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Hmm

Don't really know what to think about this. This is far from being the worst Clock Day entry I have ever seen, but it sure is also far from being the best.

What I really appreciate about this piece is that you obviously put a lot of work into this. Drawing on a piece of paper, taking a picture, drawing again, taking a picture... and then to compile it in a flash file sure did take a lot of time to finish.

It's a real pity that the screen size is so small, sometimes it's hard to guess what's going on on the screen.

The musical selection was quite nice, but you have to work on the transitions a bit more. I understand that it was meant to sound like skipping through a TV programme, but the static noise in between the songs was just annoying.

Overall: If a friend would ask me if this movie was any good, I'd tell him: If you like Clock Day movies, it's worth to check this one out. If you don't, then it's nothing for you.

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ToonCastleTV responds:

The reason why it's so small is to keep the file size down as this movie is not in mov. format and was entirely done it flash. ( minus drawing the picture, photographing them, and editing in photoshop ) also I felt having it larger destroyed the quality of theses pictures - something i'll have to work on in the future. But I personally don't consider it to much of a grape - you may have to watch it a few times to get it all but everything's there! and yea i was pleased with the soundtrack to. Thanks for the review ;D

Images are nice

Sadly, this flash doesn't offer me too much. Sure, the drawings and photographs are nice, but I highly doubt that they all are your work (if they are, then I have to apologize). So what we have here is a slide show set to some low quality music. While this isn't a bad sing per se, it sure isn't such a good thing either, as it doesn't seem to require that much work to finish a project like this.

Also, the images look distorted and streched most of the time, which I found really off putting. Even worse, sometimes we could see the plain white background, which is off putting as well. The least you could've done was to add a black background, as this works best to frame images.

I'm sorry, but I can't give you a higher score, since I really don't see that much effort in this submission. At least you chose some nice images.

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Good flash

Now this is a flash you don't see too often on newgrounds. I like that you tried going new (or at least, different) ways with the animation. The still images in between kind of reminds me of some cartoons for kids. Together with the cute sound effects the impression that I was watching Nickelodeon was nearly perfect, haha!

The audio is a double-edged sword: It's very cute and the music is quite nice. But I can imagine some people might be put off by it.

Overall: Nice flash there, keep up the good work!

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Strange...

This makes no sense whatsoever, yet I cannot stop watching this. It really reminds me of something I've seen before somewhere (the colours, the figures running around, the fact that those figures are transparent), but I can't put my finger on it... or maybe I'm just imagine that I've seen something similar before.

Anyway, like I said: It's surprisingly addictive and it's hard to stop watching this submission. The musical selection plays a part in this, I think. It fits very well to the animation and together the animation and the music create a very strange, yet not uncomfortable atmosphere.

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TheBoogley responds:

if you remember the film this reminds you of please let me know, I'm interested to see whether I know of it :)

Hmm

There was a huge problem with the voices here. All of them had static noises, as if they where recorded too loud. This really hurts this flash movie, which was funny otherwise.

I liked the thought bubbles of Drake, Rachel and Sebastian during Brutus' speech, they added a lot of comedy value.

Also I think it's a bit lame to have Drake (and maybe the other characters as well?) mirrored when they look to the right side. It's clearly visible that Drake is mirrored, because the writing on his shit is mirrored as well.

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MistyE responds:

Thanks. The idea of making Adrellia Village comedic and satirical rather than serious and suspenseful occured to me when this was made, and Brutus' tiresome speech was something I felt had to be funnier.

Drake mirrored here was truly a sign of laziness on my part, the other episodes don't have mirrored text.

Hmmm

Well, this episode wasn't as funny as the others I have watched. I think the untying of the King could've been done better. We only had some text bubbles to read, maybe acting this out would be more funny.

Like, have Drake say out loud what he is thinking, maybe the King could try to say something to Drake, but he isn't listening. The way it is now, this episode almost feels a bit unfinished.

