Score: 9

"That was really good"

submission: :: Squirrel Songs IV ::

date: June 6, 2007

The song was really catchy, and good to see you again too.

:)

Lovely background, all well drawn and animated..

Score: 9

"Good to see"

submission: Marshmallow Collab

date: June 2, 2007

Sorry I fucked up on the leadership and all, glad to see it out.

Really liked Cybermonkeys part.

One thing, where the heck is flashbound's piece? I really like it.

Score: 9

"Hahahahilarious"

submission: Rhyming Words

date: April 14, 2007

Graphics
The overall drawing was good, although some frames lacked shading and colour. As graphics incorporates animation, I will give it a good score for graphics, as the animation was very good. Animation went perfectly with the sound, and was synced well.
Great frame by frame animation, and no shitty character animation tweens. Some great morphs.

Style
The shading style was unique, in that it was done with lines varying in density to give the contours. Added points for lack of motion tweening, although there was some shape tweening I think, it could just have been fbf morphing. Unique style that I have never seen anyone else using.

Sound
Though I don't think you can really claim added marks for the sound, as you didn't make it, it was a great track, well synced, good quality and went well with the animation. Great selection, good idea for an animation.

Violence
There wasn't really much violence, but this is a stupid category that doesn't contribute to the overall score of a submission, therefore not important.

Interactivity
Nice preloader, play and replay buttons. All a non interactive movie needs. No errors that I could find.

Humour
Very funny, thanks to the sound. Very humorous song, catchy and pretty random, in a funny way. You captured movement and lyrics in the song which made it that much more funny.
Although admittedly not laugh out loud humour, it was consistently amusing in its own way. Lots of marks for this.
Liked very much the part where the man was screaming at the cat, and then came out of his 'trance' into realisation, "sorry" - funniest part for me.

Overall a fun, well made and entertaining submission, the best I have ever seen by you. Deserves a very high score, and I'm sure it will achieve it. Hopefully an award too, and maybe frontpage :D.

Score: 10

"Amazing Short"

submission: Shoo Fly

date: March 7, 2007

This was a really amazing movie, it combined excellent animation, great sound synchronisation, and a fun plot.

Graphics - The graphics were basically what this movie was about. They maintained an immense amount of quality, while remaining consistent, and were twinned with fantastic animation. Second to none. Animation and Graphics combined, this really deserved more than a ten. If only.

Style - Well the style was obviously slightly far east, which is nice. It definitely had style, but what style it had was nothing you cannot see in other submissions. In other words; not too original, but interesting.

Sound - Perfect. Excellently co-ordinated and synced with the animation, the sound was obviously not added to the movie when it was nearly finished, the graphics and animation was done to sync with the movie. Which means you planned it well, and you had an amazing result. The music really adds to the animation, without it, it wouldn't be the movie it is.

Violence - This movie was based around violence I suppose, so it gets a good score for violence, seeing as it was well animated and executed. Logic, innit. Only thing I might have liked to have seen is the fly getting squashed...or swatted :).

Interactivity - Obviously the movie didn't have much interactivity, but it didn't need it, it was an animation...not a game or quiz. Then again there was the windows media player bar, which was great. I havn't often had the option to scroll through a flash movie using navigational progress bar, but it made it a lot more interesting, being able to view sections over and over again without restarting it. It also had a reliable code, so you get a fairly good mark here for reliability and comfort.

Humour - Well not much humour, but it certainly as a humorous - or light hearted - kind of air about it, a woman getting so wound up about a fly, to the extent of spending her time chasing it around trying to kill it :). Yes, there was some humour, but not enough to warrant a mark above 5.

Overall, this was a fantastically animated, short masterpiece. It has everything going for it and certainly deserves it's score and rank in the top 50.

I really hope you are planning to make more...although I realise just how old this is now. Anyway, viewing this was a very pleasurable experience, and I will be sure to add it to my favourites, and you to my favourite authors.

Thankyou for making this masterpiece :).

Score: 10

"Tecnically and Emotionally Amazing"

submission: littleFoot

date: March 6, 2007

Graphics - Were amazing. I don't think anyone can deny that when it comes to LittleFoot there is nothing superior in terms of graphics and amazing scenic landscapes. Grass foreground was very well done, all animation was great, fantastic characters.

Style - I've heard people describe your style as; "Too Disney", well if there is a Disney film that maintains 2D animation of this quality throughout, I would love to see it. Because I don't believe such a ting can exist.

