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[A song about lag!]

Eh, no

This might just be the oldest trick in the book of flash jokes. A fake loading screen never works out. It's been done multiple times before. You should try putting more effort into your work, and actually animate something with a story to it. Add a story, and sound, a proper story.

This is not really even remotely funny.

snowbodys responds:

eh, yah well it has a good nuff rating

[teh lady,old man,&cookie]

All right

Not a bad attempt at flash, considering it's only your 3rd proper flash.

Main problem for me isn't necessarily the bad graphics, but the lack of voice acting, which I'd love to hear. The writing looks out of place, and really ruins the flow of the flash.

In addition to that, of course, there's the graphics, which you need to improve on. Same goes for animations, really, you're using a lot of tweening, which looks very unnatural when it comes to humans moving.

JKSSN responds:

Bad graphics - Yup!!! It sucks!
Too much tweening - I'm too lazy using FBF :P
Voice acting - I'm homeschool and don't have a lot of friends.
Needs a lot improvement huh?
Anyway, I made a new flash, very short and because I'm bored, and first time doing lip-syc. Pls review and tell me what you think! :)

[10 YEARS OF B <3]

Uhm

I have a feeling more effort went into adding co-authors than to actually making the flash on this one.

Oh well, it's Clock Day, what can you do. Would've been nice if the text didn't shift so fast, though. And some background music.

[The Sugar Claws: V-VII]

Still love the style

There's not a lot that differs in terms of quality from chapter to chapter. It doesn't really need to.

I've been reading and reviewing a lot of your stuff, and I really think that you've done a seriously amazing job with the storyline, plot and general feel of this story. The atmosphere the story itself is placed in, is created around the reader by use of music and your pretty distinct art style.

There's not much animation, but the graphics are neat and unique. The color palette you used really gets out the contrasts in the story. The music still doesn't loop perfectly, but the sound itself is pretty good.

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Celx-Requin responds:

Cool,
I hope you will drop in for the last release in October!

Thanks,
- Celx

[The End Of the World?]

Chuckles

You've got some skill in animation, but there are some issues.

For one, you haven't got a preloader or a replay button, and the whole thing loops, which makes the entire flash feel like it was made by a complete amateur. Your style isn't too bad, it's simple but the animation is very smooth. The jokes I've seen from you so far are pretty funny, but ruined by pretty half-assed voice-acting. The microphone isn't too good and the voice-actor is somewhat unenthusiastic. You should probably look into a new voice-actor.

Cheetoh responds:

This is originally an avi video that I converted to swf. It was usually for youtube, so when I converted it, I didn't know how to put the preloader in.

[show reel ---2011---]

Not bad

I\d actually say this is a pretty good show reel, and I\ll try to review it as a show reel instead of a standalone flash.

So, the most important part of a show reel is to show what you\re good for. I feel you get to show multiple sides of your skills in this piece. For one, you\ve been able to show some good character design and imagination. You\ve got some pretty clever scenes in here, with some humor, and you also show diversity in this.

Your graphics aren't the best, they're clearly hand-drawn (you know what I mean) and not necessarily refined too much. Coloring is a bit plane, but it's definitely not the worst I've seen, and you've got some shading in some of the pieces. Animations are pretty smooth.

The audio in the back is relaxing, which is all right, but this reel is highly random, and it's all made up of really short sequences. Maybe make some a bit longer, because it does sort of feel like you're not the kind of guy to take on a project that is long and lasts for multiple months.

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Horsenwelles responds:

thanks for your excellent opinion!

about the length of the pieces, yeah, i didn't have much to work with based on hundreds of snippets of animation, and i focus on physics/smoothness rather than art direction in animating, glad you noticed ;)

i also had to avoid things used in last year's reel, so i was limited there too. i don't know what i'm going to use next year.

[Jamrock's Lucky Day (ToR)]

Pretty sick

I watched the movie before reading the threads, because I wanted that first impression, and I was wholly ready to blam it to kingdom come, but upon reading exactly WHAT went into the making of this, I can't really complain too much.

Of course I can't let you get away with a ten. I'm really amazed with how you did the entire thing in AS, I have difficulties making simple play and replay buttons. I can see from the script you posted that a hell of a lot of work went into the making of this, for example the exact coordinates for the drawing API, must've been a lot of trial and error going on here.

Then again, this isn't something I'd want for you to work on. Even though it's pretty amazing, it's not really a good flash in that regard.

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Kwing responds:

Thanks. Considering how long it took to map this all out, I think we can both agree this is the final product.

As for HOW I used the API, I drew the shapes on the canvas as normal, then took a flash-drawn cursor and lined it up before checking its X and Y to map it as script. So it wasn't much trial and error, but it was quite methodical, especially the last part with the 3D tank.

[Animation: Blades]

Good animation

Now, I might be biased when it comes to these flashes, but either way:

Your animation style is very smooth, much better than about 70-80% of the stick flash movies submitted to Newgrounds every month. They've got a natural flow, and the graphics look as good as they can, I guess.

My big issue is that there's nothing to this 15-second flash, other than three random sticks fighting. There's no backstory, there's no goal, there's nothing to it, they're just fighting, which seems rather meaningless and pointless to me.

I'm also not sure what the background is, looking at it it just seems like something slapped on to give the flash another level of depth? I see the broken house and car, but the perspective would mean this guys are standing really slanted.

There's no replay button at the end, and it doesn't loop. The music you put in was pretty epic, though, and fit well with the scene of the battle. Try to add a replay button and add some story to it, make it longer. This is not original at all. I can easily see a lot of work went into making this, considering how smooth it is, but to me, it just doesn't cut it.

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Kwing responds:

The down button is as effective a go-back-to-start button as any, so I didn't think a replay button was really necessary.

I have considered maybe putting in a prologue with one of the characters scavenging in the apocalyptic background and then being ambushed by the other two, but I never really gave it a whack. Maybe that would have given the animation more cinematic value and story.

[Dem Parodeez - 2]

A bit annoying

Oftentimes, graphics don't have to be good for the flash to be good, but I don't feel the comedic value on this one weighs up for the fact that the graphics are, pretty much, horrible.

It seems like everything here could've been drawn free-hand in MS Paint. The filling of colors isn't very good, and all the colors are very plain, no shading or lighting or nuances of the colors going on. The style could go for a parodic style, but it looks more like something a kid would draw.

Another problem is animation. It's really all just tweening, and I can't find any very good animation. Mouths really only had to positions, wide open and closed, which could work, once again, with a parodic style (like Arfenhouse, for example), but considering how I didn't even smile at this, I can't let it slip.

Voice acting wasn't bad. Voice was annoying, but you never tried too hard to be funny, which I can appreciate. A bit tough to make out what the characters said at times though.

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DahDoctow responds:

thank you for your comment.

the reason for the art style was actually because this whole thing was inspired completely by a comic strip made by Tails-Lock. It used the same art style so I just asked him if he wanted to be a part of it, it probably wasn't a good idea but in my mind it works.

Thanks I appreciate your honesty

[Creepist]

Nto bad

Creeper jokes are a bit old on NG by now, but this flash isn't bad at all.

Though the concept and idea isn't very original, the graphics are pretty neat, incorporating Minecraft graphics into the animation style without making it look out of plac eor anything. Voice acting was good, but the audio quality could've been a bit better.

ACFan120onNewgrounds responds:

Yeah, the quality of the Female Creeper was only because her regular mic was broken, and she had to use her crappy one.