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[Jay Short # 1!]

Short, sweet and sick

All at the same time, which is quite impressive. I'm not really a fan of the music, as it sounds like it goes out of tune every now and again.

I think you've put quite a bit of effort into the drawing of Jay and then slightly less into drawing things like the dog. For me, it showed, as it didn't seem so smooth, but why would it if you were just going to kill it off a few frames later.

I'd personally like to see it being a little longer, as you coudl make it up to about half a minute longer and still get away with calling it a short. Maybe Jay stops when he sees the dog, then tries to call it over. When it doesn't come, he leaps on it and makes it into dinner. Maybe a few little sound effects, to make the music a little secondary, like a slash of the knife, a thud as he lands on the floor etc.

Little touches that make all the difference, but it's worth having a think about.

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TheCriminalDuder responds:

Good advice here. I'll remember it.

[FbF Attack]

Great job!

Now even though you warned us about the lack of plot development, thisstill works really well. The one problems I see that you seem to have with the whole this is that it's a little on the short side (that's only minor, I'm not that fussed today) and that you didn't spell "which" correctly in your warning (I am not responsible as well, not I is not)

The movement of the whole thing flowed really well, especially the fight scene, which was a great triumph. If you want to take this further (and I seriously suggest you do), you may wish to browse the NG fgorums to try and find some inspiration for continuing this or making a fresh start.

Give it some thought, you're very talented.

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Soupcat responds:

Talented you say? Wow, nice way too close a review :D
Well, thanks I guess ^_^

Anyway, yes, it could be longer, and yes I make loads of spelling mistakes etc. I am completly aware of the things I should look out for, and everytime I pay attention some more, so don't worry, it'll all be okay.
And yes, short, the animation idn't really went towards a real plot, so I stopped before it really got ugly, and repetetive.
Anyway, I will take this further, but not in the near future. This is really my style, and it's something I will always have inspiration for, so it won't stop here, but I'm still experimenting qua animating.
I haven't found my real "big" flash yet, wich makes a groundbraking point in my animating life.
(I'm going to deep in this, aren't I ?)

Anyway, thanks for the review! Really helps me alot!

[Sunshine Day '07: Zpozx 1]

certainly a different twist

Ok, so I was about to close the window for this and write some garbage about how you've done the same thing as any of the Sunshine Day flash which have preceeded this. However, you've actually given us a (poor, but passable) plotline...

So you put in a few things that I've not seen before - the crab walking off shot, the stereo playing, but I couldn't move the Sun. Now I understand why - plot!

It was a short movie, so I'm not going to ramble about too much, but the ending was predictably lame and I think you could have gotten away with at least a couple of minutes of "filler crap", which doesn't mean more of that annoying song.

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FattyWhale responds:

yhanks

[Ruxpin Prophecies]

OMG Random!

Wow, this was probably the most random piece of animation I've ever seen on Newgrounds! And that's saying a lot.

I've watched a lot of this flash and taken a lot on board, but it's delivered in such a way that it kind of leaves me spaced after a while. Possibly me, possibly the flash, I can't say for sure.

With some of these animations, I can't tell if you're doing it to take the piss out of other authors laughable styles of animation, or if you're just doing it to be completely random. Personally, if you're doing it to take the piss, I'd suggest you don't as it's really not fair on them.

Still, some of the pieces, which I view to be your more advanced works need developing further, maybe making them into stand alone cartoons. That would certainly be interesting to see.

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Mad-Mardigan responds:

Thanks for review!
I think...

[The Goop]

An assault on my senses

Man I had a really hard time keeping up with the progress of this one. When you kept switching between animators, the styles were so different that you ahve trouble picking up which character is doing what to whom.

To those of you who used speakonia, please try to use it so that each voice sounds different, so that we can tell who is speaking. To those of you who were too lazy to use speakonia, you should ahng your head(s) in shame, as you've really hurt the collab in my eyes.

What were the group who had what looks like a packing crate as an icon? Were they Dock Division? If so, who were the ones with the anchors? If they are one and the same, I'll tell you it doesn't help the confusion, so you may wish to consider unification before the next collab from you lot.

The plot was quite interesting, just put across in a confusing manner. Work on it and I'll be impressed.

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IZSBHR responds:

I'm sorry, but I like the different styles. It's kinda the point of the collab.

We all used speakonia. However, I did one scene in which a Lock was using regular English. Sue me. He also speaks in Japanese at the beginning.

The Dock Division switched from anchors to Wooden boards awhile ago, but Snarf didn't want me to change anything in it.

I don't think we can really work on it; We spent 4 months with the thing.

[- defender -]

Prove a point for me

Come on man, do me someting decent to review please.

So, this is a stick animation, where the gore is amateurish and some of the images haven't even been cut out properly. Still, the um... music was good (I'm struggling for positives here) and so were the gun sound effects, even though the muzzle flash stayed on screen for too long and it all lacked some plot.

Still, you've made something decent out of the sounds, so try to build on that for next time

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Frenzy responds:

lol, I'm not much of an aniamtor, as viewable on my other movies... I use a program that has limited animation possibilites.

Thanks for the good review!
~ Z