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[Kill the family]

Me like. :)

As you said so rightly, it's short, but it's also sweet and to the point. The beginnings of a chuckle escaped my lips despite the joke being nothing original.

I suppose I just liked the presentation.

The graphics were of a nice style and I liked the colours you selected.

I liked the way the movie started off sweet and degenerated into violence.

I liked the sound loop. Whilst a bit annoying after watching the movie 3 times, it fits the mood perfectly and the sound effects were also great.

I suppose you could say I liked this. :)

Stay funky,
Bez

Holmen responds:

you know what? I have realized one thing today. This is a very long review right? OkeY, I thougt maybe I should respond to it, then I thought "no I will not respond to that review". -But i did.
Sooo, yeah, thanks.

[Format and J3nnica say hi]

Made me smile. :)

I guess I'm one of the folk 'not cool enough' to know those portrayed, but it did make me smile.

The animation wasn't great but had a nice style.

It made me smile and that'll do pig, that'll do...

MetaphorcE responds:

thanx :D

don't worry, you don't have to be cool to know those people - we are all massive geeks, really.

[SBC Review Commentary 2]

Boring for the most part.

The start (before the reviews started coming) was mildly amusing and I liked your manipulation of the SBC picture.

However, when the reviews were responded to, it was tiring to hear them all read out and the responces weren't particularly witty or amusing.

Very poor.

TurdClock responds:

fuck off and let me be

[.Blaster part1: Infection]

Nothing particularly interesting.

I don't really have much to say about this... just wasn't that interesting for me.

I liked your clock-eye when you went off to kill Bill Gates, and I also liked the appointments joke.

But it wasn't anything special and at the start, some of the speech was a bit hard to understand. (I didn't follow what the thing about the website link was about.)

Maybe if I had understood that the story as a whole would have been more interesting.

Subtitles?

AnarchyClock responds:

Meh. Maybe.

[the tenth character]

Rather poignant

I would have rather the audio had lasted the entire length of the movie (and I knocked off a point from the audio because of that), but I presume that you just had your heart set on that particular tune?

The shot of the boy kneeling by the rubbish is a bit proportionally wrong, but the rest of the art looks brilliant. Specially the shot of him in the rain and the slow-dreamlike motion of him in the snow.

I don't quite understand why the dream-world flashed behind him at the end (care to explain?), but all in all, that was an enjoyable watch. Good stuff. :)

Stay funky,
Bez

kospas responds:

Thanks Bezman.

Well in my converted flash movie the music acctually did stop somewhat at the very end. Many people have mentioned that audio problem though...

The kneeling boy. Yes, he unintentionally got a conehead. Didn't mind to fix it... :)

About "the rain and the slow-dreamlike motion of him in the snow". I have no idea really what means either. I just got the idea in my head and converted it directly into flash. ^_^

Stay funky u too,
KoZ

[Mr. Wrench]

confusing, pointless and unfunny.

I couldn't make head or tails of what was going on at the start since all the characters were so close together.

Also, I'd suggest that you include a pre-loader and play button in future. Just use the NG one if you want - you'll get it from the uploads page, and it'll make it a more enjoyable watch as we'll know when it's ready to watch and also it won't loop.

Still, that must have taken a fair bit of work, so well done for that.

Stay funky,
Bez

McFrizz responds:

hey....there is lots of kids out of my house....with torches....and signs...and flaming sticks....why??

[Ryu TriBute]

It is too short for the filesize.

However, one of the previous reviewers gave you a few good tips, so hopefully your upcoming movie will be better in that respect.

The key point is to make the music sync 'stream' so that only the parts of the music that are used are kept. It seemed as if you only used 1/4 of the music length, so that'd cut down a lot of the filesize.

Apart from that, the only other criticism I'd make is when he was fighting ken at the start. It's just nit-picking, but 3 dragon punches for the sake of it? And none of them hit ken? Also, I really don't like the way he goes under the sky (or gets clipped for whatever reason it is) at the end of the last one.

