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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)

[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.

[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.

[A Fable II Experience 2]

Stunning!

By that I mean the way that the person with a one line review or so that vaguely advertises "great jokes" is considered a helpful review while the guy who details all the areas this flash falls short is considered a useless review because he failed to worship the author right. The main purpose of a review is supposed to be to let potential viewers know a bit about the movie itself so they know whether they're about to waste a piece of their life or not. If you're critiquing then the purpose becomes to tell the person who created it how they can improve. Brown nosing is not reviewing, it's just giving someone an undeserved text blowjob.

All that being said, congratulations on your achievements, you must be doing something right. You could probably make it to number one if you axed the irritating and unnecessary sidekick friend guy. His role in this flash was pointless and seemed forced. I like your art though. The humor wasn't my cup of tea but it does fit with fable. Keep up the good work.

WhiteLightning responds:

Well, thanks for the honesty and intelligent review, and not just screaming at me. I do think it's kinda funny that your review is still marked "useless" in light of your first sentence :3 But hey, internet, watcha gonna do.

['Til Everyone Is Singing]

Distracting.

It wasn't a bad video, in fact it could have been great, but the lyrics talking about EVERYONE singing when on screen NO ONE is even opening their mouths is too much of a contradiction. With all you did it wouldn't have taken too much extra effort to make their black dot for a mouth get larger on each syllable. Since you focus on the female when the female voice is singing and the male when the male voice is singing it seems like it's implied that they SHOULD be singing, but the fact that they aren't, just sort of standing there stonefaced, does a lot to rip me out of the illusion and make me very aware that I'm looking at simple sprites rather than performers. My advice would be to invest time in lipsynching in the future or DON'T focus on the character singing and just make the whole video a montage. Just don't go at it half-cocked or you end up with half a score. XD

IgnitionInc responds:

Haha thanks. I didn't really half-cock it but, yeah, it never really "hit" me how to lipsync. Thanks though!

[Sasuke's Chronicles #1]

Hmm...

The guy with the long black hair does an arm flapping thing while he stands there which is annoying. Sasuke says "I could care less" (meaning he cares) when he should be saying "I couldn't care less" (meaning it's impossible for him to care any less than he already does). Kakashi humps the air. While hilarious, it's probably not what you were going for and you probably would have been better off just having a still image of Kakashi. Finishing with two scenes in a row that don't make sense might be a bit too much, you should have stuck to just one. There is your critique.

devinsimmons92 responds:

thanks... lol u were right on the funny movement parts... their sheets had dumb standing animations but the i could care less part, many people uses it in the vice versa way also and found it kinda petty to even point that out but the parts that don't make sense, DONT'T MAKE SENSE for a reason... it will be revealed later in the series.

[Soul Eater - FMA]

Pfft...

In many cases, yes, the manga is as good or better than the anime. Soul Eater is definitely not one of those cases. Your flash focuses too much on the characters that don't matter and not enough on Black Star and Crona (the only characters that do). Please correct this in the future.

benmanrox responds:

Thanks for the advice, but my main goal was to put most of the characters into the flash :P All that said, I do agree that I didn't put some of the characters, like Crona, into the flash as much as I could have or would have like to. I'll try and improve this in the near future :)

[The Justin Bieber Show]

Confusing...

Your art's pretty good, and your animation is really awesome and smooth, but this really wasn't... Much. It really doesn't parody much of anything (at least not in a way that makes sense) and Justin Bieber could have just as easily been replaced by... Almost anyone and this toon would still amount to the same thing. For being the "Justin Bieber Show" I was a little disappointed that nothing about it parodied anything about Justin Bieber. Plus it was so short. I wanted to know who he saw at the mall. Can you just tell us? Just add to your author's comments or something who he saw at the mall so I can know whether I believe it or not?

HappyHarry responds:

"Justin Bieber could have just as easily been replaced by... Almost anyone and this toon would still amount to the same thing"