Sound - Perfect, all sound effects fitted there situation perfectly, all music was atmospheric and had good timing. I'm very glad you didn't use a soundtrack throughout, as I feel that would have ruined the atmosphere and emotion this movie has. As I feel in the Yuyu, the sequel, the music spoilt the calm, and seems like it was at too fast-a-tempo for you to animate decently to. Although you still did an amazing job.

Violence - Well Bitey was menacing, and there was the obvious encouter at the end of the movie, but other than that not too much violence. Not like that matters tough, in fact I might see it as a good thing.

Interactivity - There was little interactivity present in this movie, but what there was had well executed code, and was consistent. I had no errors or faults and the navigation bar was extremely useful.

Humour - Well I must say I really laughed my ass off at some of this. Particularly the parts where Littlefoot fell down the hill, and where Bitey was hit by the rock that Littlefoot threw. Again, there was not all that much humour, and the movie was definitely not based primarily on it, but what was there was of the highest quality.

Overall this was an amazing submission, everything in it was extraordinary in comparison to the average movies submitted to the portal. This movie is perfect in every way, and contains absolutely everything required to make a great flash.

No wonder this is a classic. And to be honest, The Yuyu has nothing on this.

I look forward to WaterLollies. Thanks.

Score: 10

"Great Tutorial!"

submission: Start Hack Interactive

date: March 2, 2007

Very in-depth and helpful, it would take a moron to still not understand how to change the text on their start button.

Few graphics other than screenshots, but what there was was good quality and relevant. Not much style either, but it was a nice font.

No sound. Definitely a problem, sound could have made this even better, you could even use the Windows installation music, available in the windows folder.

Violence, none. Thank God, no stupid unnecessary stick men or mascots :).

Interactivity was great, although it would have been good if you had gotten rid of the button cursor...however it would have made the tutorial harder to follow, so indifferent really. Good Actionscript though, great touch adding the text input for the Start button within the tutorial.

Humour, there's nothing more funny than being able to write dirty words in someones start button. I had a jolly good time.

Also, this review was not swayed or influenced in any way by me knowing you, was a very good tutorial.

I hope you submit more of these Windows tutorials and videos, you definitely have a theme going for your account.
Make more, I'm technically retarded but I want to fuck with Windows, please :).

Hey Taco'd.

Score: 5

"Unoriginal but fun."

submission: Evasive Action

date: January 25, 2007

First of all, I would like to say this sort of game, along with others, has been done to death. Bored of all the dodging games, perhaps add different obstacles, like less harmful and more harmful. Although I appreciate the code would be more complicated.

Besides that, it was a fun game, I have no idea why, but I played for a while.

The graphics in this game could have been better, a more imaginative background and more ship sprites would have helped this. The animation on the collision I believe is a timeline effect. In future flash's you should avoid those, they're common and increase filesize. You could do better.

Sound I cannot comment on - speakers are currently not working. I put a five for a guess.

Actionscript was good, and I didn't encouter any errors. More original coding would've gotten you better score here. For all I know you could have just got this from a C&P tutorial.

Overall:
Nice game, and you obviously posses animation skill, but try to be more imaginative in future projects.

Thanks.

Score: 9

"Wow"

submission: The Black Bird 3

date: November 23, 2006

Great visuals and graphics, especially on the building and the guy who was carrying the black bird, but the animation was often a bit simple and I didn't like the motion tweens - or the amount of them.

Your style...I suppose it was the black and white and japanese(?) stuff that made me like the style.

Sound was very good, nice and clear, and good non-intrusive music.

Anything this movie loses is made up by being as long as it is, and as good graphically as it is.

I don't usually review under judgement flash's, but I saw this had no reviews and it didn't seem fair for a flash of such greatness XD

Sorry for not writing more.

Score: 8

"Not as good as the last."

submission: New Numa: The Animation

date: November 12, 2006

While this was great - as all you're animation is, it seemed lacking, and not as good as the last one.
The animation wasn't as good as usual, the movement was a bit jerky and the motion tweening got on my nerves, I think you should have done more of the animation frame by frame.
The graphics were great still, the cartoonising of real people, without exaggerated features was great, you have a true talent for it. However I feel there should have been more shading and tone in a lot of the drawings.
The sound was very well recorded and clear, but didn't sound much like Gary Brolsma, and the song was great, but that wasn't your doing.
The movie was very similar to the actual New numa video, apart from the begining - which no offence, but wasn't very humorous in my opinion.

Like the actual New numa video, I don't imagine this will take off like the first, but is still a great animation.

Score: 9

"XD"

submission: Amateur Minute 4

date: October 30, 2006

Haha, this is a great series, funny as hell and great graphics.

Horse looks slightly more horsey this time aswell:)