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[Styr Vs Mugen]

***WARNING:

THIS REVIEW IS NOT FAVORABLE TO MOTION-TWEENED STICKS. IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE CRITICISM FOR THE CHOICES YOU MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE STOP READING NOW****

This wasn't bad as far as sticks go. Kind of entertaining and admittedly I like how you chose to end it. There are some things I think you could improve on, however. First of all, the intro seemed forced. Trying to sync up his actions with the narration at the start of the music, I mean. I think ultimately it would have been better to either choose another song, edit out the narration, or simply keep the volume low/off until the narration was over, you didn't really need it. With spoken words at the beginning of the flash, the text at the end brings the flow to a crashing halt. Also, fingers on sticks looks really weird, I wish you would have done this without. I realize that being the simple representation they are, sticks don't allow a whole lot of expression, but tacking on those fingers just didn't look right. I think this fight could have gone on longer but I realize that's a good bit of work, and you paced the flow of the battle pretty nicely.

SupraNova responds:

Thank you very much for your review! Ill work on these points.

[1 Hour Flash]

Could have been better.

All the time that was spent with white lines over and over at random (which was about 19/20ths of this flash) got really repetitive. You could have put that time into drawing something with substance. It seems like you were just wasting time so that you could burn out the whole audio file. It would have been better for you to make a more visually impressive flash and fade the audio out on your own (since that's how it ends anyway). Even for just an hour this wasn't that impressive really. I've done it before and I know you can accomplish more than this. Congrats on not being blammed though. Use it as motivation to get better.

Krywk responds:

Thanks for CC :D
(By CC I meant Constructive Criticism)

[SicTV Channel 1]

The art...

...Was very good, and the audio was very clear. The writing not so much. When the boy got hit from one side and then the other by a baseball I expected the skit to end with some clever explanation as to why his sandbox seems to be surrounded on all sides by baseball fields or why his parents liked to circle him and throw 90 mph pitches at his head, but it never came. The bear poking bits made no real sense as there wasn't any reason for any of them to poke the bear, they just had a deathwish or something. Ironically, someone intentionally throwing themselves on an upturned sword would have been funnier and still made just as much sense. Though the bear was drawn really well, I will say that. The puns are kind of "smile humor" in the sense that they bring about a smile because I can tell where you're going with it, but none of them were really all that funny. On an unrelated note, I see that one member of your father/son team is only a decade older than the other. I'm impressed.

[NiN10Doh: ToThe64thPower]

Very nice!

I thoroughly enjoyed most of this (especially the samus and captain falcon scenes, both of which made me laugh out loud). While some weren't as funny as others, I often found myself impressed with the quality of animation. Plus, you had something with Ness and I eat that shit up. My only real problem with this flash was how insanely creepy the girls in the loading/main menu screen are. They have really weird anatomy, eerie faces, and parts of them that shouldn't be tweened separately are (causing movement that shouldn't be there in the first place). Oh... And the moon was really hard to understand. I gave up. Other than that stuff though, this was great.

I am curious though, you say you guys got sponsored for this, how does that work? I didn't think there was anything to pay for aside from buying equipment and software which everyone else on this site has to do alone. What's the secret?

[Caramelldansen HD]

Meh...

Your art is pretty and the song is okay, but this is like less than a second of actual animation played over and over and over. It couldn't have taken more than two hours to make this really, 90% of the content is the song. If you wrote the song, then you deserve 4 more stars, but I doubt you did.

[Final fantasy 7 in 3 min.]

Confusing.

I think that sums it up in a nutshell. You didn't really pick plot points that explain the game, and you didn't really put them out there in a way that was funny, just repetitive. But, you completed the flash so I'll give you cheers for that.

RogerregoRRoger responds:

Well, as the description said, it's the retelling of the story as remembered by someone who hasn't played the game in 10 years. Which is why it focuses mostly on the big set pieces, and not on the details inbetween.

[The Power of Xein]

Well...

When I read the title I knew this had to be one of two things. I was kind of hoping for the other, but this isn't too bad. About as good as sticks fighting floating balls can get. Well done.

darkpower508 responds:

Thanks.

[God at the skating park]

The power of fame!

Being able to make a flash that's over by the time someone says their ABCs with art of this level (when we all know you can make prettier) and STILL getting over a 3.0 in score. It's like how Snoop Dogg can make up words when he runs out of ideas for lyrics and people still eat it up. You've reached Snoop Dogg status, Luis, congratulations.

[Keira Goes the Distance]

I guess...

Don't be lazy? That's about the best advice I can offer. It seems from your author's comments that you know what your flaws are, you just choose not to change them. Your score is going to suffer for that but hey, like you said, you really just wanted to see them animated. Also, the colored flashbackish picture things really felt out of place with the lines-only rest of the animation. While I would have preferred to see the whole thing colored, having only bits and pieces of it colored is distracting and messy looking. In the future you should go all or nothing. To be honest though, the voice didn't really bother me or make me laugh, it just seemed like a voice. I didn't really catch it was a robot until I read your comments (which I did after viewing the flash). Good luck in future projects, always strive to improve!

MidoriEyes responds:

Thanks for critiquing! I'm glad the voice sounded like a voice, lol. And yes, I could've fully colored it, and that's what a lot of people say about most of my animations, but coloring isn't something I really want to focus on yet. (I did color some of the flashback stuff, but that was b/c they were still frames and easy to color so I just went for it, but I can understand how you'd see that as lazy or tacky.) For now, I'm doing mostly line work so that I can get better at simple animation (it's what I've been learning in class, somewhat.) It sounds like an excuse, but when I color everything it kind of covers up the line work I did and people can't see what needs to be improved or changed in that aspect. Everything I'm doing right now is kind of storyboard-ish, a precursor to animations I'll be putting more effort into in the future. I'm so glad you read my description though and saw that I am aware of my own flaws. :) Some people just jump all over me about not doing this or that and act like I don't know what I'm doing.

[Cookie Jar Gone Wrong]

Nice but...

You would have scored higher if you had shot the other kid instead. That little shit was annoying.