Score: 8

"Wheee"

submission: The Mighty Trio 1.2

date: September 28, 2006

Well I thought it was rather spiffy personally. I would write more, but I suddenly have a project to embark upon involving a lawn tractor and which is most likely completely unrelated in anyway to this cartoon. I think.

Score: 8

"Sound could have killed this"

submission: Primal War 9

date: September 20, 2006

The sound really brought this down, it was all crackling and far too loud, I usually don't have to turn my volume down for a flash =(

The animation, fighting and art however were awesome as ever though, and redeem it. Though I'm still not a fan of the female characters being just coloured humans with tails when the males are animal through and through, it just seems...wrong. Almost like beastiality when they're meant to be the same species, kinda destroys the idea that they're not human if they look far too human I think =P

But yeah, still need work on the sound, but the animation is still great. I'd suggest changing the style of the female characters, but that's not a biggy, just personal opinion

Score: 8

"Sweet"

submission: Madness Elimination 3

date: September 13, 2006

You may remember I wrote a lengthy review of the last one. Well, I would like to make it known that I'm impressed by the improvements made!

While I do still feel the environments could be taken advantage of even further, there was a lot of cool stuff to make this one far more interesting, better range of weapons, switch to first-person, and the car chase was well executed. I probably wouldn't have noticed the rocks going the wrong way if Rave4Yourself hadn't mentioned it, but at the same time it somehow seems more stylised, like the camera is sweeping past the nearest rocks (and we can just pretend the far away ones aren't there =)

But yeah, great work on this one, now I'm definitely looking forward to the rest!

Score: 9

"Really good"

submission: S.I.N :: "Genesis"

date: August 26, 2006

Really good flash, I don't have a lot of time for the review so I'll just mention what to fix:
- voice acting, the actors are fine, but the sound quality is a bit pants, either the microphone or compression are keeping them from sounding as good as they could in this
- pace/switching. The movie was a bit confusing as it kept switching too much, and one man without a name has dark hair, while another has light hair, are they the same person? It really should have been more clear in this rather than relying on a web-site or whatever.

Keep up the great work though, aside from those two points it was awesome!

Score: 5

"Hrmm"

submission: Madness Elimination 2

date: August 14, 2006

While the graphics and animation were okay, I felt that this was far too lacking in originality to be held up too high. I don't want to discourage, yes it's really well drawn and animated, but it's number #945,487 in a long line of Madness tributes/rip-offs/whatever you call them.

The thing about the original is that it had lots of quite cool/humorous ideas that kept it interesting throughout, while this, like a number of Madness flashes is just:

- Guy enters room
- Guy shoots people in room
- Guy goes to next room
- (optional) something involving zombie resurrection and/or mysterious Jesus-man and/or clown

You should try some new ideas, while sticking to the style. For example, you're going to have airplanes, try using the environment inside an airplane, there are toilet cubicles, luggage compartments, seats etc in them. Or a fight while falling in the air from the plane trying to open a parachute/sabotage the enemy's. Those are just a couple off the top of my tired head.
I guess that's what I'm getting at, the original used some environmental variables such as boxes/crates, doors or lifts to good effect. Think about a cool place to have a fight then think about how your character can use things in that environment. That keeps it much more interesting, along with original/interesting/cool weapons. Guns, guns and more guns is a bit tedious as well, they go bang, the guy gets shot, more of the same really. While something a bit more interesting likes the odd knife, gun butt or grenade keeps it from being repetitive.

I hope you don't think I'm being overly critical, and I hope the review is of some use to you, but while the graphics were nice and well done, it was still fairly average overall, not really enough to make it stand-out from the rest. Good luck with your next one though!

Score: 7

"Hmmm"

submission: Chaos 2

date: July 23, 2006

Was okay I suppose. I don't get the abundance of DBZ/Sonic cross-overs, why can't he just be Sonic? On that note, the powering-up sequence took WAY too long, if I was the robot I'd have kicked his ass in the full minute or so it took Sonic to turn from blue to yellow =P

Good sprite and sound use, okay ideas, nice combat. Fairly average overall IMO, though on the way between a 3 and a 4 (so I'll vote 4 today and 3 tomorrow to be fair).

Score: 8

"Good"

submission: Bozophilia

date: July 19, 2006

Interesting idea, heh, and injuring/twisting children is always good. But I think it could have done with more sound, there are several slow parts that could do with some bittersweet music perhaps, as the silence made them feel even slower.

But otherwise great work!

Score: 3

"Hrm..."

submission: The 10 Second Collab

date: July 15, 2006

Normally a colloboration suffers when the good clips are brought down by the bad ones, but I didn't like any of these, they were all just...dull. I think it's probably the premise, 10 seconds is not enough to make a good stand-alone clip really, unless you have an absolute gem of an idea, which none of these were =(

Don't get me wrong, the art, sound and animation all seemed fine, but I was bored the whole way through.

Score: 9

"Cool"

submission: "Dreams"

date: June 17, 2006

I really enjoyed this actually! Animation was a little rough, but the ideas and imagery were really awesome.
IMO this deserves higher than daily 5th place, though you definitely deserved to get an award for this either way! Good job.

Score: 10

"Awesome"

submission: CLATOMIC part6

date: June 6, 2006

This series is really awesome, interesting yet ridiculous/far-fetched, I love it!

My only suggestion would be to maybe use flash for the credits rather than movie, while the credits do look cool, they still bump the file-size up a bit. It's maybe possible to do the same for the title screen? I dunno if you're already tried this to see if it makes a difference, but it's an idea =)

Keep up the excellent work, really brilliant clay animation with a cool story =)