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[Wanna dance with Kim?!]

Well, I think this was entertaining but I feel there were some slight flaws.

As far as animating goes, you did a great job for the most part. However, I noticed while Kim was swinging her hips, the skirt didn't really move with her hips or animate, her butt clearly is moving away from the skirt. Perhaps, however, you meant to create the illusion she was not wearing a skirt, if so then great effort there for that kind of joke.

I did feel kind of sad for her though since apparently no one wanted to dance with her and instead wanted to have sex with her rather than dancing at wherever it is that they are. In that regards, sympathy for Kim has been shown as she clearly just wants to dance and the guy is making her go into tears. I imagine her pink haired friend didn't want to dance with her either, tis a sad day for Kim.

Although later into the animation she's clearly shown having taken her top off or someone ripped it off and her covering her breasts and crying because no one is still willing to dance with her and still just wanting sex.

The audio itself was pretty catchy and kind of made me want to dance. The lip syncing for the animation to the song was good. Did not see any real errors while she was trying to enjoy dancing.

The lack of a background is kind of sad. Had a background been added then there could have been much more to this sad tragic tale of Kim, a lady who simply wants to dance with people. However, given the premise, I imagine their at a dance club of some sort and she's possibly trying too hard to get people dancing with her.

Overall, I think this was pretty entertaining, sad, and catchy all at the same time.

HogisLeDude responds:

I will certainly take notes. Thank you so much for this detailed review. It really helps me. =D

[Gaben Falls Down Stairs!]

To be fair, I did find this humorous. Sadly it was way too short for my taste. While he was falling down the stairs you could have expanded on why it was making the sides of the building fall apart and then ultimately the building itself.

The graphics were nice and make me think of MistyEntertainment's art style but more cartoony. Maybe could add some voices if you ever revisit this piece with the employees being shocked at Gaben's bad behavior and maybe a mythology gag about how he can't seem to count to three and trips on the third step.

The sounds were fitting and kept this piece humorous. However, given it's really short there isn't much time to make full use of more funny sounds revolving around Gaben falling all the down.

Overall, this was pretty funny but at the same time a bit too short. Nicely done, nonetheless.

Potatoman responds:

Damnit you are right!

[MUSS in progress]

The camera movement seems a bit choppy at times instantly clipping to a few frames forward. Hopefully will not be that way in the final product yes?

The graphics really take me back to when I enjoyed playing the PSX system, those were fun times.

One thing I would suggest in regards to the speakers is providing subtitles for the English speakers on this site. Another thing for the voices is noise filtering and then recording in a quiet room in the house to remove as much static in the background as possible. Same thing goes for the music since at times it makes a slight popping sound from the drum track and the bass.

Aside from those issues, everything else seems to look fine.

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Ciullo-Corporation responds:

Hopefully it won't...

The subtitles were one of our main concern... actually we're working to make them available in at least 4 languages, both on trailers and final release. We will certainly try to clean the records, or buy a new microphone, as much as possible.

Thanks for the feedback.

[AV: The Plague Saga pt 1]

I'm sure a lot will go wrong with the magic lessons and cause hilarity to ensue.

This episode seemed a bit short in my opinion. I'm hoping parts two and three will not be quite as short. I can make an exception with this one since they are pretty much getting ready to embark on their quest to find a cure to the plague that could spread to their kingdom.

The graphics are the same. The backgrounds for the intro were pretty nice and reminded me of SNES era graphics for when a game started.

I did find it humorous how you lampshaded that females in adventures tend to be wearing skimpier outfits which does not do a good job of protecting them to begin with. Good sense of humor in that spot. Also funny how King William did not care until he was told dead people can't pay taxes.

The music used was pretty good and the sound effects made it all better too. The getting ready portion with the square made me think of Pac-Man for some reason.

Overall, good start to a new segment of the AV series.

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MistyE responds:

Thanks for the review!

