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[DailyToon01032005]

Annoying music

Didn't like the intro music.

Yuka - Some neat 3D. Could do well with audio.
RoyMasta - Stay away from my babies. Make the flash longer.
UglyBastard - You made him look way hotter than he really is. Great flash!
Grandfather-Clock - Impregnation?

[Vince The Voodoo doll]

This is under-exposed.

How does this have so few reviews and votes?

I love your style of drawing. It's one of those somewhat simple yet still detailed styles, which simply looks pretty much fantastic in this context, the story.

The animations are at times a bit sloppily done. They seem sort of out of place. Mainly when he's walking down the street, where it rather looks like he's floating down the street.

Story-wise, there's not much to say. I love your interpretation of Steve Kirk's song, which I haven't heard before. You didn't follow the lyrics like a slave, but you did follow them quite well and made a flash based off of it.

The music was also really fun, and the style the entire flash was made in, sort-of-noir-but-not-really, if I can put it like that (language barrier is giving me a hard time on describing this one), really fit the music.

Only thing I have anything to say on this flash is really the animations, and that's barely anything.

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Emanhattan responds:

nail on the head!

I always felt that the first walk cycle I made for vince felt odd but never knew why, and in fact, exactly like you said it, it almost feelt to me like he was floating

it wasnt until quite a lot later in the production that I started to read about proper walk cycles wich was a principle I tryed to make use of in later walks/angles

thanks for taking your time reviewin this!

[Slurpee @ The Scorpions]

Lacks something in graphics

It's a pretty average+ clockmovie. I'll make sure the fact that I'm not a fan of the Scorpions don't affect my review score on this flash.

Now, graphically it's a very simple flash. All the crops are rather badly done, backgrounds are very simple, and animation is very simple. Clock is very generic.

The joke was at least quite funny. Slurpeeclock pasted onto images from concerts was sorta funny, but i guess that says more about my sense of humour than about the quality of this film. The punchline at the end was also pretty funny.

This could've been a very good flash if it had been done more thoroughly. Especially graphically speaking.

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[Marlin Talks To A Girl]

A bit rushed, maybe?

A fun sketch absolutely.

It's not the best Clockmovie you've made, but it has a decent joke with a quite good punchline.

The graphics are simple. I'm guessing you're using pre-made clocks for your clocks. The backgrounds are just pictures, not of particularly good quality. The cropping of the girl was also quite poorly done. You should've spent some more work on it, but at least you didn't leave the background white/black.

The speakonia voices you used are somewhat hard to understand at times, but most of the time it works out pretty well.

The joke was simple, but it was funny. You pulled it off pretty well, with awkward silences and a punchline at the end.

In general I'd like to see some more work done on the graphics part of things.

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PatriotClock responds:

thanks

[DailyToon #429]

Oh my

I'm very disappointed in you guys.

ThreeStar - Wow, that's cute!
retrosmash - I don't understand.

TheStarSyndicate responds:

GO TO HECK, JERK

[Dailytoon #428]

Original, or?

Not bad. You just proved to me that the Star Syndicate is an original and funny bunch. Seems to me like those forums are really funny.

Something as simple as different gifs with one voice-actor talking usually isn't funny, but this was just absurd and made me smile. Good stuff.

[Tomffrey 2: Gangland]

Uh...

I'm not sure what this is.

Graphically, it's a lot simpler than some of your other flashes. It all looks like it's been quickly sketched by hand, making it look... not bad, but a bit sloppy. In addition you've got this weird pixelated philter on top, which makes it all look worse.

The music got a bit annoying when I couldn't clearly make out the voices due to it. The voicing wasn't horrible, but it wasn't good. There was a lot of noise, and some breathing into the microphone.

The story was sorta funny, but nothing hilarious. Seems sort of like a parody, but I'm not sure exactly what it's a parody of.

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PatriotClock responds:

buddy cop 1970s parody

[Who Wields the Staff]

Fun parody, but a bit slow

Ah, how I miss He-Man!

The fact that I love He-Man made this movie a lot more fun, simply because I got the parody joke in it.

The graphics aren't bad, they're just not too good. There is a lack of detail, not in that your style is simple, but in that you're going for something somewhat realistic but coming up short due to lack of detail. The animations are also very simple, and the mouth animation isn't very synced with the audio.

The voicing however is very well done, and made the jokes a bit funnier. If you could add some background music and SFX, that would improve the flash a whole lot, because right now, the lack of sound apart from the voices made the entire flash look very dragged out and slow.

I see this is your first animation ever, so you might want to look up a few tutorials and practice drawing before you upload something new. Would be neat to see a remake of this sometime in the future, with better graphics and sound.

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Mentalholik responds:

Fantastic, thanks ever so much! Will certainly take things into consideration. Would love to make more animations so will certainly work on that. Want to do more fbf stuff in future too!

[CoolJaw: P.S. IIII-V]

Some typos, but still an excellent chapter

There's not much to be said about this one that hasn't already been said.

It's still, of course, somewhat hard to follow if you haven't seen the previous ones, but I have, so it's not a problem.

The story is dark and still makes me want more. It's engaging, and if this were a book, I'd be sucked in the moment I opened it.

Your style, as I've said previously, is very cool and fitting to the story of this flash. It's sort of sloppy, and pretty rough. The colour scheme you use enhances the feel of fear, sadness, and makes the entire series much more tense. The music you use has the same effect.

There are some typos, and it's important that you try to avoid these. See if you can get someone to proofread it for you before you post it. Here are some quick ones I saw, or lines that could be improved:

You see them don't you? all died at your hands
Add THEY before "all died at your hands".

You'r not? Why because you killed as a soldier?
This should be "You're not?", instead of "You'r not?".

But the things you've done will follow you always
I think a better way of putting it would be like this:
But the things you've done will forever haunt you

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Celx-Requin responds:

Hello,

Thanks for the review I'm gonna change that second mistake you caught.
Although the first one was meant to be like that...

Hope you catch the last one!
Thanks,
- Celx

[Fate's Apprentice]

I don't really like Aerosmith, no.

A very good attempt at animation, but some pretty vital flaws remain.

First off, you need to increase your framerate. This was simply far too low, and the animation was not smooth at all, it seemed more like a slideshow. It looks sort of like you used Windows Movie Maker, and pre-drew the drawings in a program. Of course I might be wrong, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't increase the framerate.

The story of the flash is, however, one of the better I've seen. It's very original, while it keeps true to fairytales of old, to some extent. It's original in the sense that it's not something you see animated on Newgrounds a lot, but the story is not too unusual. Apprentice looking up to master, tries to copy it, and then... stuff happens?

The choice of music wasn't really that good. Not because I don't like Aerosmith too much, but because you should instead add voice-acting, and maybe some ambient background music, as well as better SFX. The little amount of SFX you had in the flash felt out-of-place, because it was so scarce.

Graphically, your drawings aren't too bad, but they're a bit simple. You want them to look sort of realistic, but lack the detail to do it, so it doesn't look as good. You should either practice your skills, or decide on a simpler style of drawing. Either way works out. I'm not taking into account the quality of the film, as you explained that issue, though I'd like to see a better version.

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EKublai responds:

Thank you, your criticism has been duly noted.