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[The Sugar Claws: III-VII]

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The technique of the text inside the pictures (like "funny bird" or "extinguish the flame") is very interesting and it adds a lot to the artwork.
It's still a bit hard to get used to the pink colouring scheme, but after a few panels I can appreciate all the details you worked in here.

Can't wait for the next episode to come out!

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Celx-Requin responds:

Soon, soon!

Thanks for the review!
- Celx

[Ogre & The Witch]

Funny

Negative aspects first: 15MB, I was hoping for something longer here. Good thing that I got VDSL installed at my home two months ago. With my old connection this flash would've taken forever to load.

Ranting done, on with the actual review:
I don't know what it is, but I really like the graphics here. Sure, they may look "childish" in some way, but at least I haven't seen any flash before that made use of this crayon-like graphics. So you get some points for originality here. ;)

The story is very fast paced, but at least you don't drag the flash along endlessly. You come straight to the point, which I really like (may sound like I'm contradicting myself here with my previous rant. But I was only ranting about the file size, not about the length of the flash).

I think the animations should be a lot smoother. You have some very good animations in this flash, like when the witch pours the liquid, but sometimes you only have still frames, which destroys the flow of the flash a bit.

Overall I give you 8 stars because I found this flash highly entertaining and I want to encourage you to produce more episodes in the future. :)

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ToonCastleTV responds:

lol thanks I apreciate it. I'm well aware that animation could have been smoother but it works well enough to visualize at least. This was only made for school and I am working on flash based projects now! but they will still continue to be dope ;)

[The Sugar Claws: II-VII]

Story unfolds

The story slowly unfolds. I have told you this before, but I will happily tell it again: Your way of storytelling is very good. You just seem to find the right pace to tell your stories. Not too fast, but not too slow so that I get bored either. I always have a feeling of "I HAVE to know how this story continues!" if I read through the chapters.

In this chapter I liked the combination of the pink and the blue colours. They went along very well together and it created some very nice effects. I may have some interpretation of why some characters are in blue while others are in pink, but I'm not too sure yet, so I won't tell it, lol. :P

Anyway, some similarities to the story of Alice in Wonderland cannot be denied. The dream world, the cat... but as I happen to like Alice in Wonderland I am glad to see those similarities.

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Celx-Requin responds:

New chapter should be out soon :3

There are some reasons behind the color decisions I made, but I think my work is better when people read it and intake the visual aesthetic on a subconscious level.

Thanks,
- Celx

[The Sugar Claws: I-VII]

Font is hard to read

"Oh my, this is... pink!" was my first thought after loading up this comic. I really hope nobody is confused or turned off by this colour scheme, since after the first few panels it becomes clear that this isn't any sort of "girly stuff" about ponies or something like that, but in fact I can already sense the horrors that may appear in later episodes, heh.

I think you should try out a less fancy font, since it was very hard to read sometimes. I understand that the font is part of the concept (it fits surprisingly well to the colour scheme), but for a better readability I would really appreciate if you could use a slightly different font.

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Celx-Requin responds:

Although I feel the characters in this story are more sympathetic, and affable than the characters in Cooljaw, this isn't going to be "girly comic".

I can assure you of that, and in some ways I feel the story may end up being darker than Cooljaw.

About the font I'm sure people will get used to it, frankly I don't have the time to go back and change the lettering if I want to meet the deadline for the halloween contest.

So I hope people will understand :)
Thanks for the review!
- Celx

[Facebook Girl]

Well...

Not too much I can say about the story, as I don't take too much part in the so called "social networks". I don't twitter, I don't have an account on Facebook, hell I never even had an account on MySpace! :o

But yeah, your animation pretty much sums up how I feel about the social networks: Constant blabbering about things that are totally uninteresting and happen everyday in everyones lifes. You animation is the perfect example why I don't want to be a part of that.

That being said, I think you could simply rename this flash to "twitter girl" and would still be true.

Anyway, the animations are very simple and consist of only scrolling text and speech bubbles, but well, that's because you chose to show a facebook page. There's not much you could've animated.

I like what Rabid-Animals suggested: Voice overs from one of her friends, reading all this nonesense and maybe even "unfriend" her at the end.

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Dosensuppen responds:

Maybe, but it's more suppose to be the friend of her Amy Bell reading this, which is the person watching.

[R.O.C. Ep002]

Somewhat funny

Well, the script was somewhat funny, even though it was hard to understand at times (because of the computer voices).

The animation and graphics are all right, but well, you didn't create any of this did you? I don't know how hard it is to create movies with xtranormal.com (I don't want to create an account there to try it) but I sure can't rate the effort you put into this movie as high as if you did this in flash all by yourself.

Well, like I said, the script is somewhat funny, even though a final punch line was missing here, in my opinion.

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ninjadezombidetueur responds:

The final punchline is the review section......

[Ghosts 'n Goblins V.2]

Quite nice

It was a bit hard to follow at first (and yes, I also tried to control the character thinking this was a game >_> ) because I didn't know why all of a sudden a mouse pointer appears that tries to defeat the hero of Ghost n Goblins.

The pacing of the flash is quite nice, though. At the beginning everything seems to be normal, then the mouse pointer appears. While Sir Arthur tries to go through the game normally he is in constant danger because of said pointer.

Some of the voice samples where used with pretty good timing (for example the "run coward, run!" one), others like the laughing where a bit overused in my opinion.

Overall, it's a nice flash that could use some more work in script writing, as the story is a bit hard to follow.

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Pienkaito responds:

It's actually very simple, if it comes to the "script".
I won't tell any details, because of spoilers.

Did I really animate the beginning so perfectly, so that people think it's a game? O_o
But thanks for the review, you guys rock. =D

[Teacher's Cake]

Unfinished, but good

Quite an interesting project you have here. There still is a lot of work to do to iron out all the little flaws this movie still has, but I think the vast majority of work is already done and you have created a movie that is worth to be watched.

The drawings are sometimes pretty rough, but overall the graphics are decent. Especially the backgrounds look pretty good most of the time.

What bothered me most was that sometimes the characters didn't move their mouthes even though they spoke and I don't mean the inner monologue scene during the middle of the movie. I know people don't move their lips during an inner monologue. But for example when the teacher was in front of his class, shortly before he announced he had to leave for a short while, his lips didn't move at all even though he was adressing the students.

I also noticed you used the same animation cycle for the teacher quite a lot during the end of the movie (when the teacher comes back he has this cycle I'm talking about and then again during this weird "asylum scene"), which doesn't look too good, in my opinion.

Last but not least, the sound quality is something you have to work on. There are a lot of static noises during the voice acting. This is really painful to listen to and it's quite a pity as the voice acting is done pretty good apart from that little sound problem.

In conclusion, the movie still looks very rough and unfinished, but I think what you have created so far is pretty good and looks quite promising. Here's me hoping you'll finish this some day. :)

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EKublai responds:

Thanks for the review. Your point about lip-syncing is especially valuable because I didn't realize how much having no lip sync would throw you off as a viewer