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Nicely put together

You have a really good sense of direction.

I only have 2 critisms, first of all the backgrounds didnt appear to be optimised. Depending on whether you are using Flash 8 or up, or CS3 simply turn allow smoothing on in the library for each bitmap. If your using an older version of flash, stick the code

_quality = "best"

in the first frame of the movie and it will have the same effect, it was a shame to see flash pixelating the backgrounds as they tweened, either of these should clean that up.

My second gripe is with the timing, i just wish the subtle things like the dripping was timed to the beat of the music, it would have livened it up just that little bit more.

Overall tho very nicely done, i look forward to seeing more from you.

adwau responds:

Hey thanks for the reminder! I originally didn't think you could turn on smoothing with PSD imports, but then found the source bitmaps in the Assets folders.

Funny thing, that dripping originally was in sync but during the editing process the scene got moved and I never corrected it. Thanks for your comment!

Very flawed.

Im not sure what the point of all this was, the use of paramites, which were obviosuly traced but looked nice all the same, and were very smoothly animated. And mixed with that was some poor sprite animation with very very boring backgrounds. I can see you were syncing all the combat up to the music, which was a nice touch. Im just suprised nothing came even close animation wise to the quality of the paramites. Id say work more on oddworld stuff, which is a genuinely good series and less on making generic sprite movies and you could go places.

MEKofTheMEKkingdom responds:

I think you could go to hell.

Very well put together

You have a good understanding of camera angles and the like, there where also some very nicely animated parts. My only real gripe was the timing on alot of the gags, such as walking over the homeless man and such. Could use a little more work in the future. But from a technical standpoint, very very impressive.

faceofdoomness responds:

Thanks! I really do need to work on my comical timing.. that has not been one of the talents that I have been gifted with. I was actually planning to create a few videos testing the timing and stuff. Anyways. Thanks for the constructive Criticism. :D

-faceofdoomness

i can see what you were trying for...

Sadly it was dragged down but some odd choices. Parts were moved frame by frame, but since they werent redrawn they didnt flow leaving a choppy look. For some reason however the blink was dont properly. The contrast was nice but there wasnt much too it. Unfortunately it for the most part it looked more like a slide show then an actual animation. Next time try to ad some proper character movement and animation to your work and feel the premise out a little more.

Kero-the-boy-killer responds:

yea, once i am more less familiar with flash i'll be able to do some actual animating.

very smooth

Nice smooth animation and great physics on the blocks. It was a nice concept ever more nicely executed, good to see someone do something different with both Tetris and Sticks. My only complaint is that there wasnt more too it.

OctoFlash responds:

^^ im gonna make more so dont miss it

I very much enjoyed this.

Not only was it a display of Tweens being use appropriately, but it showed that there are still people out there with an imagination, both in concept and design. Very impressive.

Ansel responds:

tweens were my best friends during the making of this movie.

*Sigh*

Where do i begin?

Well first, heres everything wrong with the movie. Your animation was rather rather bad, with no consistency. One minute it looks bad, the next minute it looks awful. Ive read your reviews and you seem to complain you only had 10 days to make this? Well jesus, if this took me 10 days to make i would be embaressed.
You really need to practice facial expressions, anatomy and colour co-ordination, aswell as animation itself, all of these areas need vast improvement.

Next up comes the sound, the voice acting all around was attrocious, with people spitting out lines with absolutely no personality behind them. You might as well have gone out in the street and got a homeless guy to do the voices, because it all sounded like someone reading, just reading. Next time get some people who know how to project there voice and actually act.

Second last we have the "comedy". Forgive me for thinking this was the most boring piece of tripe ive seen in months. You have absolutely no sense of timing, or taste, or whats funny in general. All these jokes have been done to death, if not on newgrounds then on TV. There wasnt a single joke on here i hadnt heard somewhere else. Learn to write, or better yet, let someone who knows what theyre doing do it for you. Random is all well and good when its done well, but this was NOT done well. I thought that Legendary Frog would get to keep his unfunniest comedy of the month title, but you sir have done the impossible and stolen his crowd, congradulations, your now unfunnier the legendary frog.