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MistyE responds:

Yeah, acting this out would've been funnier. It was pretty short, so I can understand it feeling unfinished.

Thank you for your review!

Funny stuff

I think this is turning into my new favorite series. I cannot even explain why I think this is funny, it just is! ^^

Anyway, Quincy Jones' Ironside never get's old, I thought it fitted in nicely here.

I still have a hard time distinguishing between the characters, but I hope this will get more easily once I watched more episodes.

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MistyE responds:

Glad to know! The characters should be easier to distinguish after watching more episodes. That's something I'm improving in the Adrellia Village reboot :)

Not too bad for a first submission

Since this is your first submission it's just natural that there are many flaws to this submission, but even the greatest artists on this site had to start at this level at one point in their carreer.

I like that you converted a little idea into a flash, using a basic sort of script and presenting this idea here on newgrounds. You didn't take the easy way out by just submitting another pointless stick fight movie.

The graphcis are decent, but your backgrounds leave a lot to be desired. Most of the time they where simply plain white, which isn't that appealing to look at.
However, the birds where drawn in a pretty nice way.

I could go on about every tiny detail in this submission, but I guess you know best that you still need more practice to create something really mindblowing.

But instead of rambling on I would like to point out that you also have to work on the pace of a story. Here the pace is too slow for my liking. The scenes dragged on for a pretty long time, considering that there isn't that much to see in each scene anyway. Maybe try to speed up the movie a little bit and then add some more ideas of how you could kill two birds with one stone (a short idea that pops into my head: have one bird press down the gas pedal of a car with a stone and the car drives over two other birds lying on the street).

Also, the sentence "No birds where hardem ..." was "cut off" at the end, meaning that it appeared and before I could even finish reading it the end screen appeared.

So, overall this isn't a bad submission. Considering that this is your first submission it is pretty good, even. Things to work on are your drawing and animation skills and the script writing or pacing of a story.

Hope to see more from you soon!

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evanarmagast responds:

let me start off by saying, thank you for the review. i definitely noticed the lack of backgrounds. i was considering it for a long time, but i honestly felt it wasn't exactly worth the effort. i mean, it was a very simple concept and i felt like backgrounds would take longer than the rest of the animation. but i've already started working on my next animation complete with full backgrounds. haha. and yeah, pace seems to be my main problem. i mentioned in a previous review response that i tested out making it faster, but that just made it seem like it was too short. i feel the compromise would have been doing a better job of making the birds more animated and amusing. alternatively, maybe i should have just come up with more ideas than just three. haha. lastly, the "no birds were harmed" was supposed to be kinda fast. it seemed right in my head, but i still probably made it too fast. thank you again for the review. look for new stuff coming up soon.

Didn't quite get it

I didn't quite get this one, but I think I'll just have to watch the other episodes of Adrellia Village. Seems I missed out on a pretty good series there.

However, the flash looks strangely blurred and unclean, as if there went something wrong while exporting the flash.
Also, the voices have some static noises, which also might be the result of a problem with exporting the flash.

Anyway, even though I didn't quite get this episode and the image is a bit "unsharp", I still enjoyed watching this flash!

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MistyE responds:

Thank you for your review! With regards to the unsharp images, due to animation problems, I had to take the .wmv file and import it into Flash, causing a mild quality difference.

Funny

This is a pretty funny flash. I got a good laugh out of it.

Maybe the graphics aren't that brilliant, but they are still decent. I liked that you also added backgrounds to the scenes that where "filmed". Maybe a background for the girl that never gave her OK to be photographed would be nice as well, but it works with a plain white background as well.

The voice acting was good, too. Maybe the shop owner sounded a bit bored, but on the other hand, the whole advertisement was a huge parody, so maybe the voice was a parody itself.

Oh yeah, I also liked the "9,001 coins in adrellian money" joke. Reminded me a bit of the old Windows Commercial where Steve Ballmer asks: "How much did you guess? $100? A thousand? Even more? NOOOO!".

The only thing that's missing here is a replay butto. ;)

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