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[Stickman Can't Fight 2]

Gotta say man, these animations are pretty fucking schweet!

guitan11 responds:

word

[Safeway - The Flood]

EH...

Overall: 3/5 : 5/10

Audio: 5/10
Animation: 5/10
Plot: 6/10

The Audio was rather basic and for the most part, not enjoyable. The Store's BGM (or Elevator music as I call it) was fine but bland, but the watery sound effects was far too loud and over all too compressed.
All other sounds didnt seem to fit well with the rest of the sounds either..

Theres two halves of this Animation that I would like to talk about here.
On one half, the Animation itself was scratchy at best, let alone there wasnt really much animating going on throughout the entire duration of the flash except for the water running which, although is hard to draw let alone animate, it really let down the overall quality of the flash. The humans movements were staggered and unrealistic.
On the other half, the Quality and depth was really good, and really the only reason why the Animation score got anything over 2/10.
It seemed quite evident that you took actual photos of the store and the location and just drew over them to achieve that good quality and depth.

And finally, Plot, Its a clever story line, but it seemed that you were trying too hard to make funny moments, like the employee in the break room, or the fish at the deli. Both of which were funny though, but I couldn't help but tell that it could've been done better...

Overall, I'm not sure how this even got on the front page of NGs, but it seems that as of late, Less than Par front page animations seem to be getting it sadly.

Keep working at your animating skills, you have potential to become quite impressive.

veyn responds:

Very helpful advice, thank you. I need to practice animating flowing water.
Most of the flash was rushed right before the day it was due, thanks to my crappy planning. I should have taken more time to work on the fine details.

[desert.]

ehh..

overall: 3/5 : 6/10

Audio: 7/10
Animation: 6/10
Plot: 6/10

I'm not really sure where to start with this, so i think ill just go from the most noticeably annoying part.
"water...... water...... waaaater" yes, we get it, a stranded man in the desert would obviously be looking for water and or shelter. making him say it over and over again is silly, seeing as people dont exactly talk when stranded and are looking for water as opening your mouth will dry it out.
some of the sounds you used were decent and wernt noticeably compressed, however it was the way you used that which ruined them. most sounds have a small amount of background noise or white noise, this is heard a second or even half a second before and after the sound has played. This was the case in this animation, I've heard of some people adding in a quite white noise just to cancel out the noise that comes with the sound.

The animation was full but wasnt well rounded, meaning, you gave a good sense of space, showing a single lonely figure in a vast open space.
Some of the characters movements were far to juttery or sudden for my liking (like when he fell to the ground when he got to the tap)
And the biggest thing I noticed was that nothing had any shade to them. only the character cast a shadow on the ground, but nothing else had any shadow or had any form of shading too giving a lack of depth to the entire flash...

Plot wise, It's very interesting. finding a pretzel tap in the desert would be rather annoying and all that, but the story feels... lost.
You have given us a guy thats in the desert with no explanation as to why or how he got there. I'm aware that alot of animation's just do these sorts of thing for fun and that it is what it is. but I cant help myself but still ask.

As far as the story for the flash goes.
there isnt one, theres a guy in the desert who finds something that it isnt. the end.

Keep up the good work, try to work on an attention to detail, smoothing out your animation a bit more and remembering your shades and shadows.

All in all, this really shouldnt have been on the front page.
but thats what happens these days...

TimeWasted responds:

I appreciate your thoughts and criticism. I am inclined to believe you missed the point, however. It was supposed to be sort of like an animated one to three panel comic joke. A short, absurd joke. It wasn't supposed to be a three act story or plot, just an animated joke. It was originally slated as a collection of six shorts, but I am instead going to release them all separately, I think. I don't always put shading in characters, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, but that's just my stylization. Shading is not a necessity, especially in cartoons. Look at many of the major cartoons on television today and you will notice the characters are simply not shaded, but colored in cells. That's what I was going for with this. About your comment about not liking the repetition of saying water-- have you considered the effects of dehydration, complete isolation, etc. on someone's brain? Oftentimes people in such situations talk aloud to themselves to keep sanity, or as a result of insanity. This talking was also used for expository purposes. As for sound, I used a built in mic on my laptop, 'cause I have no actual sound equipment, so it was all sort of DIY. There is also quiet white noise, called desert ambiance if you listen closely. The character model used [as well as some of the animation] was from over a year ago, before I had read as much as I have now on animation theory, so I couldn't do as much with it as I could if I was to start anew, but I didn't feel like starting all over. So, I agree the animation isn't top notch. I liked the suddenness of the fall, though, personally. Again, thanks for the criticism and hope my comment clears the air on it a bit.