This is pretty good for your first Flash and I have high hopes for your next project.

Stay funky,
Bez

Final-Stick666 responds:

thanks for the tips !
at least you are nice .. :P
and by the way, it was'nt ken - it was guile
:D

[2 Trailers (H)/Ethonia]

Looking good.

Haunters trailer - nice font, very nice graphics (how the hell did you do those 3D bits?) and whilst the carole doesn't quite manage to pull off the 'eerie lone singer' effect, it has a good stab at it. Also the skeleton - not quite the shock I think it was supposed to be, but we get the message.

I suppose you just need to practise to perfect the timing and so on to invoke emotions more effectively.

I also like the animation of the guy with the torch - reminds me of broken sword a bit.

Ethonia - again, nice graphics, although I'm not as keep on the music and it's a shame I can't speak German.

After doing all the artwork for it, it seems like a bit of a waste not translating it later.

I'm left with a desire to see more of your 'H(a)unters' animation, so it's done its job I suppose.

Still, whilst the movies are looking good, I wouldn't reccommend the trailers in their own right.

OmegaDragon3000 responds:

The skeleton thing at the end of the haunters trailer wasn’t supposed to be anything shocking, just a quick flash of something(character) which might be in the movie.
The shocking stuff in the final movie will happen after a lot of (but not too long of a wait) suspense and build up.

As for Ethonia, I don’t see it as a waste since the audience is mostly (if not only) German speaking viewers.
Originally I didn’t plan on putting Ethonia in this 2 trailer movie (or even releasing it at all to english speaking viewers for that matter).. But there was enough space to fit it in so I did.

And thanks for the review! :]

[Bad Day 4 An Alien]

You asked for a comment, so...

To be honest, I didn't think the animation was that great. It's probably better than anything I've done, but there were a few things I didn't like about it.

- I didn't like the walking that much. Maybe split up the legs into 3 parts each? (lower, upper and foot) Then you could animate a nicer looking walk.

- I wasn't too keen on the way he held the same pose throughout the movie. Even when the truck came - the moment when I'd expect most motion - he just stood there almost static.

I suppose you could argue that that's to show he's an alien, but instead it just leaves him a bit devoid of any character.

- I didn't like the way the truck hit him too much. I suppose I'm nit-picking here... but he's almost past it and then the truck comes and he stands still? I guess that's because he's so scared, after looking to see what it is but it just didn't work for me. (Another nit-picking comment - the traffic light was hard to make out which light was on.)

- I thought the design of the alien was OK. I do agree that it could be a bit furthered from humans though. But it's up to you really.

- Last negative comment (and the worst) - I just didn't find it that funny.

The basic joke seems really unoriginal to me and as there was no real surprise involved, it didn't tickle my funnybone.

Now for some compliments to counter the negativity.

- you have a nice clean style. You're obviously a talented artist.

- I liked the ending loop. Looped seamlessly and appropriate.

- I really liked the reaply button - specially the way the question mark pops in.

- I liked the blood splatters and the way some remained on the 'camera'.

I hope my comments were useful and I look forward to your next piece of work.

Sorry for the nit-picking.

Stay funky,
Bez

e-nerve2k responds:

Well, thank you very much for your comments... i'm really thankful for the negative ones because this gives me a clear clue areas where i need to work on, but about the legs...this is just an assignment so i really didn't focus on it...to tell you this is just a style of my animation..stiff and simple but yea I'm currently learning how to do frame-by-frame animation, may be this will solve the stiff animation, but again thanks for your comments...

[Da Terry dud]

Subtitles?

As the reviewer below says, subtitles would have really helped. You obviously know English, so why not use that knowledge and share the story with all of us?

As it is, the graphics weren't good enough to entertain me on their own. It looked like an interesting piece, from what I could gather, but (maybe because of the language) I didn't enjoy it that much at all.

And that's all I can really base my score on.

FranciscoSoft responds:

Sorry dud, but my pronunciation sucks, its better to u and me to use subrirles, bye.