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[Fairwell Ross]

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Though both contributions are very short I enjoyed them very much! You both managed to get your message through in this short time, so I guess you've done everything right on "story" aspects here.

I enjoyed Little-Rena's part a bit more, because it focused a bit more on Ross I think. The letter he left was nice to read (even though it could have been displayed a tad bit longer. I couldn't hardly finish reading it) and the fact that he wishes that his replacement is a little worse than him put a smile on my face.

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Little-Rena responds:

I think I remember displaying the letter for as long as it took me to read it, I'm often a slow reader so I thought it would be okay, but yeah sorry. I wanted to make the letter funny in a subtle way like that.

Thanks for the review :)

[VZ Series:Naruto V Sasuke]

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I don't know much about Naruto as I don't watch that show, so I can't tell how good your flash was compared to the anime. But I think you've done a very good job here.
The fight was quite interesting and you used some very nice effects here and there (like the explosions or when the fighters where "powering up").

Sometimes the font you chose was quite hard to read, so maybe you should use some different colours for the letters.
Also you should spellcheck the subtitles before you submit the flash. I noticed that nasty little "your"/"you're" spelling error once. It's very annoying to read "your" when you really mean "you're", as it can be so easily avoided...

The idea with the three different endings is a very good one, even though the endings where quite short. It's also a very good idea that you only jumped back to the "choice screen" when one presses the replay button. Otherwise it would be very boring to sit through the whole fight again, just to see a different ending.

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mortis5000 responds:

Thank You for the review...

[Mars is Next! (4/3)]

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The scenes are quite funny, but you were right deleting them from the actual flash, as they don't offer that much to the plot of the "Mars is next!" series. Besides, the voice of White Mage would have destroyed the otherwise good voice acting.

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kinggila responds:

White Mage was too random....Oh.

[Pokemon Bahamut Version]

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I have to agree with what you said in a response: This definatly is your best flash so far! It will be interesting to see if you can top that with your 100th flash (btw: it has to be a lot more than blah blah blah :P ).

The story is clearly based off the pokémon games, and I can tell that even though I never played a single pokémon game, heh.
I really liked when you suddendly zoomed out and we could see Bahamut playing "Pokémon Bahamut Version" on a DS.
My favorite scene however is the cheating glitch. It's so familiar somehow... :D

The voice acting is great as always, but Graham's voice is too low. I couldn't hardly understand what he was saying.

The graphics (especially the backgrounds!) are very good. Seems as if you stoped being lazy for this flash! :P

But I expect your 100th flash (only 9 to go as of now!) to be three times as amazing as this one! :P

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kinggila responds:

For my 100th flash, I just hope I can do 3D animated backgrounds. That would resolve the main problem of myself not being able to make a flash about a car trip. :)

Thanks Haggard!

[Edgar N' Locke 06]

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"YAY NEW VOICE!" :D
Maybe Edgar could have mentioned the voice change of Locke by saying something like "didn't you sound different on the last episode?" or something like that. But the flashing "YAY! NEW VOICE!" was good, too.

The story was quite interesting, I'm amazed how you can pull off something new AND stay on the same topic at the same time every episode. I also really liked the facial expressions of Edgar and Locke when Relm said Green Day and RHCP are her favorite metal bands, heh.

The "featured solo(s)" section is a very nice idea, even though I don't like Megadeath. But "Hangar 18" features the same chords as Metallica's amazing "Call of Ktulu", so Mustain once had at least some song writing abilities. :P

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kinggila responds:

I could have let Edgar comment on Locke's new voice, but then they would have blabbered on about it. I couldn't let them do that. :p

...Damn NG, why can't you have a setting for having a certain amount of days for new reviews and not just 2 days all the time?

[Under My Voodoo]

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You have some very nice animations in this one, even though I have to say I didn't understand everything what I saw here. But then again, some things are better be left open for interpretation.