[Robotnik Way]

I found the atmosphere to be rather nice. Rather surprisingly it kind of reminds me of the Hush's Riddler arc where he shows the Riddler he can be a real threat. It showed well here since either someone showed Robotnik there was a better way of executing his plans or he simply kept quiet and waited until the right time to strike which is a rare occasion for him to successfully pull off.

The graphics are all from G-Mod, not too sure if you did anything original here. The Robotnik ships looked different from the ones I'm used to seeing though. The use of showing that even the smallest of Eggman baddies had their day and killed off the entire Sonic cast (except Amy, Rogue, Charmy, and Cream who all seem to be absent here) was different. In the comics only one other character manages to pull that off and even goes as far to kill all the villains to show their dominance.

I did wonder though near the end if he was going to take the female with him onto the Death Egg but it appears they were all taken out as well. Do have to wonder how Robotnik planned to rebuild the world's population if he killed them all off. Although I guess it is possible he planned to repopulate elsewhere. Rather heartbreaking to see at the end that he did it all for Maria and his insane father. If that's the case, kind of a pity to see that Shadow and Metal Sonic were not on the ship with him to celebrate since they all shared similar goals.

The song used is entirely fitting for this piece. It gets even sadder at the end when you see why Robotnik did everything his way and what the cause for it was.

Overall, very sad and interesting take on why Robotnik ends up wiping out part of a planet's population. Looking forward to more in the future.

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TheWittyUsername responds:

In the story, Robotnik decided to just stop playing around. In the games, one can find a lot of times where Robotnik could have easily just finished the Heroes off, but never actually did. You don't notice it on surface, but when someone does and points it out, it makes you look at the character differently.

Well, the graphics are all ripped from Sonic Generations -- for Sonic anyway. Yes, it's all Valve. I did mention this: "To me, this is sorta like 3D sprites, so I feel that it's acceptable. And BELIEVE ME, this stuff takes a LOT of work."

I'm no modeler by any means. Just a guy who likes to animate. 3D animation, believe me, even without the process of making models, it's an exhausting task.

The overall theme was, his idea for world domination stemmed from the actions of GUN, the world military in the game. He has a similar reasoning as Shadow, but he's different from Shadow. He had years to deal with it. Rather than angst and rash actions that Shadow took, he decided to translate his problems into a hopeful solution. This drives the doctor.

Sonic having stopped his plans and growing a constant team of others powerful like him had left the madman a bit... insane. Letting Sonic live or not going all out, the result is stagnation. When he finally decided to lay out all the cards, when he finally met his goal, he's left to do nothing but go back to his sorrow, the origin of why.

And what's left for him? Thousands have died, the very little company he kept by war, they're all gone. Sometimes, the journey beats the destination. Truth is, there's nothing left.

As for Amy, Rouge, Charmy and Cream, they were actually all there. You will see Rouge and Amy around 2:05. Rouge is laying on the ground, Amy gets shot in the back of the head. Charmy and Cream are harder to find. Charmy is sitting near the crashed plane site and Cream is standing near the mountain (which is close to Charmy) by Metal Sonic and Shadow. You'd have to be pretty observant to see those two. They are hard to spot.

Side note, I put in that review request a rather long time ago. lol

[End of Summer; End of All]

This seemed to be pretty decent.

The animation was the same as the rest of the Frogman series which is good since a change in animation at any point in a series can always make things seem pretty off.

The story was entertaining since Frogman and friends were just complaining a bit and thinking about Summer coming to an end. Then a meteor strikes and the plot twist ends up it was all the dream of a drunk cat.

The audio was pleasant and made me think of 90s cartoons like Hey Arnold, neat.

Overall, not much to improve here aside from maybe make it longer.

