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[B-Lated ClockDay Post-It]

Mixed bag of things

Well this felt like a really mixed bag kind of animation as it was mostly stop motion animating except for one part where changes to being a computer work for one frame of that segment. Only bad thing here is the preloader since it loops for some reason even though it shouldn't.

The animating was nice seeing as everything here was drawn on paper and then scanned or photographed and imported into flash so they could be used in animating.

The various sound effects and songs were all rather great and pretty enjoyable to listen to. Like how for combustion or just beating something up there was a little sound being played to make it seem more lively to the viewer.

Overall, entertaining bunch of three to five second clips.

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ToonCastleTV responds:

Thanks I'm glad you could enjoy what the best I could do here, instead of unappreciative comments.

[Adrellia Village #34]

Much better

I have to say this was much better than most others in the set as it had more effort in it and the graphics were much better too. The tone of this felt fast paced and you kept wanting to see more to know what would happen.

The graphics were excellent although the transition near the start seemed to be a bit off on timing it seems. Then the rest of the way was great and the thought bubbles were great since they mocked the mastermind the whole time before throwing the necklace at him.

The audio was alright. I recognized the songs partly and then the summoning sound sounds like it either came from Kingdom Hearts or a Final Fantasy game. The voices seemed to be a bit bad though since it felt rushed.

Overall, really nice work there.

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MistyE responds:

Thank you! A fast-paced tone was my aim here. Mocking the mastermind was an idea I had since listening to his long speech would be rather boring. And yes, the summoning sound is from Kingdom Hearts.

Appreciate your review! Can you do episode 38?

[Adrellia Village #12]

Rather short

Well... I guess it is nice to see the king has been rescued and is now free to be back at his castle in this episode. The graphics very much the same for this one.

I think it bears repeating but combine episodes so that they will be longer and be able to string together easier and be a little less work for you to deal with. The graphics here were a bit funny and nice seeing the planet.

The voice acting remained much the same. Didn't understand the spell bit but I suppose that is alright.

Overall, short but still funny.

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MistyE responds:

Thank you for your review! I really appreciate it. You can expect episodes 38+ to be four minutes or longer.

[The Movie Movie]

Flint and Evil

Well this one made me laugh a good amount actually. Fairly humorous since you keep adding ideas to the film that slightly annoy Nick as well. I guess you were wanting to be a cowboy and that was a reference to the Dallas Cowboys football team as you went on to play Foozball right?

Then Nick kept having to roll with your ideas as you gave them too. The gun and katana were pretty sweet. Where did you manage to get them anyways? A weapon shop? Also laughed when you got killed by him "stabbing" you in the head with a zucchini as that was unexpected along with the barrier and all.

Liked how you two were playing Resident Evil 4 on the TV, used to absolutely love playing that game as it was lots of fun. Too bad it never allowed two player capability although it could have been possibly if player two could have Ashley using weapons.

The chair Nick sat in looked nice too, plan to get one of those in the far future too. However the idea trading off was pretty funny and the sound effect added for the "barrier" was alright.

I think one thing that could have been fixed is the vocal syncing at the start. Could have been far easier if you two had recorded yourselves saying it at the same time and at the same speed, would have been less messy sounding. The ending was pretty funny since Nick looked depressed as you were filthy rich from your Billy the belt buckle movie. He then plans to get you. I guess a part two to this would be great.

Overall, would work on the vocals at the start, that and maybe could have spent a bit of time editing in more sounds to make it even more interesting. Did get a good laugh how at the start it sounded like they were going to do a parody of the game they were playing, Resident Evil 4.

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Fro responds:

Me no like Dallas :(

We got the weapons from a real Ninja and Cowboy down the street!

Resident Evil 5 actually, this is how we had multiplayer. We were playing on the hardest difficulty on a boss fight and we actually died during the video. The chair is awesome btw, I've slept on it.

