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[The death and birth]

Hmmm...

I would say "Seems to me that this is a little deeper then what people are giving it credit for. The little kid, who didn't know how to swim jumped into the water and just before dying, he re-experienced birth; remembering his entire life from start to finish in a complete retrospective during the final moments of his life.

Only we don't get to see the entire retrospective of his life and only a few minutes after he was born, which is why everyone is shaking their fists at it.

This was probably more intended as a graphically artistic piece and not as one intended for self expression. Just looking at it I can tell that it was created for visuals and not for plot; Lemoon probably just ended up throwing some philosophy at it to try and give what is otherwise just an animatic some depth and reason to it."

If it weren't for the reincarnation explanation in the description that makes hardly any sense. If he intended to commit suicide, then for what reason would the kid commit suicide? Was he really being foolish or did he intend to die? Regardless of what his intentions were, it seems to me that he was having remorse, pretty much immediately after he jumped in.

You also can't seem to make up your mind as to what you intended this flash to be; first you say that you wanted this flash movie to simplify complicated issues, but then you turn around and tell us that it would be too easy for us if you made the meaning behind it transparent and the movie would lose it's complexity and furthermore it's point.

I think you need to erase about 95% of what's in your description box, because an artistic piece is at it's greatest when you let your audience interpret for themselves what it's about as opposed to this weird philosophy that tends to stumble over itself that you've augmented to it.

The animation was nice though.

[Leo & Satan III]

Funfact

Did you know that Ouija is to be pronounced "Wa-Ja" and not "Weegie"? The reason why is because Oui is "yes" in French and Ja is "yes" in German.

Also, Leo comes back through the floor, which means he came back from... oh my... what did he do to deserve to go there?

[RCR: Promiscuous Kunio]

Not to say that it isn't enjoyable

But could you have altered the Sprites so they match in quality? How hard could it possibly be to make Sprite alterations? All you'd have to do is open it in MS Paint, crop/copy the colors from one sprite to the other, select the "Pick Color" tool indicated by the eye dropper icon between the pencil and the eraser.

Why is this in the Todays Best section? There's nothing here that makes it that special. It's just a few sprite walk cycles and boxy lip syncing. Further more, it's just a sprite flash so that just makes it all the more mediocre. What the fuck?

[Grand Mario Fable ep.2]

Mediocre.

My immediate first complaint is the dialogue. If you're gonna force me to read it as opposed to hearing it, have the frame stop and give me the option to move forward given certain controls so that I can read at my own pace. Some people will get bored after reading the dialogue when it doesn't go away and others won't be cognitive enough to fully read it before it disappears, limiting your audience. The type of ActionScript I'm referring to isn't at all hard or difficult to implement. It's the bare basics of ActionScript used to program quiz games.

FrameActions;
Global Functions; Timeline Control; Stop Frame

ButtonActions;
Global Functions; Timeline Control; Play

It also helps to have Script Assist mode activated so you have better control over how your button works.

Your action is pretty good seeing as how it's reminiscent of AlvinEarthworms ideals of sprite animation. But there are parts I have to mention, in the beginning montage, when the Toadstool whom of which is tied up is falling through the air and is silhouetted, it's clear that he's supposed to fall behind the bush, not infront of it. You need to have better control over the Layers in your Timeline. I also noticed that you seem to have trouble in rendering your backgrounds. Just watch the introduction scene, the structures in the back don't connect with each other.

Above all, I'd say that you're doing a good job, for an amateur. You need to learn how to properly render your backgrounds. Though to be fair it is certainly better in its suspense than that other submission "Sonic Shadow Duel" that's made slightly more success then you have and I can tell you why. Your icon is just the default "no icon for this submission" icon.

This isn't the old days when you had to have a 46/46 height and width GIF image for your icons anymore. In today's NG it's far easier to create an icon for your movie. You can upload any format at any height/width you want and can crop out the icon out of that.

If you have the time, try and fix these flaws before you advance with any latter episodes okay.

Kyuubiscarz8 responds:

The meanest but most constructive review I've read so far.

[The worst Porn ever]

Yeah, don't watch Hostel anymore

Watch real movies, like this piece of shit instead.

The zoom in's were horrible, the proportions of everything changed individually, that is to say, for example, if the background were to expand only in width while the character expanding only in height. Get your proportions under control.

Oh, and how's about working on say, not on a 1000x1000 scale so we can actually see the full fucking frame?

[Goth Lyfe: Goth Burger]

Pretty good

Nevermind the motion tweening, artwork or anything visual. My immediate biggest gripe is the sound. The dialog is really quite, but I also noticed how no matter how low you keep your voice, that pops continually occur in the audio.

That tells me two things:

1; you have your face up to the microphone and you cant help but breathe into it, thus causing the pops and explaining why you're talking in such a low volume of voice.

2; You don't have a pop filter that would otherwise prevent wind from blowing into your mic and causing the pops.