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artistunknown responds:

Pretty decent is okay for me :) People seemed to have mixed feelings about this, and I never really liked the writing of it in the beginning, but I grew to like it and I think I did a pretty good job with it, albeit I did take a few shortcuts.
While I do like the animation quality where it is, I still try to get a bit better with each animation I do, though I don't think I'll be making any drastic changes in a while.
I'm never sure what to think of the story with this one, but you found it entertaining so I guess I did something right. I always liked the ending best though.
I'm glad you liked the audio. Audio management is something I've been working on and trying to perfect. It's interesting how this gave you a 90's cartoon feel. I've been hearing some stuff about my animations feeling like 90's cartoons. Might be a bit of influence in there, but I'm fine with that 'cause 90's cartoons were sweet (;
This was actually my longest animation this year, though I do like making longer, more story driven animations. I'm working on a couple right now and they'll definitely be finished next year. I don't know when I'll get around to another full episode of FrogMan though, but it's coming.
Thank you for the review. Feedback gives me the drive to keep going and keep improving.

[Zelda- Mole Mitts]

This was a fun short to watch.

The animation was subpar, I feel as though you could have been a tad bit cleaner with how Link walked and all at the beginning. Then him getting smacked in the face at the end along with his hat when he digs through a wall and sees a woman showering was pretty funny. This has potential to be longer and have more humorous misadventures that Link can get into.

The backgrounds were nicely done, cool to see some of them were provided by MistyEntertainment. The "Ganon Wuz Here" on the wall was funny to see. The shower was equally humorous and the shower curtain covering her as a shadow when she hid behind it was a good detail.

The audio was simple. Background music from Legend of Zelda and some voices from Legend of Zelda too. Not bad.

Overall, could have been longer but was humorous nonetheless. Good work.

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artistunknown responds:

Yeah, I suppose I did get a bit lazy with some of the animation on this one. I'll try to keep things at a consistent quality in the future.
I do think it could have been longer, though I wanted to keep it short as I was only going on one gag, though I do have a few more ideas that I can do with some Zelda parodies, so hopefully those suffice.
I, as well as Misty, did put a lot of time into the backgrounds, so I'm glad they turned out nicely. I wanted the environments to have a cartoony yet detailed feel as the Minish Cap is a game that has that kind of feel. I also try to put as many little details like the shadow behind the shower curtain. I feel those little details make the scene at times.
I'm glad you found this humorous. I'm more used to doing dialog driven animations and with these "silent" animations I can really only rely on my animation and the visual gags to keep people interested, so I'm glad I did well with that. Thank you for the review!

[Free to Play]

Almost entirely accurate. Even more annoying when the lady or guy being displayed in the advertisement can't be played as in the game as a class or anything. Good satire mockery of how MMORPG's try to get new players these days.

I found the posters he had to be hilarious as well. His interaction with his female character was hilarious since he acted as if they were real even though they only gave silly response to him.

Overall, good mockery piece.

[How To Move On]

I found the drawing style to be simple and nice.

The commentary for moving on suddenly from moving on, to simply getting back with their ex. I guess it is hard to forget about some people and move on when that happens. Sure, trying to forget hurts, but it's part of moving on as you said.

The audio was nice too, the background music was enjoyable and made me think of someone doing a demonstration of some kind such as what you were doing.

Overall, awesome, silly, and welcome to Newgrounds.

[Adrellia Village #46: SE]

I am pleased to see that William has returned to being the king of Adrellia. I am also happy to see this series is still going strong and the cast helping make everything possible continues to grow!

The animation is very nice. I like the background for the castle and that the characters are looking much better now. As far as animation errors or tips to give, aside from asking you to keep on improving, I can't see much else needing to be done.

The story continues to improve. I'm glad to see that King William is back home to take back his rightful place as king. Also seeing Drake and friends must go out and save another town from another epidemic shall be very interesting. I wonder what the disaster is this time that is much worse than King William discovering McDonald's.

The voice acting has improved so much over time and the voice cast has grown and I'm so happy to see how far things have gone here. From starting out with voices with static in the background to clean voices with little to no background sounds in wonderful.

Overall, incredibly nice episode and so happy to see how far things have come. Have fun making future episodes! :D

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MistyE responds:

Pro review right here.

I'm glad you see all of the improvements here, I worked extra hard to make it the best episode. Thanks.