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[The Dot Of Excellence 3]

OMG SO GOOD lul

Oh man please if your going to make us review things like this like I said in my last review at least make them funny in some way or do something with them. Well we are actually making some sort of new rule where we don't have to review submissions like this anymore so I guess this could be the last time that I complain about it. :D Oh well, on to the constructive part.. it needs animation, story, etc.. You did have audio, but a piece of audio and a picture doesn't make a flash sorry. :(

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[Wegra Adventure 6]

Oh boy.

I hate reviewing these and like to review these because it takes me out of my original review format of Animation/ Graphics, story, and audio because it really lacks in all aspects and I could probably write the same review for all of your submissions. At the same time I don't mind reviewing your stuff too much because it takes about just the same amount of effort to review it then it did to make it. About none. I don't know if I can say much about this then I haven't in your past ones, but it is true that your last one was not only better done, had more effort put into it, but also was just more funny in general. If you are going to make submissions like this then you at least have to make them funny. At least in the last one it was random to a point where I could still follow just a bit, but this one was so hard to follow and just hard to watch because it wasn't any good at all. The audio was a nice addition because if I remember right you didn't really have much if any audio in your past episodes. Overall, if you are going to make us review these please make them humorous and at least follow some sort of story so I can actually sit down and watch them without asking myself, "Why am I even paying attention to this."

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[Moon Cat [Intro]]

Decent intro.

Didn't I review this before? Maybe not, but I thought I reviewed something like this before. Oh well.

Animation/Graphics - While the drawings were done pretty decent.. I still think that everything was too simple in the terms of animation. There really wasn't much to see other then a very small amount of animation or perhaps some moving pictures, etc.. I think that just having more animation in itself would make it much better.

Story - I understand that it's an intro, so obviously it's suppose to be short, but the abrupt ending still made it kind of "ugly". I don't think that the flashing lights really fit the way that I thought they were going to, but I will cover that more in the audio section. I will cover this here though and that is that I don't really think the overall animation really fits with the song.

Audio - I already said that I didn't think the overall animation fit with the song very well yet and the flashing lights really could of turned out better. The flashing lights needed to by synced up with the background music just a bit better to look good. Other then that I can't say anything else about the audio.

Overall - A decent intro, but I still think it needs some work to be a really good intro.

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[{PS} Crazy Laws: Maryland]

Interesting.

Sorry for the short review, but I tend to give flashes like this a little bit more of a short review instead of the longer reviews I tend to give. You had a lot of very interesting information in this flash and a lot of things that I wouldn't really believe. They really are crazy laws. The layout was decent, but it could of been just a bit better. I'm going to have to go through the series, but have you gotten PA yet? That's where I live and I want to see what some of the crazy laws are for my state.

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DPlato responds:

thank you.

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 8]

Pretty good.

Animation/Graphics - Very simple drawings and animation. Nothing too new or exciting here. Colors and everything was fine. I think the animation was very clean and smooth and so were the drawings, but at the same time like I said kind of plain and boring.

Story - Sadly I don't understand a lot of it because I don't understand flash whatsoever and I have never heard of Koolmoves or Koolmovies or whatever it was. Is this program simple to use? I think flash is hard as hell so if if this is any easier to use then I wouldn't mind giving it a try. You had a nice amount of humor in it though for how short the submission was.

Audio - Good background music and sound effects in this flash. You also had some good voice actors here. I can't think of anything else to say about the audio section of this flash.

Overall - A decent flash with a decent amount of humor. A bit short, but not too short to make it bad.

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Jimtopia responds:

Thanks for the review I'll try to make my graphics a bit more interesting for the next one.

[[SG] TFAS Preview]

*Starts slow clap.*

Animation/Graphics - Very very good man. I was impressed by all of the drawings and the animation that you had throughout the entire submission. It was very smooth, the colors were good, the pictures were good, the background was good, etc.. Nothing really to criticize here.

Story - Isn't the Shades Gang a spam group? I guess I was mistaken because this isn't anywhere close to being spam and now that I look at some of your other stuff it's all pretty good. And it's only a preview so I can't wait to see the entirety of this. Some simple humor was put in and a lot of action for a preview. Really good man.

Audio - Not everyones favorite song, but I don't mind it. Also, it went very well with the theme of the movie. Good job all around here with your choice of audio.

Overall - A very good preview and I can't wait to see the final version of it.

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AxeShades responds:

Well the Shades Gang is a crew. We TRY not to spam... though of course some of us who are less talented at flash appaer to be posting spam. I like the gang just because now we've been around for a year and we're still doin our thing. Not nearly as popular as the other groups, but we have a pretty good group where everybody has known everybody from the beginning.

This video illustrates some of the journey we have been through; which will be more elaborated on in the final version hopefully :)

Thanks for the review, Corky.