The beginning vocals were a joke. DOES NOBODY HEAR THE PART WHERE I SAY, "YOU'RE READING TO FAST FOR ME TO KEEP UP!?!?"

I think a sequel to this would turn out hilarious.

[BTS 2 Trailer]

Not the best preview

Probably not the best preview or piece I've seen you do on here. I think instead of using the music you have for the text parts you could have tried using a darker tone and theme too. I think something else that could have been changed was the part where it said "June 2009", kind of just lets people know this was an old project you never got finished with until recently.

As for editing I think the transitions could have been smoother or even better instead of a black background you could have had the text over the area except change the part from normal to inverted to give it a somewhat scary feel to the piece.

I did find it at the end to be funny at least "And of course....." "shit", "shit".... That was kind of funny anyways. I think the size is small so you could have done much more with this preview in term of how you presented and tried something better then text to video to text at least.

Overall, I would simply suggest working on editing skills for previews, aside from that, not too bad.

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Fro responds:

Yeah, the movie was actually submitted in 2009 and you reviewed it then too. You don't remember it huh?

The shit joke is a lot funnier if you've watched all of our movies. We either yell shit or son of a bitch multiple times throughout an episode.

[First Encounter]

Patience

Well this looks like it took a good long time to complete on the DS so was it frame by frame or actually recorded frame by frame as you drew them? Nice to see this though as we were doing these kind of submissions long before youtube came along, you remember the parody game and movie pieces Knox used to do? Good times.

The art of this was simply great and probably more than I could do on my DS anyways, mostly because I doubt I would be patient enough to draw a full animation for two hours on the DS. I liked how near the end when he ate the box with his tongue that you used a Yoshi tongue sound effect to help show what was going on there.

The music used was fitting, I'm guessing it was a remixed piece from Super Smash Bros. right?

The story was interesting as he cut his own tongue which sent him flying then falling back down to earth and he ate a box for some reason. Then glasses looked real detailed and then it started to static and ended. I guess this was for effect as well right? Very nice if it was.

Overall, very entertaining animation all done on the DS, very well done.

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PowerRangerYELLOW responds:

You were correct in guessing the music was from a nintendo video game however the track was from earth defense force not super smash brothers.

I haven't been making pictomations before youtube however i have been making flash since as early as 2003.

Knox actually released a movie that has a cast entirely of sock puppets and even though i'm not a fan of his work.

I like the idea of a sock puppet movie.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[==Firefight==]

Not too bad, short

Well I was expecting a bit more from this but kind of sad that it is really short as it is. If you have a tablet I would just practice drawing so that it looks a bit better too. If not then I guess practice with what you have, although if it is on a laptop I guess drawing with the touchpad is rather difficult right? Not too bad though, I just hoped it would be a bit longer.

The audio of choice was nice and I noticed when I hit replay that there is really no sounds clashing since once the flash was nearly done the song had nearly finished and then it loops again which is nice and clean. The gun shot sounds were nice too. Not too sure why the boxes had words on them or anything either.

The animation was mediocre at best. I would just try to spend a bit more time drawing is all. The only real animation error I even took notice too was the car in the upper left. I think the gray cement and black pavement could have at least blended a bit more smoothly anyways. The light was nice and I like how it stays transparent too. The nice sky is also nice.

Overall, not too bad at all. I would just suggest drawing a bit, you seem to do just fine on everything else though. Not too bad for a little project to help you get you off your hiatus.

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Phantox responds:

It was just a short animation so I can resharpen my animation skills. I'm also using a mouse+keyboard. I like this drawing style, though. My friends always tell me it looks like south park.

The song actually does clash if the replay button is pressed too quickly. Thanks for reminding me because I forgot to put the stop sounds actionscript on the replay button. Anyways, I always try to have the best quality audio for my submissions.

I don't understand what you mean with the cement blending in though. Do you mean make it darker under the car?

Thanks for your review. I'll see about making the characters have more details