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[Dufflebag Dud]

Random

The graphical style is interesting and looks like old disney cartoons from the 40s, which is pretty nice, by the way.

The music could also be from one of those old cartoons and it fits very nice to the style of the graphics.

Too bad the story is kind of random and doesn't make that much sense. Maybe the "missing reel" wasn't that good of an idea. Also, the Carl Johnson with the monocle at the end didn't fit in the flash too good either and only adds to the randomness of this submission.

So, while the graphics and sound are nice the story sadly is not, which is why I can only give you 6 out of 10 stars. :(

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Snaws responds:

thnxk.....,.....

[The Sculpture]

Awesome

At first I thought you got the scenes from an old cartoon or some old CD-i game, because the graphical style really reminds me of some of the retro comic series I used to watch as a kid.

The story is pretty interesting and the SCP foundation sounds interesting as well.

I really like the scene where we watch the statue move through the eyes of one of the personell. Just like him we can only helplessly watch how the statue slowly moves closer and closer until it reached his collegue and kills him. The next blink and we watch right in the face of the statue.

I also like that the story is kind of open ended. We can see that his eyes slowly close, but before they are fully closed the flash ends. So, either the organisation send in some men to help, or the poor guy bites the dust after all.
I would prefer the first ending, because he's the only one who reacted like they where told, except for when the door suddendly closed, heh.

Also, the voice acting is pretty good. There are a few static sounds, though. And when the first victim goes to the statue there are like three voices at once, and none of them can be clearly understood. So, you should try to fix that.

Other than that, this flash is awesome.

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PBass responds:

Yeah, I felt after watching my own animation that it sort of resembled old cartoon cutscenes from LucasArts graphical adventure games. I agree definitely on my audio issues, when I finally exported it from Premiere, somehow I must have really turned up the volume on 'HEY' and I was too frustrated to go and fix it at the time. I'm working on a better menu and a subtitles option to update it with later, so I'll probably do some audio fixes when I update. Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked it!

[Eku Dance Sock]

Needs more work

For a first flash this is decent, nothing more but nothing less. I can see you put some effort into this, as the graphics are far better than what you usually see when an authors claims a submission is his "first flash". You also had a story line, which is also a plus point for you.

However, the graphics where pretty sloppy most of the time and the lines where flickering all over the place, which makes it quite difficult to watch.

Also in the beginning the text wasn't placed too well. I mean the font size was ok, but it was hard to read at times because you wrote with black lines over black lines. I think it's better to not draw out the text like you did but to simply use a keyboard. This makes the text more readable and it gives you more space to type out your message, as you simply don't need to write so big to have a readable text.

Also, it is too fast paced sometimes. I know, this is intended, but it makes the text very hard to read, which isn't any fun at all.

Adding to that, the flash ends very apruptly. At first I thought my browser was messing up until I saw the word "end" in a corner. Together with the music also stopping there, it feels as if the flash is just unfinished and that you meant to add more to it.

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[Bloody Sundae]

Good submission

This submission combines humour with seriousness pretty good. There are some things to laugh about, like when the girl first discovers the cannibal. At first she's shocked, but then asks: "Are you a vampire? *smile*"

Pretty good irony in this scene. Also, the eating scene reminded me a bit of the famous scene from Resident Evil where the zombie eats one of his victims and he then turns around.

Anyway, the ending was good as well. It's funny how he first hesitates and then says: "Ah, fuck it" and goes on killing the girl anyway. You laugh at first, but when the camera sooms out and shows she is only a few yards away from where she meant to go... the laughter really laughter stuck in my throat.

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Pixmintro responds:

Ha I'm glad to hear you liked it, thanks for the well-done review :)

[The Creep]

Nice

This is a pretty nice submission. The storyline may not be that original, but I like what you did with it. I liked the part where the arm attached itself to the dead body.

Also, the scene just before that, where the hand rips off the face of the man is pretty awesome, haven't seen anything like that before. :D
And the guy was a lousy shooter anyway, he didn't even hit the hand. :P

It was a bit weird at first to not hear any sound effects, but I think the flash workes quite well without sound effects, as the music is pretty good.

Well, the ending was unexpected, but it gave me a good laugh. But there's some pretty nasty static sound, I guess that's because the bass is too deep.

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[Dodraugen]

Looks rushed

And it really is rushed if you did this in only 2 to 3 hours. The graphics look decent, even though the bathroom really looks like a living room, heh.

Also I wondered why he was sitting with his pants on on the toilet and the toilet seat wasn't even raised.

The sewers didn't look that realistic and the pipe was just odd. Looked like you only cut out those parts from the picture. Anyway, it looks weird and too rushed.

When that creature came out of the toilet the guy was still sitting there. Would have been better if he fell off the toilet or something, now the creature just goes right through him.

Anyway, if you can come up with such a movie in such a short amount of time then I really want to see some movies from you where you put more effort and more time in it. ^^

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Assios responds:

Yep, I rushed it cause I am also working on a much bigger project.. But if i'm going to make a halloween submission for next year, I'll make sure to start earlier:p
Thanks for the review:)

[APA TU?! (what is that?!)]

Good short film

This is a very good short film. Hardly a minute long, but very nice indeed. I think it's quite hard to get an anitmation in an actual film, as of course you can only imagine where the animation should appear in the picture and what it is doing. So it's a lot of work to get the timing right.

The biggest let down of this flash is the unsteady camera. A tripod seems to be a must for those kind of flashes, as the animation is in the picture itself, not in the real world. So, if the camera is unsteady, the animated figure seemingly jumps from place to place, even though it should stand absolutely still. It was most visible, when you stood up and filmed down in the backyard. The camera moves from left to right and so does the character, which looks very unrealistic and sort of destroys the nice image you created when the character first appeared on the screen and climbed up that wall.

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akoRn responds:

Hey thanks. Indeed, I do worried bout the camera. Didn't plan to publish this at first, juz makin this due to boredom. But thanks! I will make a serious project based on the same medium

[De -TEST- icus 1]

Quite big...

The window is very big so it's very hard to get a good look at the submission. Also the drawings are all very blurry because of the big window size which doesn't look very good at all.

From what I could make out you seem to have a very nice plot, now all you need to do is to make the window a lot smaller so that the pictures don't look so blurry and everything can be seen just fine without backing away from the screen.

Also, some more colours would be very nice, because it adds a lot more quality to the submission.

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