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[Spread His Wings]

Oh god that terrible noise! :(

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Decent all around. The artwork wasn't anything amazing, but it's good and I always kind of liked your style. Simple, but yet effective all around.

~ Story/Content ~

The joke was kind of funny. Not like LOL funny, but more like a heh funny. Good for a short laugh, but nothing too great. Thank you so much for putting the little sign in the middle of the flash which then took us to the turtle being on top of the tree. I was really hoping that you weren't going to make us sit through the whole thing. :P

~ Audio ~

I finally get to hear sonofkirk's voice. :3 Let's see here.

Omg... what the... OMG.. I'm going to be sick. *Throws up*

What kind of foul beast did you allow to do the voice acting? I hope that wasn't sonofkirk because now I won't be able to talk to him without throwing up all over the place. :(

Ha, I actually had heard his voice before. :P I actually trained him so perhaps I should be added as a sponsor to this flash. ;)

On a more serious note now the voice acting was alright. Speak up though sonofkirk. Make your voice clear. Other than that not too bad. The sound of the turtle falling was odd though. I didn't like it so much and I think that could have been done better.

The music that you picked went well with the animation. I wouldn't mind seeing it turned down a little bit and having some sound of the waves or some wind blowing like you would expect to hear next to water like that.

~ Overall ~

A decent short flash. Nothing too great (especially that voice), but not bad at all. Keep up the good work.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks for the review. I would definitely add you as sponsor, but there's a little problem: I don't want to :P

[:The Mole:]

Not bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The animation and graphics were decent all around. Couldn't see too many problems with them if any. Not the best, but obviously not bad in any manner.

~ Story/Content ~

The story itself was kind of humorous and the submission was a little entertaining. Like you said yourself, nothing amazing or really funny, but not bad. A good idea for a flash all around. It may have gotten a little boring, but I have an explanation of why I think that in the next section of my review.

~ Audio ~

Voice actor please. :P This got kind of boring to read all the time. It wasn't a lot of reading, but it would have sounded so much better with a voice actor in it. I think that would really help make this enjoyable.

The music was very well synced with the animation. Good job on doing that so well.

~ Overall ~

Good all around and a voice actor in it could have made this a lot better. Keep up the good work.

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blackcat2000 responds:

Yeah, these were the main problems I was hoping wouldn't be *too* crucial in submitting it like this (although obviously they were important) but for me, since I didn't quite want to deal with getting a voice actor and the such Yet, I had to decide whether to put in bad voice acting by me, or none at all =P
A counter balance to that was I also hoped there wouldn't be too much to read... Although on the other side, there's an animation going on I wanna watch, but here I am stuck, reading the subtitles. Either way, if i ever do a piece similar to this in nature, I'll definitely consider getting a proper voice actor =D
Thanks for the review!

[Zimmi EP 1]

Simple and sweet.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

You had a nice simple style here. Nothing too amazing, but not bad at all. Just kind of somewhere in the middle. Very simple animations that didn't look like they took too much work, but it gave the submission a nice relaxing feeling. Interesting use of lines and colors makes this very cartoon like.

~ Story/Content ~

A random story, but I think it really makes fun of how generic story lines are nowadays. At least if you weren't trying to poke fun on generic story lines at least that's what I got from it.

"Nice sunny day, Conflict happens, Conflict resolved, conflict happens, big gap in story line, conflict thought to be resolved, conflict really is resolved, and they live happily ever after." Yeah, pretty generic, but almost in a funny way.

~ Audio ~

The voice started off strong, but then started to die out later on. That's the reason for my 9 instead of the 10. I don't know if the voice actor started to talk quieter or if the music got louder, but he started to get drowned out later in the submission. Other than that decent music and voice acting.

~ Overall ~

Except for the voice starting to die off towards the end of the submission I don't see anything wrong here. Good work, nice style, interesting approach to a generic story line, etc.. Keep up the good work.

