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[Zero Madness]

Happy Madness Day 2008!

Free tens today. ;)

Animation/Graphics - Good job on the animation. A bit better then the typical Madness fan flash, but at the same time not as good as some of the other higher ranked madness animations. Still a very good job though. Everything ran smoothly and there wasn't really anything wrong with the animation.

Story - Hm, looks like I'm one of the few that didn't like the ending here. I understand time frames and all and I understand that this took you about two months to do, but I was still hoping from more. I haven't watched too many flash submissions from Madness yet, but just by what I have seen already I'm not exactly sure if this is worth the number three spot. Anyway, a decent story behind it and some simple humor scattered in.

Audio - Good sound effects and good music playing throughout the whole thing. There really isn't much more to to comment about the audio other then what I have mentioned.

Overall - A decent madness animation, but I just felt like this one could have been better and by reading your author comments it really didn't turn out the way you wanted it to either.

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iislion responds:

thanks for the review

[Fat Head's Reaction]

LOL

Not only did your first one pass, which was just you being a webcam whore at you posted it up on newgrounds, but now your second one was posted up and it did even better. >.< At least this one had a title and a small credit screen unlike the last one. The last one was just a bunch of random stuff thrown together and this one kind of had a "story" or plot behind it. It did make me laugh a lot. Ha, I'm thinking you should submit one of these a week. Funny stuff man. (This is my roommate if you guys haven't already figured out that I know the person from how personal my review is). To believe that I voted 0 on the first one because I didn't think it was going to pass, but when I watched this one I thought for a second and since it made me laugh so much I protected it.

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HenryEYES responds:

Ha, thanks for watching it. I told you it would be funny. :) Thanks for the review.

[I'm a fat guy.]

Well.

I wouldn't give this submission a high score any other time, but you are my roommate and it was funny. It made me laugh and anytime something can make me laugh on newgrounds then I am forgiving on the rating that I give it. I can't review this like a regular flash animation, because this isn't a flash animation. It is funny though. Great humor all the way through. Some parts might have been a little boring, but most of it made me laugh my ass off. A lot of people that I showed back home thought it was funny too. Americas funniest home videos maybe? Ha, it might not win, but it's worth a shot. I'm happy you decided to submit this. :)

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HenryEYES responds:

Thanks for the review. :)

[ifone]

Ha, loved it.

The score of 10/10 comes from the fact that I love these short animation with this style.

Animation/Graphics - Like I said pretty much one of my favorite types of animation. You haven't by any chance coed or collabed with LazyFeet have you? If so were you on the collab that we planned out about the commercials? We haven't even started if so. If not sorry for going off topic. Like I was saying, I love the style. The colors and backgrounds were nicely done. Also, the animation was smooth.

Story - A nice short commercial type plot here. Ha, I don't have an iphone, but I guess I don't really want to get one now even though this was suppose to be a funny flash, I'm sure some if not all of what you have said in the flash holds true to an extent. A nice little plot and good humor.

Audio - The voice acting, sound effects, and background music was all done very well. I don't have much more to say about the audio of the submission.

Overall - A great short animation. I liked the style and the humor. Good job.

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RhysMus responds:

thanks man, its nice to get a real review once in a while, helps out alot :D

thanks :D

[A new clock!]

Ha, gave me a little laugh.

What a 8/10? How is that possible? Oh yeah, it's a clock day flash! Free high scores and 5 to go around right? Haha.

Animation - It's not spam like most clock day submissions. It has a hell of a lot better animation then any of my clock day flashes also. On a regular submission though I wouldn't be so happy about the animation for one reason. It's very simple. yes everything was smooth and I didn't really see any glitches, but it wasn't absolutely fun to watch or anything.

Story - A clock day submission with a plot? Amazing! Ha, I have to admit that I didn't think it was going to be too great. Even when the weight fell on him I was thinking that it wasn't going to be any good, but with that last message and when I put two and two together with the title of the submission it gave me a nice small laugh. Great simple humor in my opinion so great job here. Maybe work on getting just a tad bit better background in your future submissions. That would probably help a little.

Audio - The sound effects went well with the submission, but I think you could of maybe added some nice background music. That would of probably helped the score of your flash by just a little.

Overall - A mediocre flash at best, but it is a clock day submission and just like any other clock day submission should be treated with respect, of course unless it breaks some sort of rules. And of course this is only my personal opinion on the matter. Should we expect future clock day submissions from you?

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sistem69 responds:

yes future better and maybe a prize in an animation of mine cuz i did this in like 20 minutes.

[Ode to Elevator Music]

Hmm.

You gave me a challenge here.. this is kind of hard for one reason. Because I don't really think something like this should of been submitted to be honest, but of course that is my opinion and as long as the flash doesn't break any rules then it's up to you if you want to submit it or not.

