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[KOROSU- the black samurai]

Nice.

Very nice animation... It's good that you're trying to branch out from stick-figure stuff. Sticks are horrible... please (I beg you), do not go back to that.

Two problems you might want to fix... the voices lagged a little (and I have a pretty fast computer), you might want to change the sound so that it's clips that start on event frames. And two, the dialogue was, well, kind of cheesy. I had a little chuckle at the "I'm here to put and end to your DEALINGS" and then again at "Dealings? I just kill people who interfere with my BUSINESS." So, which is it? Dealings or business? :)

Just kidding, it's a really good effort over all.

[Asian Pride Rap]

Got rice?

Hehee, that was some funny stuff. At least, I took it to be funny, because the alternative is horrifying.

["The Box"]

Boring stick crap.

Stick figures, whoopie.

He opens the box, something bad happens. He opens it again, something bad happens. This is just one step up from "something bad happens to the stickman for no reason," hence the 1's in the ratings instead of zeros.

Overall: Boring.

[A normal stick fight]

*Sigh*

"Ringfinger's response:
"I mean, why the fuck would you care what I think, right? I'm just some jerk writing a review on NG" ~ Exactly! So shut up and leave me alone."

Yeah, well... I tried. I guess you didn't realise that it was a fucking compliment, asshole.

[~ The Bird ~]

I don't get it...

Obviously, you can draw. So, if you can draw, then why the Hell are you making stick-figure cartoons? This movie would have been a 10 if it weren't for that.

Just to let you know, I usually rate sick movies at zero. I didn't this time in the hopes of convincing you to not do sticks. I know it's a long-shot... I mean, why the fuck would you care what I think, right? I'm just some jerk writing a review on NG. All I'm saying is, it's quite apparent that you have talent that exceeds stick-figure bullshit, and you should explore that talent without sullying yourself with stick-figure bullshit.

Ringfinger responds:

"I mean, why the fuck would you care what I think, right? I'm just some jerk writing a review on NG" ~ Exactly! So shut up and leave me alone.

[Darkness Makabre]

MY EYES!

Okay, so Link wakes up when Aryll starts sleepwalking and the monster TAKES HIS EYES!

Sorry, I know it's probably not supposed to be Link and Aryll, but it sure as hell looks a lot like them.

Eh, who knows, maybe it is them... your other movie "Coffee % wicked" had several LoZ references...

Anyhow, good artwork + decent animation + creepy plot = good submission.

[Coffee % Wicked]

Nice artwork...

Nice artwork, for the most part. I say "for the most part" because much of it was incongruous with the other artwork, the song, etc. It just seemed a little too random and all over the place. I guess what I'm really trying to say is there was no UNITY in the style, hence the 5 for style.

The subjects also didn't quite seem to mesh well together... one second there's a "fire" man burning down a building, and the next there's a guy getting crushed by a giant flower-pot. It's funny, yeah... but not necessarily together, and backed by the industrial soundtrack.

Overall: good animation, good artwork, but inconsistent with themes and styles.

[Beavis&Butthead:doitagain]

Not bad.

The character art and voices were just about perfect. The only problem with the characters is they were even stiffer than the original characters. Work out a library of a few more mouth movements and eye's bulging and that sort of shit and you'll have it down perfect.

As far as the stabbing thing goes, I agree with tidesofdarkness66669.

A few tips if you're going to make more episodes: Get together with a couple of friends at a Denny's or something and write out an entire script for an episode. (Yes, do it with friends and not by yourself. Make sure other people laugh at the jokes.) Be sure to have crappy videos to make fun of as well as good videos. Include the side-quest stuff like they had in the original B&B, where they actually leave the house (You know, like when they went and pestered that neighbor who later became Hank Hill).

Then spend a month animating it. Guaranteed hit.

[arreon creation]

It was okay...

It could have been faster. Graphis were all right, even though it's the same sort of shit in most clock movies.

Here's a tip for you:
When you're doing a scene tranistion and you want to use a fade, don't tween the alpha of the items on the screen. Make a separate layer on top of all the other layers with a single box that covers the whole stage. Make the box whatever color you want to fade to, and start it off at 0% alpha, then tween that to 100% over time. That way you can't see the background through your characters, or see the wings through the body, etc. It just looks nicer/more professional. I would have voted higher on graphics if it weren't for that.

[Ed Draws: Episode 2]

Funny shit, man...

I thought it was crap right up until the end, when you "bring the turkey to life."

I laughed so hard I cried.

Couple of tips... set your sound to "stream" instead of "event" if you want the lip synch to work on everyone's computer.