The graphics are very fine and fit the theme of your animation very well, I don't think you can improve much here. Also the humor goes along perfectly with the graphics and the animations.

The sound quality was a bit low, but that is the price you have to pay for a small filesize, so that's ok.

Overall it's a very good animation, keep up the good work!

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Voodoo responds:

There really was no story, I just animated as I went along ;3
as for the sound, I forgot to raise it up, so unfortunately It was a little late to go back after i noticed.

[Music Video Collection]

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There are some funny scenes in it and most of the songs are presented pretty good, but your movie lacks some animations.

The funniest scene was the scene during the Pokémon Theme, where you presented that little chart during the line "I want to be the very best, Like no one ever was" with Cuck Norris being second on that list.

Most of the charakter drawings are pretty good and the lip syncing is done pretty well, too. But the other parts of the body need to be animated as well! Most of the time the singers were just standing there, moving their mouthes and nothing else. Try to animate the arms and eyes as well, so that there's something more happening on the screen.

Sometimes the scenes where just too long, especially the "I'm blue"-scene. It's not a good song to begin with and most of the scene contained nothing but the words "da ba di" being written all over the place, or the "Go west"-scene. The guy was just walking "west" all the time and nothing else happened (except for a little change in the background).

I also think it would be better if you don't change the songs so abrupt, but add a little "changeing radio stations" sound between the songs.

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Assios responds:

Thanks, glad you liked the Chuck Norris part... Thanks for a good review :)

[AnalogyOfFrozenSheep Ep 7]

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Partly random, partly well laid out flash. At least that's what it seems to be to me. ^^

The graphics are quite nice and I like the "paper-like" background. It adds a lot to the flash and looks so much better than a plain white background.

The musical choices are excellent and I like the changeovers from one song to the next song. However, there's no song called "Vanilla Sky" by Radiohead. The song is called "Everything in it's right place" ;) (but it was featured in the movie "Vanilla Sky").

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FrozenSheep responds:

Thanks for that.
Now I know.

[Chalk Adventure]

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This is a very nice movie. I especially like the part where you "pick up" the chalk box with your fingers. This looks very realistic!

Too bad some scenes go by so fast, maybe it would help if you turn down the FPS a bit (but then again it might look a bit choppy if you do that).

The music and the sound fx are great and fit very well into the movie.

I can imagine that those kind of movies are very hard work, but I sure do hope that you will make some more of this kind! :)

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Graeme responds:

Thanks, always glad to hear from you :D

I do plan to make another at some point in time.
They don't take as long as you think. It's just awkward putting aside time to work on one.

The bad thing, is you don't notice if a scene is too fast until after its done. And by then the only options are keep it, or do it over. So I just kept them.
For the next one I'll take my time with more inbetweens.

[Street Fighter Series pt2]

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The sprites are very well animated and the fight scenes are nice and very fluent. You also had a nice story to offer which is a big plus for you, as most "fighting flashes" I have watched only offered long boring fights.

The subtitels are a nice thing in general, as they tend to look much better that speech bubbles. You also made it very clear which character was saying which line due to the pictures and the color of the sub title bar. Nice!
However, the text went by a bit too fast. I guess it's very hard to find a good solution for this problem. If the text stays too long it get's boring really quick, if the text is gone too fast I can't follow the story. If you put in a "Next"-Button I can read at my own pace, but I have to click the button to advance the story, which too can be very annoying...
Still I think a small button would be the best solution here.

Then you should change the background colour of Sean's sub title bar to something darker. Sometimes I couldn't read the text, because the background was so bright.

The music was quite nice and really fits well into the flash. But you should try to compress the files a bit more. 8 MB is quite a hughe file size and usually is only reached if the flash either is very graphics intense or contains uncompressed sound and music files... maybe it would help if you cut down on the kbps-rate a bit (128 kbps or even 96kbps should be enough for a flash, in my opinion).

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mortis5000 responds:

Thank You.... I really enjoyed the review....