nicely every time, giving a neat little featurette for the flash

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AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Those are simply lips. :P

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 235]

Hitler invades France... again

The Pokemon looked French, with his beret and paintbrush, so why is is living in Spain?!

Ah, tax evasion purposes, I guess :P

Hitler seemed like he was enjoying himself, but he did get a little carried away with the eyeliner - there are white bits inside on the pokemon :P

Needs animation, possibly Hitler doing a Rolf Harris impression this time, coming up with some sort of facist graffiti, which would obviously offend Jews an possibly Muslims as well,a s they tend to get offended at anything that might just pass as an excuse for a Holy War these days :P

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AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Those are the eyes.

[5 Hour Challenge #1]

Good foundations

This is a good start to a flash project. It needs more work, but I can see where time and effort has been spent and you give me the impression that you'd be willing to put in the time and effort required to make this good.

I'd suggest that you work on the background, as when the robot walks along the first time, it's all jumpy and awful. I think it might even be moving the wrong way... it does look much better when he runs back, which is great.

Once you've got your animation issues dealt with, I'd suggest that you search the BBS on Newgrounds for Voice Actors, as there are plenty out there and they would be willing to help you for maybe a co-authorship. That would deal with the two major issues, while every time you draw, you will get better at it, although a graphics tablet may be useful.

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Cranksta responds:

We have a tablet now, as we are going to frame by frame in the nationals.

Thanks for the review,
-James

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 233]

Lack of imagination

So the creators have run out of inspiration for names at last?! They didn't even make much of an effort to redesign the character, just rounding off the edges.

I think that the disguise could take some more work to make it fit in properly - the nose in particular looked badly drawn, which ruined the effect.

At least this one has the evolution animation, but it's still not enough to satisfy me - we need something like Hitler dressing up in his disguise and producing a nice little twist, such as a duck caller, for example.

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AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Well it is based on the evolution of technology. :)