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[Evil Otter]

Wtf?

That was directed towards both the audio and the animation. So first I'll start off with the animation. You've definitely haven't gotten a lot better since the flashes we made with the... oh.. I don't even want to bring those up. :P Ahem, so yeah. The animation was really basic, but you've have gotten a lot better at it.

Soo... what does the Otter really have to do with anything here? It was kind of out of place and I could see the voice acting being better served on something more cartoony with a human character.

The voice acting itself was ok, but it really wasn't that funny. It seemed sort of forced... well... maybe it just didn't go along with the right style of animation?

Also, the video stops playing when it is over, but the audio still keeps going? I thought I was missing something, but maybe you should have thrown on a replay button at the end to make things more functional.

MonoFlauta responds:

Hahahaha, thanks a lot for the review.
I just heared the audio and wanted to do something quick for fun. And also: "The animation was really basic, but you've have gotten a lot better at it." Don't lie, to me, I know I am a programmer and that will never be possible haha.
About the Otter and the voice acting. It was just a random thing of the momment. I listened to it and made it in less than 2 hours. So yeah, it is crappy haha.
But well, it worked because it was fun to do something different.
Thanks once again again for the review!

[DotWars]

I know it's a short and that you did it for fun, but it's really not something that's very good. I actually think that dot and/or stick animations can be very entertaining to watch. As practice, this is a good start, but as a submission it's not very good.

The animation was choppy and could be smoother. The biggest downer was the lack of detail in the background. It would have been nice to work on that and this submission would have been a lot better. Add some length and you actually have a pretty good piece.

I also noticed that some of the "damage" to the walls in the first scene went away after a few seconds. I believe that was probably an error. You did have some nice detail in the last scene where the lamp was swaying back and forth though.

Music was an alright choice and you did a good job on the sound effects.

[Madness Tribute - Revenge]

Probably not the best. I've kind of watched your submissions out of order so I see that you have improved with your animation skills since this episode.

By far the thing that needed improvement the most from this submission was the frame rate. Things were happening at a faster rate than what they should have and it kind of ruined the whole thing.

While Madness can and is random, they are usually longer than this and have a little bit of structure. I think since this episode happened so quickly it kind of threw everything else out of whack.

I also didn't really enjoy how small the screen was. This should have been animated at a larger size. The sound effects and music size were well picked.

[Madness Test Fight]

This was actually a pretty good test!

The animation was fairly smooth and I was impressed with the quality of this madness animation. The only thing that I would really recommend is using a background that you made or simply a background that fits with the style.

Taking the picture and pasting it as the background wasn't the best of choices. It's fuzzy and really doesn't fit at all. It was rather short, even for a test, and would be nice to have some additional content. Perhaps moving on to a different section of town or some sort of transition?

The audio was very good and I have no complaints there at all.

[Project Winter #3]

Your animating skills definitely improved throughout the series. The biggest fault was the animation is slow and laggy. The scenes where the main character is dodging bullets and flipping took so long that I wasn't sure if they were suppose to represent slow motion or not.

The audio was good, but the songs sounded compressed and a little foggy. The story wasn't anything new or exciting, but could become something somebody would come back to watch with a little fine tuning.

I see you never finished this and that you planned on coming back to the whole series to make it better. That's been quite a few years and your website is no longer a domain so I'm assuming that isn't a part of the plan anymore.

All in all, if you were to revamp this and do it over I bet it would turn out much better and I'd be willing to come watch it.

(I am now done completing icons for your submissions!)

[Project: WINTER 3 preview]

Actually a pretty good preview. I'll be watching the new (well not new as in this flash is really old) episode here in a few minutes after I make the icon for this one. I think your transitions have become smoother since episode 2 and hopefully they grew in quality from here on out.

The trailer was kind of slow paced and didn't really get me to excited to watch the episode. I know trailers are usually random scenes from an episode, but this one seemed to need more structure.

The audio was pretty good, but because the animation was slow paced on the screen it almost was too fast paced for the trailer. Well, on to watching the next one to see how it is.

[The Flying Ace]

This is probably the best thing I've seen you produce. While not interesting to me or probably to most viewers, I'm sure it's full of useful information for someone... someone..

The animation and art work of the main person was done really well, but the rest was pretty mediocre all around. It could have used much more fluid transitions and more detail all around. Most of the backgrounds were empty, which made things seem incomplete.

The audio was ok, but sounded like it came out of a pretty poor microphone. It even sounded like it got compressed a lot and the quality simply went down because of that.

[Bill gates Commarcial]

I don't really get it. I guess it was some sort of joke that went over my head?

Overall, choppy animation, but up to the weird toilet paper scene the artwork was ok. It really made no sense at all and it had poor audio. The looping over and over was kind of terrible and it would have been nice if it had a play button or a credit screen so it at least had an ending.

[Project: WINTER ep2]

For the time period when this was animated it wasn't too bad. Overall there was a lot of animation with little story so there's really no reason someone would want to sit through an entire episode in my opinion. While I did watch the whole thing I didn't find it very entertaining.

Overall the animation was very choppy. Since the story line wasn't the best we could only hope for some good action scenes or good animation to keep us memorized.

The audio was pretty good and the subtitles a nice touch for sure. The music choice was alright all around.

[the robot fight 2]

Well, I haven't made a stop action in many years, but even as a younger kid I think all of mine turned out slightly better. I don't quite like the camera angle or distance at all. I'd get it much closer so you can see more details and and get a flatter angle. It was pretty choppy, so I'd recommend to keep practicing on your skills and a stop actioner.

The best advice that I can give to you is not to just go ahead and make a small fight scene. It's great for practice, but put some detail into it. You don't even need a plot, but this short of a film just won't do to anyone.

Slow down a bit and for god sakes keep yourself out of the shot! I can can't just as many shots of somebody in the picture as I can count them out of it. There's a time when you move the entire desk thing that the robots are on as well.

The biggest and by far easiest thing that you could do to improve on this though is to add sound. It really is the easiest thing you could do and would have improved even this choppy little short ten fold. Background music, voices, and sound effects are essential when making a stop motion.