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I enjoyed the script and voice acting though i wasn't a huge fan of the art style. Some of the colours were a bit garish but the mouths with their large teeth were quite unique and i liked that. The lip synching was decent and the facial expressions were comical, it was perhaps all a bit static but the script didn't demand that much movement.
You blended the photo backgrounds well with the vector foregrounds and the drawn backgrounds were good too. The pacing was good (which is very important with comedy) and the characters were all interesting and distinct. Some good work!

MigitMadness responds:

Thank you for giving us some feedback! It's nice to have such positive feedback. I can understand not enjoying the overall style, afterall it's just a matter of opinion. We are always lookng for ways to improve things though.

Heh heh, very nice! The animation was the highlight for me, there was very little resizing some escellent timing and some highly expressive poses. The concept was fun and the length was decent. The crab character was a little odd, was he a magician? The punchline worked well and had me smile.
The only downside was a lack of voice acting on the part of the two mistresses and the low quality. I'm assuming you didn't make it in flash? Well NG now alows for none swf uploads so you needed have crammed it into a swf file. I think you still need to talk to Tom but i've seen lots of movie uploads on the portal recently.
Still, it was all in all a fun watch with some good music, a fun concept and some great animation.

Great atmosphere! The concept is really cool and you pull it off quite well, i never thought i'd be scared by a cat leaning his head into a doll house. The song(?) that loops in the background gets a little annoying. The sudden cut off is quite jarring and stops the music from ever blending entirely into the background. Your art is decent and the camera angles and lighting were pretty good too. I think your animation needs work and a lot of it is far too static. Remember than when people walk and run they don't glide, they move up and down. A key part of making run/walk cycles look good is getting this right. Having a body glide horizontally along with legs moving beneath just looks bad, make sure the body is moving up and down with the rise and fall of the walk!
That said some of the animation was pretty good and i'm sure with practice you can get some create some more realistic looking motion. The voice acting fitted the concept perfectly and the sound design was good too.
I didn't really like the shrinking growing scene, the imagery of it is a little too cliche and comical to work with the sinister tone you're creating here. All in all though it was an enjoyable flash and i look forward to future episodes!

beccahyman responds:

Thanks for this, really honest and helpful. I'm definitely a massive amateur with sound design, i need to get a better mic to record background noise & edit it properly or collaborate with someone here on newgrounds because I had to make the eerie sounds etc from scratch. I do see what you're saying with the jarring sound, which i didn't entirely register until I started editing with headphones.

And really appreciate your advice about walkcycles, they're still my biggest struggle and I do need more practice. As for the shrinking scene, I hadn't really thought about it as comical but thanks for your input. Think as I get better with AFX i can come up with better transitions from live-action characters into flash figures.

Thanks for a fair and thorough review, man.

I was impressed by the opening shot though the lense flair put me off a bit. However the lense flair in the second shot was utterly gratuitous and detracted from the otherwise decent composition of the scene. I like your art style and the backgrounds too, are they 3d models? You managed to blend their complexity and the simplicity of the character designs effictively and it gave the animation a recognizable style that fits the animations theme too.
I thought the voice acting, music and sound design were all well done and sounded proffesional. The animation too is good, though at certain points it really seemed you were cutting corners ie. 2:23 when she changes the direction of her run AND the jump at 2:48.
This is the first in the series i've watched so i can't comment much on the story but this episode was engaging enough to have me go look at the previous episodes now. Definitely some fine work!

Pretty damn crazy! The loading screen was fun with its beautiful picture that gave you some characters to ponder and its amusing advert satire. The menu too was nice, with proffesional buttons with nifty preview pictures, funky music and a fun randomized scrolling quote at the bottom.
I was a little unsure which flash to watch first, and i guess it didn't matter. The "back" button really should have utterly disappeared when the flash started playing as it was a little distracting. Why were the animations in movie format? This visibly detracted from the quality and appears as though they were all made in flash anyway so was seemingly unnecessary. Did it perhaps lower the file size (though i can't think why it would...)?
The actual content of the flashes was great though! Some very odd stories and unique characters and some epic music to match. The music really was a highlight with these animations and everything was timed so well for some beautifully touching (and comedic) moments. My two favourite stories where the seal and the underwater mine and the strange magicians butt based antics.
Most of the animation was pretty good (lots of nice fbf) and the art styles were a joy to look at. All in all it was an exciting, well made, and fun to watch collection of animations. Good work!

