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[3D Animation Test]

Good models but not entertaining.

Well, these models look fine. They'd look great in a 3D animation of this quality.

I assume the ribbons leading into the miniguns is meant to be a roll of bullets? Modelling some bulletes on that would make a big difference.

I also noticed to ugly white spots appearing in the front of the guns on the rotating turret, where there shouldn't have really been any. Only a small issue though.

Essentially, this all looks good but I can't give a high score because it's not entertaining to me.

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[We <3 AfroStud]

Heh. Decent drawing.

I liked the shading on his face - good colours - but some shading on the torso and maybe a collar on that outfit would have worked well.

Is that meant to be a trophy in his hands?

Regardless, it's a fun little homage, but unfortunately really offers no surprises of its own. Some crazier outfits or something may have made it funnier.

Not that the ATWI80D series was about big surprises...

[LOVEBLIMP]

Good vibrations.

That was pretty cool.

Simple plot, but nice vibes. Also, the graphics for the smiling blimps and the end song pretty much make it.

The graphics near the start leave something to be desired. The words could have been better decorated - maybe having 3d-style block letters or something for 'love' etc and more angular letters for 'war' etc.

The bomb could have used some shading and the frame for when the green blimp drops his cigar could have been better.

Also, the blurry rainbow doesn't fit in brilliantly with the crisp vectors in my opinion.

Your smiling faces rock though, the hearts-as-smoketrails are awesome and the song is brilliant.

Makes me smile, despite slight graphical issues.

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WritersBlock responds:

Yeah, it's not the best, but the style is simple and attractive, despite the flaws.

Maybe next year I could put more time and effort into a Loveblimp-2. LOL
<3
Thanks for the review.

[Street Fighter Series pt2]

Way better, but needs more narrative and tweaking

I'm not too keen on this. It's a lot more interesting than the original, but the style of on-screen action isn't to my tastes.

First, it looks a lot sharper - crisper and better, like this time you didn't lose the .fla. Heh.

The buttons need to be improved. Draw a rectangle on your 'hit' frames so we can click in the spaces between the letters, rather than needing to click the strokes exactly.

There were some white bits you forgot to remove in photoshop or whatever, that show up in the speech boxes. Also, the parts of text over the whitish portion of the rectangle are hard to read.

I think you should avoid stretching bitmaps - during the fight, their proportions change and it looks tacky.

I liked how there was more of a narrative during this fight and you tried to inject some excitement with the transformations. With the sfx and all the clouds of dust etc. it looks a lot better.

The negative image of Sean with the aliased brush stroke behind him didn't really fit the pixellated look of everything else though.

It was actually vaguely fun to watch, but I suggest you try and work out some narrative to tie this series together. I mean, straight-up fight scenes can get old pretty quickly, specially considering their ubiquity.

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mortis5000 responds:

Thanks I really enjoyed this review...
I will take everything you said into consideration

[Street Fighter Series pt1]

Should have been more than just a fight,

The intro text was kinda cool. I take it that's not done in flash, but rather just exported to an .avi or whatever, then imported into Flash? Really, apart from the intro text, there's nothing that couldn't be easily done within Flash itself. And then the filesize would probably be a lot smaller and we wouldn't have all these visual artifacts.

The episode itself just seemed to consist of a fight. No sfx, so it was actually less entertaining than just watching someone play the game, let alone playing it ourselves. I was expecting a bit of narrative, a bit of character interaction beyond the fisticuffs.

I actually kinda liked the fact that you introduce the characters and the layout of the text and stuff looked cool in the intro.

Overall though, it never really entertained me.

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mortis5000 responds:

Thanks for your review