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[Godzillas Depression]

Urgently needs an overhaul

I suppose we should be grateful for the small mercies in having a decent amount of sounds in the flash. That was about the only endearing quality.

What we need to start with is the basics - get the sprite sheet for the godzilla you chose and manipulate it (Use some tutorials on NG to find out more) to give you the moves you want, rather than using a poorly applied paintbrush to extend the arms in a lazy fashion.

I do quite like the effort you added with the addition of Godzilla's face, because it indicates that you're willing to at least make some effort, so all is not lost. Maybe get a mottled effect for the colour, so it looks the same as the sprites.

A better plot line would help and in the end, searching the internet will give you access to better sounds, rather than the depressing splat that ended the whole thing.

[Review Request Club]

Kieran123 responds:

Its not a splat its a fart and if you read through the other reveiws you will see it did its purpose in being funny.

[Animation 3 Final Project]

Quite funny

What this really needs is a few small, but vital amendments:

1) A preloader. I don't think that you should be making this into a loop, as it does tend to stop it being such a good flash, otherwise. Plus, you could ahve some credits at the end that way as well :)

2) A blank screen, with the question "What would your best career be?" or something like that. Then you've got the angle to have the character answering the question.

I quite like your style of animation - reminds me of the style they use in "The Fairy Godparents" I think that was what it was called (Let's hear it for Children's TV as a hang over cure :P) It may have been a little short, but it does have quite a few bits of decent manipulation within, so you have got more than a basic grasp, that's to say the least.

[Review Request Club]

KlinKlinK responds:

1) I already mentioned in the description that I couldn't add the pre-loader. I couldn't find the original .fla files I needed. Believe me, I was kicking myself when I found out about it. Nevertheless, I still wanted to see what the Newgrounds community would think of it. Rest assured that I will have a pre-loader for all my other animations here.

2) The question would have been a really good idea. However, like I mentioned in the review below, this was meant to be placed alongside other animations that the rest of the class did.

Thanks for the review.

[Darfur Satire Shorts]

Ultimate Guilt Trip.

You might wish to consider changing the age rating for the movie, as some of the pictures are merely in there for shock treatment, especially the emaciated corpse.

Very funny, with both of the shorts delivering laughs which are both topical and hard hitting in places. Some of your gags are so accurate that it's beyond satire and it's actually factual, especially the China / Russia thing.

I liked the way that you did the voices for Megatron and Prime - just what software did you use to ge the neat effects?

[Review Request Club]

Chakra-X responds:

Yeah good point, I did. Great that you recognized the importance of the facts.

I didn't do the voices though. Shard-Spider used a program to overlap different tones of his voice, and I think he used an echo effect? You can do that in programs such as Goldwave and (this one is free) Audacity.

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 169]

Golbat suited better

Certainly, with his big gaping mouth, Golbat would have suited the episode numbered 169 :P

A half decent converson of Hitler - who is his taylor? Does he go to some swanky Saville Row taylors, even though he tried to kill them all off years ago, just for the ironic vlaue?

Doesn't this sort of image and / or flash photography scare off the bats?

[Review Request Club]

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

He's his own tailor. :)

[A piece of puke]

Quite Random indeed

What I'd really say that you need to do with this creation is to give it a little more 'oomph'. I'd suggest that you take it further, by having something else happen to the 'sick guy'. Maybe have it precipitate into a larger being walks past him and something comes of that new situation, where you can give us more surreal works.

I'd certainly like to see what you're capable of writing, as the animation style is nice. It's easy on the eyes and you can quite easily see what high quality you've achieved.

[Review Request Club]

Pepeto responds:

Hehe, thanks for your review.

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 5]

Portals Bandwagon

Everyone seems to be jumping on the protal bandwagon these days. I wonder what all the fuss is about.

On mishap #2, you didn't quite manage to get the images of Jim cut in exactly the right places - he seems to have grown slightly as a result of adding part of his middle twice.

I really liked the jokes though and the writing is coming on great guns. I'd love to see what sort of jokes you could come up with for some sort of parody of, say, Lord of the Rings, for example. That bandwagon seems to have run out of impetus right about now.

[Review Request Club]

Jimtopia responds:

That's pretty cool that you were the first one to review it Coop83. I'm glad you liked it. The reason people are jumping on the "Portal Bandwagon" is because it's a fun game.

[Pot Head Bob and a gennie]

Wow

First things first, you really need to work on getting an acceptable sound quality for your voiceovers - I could barely hear the vocals of the characters. If you're recording using MS Sound recorder, once you've recorded it, increase the volume of the sound file about 200% to get a decent sound

The animation, while Terrence & Philip-esque is not good enough to get me raving. I like the way that you made the genie quite opaque, as that was really worked well. The main problem with the genie, was that his shape was too rigid - gasses don't tend to form perfect circles unless poured into bottles.

There needs to be more of a plot, rather than just this one guy getting stoned, finding a genie and then the pair of them getting stoned together.

[Review Request Club]

D3m0n1c707 responds:

Thanks- your feedback was very informative and will keep that in mind for sure. Although i do have to say that 1. it was only suposed to be a quick chuckle thing and also, when ever i record i get a noise in the background that is produced by my laptop and that is why i had the sound so low.