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[R.O.C. Ep002]

Hey, I noticed the fridge in the background.

~ Comments~

Other than that I didn't like it. In fact, the only reason that I didn't give you a zero is because I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you were actually trying to create something entertaining and funny instead of spamming something bad on purpose. You just really hit and miss here.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I would consider them good, but you really did nothing here right? I mean even when people use sprites they do more work, tweening, fbf, placement of the graphics, etc..., but this was basically you putting words into a program and then the program did everything? At least that's how I'm seeing it.

~ Story/Graphics ~

I think this may be somewhat funny to some of the 5th graders that I taught and apparently one of the reviewers down below... I guess it may just be an opinion, but little elementary level humor doesn't usually make people laugh. This was a major step below things like South Park, Family Guy, and other shows like that. Those at least make me laugh, but this was seriously like someone took a decent idea and removed 90 percent of the humor out of it. Perhaps it's because of the lacking emotion that I'll talk about shortly below.

~ Audio ~

With a simple program you could have easily had real voices put over this video along with some sort of dramatic background music. The lack of emotion really doesn't help this already poor submission's case. In fact, it might have been exactly what this piece needed to get a couple of points out of me. I would have had the same effect just reading this as text as I would these voices talking out the little skit.

~ Overall ~

I'm sure I'm with the majority of the people when I say create something yourself, rethink what the majority of people actually find funny at the average age on newgrounds, and find some voices not made by a computer or robot.

~ Review Request Club ~

ninjadezombidetueur responds:

ummm, i agree with your hypothesis of how this non-animated-by-me-animation is a general piece of shit.

[Turkey Day Follies]

It was alright, nothing amazing.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The graphics were pretty good. I liked the style and I don't think there is much to improve here in this submission. It kind of has a style that a younger audience would enjoy.

~ Story/Content ~

The chef and a turkey... it was kind of like Tom and Jerry. I'm going back with the whole younger viewer thing because I think the humor was better fit for a child. Not saying that it wasn't amusing, but it really didn't get anything more than a smile from me. I can see that it was for a class so you probably can't get any more "adult" like humor in there anyway.

~ Audio ~

The sound effects were pretty fitting. I'm pretty sure I've heard several of those before. Were any of them original by you? If so I'm probably just thinking of some similar cartoon like sounds that I've heard before.

~ Overall ~

A cute little flash. I think it's better fitting for a younger audience, but it's still an enjoyable short. Keep up the good work and good luck in your web-media class.

~ Review Request Club ~

[Madness Inflammation]

Yeah, some were pretty good.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

If I had more time I would break this down by author, but I don't so it'll have to be an overall view. Some were really good and yet some looked liked they were made by an amateur. Most were pretty smooth and in fact some were things that I would compare directly to Krinkels work, but on the other side there were some that ran very slow and rough around the edges. For the most part the animation was pretty good.

~ Story/Content ~

That thing is I've grown out of enjoying random killing like this a long time ago. So after awhile this did start to get boring. I did my best to try and stay interested, but there just really needed to be more humor in my opinion.

The only thing that was funny to me was the one where the clown went on a killing rampage and at the end shot himself in the head with the gun. Other than that it was like watching the same generic shooter again and again.

~ Audio ~

The music was good in my opinion and for the most part the sound was good as well. There were a few that were lacking sound effects and that made them seem very out of place. The submitter should have went through and added them.

~ Overall ~

A lot of mindless killing just like Madness should be, but so generic that it lacked a lot of individuality. I wouldn't have minded seeing more humor and perhaps something way different that we wouldn't expect to see from Madness.

~ Review Request Club ~

vogxhamraks responds:

Haha thanx for ur review and for giving ur opinion

[Bahamut's Bday Card]

I can't believe I didn't review...

I forgot all about reviewing this submission. Sorry about that man, I should have been right on that the day it was submitted. I must have been busy or something.

The disco Bahamut's dancing in the beginning were simply awesome. All of the animation was pretty simple, but done very well.

The letter from Dream-of-Duke was great. I wonder who the brilliant person was that came up with that... wait I mean... I can't believe Dream-of-Duke could think about complaining about the update even on Bahamut's birthday!

The secret letter was great as well. I would have never figured out the password by myself. You weren't too hard to trick though as I only told you that I had guessed right and you spilled the secret word only moments after. :P

The music was a great fit all around. You and your Mexican music, I should have known what I was going to hear. ;) I just pick of course. Next time loop the song though. It actually just ended while I finished this review.

Anyway, this is a great birthday flash for a great user.. I mean dragon... Keep up the good work and I hope to work on a project with you someday.

ThePigeonMaster responds:

Thanks for the detailed review. I love them ^^
And yeah, Dream-of-Duke is such an awesome guy ;D
Bahamut deserved something like this because he's awesome. Not because we're afraid of him :P

[OBAMA - Land Of Free]

This was actually good.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The characters were very rough, but what I enjoyed about this submission was the nice backgrounds and the notice that you might not be the best artist in the world, but you do put some effort into your work. I think the only thing really missing is the animation of the mouths when your characters talk.

~ Story/Content ~

I was surprised that I enjoyed this. It's like entertaining spam, but that would make it not spam at all now would it? As spam isn't generally something that you would like. It has a style of it's own and I don't know what to call it. It wasn't the funniest thing that I had ever seen, but I ended this submission saying to myself that I actually enjoyed what I watched.

I was thinking that the submission was going to end when he got to his destination, but I was happy that it didn't because that would have made the submission run a bit longer than what would be fun to watch. I do think that you could have ended it a bit better though as it was very abrupt and out of place the way that you did end it.

~ Audio ~

Good sound effects and good music all around. The voices were funny at times, but they are more annoying then anything. I'm completely willing to do voices for you, but I don't really have a Mexican accent in my arsenal and I'm assuming that you're using the fake robot type voice things for a reason.

~ Overall ~

It's like a really good spam type submission. It's entertaining, but not really too funny or exciting. I kind of like the style though and thought that it was an interesting piece all around.

~ Review Request Club ~

MegaPwnage09 responds:

Thanks alot for your review, i wasn't expecting anything that in depth hehe

[flame dead]

Good graphics here.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

You really had some nice graphics here compared to some of your past work. I really like the graphics and animation all around. What would have really helped this piece out though is adding a background. A well detailed background would have very well brought my score up from a 3 to a 5 very easily.

~ Story/Content ~

The idea wasn't really funny or ground breaking, but I thought it was really neat. The fire killing himself with his own tears was a very original idea. I'm assuming the rock is going to kill him, but nope, great job on the originality there. Sadly though it's very short and with it only being a few seconds I can't really see where this has any replay value. :( Maybe having several options where he dies in a different way every time would have made this more interesting.

~ Audio ~

I think you picked the perfect song for this little animation and the sound effect that you used was pretty well synced up. There isn't any more to comment on except maybe adding a crying sound somewhere could have added a little bit of value to the submission.

~ Overall ~

A nice little short, but to be anything worth coming back to or being really entertained by it needs to be a bit longer with a nice background of some sort.

(My original score was a three, but I decided to give an extra point because I can see where these types of tests really don't get much time put into them and aren't meant to be amazing)

~ Review Request Club ~

up-a-notch responds:

i made it because i was testing out my tablet