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Rutger responds:

Thanks dude! Yeah, the sound is getting a bit mixed up at the end, if I'd lower the volume of the music at the end you would've had to turn up the volume a bit too much though. I wish there was a way to increase volume inside flash itself ):

[10 Reasons]

4 Reasons!?

Unfinished much? Or done on purpose? Not noticeable if it is done on purpose though.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I like the style that you used. I understand that it was suppose to be fast, but the graphics still looked a bit too rushed. Looks like they could have been cleaned up a bit more and the random/fast animation would have worked much better in my opinion.

~ Story/Content ~

Lol why 10 reasons if this is only 4 reasons? Seems a bit odd to me. AHHH, is it because he dies in reason 4? Am I the first to finally get it?!?! Lol. (I know I'm not, just sarcasm everywhere in this review)

It still would have been a bit better though if you killed him off at reason 8, 9, or even 10 itself. Would have made more sense and would have made the submission even funnier because it would have longer giving it more room for humor.

The only thing that I don't get is that you show bad things in all of the reasons (I get that part don't worry), but in part 4 you show a GOOD movie! Lol, what's up with that? Unless you honestly didn't enjoy the movie. I personally thought it was good.

*Maybe that's just me and my big crush on Jessica Alba <3*

~ Audio ~

Lol girl voice, but I'll trust you that it's gotten deeper. A couple of times you let the static get through and it didn't sound too great. The voices weren't terrible though and the deep voice to count in between the high pitch girly screamy voice added a nice transition that I wasn't ready for at first.

~ Overall ~

Good idea all around. Art/Graphics could have been a bit better, a couple more scenes before he was killed off, and trying to get voices without the static would be a bit better.

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[Fathers Day Tribute]

What did he throw?

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I think the drawing style/art style that you had for the person was perfectly fine. Really showed off how you feel about your father perhaps as he's pretty big in this submission meaning you might think he's the strongest dad out there. :P

The drawing of.. whatever he threw.. wasn't done very well. It was pretty sloppy in my opinion. I liked the dust that you made for the object that he threw, but what I didn't like is the ground that you used. Why would you draw everything out by yourself and then throw a sprite/premade ground into it? Same with the arm and hammer thing. I think in this case that you should have done everything by hand or by yourself.

~ Story/Content ~

A tribute that shows your father that he's better than all of the other fathers because he's stronger. Perhaps more than just this one scene would have made it better. Such as him going around showing strengths no matter where he goes or what he does.

Maybe such as him lifting up a wrecked car to save someone underneath of it, robbing a thief and giving it to charity, etc.. You could have even went further with this thing here and made it so he was throwing at the Olympics and stuff and that he threw much farther than any other father. Maybe then you could have made the object that he threw into a discus or something? (Of course they don't count bouncing/sliding in the Olympics.

Something that I really didn't like or think looked good was the air/wind that you had going by. Just didn't seem very fitting to me and it looked odd. Just a blur effect would have done it I think.

~ Audio ~

The sound effects that you used for this submission sounded really good and I didn't have any problems with them at all. I do think though you could have had the sound of people cheering and a victory sound at the end when we got his total distance on the throw.

~ Overall ~

I think the biggest thing that could have improved was the time that you took on this. You said it was a one day thing, but if you would have started way before you could have added much more content to the submission. Not bad overall though. Keep on working.

~ Review Request Club ~

naronic responds:

he was punching a target

I wanted to finish this in a day and I really didn't think the ground or the air mattered that much :P
just a short tribute to my dad

thanks for the review
(review request club ROCKS!)

[The SuperHero Collab]

Not bad at all!

I'm surprised that this didn't win some sort of Daily award. It was done rather well in my opinion.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Some were great and some weren't the best, but I don't think you had any bad graphics here at all. For the most part everyone had pretty good animating skills and styles.

~ Story/Content ~

Some just didn't seem to fit with the whole theme and shouldn't have really been in there in my opinion. You kind of went with the theme of humor so the normal ones or the ones that weren't really funny should have been used in another submission or submitted by themselves.

