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[One Cold Christmas]

Nice flash, sound lacks quality

A very good story with good humour (used underwear for christmas... ^^). Also the drawing style is quite nice.

You should work on the voice acting, though. A few lines didn't sound very natural and I couldn't even understand what Santa said at the end.
Also the quality of the sound was quite low. There where statics all over the place, especially when the voice got a bit louder.

Anyway, overall it's a nice flash movie. :)

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MrAbnormal responds:

I'm getting voice actors next time

[JPB '09 Animation History]

Good idea

I think the idea of this is very nice, but it's posted "too early". There's only three parts and part three is "getting better". There should be following some more parts like "still getting better", "vastly improving", etc. in there before you show this to a public audience.
While you indeed improved your skills and we can see it in this flash there's still a feeling that this flash isn't finished yet.

Of course you are still learning and improving and I can understand that you are eager to show it to a greater audience. But I still think you posted this idea too early.

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[Conscience and Therapy]

Good

The music fits very good to this submission. Even though the music has some kind of a happy tone to it, it also creates a very dark atmosphere together with the pictures you show.

The graphics are pretty good, but I think the animations could be improved a bit. For example when the car was driving it looked very comical, with the car moving up and down (I don't mean the scene that takes place in the car, but the scene where it is driving up to the hospital). This didn't fit too well into the flash.

Also, why did the car take a turn instead of driving straight ahead to the hospital? If you had drawn a street that curved that way it would be clear why the car takes the turn, but there's no street visible.

I like how you mostly made use of still frames but yet created an illusion of movement with the "zooming cuts" you made.

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[Shadowman & The Garroter]

Nice halloween submission

The graphics are decent, but could have been a bit cleaner (ie, not so many pencil strokes). I don't think the grapics would lose anything from their creepiness if they wheren't scribbled so much.

I had to watch this twice, the first time I didn't realize that this blond hair was supposed to be a head. So I thought: "What? Who was screaming there when the guillotine came down?".

Maybe you could make this a bit more clearer with showing the victim being led to the guillotine.

But overall it was a very nice submission, very creepy. I especially liked the shadow of the tree in the beginning. Also, the music fits very nice to this submission.

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[Back Off]

Short again

I think the punchline here isn't as good as in the Red Bull parts. ,As I've said in my other review in my opinion short flashes only work with a hilarious and unexpected punchline. Now, this flash isn't bad, but a longer build up would be nice. You could put some jokes into the build up already and then come up with the main joke of the flash. Maybe showing how the character walks aorund in the streets and then entering the bar (you could throw in some funny scenes on the streets) or show the bar from the outside and then zoom in slowly, showing some other customers on your way to the bar and what they talk about.

The backgrounds where a lot better here, though, at least for the first part. For the other two parts you went back to single coloured backgrounds, unfortunatly.

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[Master_Light [Box-Killa]]

Not too original

Not too original, but very well executed. The lines are in synch most of the time with the music, which creates a very nice effect.
The colour changes could have been synched a bit better, though. At least it seemed to me that the changes came a bit random. But maybe I just missed the pattern behind it.

Too bad the flash is so short. Even though this is FBF and those flashes are generally shorter than non-FBF flashes this is short even for a FBF flash (if that makes any sense... ^^).
It would be nice if you added a second, similar song to the flash to make it a bit longer.

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