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[Tales of the Oak Sage ep1]

sexy sexy bicycle said it all

This left me feeling good.

You didn't have a whole lot of sound- You had the airship passing by nicely though. The music was good. If you wrote it yourself it was great- If it's from a video game it's good. The surprising thing was how well it fit though, the music I mean. If I were to guess I'd say it was an "underwater level" sound. But you were able to blend it well with the environment. But, I would strongly recommend continuing the midi soundtrack. But, use original stuff.

I love the Oak Sage itself... It's eerie and very cozy at the same time. Hard to describe.
Your backgrounds are very well done. Your animation is a little-- clunky. Soften it up a tad. Use a bit more detail in actions. I noticed a hand changing from a reach to a grabbed position instantly. But, it's all very well done though.

As for plot and story... Well, there is none... yet. I know you're building to it, but this left me high and dry. Okay he found some "magic pebbles." Big whoop. You ended it abruptly too. You built up to a dramatic punch and then ended it. If you had at least let the sage go into the house or knock on the door and ended it it would have been a tad more acceptable.

Past that... Ship shape. Look forward to more.

3/5 6/10. No more dramtic drop-offs.

[Exile Preliminary 3]

Not a fan...

Okay... You have a great eye for cinematography... Your characters look strange though... Too thin, badly colored, somewhat badly animated and unbelievable.

The world you've created is weird as crap... You've got a city that looks like it's from Pokémon with a king in it... Everyone's wearing T-Shirts and slacks... It's weird. Then in your regular looking city they have hover machines... Stick to one realm of invention...

The voice acting... was... Passable. The actors don't speak with very good diction or clarity and it's all a little too cavalier and uninteresting. Step it up two notches and you'll have that down pegged though.

Music was really good. Opening segment especially. You had it timed well and it was very cinematic in nature. So no complaints there.

Your animation itself is fine- Clean up your characters alot though... And set one idea for the world itself... You're all over the place... The king was in a freaking office building it looked like...

The reason you get as high a score as I'm giving is because I can see SOOO much room for improvement. I think after another five to ten animations I'll have proper respect for your work. Clean and clean and clean your stuff up.

RiverJordan responds:

In accordance to your "world" paragraph, I've basically made the setting exactly as I want it to be. The city is futuristic with flying vehicles (But as stated, most are not supposed to go like 2 feet of the ground or something..), I prefer sword fights to gun fights, they seem much more fun to watch, so I've decided gunpowder and stuff just doesn't exist, so all hand to hand combat (for the most part.)

The thing is, this situation works in my head. People keep saying "oh your story is so uncreative, its like a rip off of other things." but is the setting not proof enough that my story has some originality?

[Pen License]

That was hilarious.

Okay... rarely do I REALLY like front page things... THAT was good though!

Animation was perfect-- Consistent and the functionality of it all flowed seamlessly.
Sound could have been stepped up just a notch. It was pretty good, just needed that extra "Umph." The voice acting was good, it too needed said "umph." The old teacher especially.
Comedy: Normally comedies on the front page are... lacking... and suck... It seems, to me anyway... But, yours was funny through and through. Job well done. Kee up the good work.

[Guns of the Awesome]

Not that good.

As far as tributes go it was good. Unfortunately, your jokes were poor and you just recapped the game with less than poor jokes. I think the funniest part was the cow noise geckos... Past that I was bored...

The animation is fine! The sound was quite good. No qualms there... Everything else was just not that good...

All in all decent. Just, entertain me next time.

[Sing you Sinners]

Well done.

Excellent work.

I greatly enjoyed the old feel of the cartoon mixed with modern animation, which you capture quite well. Smooth and well done. The sound quality was good, nothing beats the oldies. All in all, great. I RARELY give out anything over a 7/10, but I don't see any flaws other than ending abruptly. So, 9/10.

[Dark Knight Interrogation]

Egoraptor is Not a Redeeming Feature

First off... The animation was of a passable feature, dare I say, the best feature. Although the Jokers recycled mouth movements got in the way for me. The jokes sucked... Slow... Uninteresting... Not founded in anything worth while... The dialogue itself was just exerpts from the movie in no particular order and were just shoddy and hindered the movie further.

The voice acting was poorly done. Sadly Egoraptor, who has ALWAYS delivered the goods with voices, was a disappointment, rather than a redeeming quality. The voice of Joker was poor and boring to listen to. And his mic has a slight static pop and was a different quality than the one Ego must have used...

I have no idea how this made front page to be honest. The best thing about this was the animation itself... The biggest disapoointment was Ego not delivering as well as he has in the past. But, please try again. I think you're getting close to being funny. *shrug*

just2pale responds:

lol,, I just lol at you.

[Starscream'sCoronation T2]

Not bad at all.

8/10.

The animation was quite good. You recycled some animation, but you reuse it so well it's easily looked over. Your voice acting could be better. I noticed you did a "silent yell" where you're inflecting your voice to show emotion without raising your volume. Get some good sound equipment and by all means yell.
So timing, a lil' more fast paced humor and take the acting up a notch and this would be a perfect 10 for me. You still get a 5/5 ;)

[First Flash Animation 001]

Finally new talent

This is what flash is all about. A subtle poignant thing you've got going. The music set up the idea and feel of the project. Keep this up and you'll go far. Keep it up. You had the right balance of art and comedy. Brilliant. 10/10 5/5

LastWordsFirst responds:

Wow, thanks. I was hoping for as positive response from the viewers but I never imagined I'd get a 3.4 on my first animation. Hopefully a sign of things to come?

[Sonic & The Black Knight]

Okay...

The drawings weren't that good. The voice that Sonic had was excruciating. Content WAS funny. But because of the eh, less than good drawings it kind of didn't carry the joke far enough.

burrito15 responds:

Thanks?

[Fantastic Realm Chapter 1]

I liked it.

Great animation. Bad voice acting. Bad voice acting with great animation is like a wonderful cake with turd frosting. 7/10