[The Facebook Poke War]

Punch = Poke?

Overall: 3/5 : 7/10

Audio: 7/10
Animation: 7/10
Plot: 7/10

Alrighty, So the sound in this, well.. the music as it were considering that's pretty much 95% of the sound we get in this flash, was well and truly over compressed, The poor quality almost made me stop watching all together.
Also, a lack of other sound's makes the flash seem shallow.

The animation was at parts really smooth for an FBF and in others, there were no inbetween frames when a 'motion' happened, I cant help but wonder if this is just your style of animating so I havent really voted you down for animation fluidity.
The Quality of your animation was so-so, the body-stance, facial expressions and aspect ratio size for each character and their limbs, hands, head etc was spot on.
Everything looked perfectly proportionate and good, the quality of the flash was a little bit sketchy but im guessing that this was a bit of a rush job?

Plot wise, well, it was clever although a little confusing.
Perhaps theres some sort of inside joke because I cant see the resemblance between poking, and poking with a cannon?
I dunno, but it was a clever kind of flash none the less.

Overall, it's a pretty nice flash, very light and comical for all the right reason's, the BGM suited (kinda) although it's a big shame that its been compressed to all buggery.
This is pretty much front-page material, but only just.
Congrats!

WooleyWorld responds:

Yes I like the stances and proportions I do. I like the semi cartoon but keep it slightly real look.

Thanks for the very long thought there.

[Xtreme Coffee Action Set!]

Very nice

Overall: 4/5 : 9/10

Audio: 9/10
Animation: 10/10
Plot: 10/10

Sound quality was superb, although when the hardcore music came in, it sounded a that bit distorted or compressed, that was honestly the only thing that dropped the score.
The voice acting was perfect too.

The animation was consistent, graphic ( ^_^ ) and overall perfect, I saw no clipping or blemishes at all. truly a real animator.

Plot was simple, effective and funny.

Simply one of the best animations I have seen, I highly regard simple but effective animations.
You held your consistency and the quality was noticed.
All in all, excellent job!

This is well worth the front page.

(This is my 100th Review!)

BillyNapalm responds:

Thanks for the great review! You have keen ears, my friend, as I have no real knowledge of sound and basically crunch the crap out of my audio so it doesn't peak. I'm sure there's a much more delicate way of handling sound, but my tiny mind just can't wrap itself around it.

[Grizzly Bear Man]

Interesting

Overall: 3/5 : 6/10

Audio:N/A (Music: 7/10)
Animation: 7/10
Plot: 5/10

Due to a lack of any Audio content apart from the music, I have rated the sound based on the song.
Let's just say, I prefer the sound of my dog barking at passers by on the street.
The song was alright, rather repetitive.
But what really got to me about it was both, the Lyrics and the amount that the song has been compressed.
I understand that it's a rather lengthy flash but that doesnt mean you should have compressed your song that much, especially why its the ONLY sound based medium in the entire animation...

The Animation itself was okay, nice-looking scenery and all that but I have no idea why, in some parts the little scout doesnt move and rather appears in a different position all of a sudden, or he's very sketchilly moving back and forth like Mr. Game&Watch...
I did however, like the use of various Fonts for each of the characters.

Plot wise, It really felt like as if you tried hard to come up with something, made it up as you went along and got bored somewhere in the middle.
A song that the only thing keeping in time is the repetitive tune.
An animation that doesnt know wheather it want's to be fluid, smooth, FBF or Sketchy.
and a plot that appears to be made up on the spot...

I kind of liked this, but at the same time, I really didnt...
I guess it's one of those things where you watch it once and you walk away remembering only the good things about.
Not sure if this one is worth the front page or not, I'm very much on the fence with this one.

So good work, you succeeded in boggleing my mind.

imjeffhip responds:

Yeah I started to run out of time to animate, so some are more fluid then others which I should have keep it either or instead.

[CSI: Minecraft]

nice

Overall: 3/5 : 7/10

Audio: 08/10
Animation: 08/10
Plot: 5/10

You'll have to bare with me here as im ridiculously hung-over...
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Okay.
The voice acting was quite nice although just the tiniest bit more would make the voice acting perfect, a lack of ambient sounds sorta removes depth from your flash and it looses its appeal.
It's actually a good tip to write down, sound is your friend, don't be afraid to use ambient sounds to help give depth to your work.

