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[D4ilytoon # 316]

Badly animated and not funny

6 short toons that are either poorly animated or only consist of an endless and not very funny loop. Hardly enough to reach a high score.

Especially Ultra Pop's movie was very poorly made with badly drawn characters and very poor tweens.
I get that this was intentional. The intro promised us some "epic battle" and then we get to see a poorly done movie. But I just didn't find it funny as I think jokes like this are overdone already.

The rest of the movies isn't hardly worth mentioning at all, as there was even less effort put into it. Some random loops with very low quality music to it should go on z0r.de not here.

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[I'm only sleeping...]

Good

I think this is a very underrated song by the Beatles and I'm glad you chose this song to do a little animation to it.

I think you covered the "dream sequence" very well with random things happening, like the rainbow river and the giant earthworm popping up.

Too bad the animation is so short, I think you could've done some great things with the dream sequence, maybe even introducing the other Beatles in it as well.

But I liked how you ended on the line "I'm only sleeping" showing John (I guess it was John, as he is singing this song, right?) sleeping in his bed.

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up-a-notch responds:

yeah that's johnny boy, and sorry for no other Beatles...this is all tweened on different layers...it would hurt to do them ALL! Ummm yeah thanks for liking it :) and I hope to make more

[The Lil' Clock That Could]

Happy belated clock day

Well, for clock day it's good enough to pass (hell, almost anything passes on clock day :P ) but on any other day this would've been blammed with the first 50 votes.

Anyway, I have seen much worse "first flash movies" so you at least did put some sort of effort into this flash. The very basics of animation is there, now you have to work on getting better.
Try adjusting the frame rate if you think your movie runs too fast (because this movie... well, it's way too fast) or include more pictures to your movie to let it run more smoothly.
For example, if you have done 3 or 4 pictures to create this movie, try doubling the amount and see how the movie runs then. It should be a lot slower and smoother.

You might also want to change the background colour, because this deep blue color doesn't look very good. You should chose a more transparent and brighter colour, so that the characters can be seen better (I hardly noticed the stick man at first).

Also, some sound effects would be a nice thing as well. A simple punch sound and a scream from StrawberryClock would be a good addition for example.

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Moneyman12 responds:

i made it that

[The Best Video Game Ever]

Long

This is quite a random movie with some good plot twists. It starts off with a fighting and you think: "Okay, that was a short flash, but funny."
Then Megatron appears and finishes off the remains of Sub Zero. You think: "Okay, that was nice, but now it's over, right?"

But the flash contiues for quite some time from there on, which sure is nice. The length of this flash is really a good thing, because in my opinion it makes up for some of the flaws this submission has.

First of all, the graphics look very sloppy and the whole drawing style seems to be somewhat "dirty". However, some scenes do look quite good (usually when only one character is on the screen) while others look much more sloppy (like the scene where Scorpion and Megatron drive to that fast food restaurant).

The subtitles where a good idea because they help to understand the voices better. But the text was really hard to read. It's always better to include an extra box just for the subtitles that has a solid background colour. This way you won't have the problems you have here: Sometimes the text is hard to read because the colour of the background is too dark (or too bright) to clearly see the text.

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DarkMatter responds:

Thanks for taking the time to fully watch and review my video, I really appreciate it.

[This isn't Strawberrry!]

Happy Clock Day!

Too bad I can't understand what BahamutClock is screaming there (too much static sounds), but the flash looks funny nevertheless.

I like how StrawberryClock just stands there, doing nothing while BahamutClock almost explodes with rage and anger.

Oh, and the background graphics are nice as well.

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kinggila responds:

THIS ISN'T STRAWBERRY, IT'S RAWBERRY!!!

[Häschenkarnickel]

Happy Clock Day!

I'm glad I could save this movie. Next summer, the pink fluffy bunny rabbits will rock the metal scene, and we are both part of it.

Pretty good presentation as well. I like the camera movements around the letter B. Looks much better than anything I was ever able to create with flash, heh.

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Auz responds:

Fuck yeah we're gonna rock their socks off!

The camera movement was pretty simple actually, it's just a silly motion tween :p

Thanks for voting 5! ^^

[John Madden Commentary 2]

Nice

I'm not really interested in american football (or handegg ^^) but I still know who John Madden is (propably only becauses of the Madden NFL-video games).
Anyway, never heard or saw him on TV, so I don't know how good your parody of him is.

But I liked this flash anyway. It's very funny to see John Madden on the bottom of the screen fidgeting around like he drank a few too many coffees.
Together with the overexcited and very fast voice it works really well and made me laugh quite a bit.

I also liked how the screen filled up with lines, circles and crosses and how Madden just doesn't stop talking about this and that, without coming to the point (if he has a point that is).

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Fro responds:

thanks

[Err, a monster?]

Short

A very short short. If it was any shorter there would be no flash at all. XD

Anyway, the graphics are very simple, but also very effective. They give this flash a very comical and funny look, which is a big plus in my opinion.

I also like the song you added to the flash. It fits very well, even though there doesn't seem to be a whole lot it could fit to. It just... fits. ^^

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[Fate's Apprentice]

Very nice flash

A pretty good flash and it's lon running time mades up for the long wait while loading it.

However, the compression of the video ruined the quality of the images. I really would like to see a high resolution version of this.

I really like that the whole cartoon was handdrawn before it was digitalized. Reminds me of some of the old cartoons I used to watch as a kid. Because hand drawn cartoons have a very distinctive style that you just cannot reproduce on the computer and which makes hand drawn cartoons look so much better than all those "fancy" 3D cartoon movies Disney produces nowadays.

Anyway, the flash was indeed wonderful, but the very low quality of the images prevent me to give a higher score here.

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EKublai responds:

Yeah hand drawn all the way man!

[Who Wields the Staff]

Good

A very funny flash that reflects everything I like about the 80s: Cartoons, a simple view of the world (good guys are 100% good, bad guys are 100% bad), bad stories and a cheesy laugh at the end. Only thing missing here is a very cheesy "moral of the story" presented by one of the good guys, heh.

The graphics are quite good, but they seemded to be a bit rushed and "unclean" from time to time. Also the voices could have been a bit louder. Otherwise the voice acting was pretty good.

I also like your take on the rule for the competition that the main character sohuldn't talk. Using an inanimate cardbord box man as a main character is a very nice touch. ;)

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