[In my mind]

Very good.

Animation/Graphics - The animation and graphics weren't always so good in the entire animation, but I think that was the style that you were going for when you made this flash. The overall quality of the animation and graphics were pretty good though. I like how your animation ran smoothly and was timed with the audio in the background, which is something that I will probably express again in the audio section of my review.

Story - A nice random dream like flash here that really shows how random and wild dreams can be sometimes. The menu was pretty cool and original. Maybe it should of been centered a bit more, but overall the story and content of the flash was pretty good. It could of been just a bit longer in my opinion.

Audio - A good choice of audio just because it went so well with the animation at hand. Right from the beginning to the end the animation matched up very well with the audio. That must have taken a lot of work and timing to do.

Overall - A nice short flash, which was done pretty well overall. I think this was deserving of an award. Maybe it would have won on a different day and the day that you submitted it there were several other flashes that were very good at the same time.

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Lochie responds:

Animation/Graphics - The style I was going for was to try and interperate my different styles in one, from graphical to childish.
Thank you for your comments on my fluint animation. :D

Story - My dreams are too random and weird, I might make more of animations like these. If I centered the menu it would have looked a bit out of place because of the straight down linage type of thingy, but I guess I could have moved it closer to the middle just a tad.
The music was too short to keep animating, I was suprised the song finished then because I planned to have of made the guy wake up from his dream sweating and such, but there wasn't enough room.

Audio - I am very persise with timing and such, so it doesn't take me long to sync music with animation, I might submit one of my short music synced animation (It's just black and white squares pretty much) one day. Maybe..

Overall - When I submitted it, the other good animations were submitted STRAIGHT after mine. I was so annoyed. But it doesn't matter. :P

Thanks for the great review my friend. :D

[MD08: Cliffs of Dover]

Decent flash submission.

Animation/Graphics - Good animation and graphics here. You can't usually complain about drawings or anything else like that on Madness flashes since they are pretty much all the same. The animation was good and smooth. I really couldn't find anything wrong with it at all. Maybe have him moving around stage more could of made it a bit better, but with that it may have been a bit more challenging due to the fact that it would be more animation, plus the spotlight would have to follow him around.

Story - A nice nonviolent flash, which is common on Madness Day very often. I'm happy that you had the little intersection after awhile in the song because that's a pretty lengthy song and we would of probably got bored, but I just don't know if that's what I would of done for the break up. I don't know exactly would of worked good there, but I just think that maybe trying something else there would make it a bit better. A couple of things that could of made it a bit better could be to add the drummer and some of the other band along with the guitarist. Again, that would make the flash more difficult to make since it would add more animation, but it's something to think about.

Audio - Great audio. I'm a sucker for anything that was played on a guitar and anything that's fast or heavy. That may be because a couple of my friends are good at guitar and one of my roommates played GH3 all year last year. (He has dropped out >.<) The only thing I think you could of added was maybe the sound of a crowd cheering him or something like that.

Overall - A nice flash and a good change of pace of regular Madness submissions, but could of been a bit better with a couple of things.

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UnrealCanine responds:

Thank you for a detailed and analyical review

[Ichi Vs Byaku]

Hm, well I guess it's pretty good.

Sorry, I guess I can't give you a good review because I don't really know what Bleach is or anything like that, but here it goes.

Animation/Graphics - The drawings were well done, but very simple at the same time. I mean don't get me wrong they were good, but stickmen aren't the hardest things to draw. I liked the style you used though and it did seem to work well with the rest of the movie.

Story - Like I said, I really don't have any clue what Bleach is or anything, but the flash itself had a nice story. You mixed in good animation with good humor, which resulted in a pretty decent flash itself. The flash was also at a good length. Not too short and also not too long.

Audio - A nice selection of audio and everything else about the audio was perfectly fine. Not much more to say about it then that.

Overall - Maybe I didn't understand the flash completely, but it was still very well animated.

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[fbf something]

Well it needs to be finished.

Animation/Graphics - The background was a little iffy in my opinion. Maybe you should of used something that wasn't so distracting as your background. The color of the lines were ok I guess. Anyway, this is about all I can review in terms of animation and graphics so far with what you have.

Story - Not much there yet. I think you were going to make a flash that consisted of a bunch of lines making random movements and random pictures right? That's an ok flash, but you only had a couple of seconds of it. If this was a preview then keep doing what you are doing and we will see what happens.

Audio - A nice selection of audio here, but I think you could of compressed your audio to make the file size smaller. I mean the animation didn't take up any file size as there is barely anything there at all so it must of been the audio doing it. Compress the audio next time unless it really makes the quality bad.

Overall - This needs to be finished before it can be given a really good review from me, but I did what I could with what you gave me.

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