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[Tendril]

Very cool and trippy.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

This is a good FBF submission. I attempted my own not too long ago, but was so disappointing in it that I didn't even think about submitting it or finishing the submission. Any tips?

I liked the hazy background that you picked and the random animations that seemed to follow a good theme. If that makes sense.. random animations following a theme. :P

Anyway, great style all around for a FBF submission.

~ Story/Content ~

Just a random flash, but very trippy. Was fun to watch and kept me interested. I liked the length of the submission as I feel something like this going on for too long could get boring quite fast. So in my opinion good length.

Nothing really to improve here either. Color choice was also done well.

~ Audio ~

Great song to use in a FBF. Got to give you props for finding it and then more props for what seemed to be effortless syncing of the audio and animation. Most FBF flashes do go well with the audio chosen though as long as it's a good song.

~ Overall ~

Not perfect, but I still can't think of anyway to improve really. Not a bad random flash at all. Keep up the good work.

~ Review Request Club ~

ScelesticFish responds:

First off thanks for reviewing it. That part of the audio was actually made for the flash so I wasn't the one syncing it. It would have had some story or moral, but it was the way it was because I originally never meant to submit it. I was thinking I would be disappointing by my work as well :P It turned out good though. Tip wise all I can really say is that practice and perseverance really pay off, save often or you might start to cry, and try not to think of a plot or story at first, just start animating.
People seem to like the textured background and they notice that it's trippy. I smell a sequel!!!!
Thanks for the positive and helpful review!

[Madness Assasination: KT]

Not bad at all! Better than I can do!

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Even for usage of sprites (I use sprites too) it was done very well. You had very nice backgrounds and a lot of detail in all of the scenes. Animations were very smooth and almost everything looked great.

I didn't want to sound weird, but when I saw Coop's review said basically the same thing then I didn't feel so bad. :P The breasts on the women need to be done much better. They were oddly apart.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

A little short, but I think this could be improved by you simply looking into the research of the Kennedy Assassination and making an animation that goes along with the whole thing. You could even test out all of the assassination theories that there were all in one flash, etc.. Something like that would improve the quality and the length of the submission.

~ Audio ~

I didn't see anything wrong with the audio. I liked it all around. Sounds were synced well and song was well chosen. Good job here.

~ Overall ~

I think the biggest thing to improve was just the length of the submission by adding more plot and different scenes then you had. I know it was just for practice, but I still have to review it like a "real" submission. Great animating though.

~ Review Request Club ~

C-Doodlez-Man responds:

Oh believe me, I know alot more than that about the actual assassination. kinda a facination of mine. I wasn't going as much for accuracy on this one but if I redo it I definetly will. Thanks for the review though and definetly some valid points.

[Mars is Next! (4/3)]

That satan.

At first I was a little saddened when your response told me that this was just deleted scenes and actually not another episode in itself, but you didn't let me down. The scenes were pretty good and like you said if they didn't add so much time to the original series then they would have been great additions.

In fact I rather enjoyed the Satan scene. Again, so predictable, but didn't see it coming at all for some reason. I thought maybe that it was an actually Bahamut from the future and everything.

The white mage did make sense a little since you talked about it in the flash series, but again, wasn't really needed, which is obviously proven since your other two submissions were very well done without them.

Good bonus stuff all around. Happy that you decided to show us them even if you didn't use them.

kinggila responds:

Satan had to try and ruin things again.

[Simple And Easy FBF Tut]

Not bad. Gave me some decent ideas.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The design wasn't too bad, but I think I wouldn't mind seeing a little bit of a different design. Something that seems a bit more professional and organized. For example when you linked to the other episodes that you thought were good the first ones were on the left and the last one was centered because of the buttons. I personally think they would have all looked a bit better with all of them centered just to make things seem a bit more organized. Small things like that basically.

~ Story/Concept ~

Believe it or not I never thought about putting the music in first and then making the animation go around it because with sprites I do the opposite and make the audio go with the animation that I have. So that was a good piece of information to me. (I've tried frame by frame before and just gave up)

I also found how you made the different images at different frames at a distance and how you used the onion skin useful. I usually just eye it out and it takes much longer to do.

I think something interesting that you could of added to the submission would be actual animation. Such as each step that was shown was shown with an animation. At the end of the tutorial you could have included something such as a small example flash of your own right in the movie itself.

I liked that you showed good frame by frame flashes that you liked though. Good examples and all of the buttons seemed to work perfectly fine.

~ Audio ~

Why not some nice ambient music that people can listen to while reading your tutorial. I always find that some people like to listen to music and some people don't like listening to music while they read so an option to mute/unmute would also be extremely useful in this case.

~ Overall ~

Not bad and gave me some good information. Next time I wouldn't mind seeing the design and presentation done a bit better. Keep working and good job!

