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[ASHTRAY]

Very rough animation and not too pretty graphics here, but this doesn't mean that this flash is bad. Oh no, it's the "inner values" that count, right? I think the story is pretty nice here. Makes you think about all the little "miracles" that happen every day and that no one really notices.

Also, the musical choice is pretty good. I think the song fits very well to the movie. Some additional sound effects would've been nice, though.

The only thing that's really missing is a replay button. I just don't like it when a flash loops endlessly.

Overall, a good submission, with some minor flaws here and there. But still an enjoyable flash.

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Pepeto responds:

Thanks for your review! I've now edited the submission and added the replay button I forgot to put in the first place.

[Planetoid - Chapter 4]

Very nice animations here. Some very good camera zooms (the very first zoom looks awesome) and sometimes very interesting camera angles (or rather "change of camera angles").

The animation begins with a robot like character jumping over something that appears to be a car. At this point, I felt that this was going to be a very ordinary flash. But this changed once the "car" turned out to be some sort of bed... and later on even more stuff happened. So, this flash took a pretty good turn from "being ordinary" to "being unusual". Very nice.

I think the animations here are quite smooth and there isn't a whole lot that needs changing here. Sometimes, the graphics look a bit different from the rest of the flash, but I guess that's only natural, considering that you took 3 years to finish this.

The only thing I really didn't like was the music. It was too generic and I'm really not into Dance/Trance music. But this is only a matter of personal taste and I won't deduct any points for it.

Overall, this is a good flash and it really deserves the daily 4th place. Good work!

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[Night at the Casino]

A very short movie. But with many different scenes, a lot of characters and a very catchy tune.

I like the backgrounds here a lot. They show that you are improving your drawing skills and that you put a lot of effort into your movies.
The characters looked good as well, even though most of them where simply ball like figures. But the facial expressions are so good, that even the jumping balls seem to have a kind of personality.

The only thing that bothers me is the very abrupt ending. It just stops on the last frame, which leaves the impression of some unfinished project, that was just uploaded for the sake of uploading something...

Anyway, I like this flash.

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[Alptraum die UV]

This is one of the most disturbing flashes I have seen in a while. All the warped graphics create a very eerie atmosphere. Also, the close up of that guys face, while he is running around that camp is distrurbing. I like how you put in some images of what he sees there. Body parts, some things that can't be really identified, the scene where he finds the scalp...

The sudden cut to a normal "breakfast scene" was done very well. The graphical change and the chang in colours is very good here. I like how the guy just says that he was thinking about something unimportant.

The cut back to the unsettling environment with the black colours was a good twist. Now there's some room for interpretation. What scene here was real? What was just imagination? Did that guy really sit at the breakfast table? Or was it just some hallucination to try and cope with the reality of a labour camp?

The static noise at the beginning was a tad bit too loud, since the rest of the flash was so quiet. I know where you are trying to get with the static noise. And it really does create an unsettling atmosphere. But I think it would work just as well if it wasn't as loud.

Another thing are the voices. The program you used doesn't creat good voices. It sounds just too unnatural and too emotionless. It would be great if you could find some voice actors.

Also, if you need help with the german texts/spoken parts, shoot me a message (german is my native language, so I guess I should be able to help you out ;) ). The thing is, that some of the texts don't make too much sense. Some things the woman said I couldn't figure out at all, if it hadn't been for the subtitles.

Overall, this is a well done flash. It needs some improvement with the voices, though.

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descom responds:

Nämlich,kann ich nicht sagen,welche Art von Geschichte,die es ist.
Das der Punkt,musst jemand entdecken.
Auch,wenn willst du mir helfen,vielleicht wir werden zusammenzuarbeiten.
Ach ja,ich mache es nur für Unterhaltung.
Sende du mir ein Nachricht,wenn wirklich interessiert bist.

[Zelda Chicken March]

Pied Piper of Hamelin going Zelda. Very interesting thought.

Even though this flash is very short and doesn't offer high quality graphics, I still enjoyed it a lot. The music Link plays on his flute is quite catchy and I liked the main idea behind this: Link bringing all those chickens to the next KFC, so they can make more food. I guess this is Links revenge for the infamous "chicken attack" in the Zelda games.

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[Madness Cancelled]

Very good voice acting! I really like the voice of the Madness character. That alone is worth watching the flash.

But not only the voice acting is good, I also like the script here a lot. Who would've thought that a Madness character was so polite and so good with words? And who would've thought he doesn't have a gun lincence? That was very surprising. ;)

Overall, a very nice take on the Madness flashes. A highly enjoyable flash!

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Horsenwelles responds:

thanky sa mache

[World According to NINJA]

Pretty cool submission. I really liked the voice acting here, it was top notch.
I also liked the "over the top anime style", with the characters striking weird poses, or their facial expressions being so ridiculous, that you just have to laugh.

Another good thing about this flash are the nicely drawn backgrounds. They kind of buil a contrast to the almost sloppily drawn characters, and this contrast looks very interesting to me.

The musical choice was pretty good as well. It fitted well to the scenes and added a lot more quality to the already nice flash.

Overall, I can find nothing to complain about. :)

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SOMNIUMANIMATION responds:

Thanks for the positive review!!! Our background artist did some AMAZING work and is an extremely talented dude. Everyone here takes their ART very seriously.
Im glad you enjoyed it!
We try to focus on giving people the "FULL" experience that we can provide.

[A Twisted Transparency|PR]

A very nice trailer. It got me interested in your upcoming project, so I guess the trailer has done it's job. ;)

I really liked the music here, it fits very well to the world you created and it also fits to the drawing style of the scenes. Since the style is very dark (mostly black and white) the industrial like music was a pretty good fit.

What I didn't like was, that I had to press play again every time I went back to the main menue.

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Celx-Requin responds:

This pleases me, the play button thing hopefully won't be an issue in the finished product.

Sincerely,
- Celx

[Cookin' with Mama]

And yet another game I don't know, so I cannot rate the parody value of this one.

Out of the three flashes I reviewed today, this is the one I like the least. The animations are decent, but I found no comedy value in this flash (most likely because I don't know the game). However, the lip syncing was done very good.

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[Kingdom Farts!]

Too bad I have never played any Kingdom Hearts game yet, even though I have always been interested in the games... oh well, I guess I missed out on a lot of fun. And I'm still missing out, since I guess I can't understand all the jokes in here.

Anyway, there where a few funny scenes in here. I liked it, when that big black thing got punched and he started crying. "Why did you have to do that?" It was even funnier the second time it happened. ^^

I also liked the length of this submission. Usually parodies are only a minute long or even shorter. But this submission clearly shows that you put a lot of effort into it, creating some kind of story line and creating your own jokes. The only thing I didn't like was when you used the cards instead of the characters. This looked too cheap for me.

Overal, this is yet another enjoyable submission.

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