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[Resident Shittits 5]

And I have played the game :P

Ha, first time I ever played this I tried to stand right in the middle of everything with my knife. I died, but the second time I played it I don't think I died until about 2 or 3 hours into the game. Then I played to the point where it was so easy that I couldn't die even when I was fooling around on the hardest difficulty.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Rushed, I could obviously tell that's what you were going for, but I don't know if that makes it better or not even if you were trying to do it on purpose. I think there is a way to make it looked rushed without really sacrificing too much quality, but I don't know if you have done that here. But just because you were trying to do it doesn't make it better unless it really does look good that way. I think you were almost there, but not quite.

~ Story/Content ~

A quick outtake/parody of the RE game, which was fun for awhile, but just like all the rest of them they got boring. I've seen many flashes on this site for the intro of the game though so perhaps it may be a bit more original to do another section of the game? Oh wait.. Ha, I guess you didn't get that far. >.<

Is there a reason that who seems to be Sheva or Shiva, whatever the hell her name is, looks white in this? Didn't feel like making her black?

Good humor all around though and some stuff made me laugh.

~ Audio ~

Good voice acting, good sound effects, etc.. I had no complaints about the audio at all. Was done well.

~ Overall ~

Perhaps not the best, most original piece, but a nice bit of humor and a decent submission all around. Worth a watch if you've played the game. Keep on working!

~ Review Request Club ~

RhysMus responds:

Yeah it was a more spur of the moment thing, i was playing, got angry and then wanted to make an animation :P

Yeah i kinda did a boo boo on the sheva being white.

Thanks for your review anyhoos!

[Fizz (Episode 1)]

Not bad at all.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Your submission was good all around, but it had great animation. Good uses of zooming in and out, great detailed backgrounds, smooth animations, great artwork, etc.. What I would expect from something from you.

~ Story/Content ~

I liked the story all around. The healthy food joke that you put in there made me laugh a little bit. The puppy cannon also made me laugh a little bit. So good humor and a decent plot all around. Even an informative piece about why the evil doctor guy failed at the end.

~ Audio ~

To me I personally found the doctors voice acting kind of.. mediocre? I think that's the right word, but I found Fizz's voice acting to be great. Voice acting overall was very good and the sound effects/music that you used was done very well.

~ Overall ~

A good story that gets away from your usual work. I hope to see more from this series! Keep up the hard work.

~ Review Request Club ~

Jimtopia responds:

Well personally I thought both of the voice actors did a great job bringing the characters to life, but you are entitled to your opinion, and thanks for the review!

[News Reporter]

Good job.

A good introduction to News Reporter. I've seen him around on some of your flashes and seen him posting in the Wi/Ht forum every now and then. ;) At least I finally know what he's really like.

Something that might have been cool with the clock could have been to make it the same time as what's on my computer. Unless that's what it was suppose to do, but it didn't. :P

I could hear the news reporter fine, but I missed quite a bit of what you said at first because your voice was a tad bit quieter than what I think it should have been.

I liked that you had people in the background, but I think it would have helped a little if you had some more people from your submissions waving or trying to get on camera, etc..

When he fell asleep I think something should have woke him up. He just seems to wake up randomly for no reason unless I missed something.

Anyway, a good way to officially introduce news reporter. I'll be on to the next episode as soon as I have the time. *runs off to class*

Murray responds:

Nope, the time on the flash wasn't meant to reflect your local time, it was the time it was in the flash.

[How to use the search bar]

Ha, saw this before, but didn't review it.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

All of your test was very fast paced before and after the tutorial. I believe that you should have slowed that down a bit. Was very hard to read if you weren't ready for it.

The text in the submission seemed a little slow in some spots and good in other spots. Just seemed to take a long time to get to the next step every now and then.

Other than that the graphics looked good. I enjoyed that even though it was a tutorial you included animation or at least movement, which you don't see a lot of.

~ Story/Content ~

Good joke. I can't believe I didn't see it coming as soon as I saw what you typed in there. Though I might not agree with your "un-original threads" comment as every thread is unoriginal as it's all been done sometime somewhere. All of it has been done before so nothing is original anymore.

Perhaps next time you could have a next button or maybe a working newgrounds right in your flash where they can do all of the steps that you are talking about.

~ Audio ~

Decent audio. Good music all around for the tutorial. Wasn't a need for sound effects or anything else. Maybe voices next time?

~ Overall ~

Good joke, decent design. Keep up the good work.

~ Review Request Club ~

[my second work]

Keep working!

~ Animation/Graphics ~

It's really not bad for your second work. The animation and graphics weren't bad. A little bit of room for improvement, but I think you have a good start here.

What I think is obvious is the need for backgrounds in your submission. Detailed backgrounds would add so many good visuals to your submission. Looks like you might have the talent to do it so I highly recommend it. Nobody really likes to see a simple white background in submission like this.

~ Story/Content ~

I liked that you used the slow down on the bullet, but I think that you might have used it too many times. I think that you don't want to repeat animations too many times and using the slow down for the bullet both times was a little too much.

You had a little bit of humor, but nothing spectacular. Really seems like the generic stickman submission. Next time work in some plot or storyline. If you just want to go with random killing then I suggest you make it about a minute or two longer.

~ Audio ~

Sound effects were alright, but again hearing the same splat noise again and again just didn't sound good. You'd expect a different noise every now and then.

I think some nice ambient background music would have gone good with this. Something that sounds like battle music or just pump up music.

~ Overall ~

Other than what I have suggested I would also suggest adding a preloader/play button, replay button, etc.. The basics. I also would like to say keep working because you will improve. Good luck in future projects and keep working hard!