~ P.S. ~

The ads are working. :P

dooseyboy responds:

thank you so much for the review.
please check back soon, i have added the muusic player and fixed some spelling errors and some other little things.

[Mars is Next! (3/3)]

A review title use to be here.

Another good part of the series. By far one of your best ones in my opinion. Time travel heh? Messed up stuff.

I guess the real question is since Bahamut has succeeded what will he do in the next one? He's already destroyed Mars so why another one in the series. Something I won't figure out until tomorrow probably.

The amnesia was fun though. :( Imagine the life Bahamut could have had if it stuck around.

Anyway, good all around. Decent graphics and animation, good voice acting, and great story line. Can't wait till tomorrow to see the next one.

*Laptop battery dies*

kinggila responds:

That was all that happened besides the deleted scenes. :( When I reboot my series, I gotta try and redo this series.

[Mars is Next! (2/3)]

Nice Story

Wow, probably some of the best plot/storyline that I have ever seen you use in a flash submission. Just good all around and really kept me interested. There was a lot of subtle humor that you might not catch if you weren't paying attention.

I had trouble trying to read other news things while trying to pay attention to the main story line, but I am happy that I did both because it was pretty interesting.

Wade running around in the background was pretty random. :P Nice plot twist at the end with Bahamut being able to go back into the past. Perhaps he will be able to destroy Mars himself. Perhaps he will make the same mistake. D: I'll find out in a few minutes I suppose.

kinggila responds:

We all have trouble with the headlines on news reports, especially when we focus more on the news itself.

[Mars is Next! (1/3)]

A good one.

Ah man.. I can't believe I fell for it. I thought to myself, wow this is so predictable, Bahamut get's punched in the face while explaining his weapon, etc.. Just predictable all around, but wouldn't you know it? I couldn't see the bomb coming in the Nintendo Wii box? After watching so many of your submissions I couldn't see the most predictable part coming at all... I'm ashamed with myself.

This was a good start to what seems like is going to be a good series. How does Bahamut survive the bomb blast? Does his house get blown up? Will he finally get revenge on the person who tried to kill him? Why does this series go on if I watched mars get destroyed?

I must watch the future episodes in this series immediately to find the answers to all of these questions.

As a side note I enjoyed the final fantasy parts. I think it's the first time that I've noticed anything to due with final fantasy in one of your flashes except, of course, Bahamut himself.

kinggila responds:

You'll find out in the next episode.

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D SE2]

Parody flash #923491234219304

Well what can I say about this submission that I haven't said about the other ones that are almost exactly like this?

I can say the face of Graham Hitler was a little messed up. This Hitler seemed to be a little rushed all together actually. Maybe rushed isn't the word though. Maybe the word I'm looking for is douchebag just like in the song.

The song made me laugh. I didn't listen to the whole thing just because I didn't want to take the time to watch a static picture just for listening to a song. The part about goatse was as far as I listened and I got a chuckle out of it.

Man, I would run out of things to say if I ever reviewed all of the Adolf flashes.

kinggila responds:

I Love Teh Goatse, Do You?

[BOXO meets the aliens]

Lmao

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The artwork is pretty good all around. Not that bad at all. It's the animation that looks like it needs a lot of work. A lot of stuff that I would like to call "lazy animation" because it was simply the basics. Such as when the aliens would float there their flames were just a static picture of fire. That should have been animated.

The part where he eats the aliens seemed very rushed.

~ Story/Content ~

Lol what the fuck was going on there? It was so random that it was funny. I tend to see flashes that try to be extremely random and end up trying too hard, but this was just about perfect content wise. I really can't comment more than that about the plot and everything. I enjoyed it.

~ Audio ~

I didn't enjoy the voices. I understand they were alien voices, but they were just plain hard to understand and annoying. I think you should have changed the voices a little and not only that, but add subtitles so people can read along. That way people can't complain about not understanding like I'm doing right now. :P

~ Overall ~

The WTF and the rest of the ending just made this submission good to me. It really made me laugh and that gave you some extra points on my rating. Good job with the randomness.

mmautrey responds:

thanks for the honest review, i know i need to improve, i was gonna do subtitles but like u said (lazy animation) :P

[Casualty in New York City]

[Review 800]

Happy belated birthday.

Hmm, Casualty around the world in... nah let's not do that.

So I'm going to have to find out how he got their by myself, which might not work, because I don't talk to Casualty and I actually don't care that much lol.

A nice short birthday flash. A birthday flash is just like opening up a present.

The tweened NY picture seemed to be a bit glitchy. Does that happen whenever you tween a background like that? I ask because I've had the same problem in one of my submissions that I never submitted because I'm lazy.

The NY song reminded me of the movies with those gremblin things for some reason. No clue why though.. D:

I'm happy Casualty came in and gave me something good to listen to.

kinggila responds:

Casualty in Destroying the World in 80 Days.

Happy 800 reviews! :)