Age/Gender: 19, Male
Location: Lansing, MI
Job: Animator, Student
When life give you tap water, dust and fruit-scented shampoo, make koolaid.
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Some of the clips were kind of 'meh', but others were HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU PSION BASTARD HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT. You know who you are...
Nice collab, good song (and I don't normally like Disturbed at all), and nice smooth transitions. I saw alot of improvement in some artists here too, me likey =)
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Great presentation, not a lot of people go through the trouble of making an original intro/outro. Love the Akire and Jai, thankyou for having ADULT main characters...So sick of a bunch of schoolkids fighting evil and puberty. There's also some damn good voice acting here, they sound natural, which many people don't seem to get the concept of.
Still has the same issues as last time though, this "episode" still doesn't really accomplish anything story-wise. I mean it doesn't add more questions which is good, but it doesn't answer any questions either which is bad. Since you kept in line with the whole anime-style "limited animation" thing you're gonna have to hustle with the storytelling and find a way to add more rewatch value to your stuff. Still lookin forward to more tho! =)
Author's Response:
Thanks! I agree, the story is moving a bit slow but I'm doing this so the viewers can get a good feel of the characters first. It starts to pick up a bit more in the next episode but maybe not enough for your taste. But it will get there so just hold tight =)
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"Ohh......That's how you do it."
Sorry man, this is a real miss. It's amazing how many useless steps you went through for this...just...wow. I appreciate people wanting to pass on their methods, but the final result was nothing too special for all that. Cut the cheap tweening, and work on the anatomy a little bit. Your line art looks like you're drawing with your foot.
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That was weird as hell, but entertaining. The character drawings and animation weren't do hot on most of it, but from the way some scenes looked, it kinda looked like you didn't break a sweat on purpose. I really enjoyed the concept of a world full of weird sketch creatures though, and how you just showed random stuff they do though, I found myself strangely drawn in.
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"The dude who played the black guy and Krinkels..."
He's a genius, his acting was just fantastic, orgasmic, magical. No homo...or no hetero...? eh? eh? Didn't see that shit coming did you!?
Good shit man, your colors have really improved (way more realistic than normal) and the shots were more cinema and less flash cartoon, and of course, the VA was THE SHIT. Also, nice smooth keyframing for the most part. Only complaint, still gotta practice those art fundamentals like anatomy on the characters, but keep it up! =)
Author's Response:
I know right? That man is fucking amazing! Everytime I listen to this movie I almost get a hard on from his gruff sexy voice. I keep telling the VA to get out there more but he doesn't listen. He likes to keep the sexiness to himself I guess. Oh well...his loss...or gain..or something...
Thanks. The coloring scheme is one my favorite parts about this movie. Amia helped a lot, so thank her too (hence why she gets some credit). Thanks for noticing the camera shots too. That is probably my favorite part of the movie. I loved playing with Vcam and I intend to keep doing so in future works.
The art will come. My next work will have better anatomy. Actually I've been meaning to ask you where you got your posing doll thing? I feel like that would help a lot. PM me will ya?
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You have pretty much made your name in my book as the sickest fight animator on Newgrounds, shat horrible diarrhea all over the real Madness (Which works better than NyQuil if you can't sleep), and managed to instill horrible angry jealousy in me. The animation was okay, it seems a little wonky and rushed, and not so original with the fan cartoon premise, but damned if you didn't have the sickest shots and beastiest choreography I've seen in a Flash fight scene. Keep up the good work man, I love your shit.
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I wait for you work
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"You had me up until the ending."
Nice colors, and visuals, the animation was kinda strange looking at times but the cartoon's graphics did it's job. The music was decent, as well as the sound effects. The voice acting was so-so through most of it, the actors aren't bad, but more realism, less anime in the voicing would've really turned this up a notch. The way you depicted all the random stuff around this world, the thieves, hunters, soldiers by the water, etc... I thought was really well done, and fun to watch.
Then it got to that last scene, mysterious guy found by sweet innocent girl, he's either an amnesiac or keeping his horrible violent past a secret, probably a legendary powerful warrior, somebody with demonic powers or something...that scene kinda ruineed it for me. But other than that, hope to see more, also hope it's not as generic unimaginative as that last scene. The rest was damn good though.
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I thought it was a cool concept, people don't do the space thing too much on NG and the character designs were definitely the strong point. The pacing and music choice were also good.
But I have the same complaint with your stuff every time, the movements. Your animation comes off sometimes like you never touch the Onionskin and just make each frame in order from start to finish without looking back to check if the movement looks convincing, and your stuff ends up looking like 2001 flash when people were just kind of using it and didn't know its potential. I think you're full of great 80s-esque cartoon ideas, but the animation itself just robs it of all the fun for me.
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This toon has great presentation, a little intro animation, a slick simplistic style, great voice acting and everything. I love the "camera-usage" effect too, there's lots of that and I think it looks cool as hell with your drawing style.
I have my complaints though, the story seems kinda weak at this point (Mysterious kid with big appetite....ugh...) but it's nothing that can't be improved, I've seen much worse. The biggest problem here is that this submission isn't satisfying at all. I realize that if you're making a series, it can relieve you of some storytelling obligations such as closure because there'll be more episodes, but wouldn't you want to give your fans a heaping helping of dat anime luvvin' instead of teasing them? I know I was waaay into it at that point where you cut it off. For a series like this, I think you should take at least a good 6-8 minutes to make sure you accomplish something storywise, and that your watchers walk away satisfied. That's just my opinion anyway, God knows I'm guilty of the same thing. Can't wait to see more, keep up the good work
Author's Response:
Thanks for the review. I thought ending it at that point was a good place to stop, but episode 3 will definitely be longer. Not sure if i can make 6-8mins but we'll see.
As for the story not much was shown in this episode but there is a great story coming. I didn't want to overwhelm anyone with mind blowing story at the start i was trying to slowly take them in. sort of like having them test the water before going in.
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"A true argument for the importance of presentation"
It's amazing to me that you can make something like this with sticks, you truly tempt me. The sticks were.....well....sticks. But the backgrounds, and overall dark ambiance of the whole thing was just fantastic. The voice acting was choice, kudos, that stuck out to me in particular, and the music fit perfectly. You just....get lost in it, it's ridiculous how well you manage to set up a scene.
Some fBf would be nice, hell even if you want your characters to look dark and shadowy, I'd still like to see some real human anatomy regardless. Other than that, I have no other complaints. Grade-A entertainment.
Also, from that ending, I smell a sequel...
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