Animation/Graphics - I really can't give you anything here so I'm sorry about that. You did have just a bit of animation with the switching of the words and they weren't too fast or too slow in my opinion so you do get a point from me there. Also, the text in the flash was easy to read and was well organized so you get another point from me.

Story - The story.. well I have to admit that the story in your author comments was really good and would make a great flash animation in the way that you explained it. You receive another point for having a great description of what you are suppose to be thinking about. Other then that there wasn't too much in the flash at all. I did think that the red letters were going to spell something out like the others did so I guess that was just a tad bit confusing, but it was nice to add some variation instead of the same black letters.

Audio - Decent audio, which of course goes along with the subject since it is elevator music that you used so you get the last point from me from there.

Overall - My opinion is that I don't think it should be on newgrounds, but like I said before my opinion is my opinion not yours so it doesn't really matter. It was very simple and I had to review it a little differently because of that. Usually I don't just give out points for things that were done well like I did in this review, usually I just say what should be fixed and what could of been done better, but I honestly couldn't think of anything in this situation.

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SprintT responds:

Thankyou for judging fairly. Simplisity is fun :D

[Newgrounds Intro Collab]

I was impressed.

Animation/Graphics - Very good for the most part. Some were very simple, but most of them were well done. I didn't really notice any glitches in any of them or anything. For the most part they all ran pretty smoothly. Some were animated a lot better then others, but your going to run into that in collabs obviously. Some of the ones I felt may have had drawings and graphics just a tad bit too simple. Overall though the animation and graphics were good.

Story - I never thought of anything like this before. A very original idea in my opinion. Not only was this fun to watch, but it's also very useful to some people since you included the download button. Buttons done well and all of the text was in order and neat. I do think next time around you should try to get some funnier ones in there. Great job though.

Audio - All of the sounds effects and voices were good and the audio that you chose for the flash worked well also. Nothing much more to say about that.

Overall - A very good idea, which could be done many times and would still probably be fun to watch and helpful to people at the same time. Great submission.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks for the review.

[The Hit Man]

Not bad.

Pretty good I have to admit. Do you plan on making a series of this?

Animation/Graphics - Well, almost everything was completely fine, except for people themselves. I can't say I really enjoyed the style of drawing that you had here, but if you are going to stick with it then you really need to improve on the smoothness. The men were very rough at best and had some rough edges.

Story - Not bad, not bad at all. A movie that could turn into a series if done correctly. The idea may not be original, but it is something that I enjoy watching. I have to say that there wasn't too much of a story though and it did end kind of sudden. The lack of story is ok, but in future submissions you should do something like having his boss call him up or and telling him who to kill, etc.. That will be stuff that you can come up with if you continue this as a series though.

Audio - I think it really lacked here. The sound effects were fine, but there should have been some background music, and in future submissions you should think about some voice acting. Actually if you want some voice acting I can do some for you. Just drop me a PM with the lines that you want me to say and I will be happy to do it for you.

Overall - A series, if worked on, could be a great series and fun to watch. Keep up the good work.

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OGWelsh responds:

thanks for the comment!
uhm well this was one of the first animations i did and at the time i was gonna make this into a series. what i was basically doing with this was trying out frame-by-frame animation which i have since developed quite a skill for (check my rotoscope films if you're interested). so no i dont plan to make this into a series.

[Narrative Flash Remake]

Not bad.

* Side Note - This is the fucking second time I wrote this review because the last time I did I accidenlty pushed the back button on my keyboard and my entire review was deleted before I finished it. It actually took me quite awhile to write it too. >:( Also, I do not enjoy poetry, but I don't review flashes on whether I like the subject or not, since I don't find that fair. Rather, I will review the flash on it's quality.

Animation/Graphics - While there wasn't any animation in your flash I'm sure I can still find some stuff to review about. The menu itself wasn't very organized and the background was boring. If this was improved on then my rating for the flash would probably go up another point or even two. I think they need to be put into columns and you need to look for a background like you had in the poems themselves.

Story - I only read the entirety of one poem because like I said before poetry really isn't my favorite thing in the world. The text was fine and the words were easy to read. The file size was huge also, did you compress the audio? If you didn't then compressing the audio might cut the file size in half maybe even more.

Audio - While the music went perfectly with the poems, I really didn't enjoy the button to shut the music off for one reason. While you could shut it off there was no button to turn them back on. I looked around for one and read your directions and there didn't seem to be one. I think that would be a good contribution to this flash also.

Overall, pretty much work on the menu and maybe add that button for the audio that I suggested. Good job.

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SprintT responds:

Thank you for the advise, and please stay tunned. The menu will be revamped and so in the control pannel. Also there will be compressed audio so I can have more content.