I liked when the scenes were fast paced and just non stop humor. Batman falling off the building, flame on, etc.. Some dragged on a bit too long, but some of the longer ones also were pretty funny too.

~ Audio ~

Voice acting was beautiful in this submission. Music was well done and well synced. Couldn't think of much to critique on here as you did a very good job!

~ Overall ~

A good decent collab. Some submissions didn't fit the theme in my opinion. Worth a watch by all means though.

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Makeshift responds:

Thanks for the review.
I like getting ones that take me more than a couple seconds to read.

[-Crazy Dave-]

Interesting

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Some were good, some were decent, some were amazing, some were bad, some were retarded, etc.. Lol a wide range of things in this submission. The mediocre outdid the great and the bad though. Decent art/animation skills all around though.

~ Story/Content ~

So tell me real quick. Did FatKidWitAJetPak actually do voices in this submission? You have him down as a sponsor and we all know what that usually means. Usually means he just got people to mass vote your submission with 5's so it could with awards... shame on you guys really.. He always comes my way asking for me to mass his submissions..

Some were funny. I liked the Futurama and the ATHF ones, but the rest were just kind of there. Some were actually quite annoying to, but I think some of it was the voices that were used in situations.

~ Audio ~

Again, what a range. Some great voices, some bad voices, and some voices were down right annoying. Most of them were pretty good. I like how a lot of the music/sound effects were done with voices too. That really made this more enjoyable and humorous.

~ Overall ~

Some good/some bad.

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[Capture The Flag: Ep 3]

Wish I had time to watch the other 2 :(

Sadly I don't have time to watch the ones before this so I guess I really don't know what's going on. Don't worry that's my problem and I won't ever take away from a score because of that. :P

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Very good animation all around. I really see no room for improvements as you have your own style and it looks very good. I guess the only thing I can slightly complain about is the lag, which made me turn the quality to low. I didn't enjoy the animation there of course, but I had no other choice unless I wanted to sit here for another 10 minutes.

~ Story/Content ~

I have to say this is where I wish I had time to view the other ones, but I don't. Because of it I really have no clue what's going on in this one. :/ I can say though that the storyline sounds pretty original and different. If you request the first two then I'll be forced to review them and things will make much better sense to me.

~ Audio ~

Very good voice acting, sound effects, and music used all around. I was impressed by the quality of the voices the most.

~ Overall ~

I can't critique this submission at all. O.o It was an enjoyable flash to watch.

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[Billy Mays: A Tribute]

Needs some simple things done to it.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I know you probably didn't have time to create something great as the death wasn't something we knew ahead of time, but there are still some simple things that you could have done without the fancy animations that everyone is talking about.

Picture quality was alright and the transitions between pictures was also alright. Nothing too bad visually.

~ Story/Content ~

Jumping on the tribute bandwagon I see. :P

Well it's basically just like the other tributes that were done without any animation.

The Bio that you used could have been much better. I think it would have been better if you put it in your own words, made it shorter, and made the text bigger/easier to read for the viewers.

I think what could have really made this better was instead of just the simple transition in between the photos that you could have used some nice quotes. For example fade the picture to black, use some nice white font to have a quote that represents death, mourning, or even a quote that Billy Mays had used himself. Fade back to the next picture, etc..

I also may think that you used a couple too many pictures. This started to drag on after awhile and got a little boring.

~ Audio ~

I think a cool thing would have been for you to add voice over for the Bio itself. That and if you were to include quotes like I suggested then you could read them out or get a voice actor to do it for you.

The music you choice for the submission was good in itself, but wasn't very tribute like. I'm thinking something a little bit sadder would have worked or if you wanted to go more comical using something from Charles Angels or Michael Jackson. :P

~ Overall ~

I myself am a fan of nonflash/non animated projects on newgrounds as long as they are done well. I think there was a lot of things that you could have done to make this submission better. Hopefully some of my ideas were good.

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Frenzy responds:

Thanks!

~ Z