[Total Attraction]

Good work

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Beautiful animation in my opinion. Everything seemed pretty smooth and the graphics were awesome. I think the only thing that I can comment on is when he "turned" to continue looking at the girl. It looked unnatural when he was just looking one way then the other way. I think he should have slowly followed her with his head and have his body move along with it.

~ Story/Content ~

Not much you can do in one minute is there? Well personally I think you did a great job with the time limit. I don't know what the rules were other than the time limit, but it turned out pretty well. A decent submission all around, but I didn't completely understand the ending to it. Perhaps that would be because the next section.

~ Audio ~

I didn't like the voices. I thought the quality was poor and the voice acting really didn't seem to fit the animation at hand. Perhaps I didn't understand the ending because I couldn't understand what he was saying. Really the only flaw though and the only thing I'm taking anything away for in your rating.

~ Overall ~

Didn't take anything away for the length and plot because of how this was for the one minute competition. Took a few points away for the audio, but other than that a good submission for this competition. I wish you the best of luck. Keep up the good work.

[TLB - Collision]

Needs work, but not bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Pretty good animation and drawing style that you have here. I think I would recommend doing some background work here. Perhaps just outside with the green grass, tree in the background, perhaps something slowly moving in the background like someone walking, while they are blurred out a little to represent being far away and hard to see.

~ Story/Content ~

Woo.. a very short animation. Ha, well I recommend making it longer, but since you probably want to leave it short I'll try to say how to improve without making it much longer. I think it would be better if you had more of a delay in the beginning. Nice peaceful background with birds flying by. Nice day outside and everything, and then all of a sudden the two run into each other. That way it's just not so sudden and there is a nice little build up effect.

~ Audio ~

The voices were ok, but the quality did sound a little poor. Not too bad though. I think it would have been cool if you used the delay in the beginning like I recommended and had the voices sound like they were coming from far away and then get slightly louder as they got closer. Also, since I think this really needed background stuff that it wouldn't have been bad to have things like birds chirping, wind blowing, etc..

~ Overall ~

The things that I recommended are completely up to you, but it's what I envision when thinking about how to make this better. Keep up the good work and good luck on future projects.

[Apple a Day]

Keep on working!

~ Animation/Graphics ~

It's really not that bad, but major room for improvement. Looks like you have some natural talent so I have no doubt that you can improve.

First off I think you should work on the walking animation a bit more. Study some tutorials and practice animating walking.

I'd then work on your drawing abilities a little bit. Like I said not bad, but some room for improvement. The tree didn't look too great and the apples with it. The man could have used a face and the whole thing could have been just a bit more detailed. Again, with practice I'm sure you'll become better.

~ Story/Content ~

Not much here really. It wasn't too funny or unexpected. Perhaps instead of being able to see the hole on the screen you could make it so he falls when he walks off the end of the screen or maybe even a hole breaking open as he walks.

Then instead of not animating the fall you could make it so we see him fall. A huge fall, hitting things like branches and sharp rocks on the way down. When he finally hits the ground he's still barely alive. He notices the apple right next to him and goes to grab it. As soon as he does a rock falls on him crushing everything but his arm.

Just throwing out some ideas. :P

~ Audio ~

Not bad audio at all. I really don't think there was anything to improve audio wise.

~ Overall ~

Keep working because you have potential. I hope my review gave you some good ideas and good luck in future projects.

[Zombies X(]

Not bad. Looks pretty good.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Was this made in flash or pivot? Either way it looked really good. Good graphics and what seemed to be very smooth animation. The backgrounds looked good in the running scene. The fade out effect that you used looked pretty cool. During the running scene when the zombies were going by some would start from on the screen towards the middle, which made it seem very glitchy. I recommend fixing that to make it look better.

~ Story/Content ~

Correct my if I'm wrong, but this looked like some sort of trailer or introduction to a flash series?

If so then I think you didn't do a very good job setting things up to make people interested. You killed a couple of zombies and showed some things, but personally didn't show any story or plot. I think in a trailer that you should give some background information. Think of a movie trailer, "One day it all went wrong, etc.." Obviously not so generic, just giving an example. Give some background knowledge, but not too much so people come back.

If it wasn't a trailer and just some sort of test or something that you made for fun then it still needs to be improved slightly. I think perhaps some backgrounds in all of the scenes would have been better. Not letting the zombies lose every battle would have also been better. Zombies are a bit tougher than that anyway. Some small things like that.

~ Audio ~

I liked the song and it went very well with the submission. Sound effects were also done well. The only thing is I think voices would have added so much quality to this submission. Of course that would also add to the content of the submission, and create more work animation wise.

~ Overall ~

Not bad for what you had, but I think it can get much better. Sorry for the low score on the review, but the submission seemed so generic that I really couldn't bring myself to giving you a higher score. I hope some of my ideas helped though.

Joe0208 responds:

well thanks so much for the long review, im making another so if you like you can
see what you think on that one too

-cheers

[Mudkip Crazy]

Yuck

~ Animation/Graphics ~

They weren't terrible, but there was so much room for improvement. I suggest perhaps thinking about adding some colors into backgrounds and your characters, making much more detailed graphics of your characters, making much more detailed backgrounds with objects, adding more complicated animations since yours consisted of mostly very simple things, etc..

It may be more work, but it will make your movies so much better.

~ Story/Content ~

Ah, never liked the joke, but didn't let my opinion get in the way of the score. Could have been much better presented if it had better animation. Poor graphics and animation really brought the content of the submission down. Very over done, but again like I said I didn't let any of that effect the score I gave you.

~ Audio ~

This is what the yuck was for in my title. Wow, the quality of the voices really need to be improved. Very hard to understand and also took a lot away from the content of the submission. Perhaps back away from the mic a little bit. Almost sounded like you were spitting in it.

~ Overall ~

The content of the flash is suffering from poor graphics and very poor audio. I'd work on the audio before anything else though. Keep working and don't give up.