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[BTS 2 Trailer]

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I think it's a good idea to re-upload your old movies. I found them all to be very entertaining and what can be better for an amateur filmer than to present his work to a borad audience?

I just don't see the point in uploading previews if the movies are already done and being uploaded. A preview is there to get people hyped up on an upcoming movie, but if the movie is already out, then there's no use in uploading previews, in my opinion.

Anyway, I think the preview is done quite well. Unlinke previous reviewers I liked the transitions between the movie scenes and I also liked the title cards. The text was easy to read and it told us what the movie will be about. That's about everything I expect from a preview. ^^

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Fro responds:

Yeah, I see your point. Perhaps I won't upload the trailers that I have.

[Beneath The Sheets 2]

Nice movie

I think I saw the movie, or at least parts of it before. But the added subtitles are new. And I must say, I like the subtitles a lot! They help me to understand the dialogue (or "monologue") much better now. Also, the subtitles are easy to read, due to the darkened background.

The acting is quite funny, and I really liked the scene with where Nick punches the KKK member, asking for a donation.

I also liked the reference to Hay Wars.

Only thing I can suggest to improve is: A tripod. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seemed that in the last scene where - Nick runs off into the woods - the camera wasn't on a tripod and as a result the picture wasn't too steady. In my opinion, the scene would've been better if the picture wasn't so "shakey".

Anyway, overall it's still a nice movie.

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Fro responds:

Thanks for the review Haggard! I can't remember if that camera was held by a tripod or not. I think it would have to be because the camera that we used then wouldn't stand on it's own. I just don't think we thought it through because when he jumped it shook the deck.

I'm happy someone watched it who has watched all my other movies so they actually understood some of the jokes. :P

[==Firefight==]

Nice practice

The flash is pretty short, but you state in the comments you did this to practice your animation skills. I think the animations are done decent here. They are not too fluent (it looks a bit strange when the attacker charges towards the porn packet) but they aren't too stiff either.

The background story is quite silly. I mean, turtles taking over the world? Squirrles, yes. They are dangerous. But turtles? Come on! ;)

Anyway, the flash is very short. I think some more attackers together with some sort of dialogue would have been good here.

I liked the background image a lot. It looks very realistic and gives us something to look at. Much better than a plain grey background.

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Phantox responds:

The story was a last minute thing when I decided to put when I added FRAGILE PORN and MREs to the boxes so they wouldn't be so plain. Turtles were the first reptiles that came to my mind.

I should have added dialogue, now that you mention it.

The background image took me quite a while to complete. It's good that people are noticing it.

Also, what's strange about the attacker? Is it because he moves to fast??

Thanks for your review

[Harold and Edna]

Good flash

The graphics here are pretty good. You have a very good drawing style and you even managed to draw old people. For some reason, no one manages to draw old people in a convincing style, but you did. So kudos for that. ;)
You also put in some nice details in the background, which makes the flash even more enjoyable.

The voice acting is all right. The voices are easy to understand and they sound "old" as well.

Storywise the flash is nice as well. Lately I've been listening to some audio dramas about the story of Dacula, so this flash fits in very well with what I have passed my free time as of late, heh. Nice coincidence.

Anyway, the animation could be a bit more fluent. Maybe you can achieve this by drawing some more frames to add to the animation.

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ManNSmkyRoom responds:

Hey thanks a lot for the review. I hope to make my animation more fluent in the future. Practice, practice. Thanks for watching.

[The Sugar Claws: F.C.]

Amazing

It was a good idea to put all the chapters into one flash. I read through the whole story again and I realized I might have missed some parts, strange.

Anyway, the story is really amazing and I like how it slowly unfolds with each new chapter. I also like the foreshadowing of story elements in some of the panels.

The art is very good as well. The contrast between the pink colour and the blue one is very good and I like how you display some characters in blue and some in pink (as well as displaying the night time with blue colours).
Next thing I liked was the words on some panels like "FEAR" or "VOMIT" and so on, as well as some sentences, that appear to be some sort of inner dialogue of the characters present in the panels (like for example when Bill is attacked, there are some words written in the background).

Overall, I cannot state how truly amazing I find this whole story and the whole concept. 10 stars isn't enough for this flash. ;)

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Celx-Requin responds:

I wanted to really do something fresh and unique with this comic to catch the people who saw Cooljaw off -guard, and garner a different audience. I have one more comic in the trilogy, which is going to be a return to form, in a way it's going to be a spiritual successor to both "Cooljaw", and "The Sugar Claws", I hope you'll take a look at that once it's released.

Thanks again for your review, and all the prior reviews as well, I feel they've been instrumental to the success of my work.

Thanks,
- Celx

[-The Gift Giver -]

Not bad for a first flash

The sound is really muffled for me, I couldn't really get what was going on here. Subtitles might help here.

Also I found the flash to be pretty slow (maybe because I couldn't understand anything that was said). Especially the last part where that hobo was eating seemed to be dragged on forever.

The drawings are decent and are pretty close to the "barrier" where I would call them good. I liked that you put in some nice details, like the black eye of the hobo. I also liked the background you chose, it fits the scene of the flash pretty well. Of course the image was a bit blurry in the zoomed in scenes, but the background still looked good.

Overall this is a good try for a first flash (I'm assuming this is your first flash, since there are no other submissions on your account) and I think you have some talent. The only way to get better is by practicing and submitting more!

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ManNSmkyRoom responds:

Thank you, sorry it felt slow because of the sound volume. This is my first animation and I plan on making more, it's quite fun!

[Achivement Madness]

Good movie

Starts off a bit slow. Maybe the talking could be a bit faster and bit more "lively". The Madness Guy sounded a little bit bored (or is he just a slow reader? ^^).

Anyway, the rest of the movie - including the awesome credits! - was very good. I liked the take on the "trophy hunting" and it's a nice idea to included this "trophy hunting" mentality into the madnes world. Seems to fit very well, heh.

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Deathisawesome responds:

The point there was that he is a slow reader, or just somewhat stupid ;)

[-Another Dimension-]

Nice

Not sure if I understood this story completly, but the 3D robot like character at the end looked pretty sad. So hopefully the 2D creatures will return some day, since they should now know there indeed IS life in the 3D world.

The musical choice was very nice and I like how the story of the flash went along so well with the music. Maybe the musical climax should've come a tad bit earlier (right now it happens when the rocket goes back to earth, I think it should happen when 2D and 3D characters see each other).

Other than that, this is a very nice flash!

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Carr77 responds:

Thanks for your comment :D

[Ropey Rick & Friends]

Introduction

Not much storyline in this one, more like a short introduction of the (main?) characters of what could turn into a series.

The graphics are pretty good. I mean they are not spectacular, but they are nice to look at, and that's what counts, right?

The voice acting is decent, but could be a lot better, I guess. Especially bandit boy is quite hard to understand. Ok, he has a rag in front of his face, but maybe the voice could be a bit less muffled.

Animations are very fluent, even though there isn't that much going on in this introductionary flash. By the way, the bonus animations in the credits where hilarious.

Overall I think this flash is very entertaining and I hope to see more from those characters in the future!

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GristlyBear responds:

I had an initial storyboard to introduce Ropey Rick, but it was really boring. Fortunately (and kind of unfortunately) I put together a better (relatively) storyboard, but it didn't really include Ropey Rick as much. I'm glad you enjoyed the little loops, the first 2 were from me practicing tracing pictures of doodles I did earlier this year.

Thanks for the review!
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