The Animation was nice and smooth, but the hard thing to judge about here is that I'm not sure if your trying to go for the authentic minecraft look, or a minecraft-like look.
with the characters having no hands, the creeper looking perfect and the scenery + clouds at the end of the animation, It tells me that your trying to replicate the game's look, but then you go the completely opposite direction with the square/triangle eyes, the bendy body and most importantly, the mine where some of the scenery wasn't in block-form at all, which made the animation part was hard to judge, I have no idea what look your trying to go for...

The plot, well, title anyways was completely irrelevant to the plot of this flash.
the only thing that links the title to the actual animation is at the very end and in the credits it says "CSI: Minecraft"
You do know that CSI is a criminal/mystery tv program right?
and yet, this flash has none of that, which is why the title is really irrelevant.
The sudden ending surprised me also, I was under the impression that the flash was going to continue and hopefully tell more of a story apart from "ow, a creeper blew up on me"
"Creeper? sounds like you got creeped out" -Ending.

In the end, this was a good flash in terms of the quality, worth watching? hmmmmmm I guess if your bored, but to be honest its a single-pun flash thats irrelevant to it's own title.
You have a nice animating style and the quality in both the drawing and the sound was beautiful.
Keep up the good work, just work on your plot and story-lines.

Not really what I'd call front page material.

Falconer02 responds:

Cool review. To explain tho-
Sound- Minecraft isn't very ambient with sound effects when you're in a cave or indoors. It's very basic. Creepers don't even make sounds until you're up close. Though there was cave ambience and the explosion was edited to sound better.

Animation- Blocky is the look, but to make things look fluid, one needs to squash and stretch. Thus the bendiness of the characters.

Plot- Plot? It's Minecraft! There's no plot to minecraft except build and survive. This joke happened in our private server and it was hilariously awful, so I told it as it happened in this cartoon and people seem to like it. That's really all I was trying to portray. Perhaps the title is somewhat misleading?

Though I think you're overthinking it a bit, this is still a great review. Good read. Thank you, and enjoy the wine!

[MvC3: Iron Man]

impressive!

Overall: 5/5 : 10/10

Audio: 10/10
Animation: 10/10
Plot: 10/10

Simply, wow...
The sound quality was amazing, no compression issues or bad voice acting.
I especially liked how you simulated the sound of tony talking with his mask/helmet thing on. It's detail like that that made your score reach the perfect mark (in audio).

Animation, quality wise was nice, appealing and had plenty of effects and eye candy.
Although there was a lack of moving parts perse, in this case, the simplicity worked and the quality tied everything together to make a professional flash.

Plot wise, it was funny, witty and everything inbetween.
Theres really not much else that I can say about the plot apart from the fact that it was perfectly fine!

All in all, this is the very first animation that I have reviewed and have given it a perfect score, In my personal opinion, I would have much preferred to have seen this flash advertised and promoted rather than that 'Rampage' one.
It really is nice to see a decent flash every once in a while, and it makes me happy to actually review these things again. (So long as there are at least a few decent ones thrown in to keep my interest and sanity up)
This is well worth the front page, if not a page of its own.

Congrats! and goodluck on your future projects.

JohnnyUtah responds:

damn, you people put so much thought into these i just HAVE to respond.

thanks for the review!

[Halo Reach: Armor Locked]

and it had an extra ending!

Overall 9/10 : 4/5

Audio: 10/10
Animation: 7/10
Plot: 10/10

Audio-wise this was perfect, all levels were balanced nicely with the BGM, SFX and Vocals. nothing more needs to be said there.

The animation lacked detail in the first few scenes and in some other views throughout the animation. I did like how you made the upper half of the torso's move from their weapons recoil. (you'd be surprised at how little people try to recreate a feeling or add depth into their flash)
Towards the end of the animation, both the animation itself and the detail was beautifully done, some excellent effects in use and a couple transitions just to name a few were unbelievably good!
It was that lack of detail in some areas however that killed your animation score a bit.

Plot wise, I would only change but one thing. You failed to explain or show why the guy used shield-lock in the first place. other than that, this was one damn good flash!

so, all in all, This is a must-watch! and absolutely worthy of the front page!
Good job, mate!

DoomzDayChikn responds:

yeah, as an artist, I know I can always perform better. But I simply figured it for a "simple" flash, where story was to outweigh the detail. I see some movies that are so horribly drawn, but its got a good story so people like it.

Not that I was aiming for low standards, but rather that I didn't want to spend 3 times as long working on a good looking flash with a sub-par story.

[Violet Kold]

erm, It's Broken...

Soo yeah, I clicked on the house and I can look around the room but nothing is clickable...

So to me this flash is broke-ded, therefore It receives a 0-Score.

The BGMusic's a lill on the compressed side, its very.... muffled sounding.

CloudEater responds:

I SHALL FIX THIS!