My absolute best recommendation for a microphone is that you get a Gigaware® USB Stereo Headset with Microphone from Radioshack. They currently cost 30.00 dollars.

Subtitles would be nice too.

Also another thing I noticed, you're using Audacity to record your lines. Stop using Audacity. Audacity has horrible encoding that echoes the dialog on a lower volume with bizarre sound filters. It's difficult to explain what it does.

It is by far the most irritating recording program ever made and should never be used. The encoding can actually corrupt all your audio files; you need to uninstall it from your computer before it does that.

Since you're using Audacity, that also tells me that you're using a Windows interface and that you don't know how to use Windows Movie Maker, which doesn't leave that awful encoding filter that replicates the dialog in soft alien speak.

How you access the recording program in Windows Movie Maker is that you find a small microphone icon at the lower left of the screen just above the storyboard/timeline panel. It should display a volume meter with recording options.

I'd also recommend switching the settings from Storyboard to Timeline, although that should happen automatically when you start recording.

I would also very much recommend editing your dialog in WMM, because Audacity can still wreak your shit if you import it. If you need to edit your audio files on a larger scale, there's a table of zoom options next to the microphone icon that will let you adjust the scale you're working on.

Now I'm onto the visuals. Anyone who's ever read my review on Titanomachina knows how I feel about motion tweening. Also this is a comedy so it's hardly relevent, seeing as how this isn't trying to be a work of art.

I do however recommend that since you've decided to use shading, which is typically a big no, no among motion tweeners, that you also use reflection shading [reflections of the light source, as in, brighter than the base color] in addition to your shadow shading.

I like the premise of the series but it could use some drastice improvements. I remember seeing a double feature of Gothe Lyfe 3 years ago and I mildly enjoy it. I think you should concentrate on more of what Goth's are about rather than them acting like regular people, because honestly I can see just about anybody doing what these do.

[Neenja 4]

Loved it

You're an amazing animator Hayk, and I hope one day to work beside you. The shading in the beginning was just fucking beautiful. The shading was short lived sadly, but for what it's worth, it was awesome.

The music was near perfect this time around, except for Haruts BBQ, the music should have ended pretty much immediately after Harut started talking. Other than that, basic perfection. For once I actually like the weird music accompanying a comedic scene because it really does make the scene feel crazy while Harut spazz's out from being drunk and by extension makes the scene funnier. I can't wait for episode five. Or more visual updates to the old episodes. Which ever comes first.

[Neenja 3]

The music was used waaay too inappropriatly...

The music was great and appropriately used up until Hayk beats the crap out of the biker. What made the original so funny was that it didn't have rave techno action music in the background, blurring out the punching sound effects and the screams.

There's not much to say except visually it's just like the original, which isn't bad, but for an update that warrants reuploads, it's disappointing to see no visual enhancements.

[Neenja 2]

I'm glad you didn't record your VA's with Audacity

The audio quality is much better in Part 2. I'm glad you didn't use Audacity for this one because the voice acting is nice and clear.

The music however bugs me. In the original, when Mrs. Butcher chats with the thug, there was no music of any kind and when she creates the creature from a page of the book, there was suspenseful music, but it was subtle and actually worked with the scene and built suspense as opposed to overblowing it like the new music does; the choir was just the cherry on the overblown icecream sundae.

Honestly I just thought the new music was just layed on way too thick and it actually conflicted in volume with the voice acting; I could barely hear the conversation. Also, in the original, when the monster is created from the page, it has suspenseful music, but what made it so great was it's subtlety, the new music was just way too intense and edgy for that scene. It was not that epic of a scene. It worked great near the end, but only because the suspense peaked and the music decided to calm down from it's sugar high.

And that "tada" jingle when Mrs. Butcher pulls the curtain off of her statue is irritating. That was one of my favorite parts because it had no music and the humor was subtle. When you just overblow something like that ruins the experience.

I think the new music was great, just that allot of it was used inappropriately in this one.

I was disappointed with the lack of a visual update. For instance, that glow effect you did with gradients as opposed to a filter glow effect for Mrs. Butchers overhead lamp sorta made me twitch. If you're going to resubmit the old episodes, could you at least make some actual visual updates?

[Neenja: Way Of The Harut]

I have some things to point out

I'm glad you made some auditorial updates but you didn't re-record the voice acting. It's obvious that you recorded all your lines with Audacity, I can tell because I can hear Audacity's horrible encoding evil hovering as background noise everytime Hayk or his midget buddy speak.

I can only hope that you don't use Audacity anymore, I can only hear Audacity evil in the background because of a new headset I bought, which from my personal experience is currently the best on the market; GigaWare USB Stereo Microphone Headset.

The music is great, it really does improve on the original.

When you said that you made visual updates to the original, I was expecting eh... You know, shading, backgrounds, crap like that. But I couldn't find any noticeable visual improvements from the original.