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[Sonic: The Crybaby]

A good start

I think that you have made a decent enough start with the manipulation of the sprites, which is always a good solid platform to build upon, but there are some parts which you need to work on, to bring all of your skills into line:

Putting a solid black line along the base of the flash window, to contain the subtitles is a good start - granted, it cuts down the space with which you have to work, but it stops them being more of a hinderance to the flash.

When a character speaks, move their mouths and don't bother indicating on the subtitle bar of who is speaking.

The other thing I would suggest is a different graphic for the candy box. You've used the level 2 icon with a yellow background, but I would suggest that you at least get some sort of name added to it, before shrinking it down in size.

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The-Red-Jack responds:

Thanks, now I know what to do next time

[SAATANA]

Tell me about your mother...

Are you currently under the influence of, or have you ever taken strong narcotics?

That was frankly surreal. Not to say that i didn't like it, I found it to be quite a nice (if somewhat disturbing) flash, especially the part when the guy stabs himself in the eye with a helping hand from the guy with the yellow head. Was that a simpsons reference there, by the way :P

This sort of flash is randomness at its best, where you can control the flow, only by directing it to an equally bizzare progression. Where do you get your inspiration?

Catoblepas responds:

No, I'm sorry but I didn't make this under the influence.

[Death Eagle Pt. 2]

Slightly better

I'm glad that you've dealt with the muzzle flash issues I said about in the review for part 1. I still thank that you're trying to run before you can walk with this.

Try working on getting the stick figures to walk, rather than just having them phase along the floor, as if they were teleporting minute distances or even hovering above the ground. I'm not expecting you to come up with something like Xiao Xiao in your third submission, but I am expecting to see you make some steps towards becomeing a good artist and animator.

You've taken the first step and have shown that you can take aboard criticism and use it to your advantage.

You've still shot a few characters and had the blood fly out the wrong way. If someone gets shot in the front, the blood would mainly come out of their back, as the exit wound is a bigger hole and much more traumatic. That's a sly little one for your to bear in mind there.

Some of the action was a little fast, so you couldn't really tell what was going on. Others, you had to wait for what seemed like an age for the sound of the gun being cocked, which isn't good. If the sound isn't working too well, cut that particular sound file and move on - it will help make the action look more fluid.

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Phantox responds:

I agree on what you said that some fight scenes went a bit to fast. On the sounds, I had some problems so they couldn't be displayed correctly.

Anyways, thanks for the review.

[Death Eagle]

Requires work

This flash is the type that we regularly see fail to pass judgement, to be honest. The sticks are about the only thing that is well drawn - the guns are all disproportianate to the size of the stick figures, the tank was way too small and the mounted guns looked nothing like guns - only the sound indicated that they might be guns as well.

What I'd suggest is that you use Google Searches, to look for what you want to draw and spend some time drawing them - zoom in and make your cursor smaller, to give you greater control.

When you shoot, the flash of flame from the muzzle should not stay there, nor should you just scribble over dead characters with red, to indicate bloodshed. Watch some movies like Die Hard, you'll see that they get some blood splaters, but not really a lot of blood hanging around in ugly lines.

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Phantox responds:

Alright. Thanks for the review. I know the guns didn't look all that well but I tried. I'll try that thing you said about Google next time.

[Chaos Sonic Chapter 1]

A little long, but good.

What a flash of this quality desperately needs is some proper vocals. Search the BBS for voice artists, as there are bound to be some good ones out there, who can do decent impressions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Dr. Robotnik.

I'm glad to see old skool Sonic back here, with the correct name for Robotnik, rather than Eggman, or whatever the fuck they chose to call him - messing with the original details like that rarely works.

Sonic's intro has him running and jumping through the air, while he holds a pose. For me, that didn't really work, as the pose was held for a second or two too long.

Other than the above points, the scrip was well written and the whole flash was well presented.

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knuxrouge responds:

Is "flash of this quality" good? I may or may not be adding VOs.

I'm glad you like the old fashioned concept.

...Noted.

Thank you for your review.

[Christmas In Jimtopia]

If only...

If only Arnold Rimmer had thought of that way around the problems with the game "Better than Life", Red Dwarf would have ended sooner, so it's a good job that he didn't really.

From my point of view, it's unusual seeing female characters, as most of your movies feature Jim and Gary, amongst others, but the females are definately in the minority.

I liked this and your animations are now going from strength to strength. I'll definately be suggesting this for the Xmas 2007 collection and I'm looking forward to seeing further productions from you.

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Jimtopia responds:

The cast includes:

Jim
Gary
Sarah
Kortni
Bob

I barely ever include Kortni in cartoons, so seeing her is a rarity, but that's mainly because I never have a use for her character. Touching on the other thing you said (about my animations going from "strength to strength"). I'm glad you think so. I really do work hard on these cartoons, and really think that my characters are going to go somewhere.

[Yellow Snow-X-mas Short]

Old Joke, different angle

A nice little short here, with a twist for the nasty. I quite liked the music, because lots of Xmas tunes should be performed with electric guitar at that sort of speed.

The drawing is obviously your own style and it's plesant to see a different animation style once in a while. I'd suggest that perhaps the snowball needs to be sped up a little bit and perhaps make the snowball a little more yellow, for emphasis.

The cat laughing was just an extra punchline that wasn't exactly needed, but hell, it did end the toon in a way that, although predicatble, was sickly funny.

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Random-SPED responds:

LOL, thanx for the review, yeah i noticed the snow ball thing too, i'll fix it soon. The cat thing wasnt needed i just added that to make it alittle bit longer, thanx for the score and review, its about time i get a review!!

[Romulus vs Remus]

Nice aside

I quite liked this movie, when it is taken in the context of it being part of a history report. It was a little short and never actually educated me at all on the subject of the two brothers fighting for control over what would eventually become Rome.

What I'd suggest that you do for an ammendment is actually squeeze a little of the history into the movie, as without it, the whole thing could be seen as a needless aside to the project.

Still, don't be disheartened, at least you got an 'A', although I don't think that the flash particularly helped :P

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MinusNick responds:

Thank you for the review. I made it as more of a joke than a history thing, and I know it's not what got me the A, lol. I just thought thought I'd submit this for the heck of it, but I'm glad you "quite liked" it. I guess i might put in an intro sequence if I ever remake it.

[LL - Lemming Shorts!]

Awesome ending tune!

Thin Lizzy rock, so kudos for adding them.

Now, as regards the random parts of the flash, I've seen a lot worse, to be honest. At least yours was well animated and funny. I particularly liked the part with SporkLock, who talks in essays, not that I'm going to make mine into one now, because I never go on and on about stuff when I should have stoppped hours ago...

*ahem*

Still, when Lemming got everyone to look up, I thought that he'd just walk off at some point, leaving everyone else staring into space and wondering why. Promoting LockLegion.co.uk was also a good idea though, but not as funny.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot - I Love Walruses too :)

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shaka-zulu responds:

Thin Lizzy rocks so hard :D