And last but not least, your attitude. This is something ive never felt like ive needed to bring up in a review before. You have got to be one of the biggest dick heads ive ever seen on this site. There are those who leave there angry reviews in 1337 and couldnt string a real sentence together if there life depended on it, these i can handle. There are those who look at constructive critism and take it on board, those people i respect. Then theres people like you who view everything as an attack and insult everyone who leaves a comment which you deem to be attack. Whats more, you complain about Awesomes Creed been taken? So your saying not only are you trying cash in on the popularity of an already popular topic, but you felt so insecure about how it would go that you would have to steal even more attention by slapping the Awesomes name onto it, stealing the attention somebody earned for themself? But oh, Awesomes Creed was taken, so what sounds like Creed but would get more attention? Weed. Well, congradulations, you've proven your a complete attention whore. I dont know if your daddy touched your precious pee pee as a child and then abused you when you said no, so you grew up feeling unloved so now you have to make shit flash based on popular games to get the attention you think you deserve, but after whining and telling people to get over it and grow up, all i can say is the person who has the most "getting over it" and "growing up" to do is yourself.

Grow some balls, man up and start make decent. You would be suprised how much better you feel when your appreciated for something you came up with yourself rather then cashing in on games and family guy jokes.

TheMillz responds:

Yea, it's called " Stabika". You want a decent submisson, look at that.I'll be the first to admit this animation sucks. But apparently, you don't need skill to kick ass here.Took 1 week. I think it's funny how a 20 year old would taunt someone alot younger than himself because he's jealous I nailed a frontpage spot. Just remember: You've been subjected to veiwiwing my terrible flash, while I've never even heard of anything about you. Justice sure is sweet, huh?

Oh teh noes

i dont often write reviews anymore, but for some reason i felt like reviewing this.

The graphics and animation are boring, cliche and rather poorly put together, especially as far as the use of gradients are concerned.

Typical effort with sound using tunes from zelda and anime.

And a concept thats been done to death, as if Captain N wasnt enough all those years ago, now we have people copying it in flash using popular game characters to boost there own popularity.

I guess what im saying is get your own art style, get your own music and get your own ideas. Dont follow the current trend of mediocrity.

ScottFalco responds:

I can see the anime music, why zelda?
Anyways... True, we go into the game world.... But in this new series it isnt really focused on the characters from games, Sephiroth is actually the only game character shown, in like... All the episodes...

As for the art style... as people have said before, it is rather my own style... Yes, you might think it's "anime crap" as others have said. But as Ive tried to explain, anime is a hell of alot more detailed, Shiyn and semi-spiked hair does not an anime make. The music, yes its been sued before... Most flashes do that. But saying that im "following the trend" is a pretty dumb judgement to make out of the themesong. Especially when most of the stuff on this flash hasn't been shown, other then sephiroth. Normally Id take your opinion, for I used to like your flashes. But then your "followed the current trend of mediocrity" and started shoving nudity into your cartoons. of coruse NG loves that.... But I for one was disappointed. Congrats on trying to bring me down, try a little ahrder next time m'kay? ;P

Lawl

The last reviewer is a total dumbass who cant tell the difference between a group of people and a film style, a perfect example of "The Newgrounds Moron" ;D

Nandi responds:

People do not know the definition of emo. If it looks the slighest bit emo, IT MUST BE =D!!!

Yes this Animation is aaaalll about how dark and depressing my life is, and I wanted to spill my depressing feelings out into the world. And express my teen angst on how I'm afraid of butterflies. ;o; *cry cry, cut cut* </sarcasm>

PFFFTT, No...

Now with that said, I'm gonna go listen to some Hip Hop cos I'm soooo emo. <3

Oh Wow

More of the same tedious garbage video game parody tosh that newgrounds gets flooded with everyday. I never get tired of hearing the same jokes over and over and over and over and over again.
Your style is also way to influenced by the super flash bros, right down to using th elip sync tutorial pieces in your own movie. Kinda sad. All in all, been there seen that, about a thousand times already. Theres potential here, but theres no reason to use it when you can get a bloated score like 4.10 for a movie that deserves a 3.70.

Dead4 responds:

meh i find your words both incourageing and insulting

so im just gonna say STFU and thanks at the same time

cheery bye bye

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