Wow. I really liked this. It had its own unique style that grabbed me from the very start and immediatelyhad me hooked. I'm not sure why you decided to redraw every frame, even still backgrounds, but it certainly gave the animation a strange naturalness that sits in exciting juxtaposition to the smooth edges, gradient fills and tweens most commonly found in flash animations.
I thought the sound was pretty great too, from the opening ambient sounds of rural life to the sudden monstrous drone that built and built as we saw the future flash by in a dionysian mess.
I would reccomend you try animating some parts with a lower frame rate. The animation needn't be so smooth for stiller movements (the ending for example should have been much slower paced, there were far too many cuts in too far short a time for the viewer to really see what was going on).
Definitely an interesting animation, keep it up!

Sorry buddy this is a website for animation. The only animation i saw in this was the title screen and i think that might have been one of those cookie cutter "insert your text here" deals.

Ha ha, a nice satire. The animation was a little static but the lip synching was decent and i liked your character design. The pacing was perfect and the the script was pretty great too with the interchanging of interviewees never letting the audience get bored. I thought the voice acting was decent (i particularly liked the chav) and the background music was suitabley chosen and not too loud so as to distract. The transitions were proffesionally done and i really can't think of much to complain about. Looking forward to part 2!

killourkid responds:

thanks for the kind words, i hope you enjoy part 2!

I really like your art style and character design and your animation is pretty great too. Good use of fbf and some real smooth bouncy motion that is a joy to watch. The sort of water colour splishy splosh backgrounds were neat too and gave some softness to contrast the crisp lines of the foreground animation. The facial expressions were very emotive without doing the over the top, in your face, eyes balls popping out, style that's popular as of late. That said, i didn't really like the script or the voice acting. The plot was a little too random for my liking and lacked clear punchlines and laugh out loud moments. The voice actors delivery was fine for the casual conversational tone you were going for but it just wasn't that engaging or humorous. I think you've definitely shown a lot of skill with this and i'd love to see you make something more serious.

Wakman111 responds:

Thanks!
I'm really focused on fbf animation. It is one of the main things I'm trying to get better at. that, and actually giving the body noticeable volume and shape, which is pretty difficult to do with flash and its line quality. Although, I'm sure the watercolor backgrounds flattened them even further.

I'm actually really happy that you liked the facial expressions. I'm very influenced by most of the great animators on here, but I am also getting kind of tired of the grotesquely and overly exaggerated faces. I still wanted to keep that core of the emotive expressions but tone it down and sort of take it in a bit more refreshing direction, even though it may not be too different than where it was originally going.

As for the script. There technically wasn't one. I asked NeroSkwid to tell me a story about his friends back home. It was very on the spot, so the cadence, timing, and execution was all left to him as he recalled this story in real time. It was done only in one take and I'm happy with it, even if it is very casual and informal.

I plan on being a bit more productive and present in the NG community, so you should see a lot more from me!
Thank you for taking the time to critique!

Well that was very surreal! This is the sort of thing that i think makes animation such a great medium, total freedom to do whatever you want! Blow up the moon, have a talking baloon, have a man with a barnacle for a nose? Whatever, anything goes! The cuts and plot pieces were well timed with the music but the real highlight of this for me was your wonderful art style. Everything looks very full of life and nice little details and yet reamins clean and clear. It's hard to commont on the plot/concept as it was obviously meant to be quite strange, as you said, like the mind on a broken rollercoaster. I think you built a rich and engaging world that i would like to see expanded on or atleast more of. I think you overdid it a bit with the explosions and thats kinda a cliche in animation randomness. Still, definitely a fine piece of work!

justicejew responds:

thanks! this was super minimal effort, imagine if i tried hard one day!! and everything exploding is a metaphor for my hatred for deadlines and perhaps even myself

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