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[The Meadow]

good enough

you know, there are a lot of other ways of conveying sadness than suicide. And honestly, if you don't elaborate on how this person didn't get the girl, then I'm just led to believe that he just had a random crush and wouldn't go out with him, and that's definitely not grounds for suicide. I don't feel sad for the guy, I feel pity.

Revolucion responds:

i dont see suicide as a solution. the charecter in the movie represents a small percentage of teenagers who will do anythin to escape reality. if that was my view id be gone a long time ago... Revolucion

[penises]

why not...

you get points for managing to hold my attention for the entire animation's duration.

telbanham responds:

That is exactly what I wanted to achieve from the first installment of Jimmo.
Thats 3 good and 3 bad reviews.
And an average score.
I'm pretty chuffed for my first production
Thanks

[o fortuna]

very nice

yes, i thought the beginning was really slow. I understand that section was supposed to create dramatic tension, but when everything is consistently moving at slow motion, you kinda lose the feeling of suspense as opposed to "hmm, he's picking up his cigarette... he's still picking up a cigarette..." you could have shown the stuff happening to the guy on the ground moving in slow motion as if to show things in his mind blurring to a crawl, but keeping the standing guy's actions at normal speed to convey his feeling of security and victory.

That being said, any doubt i had on the movie (the relatively simple plot was part of it), it was all blown away by the climax, which was so absolutely perfectly timed to the music I was really impressed. All the rotating shots especially were very well done, which surprised me a lot. Obviously you know how to create fast scenes, so I guess I hoped the beginning was just as visually extravagant even if it needed to be slow-paced.

I'm really a lot more impressed than I let on, I just wanted to offer constructive criticism. By the way, I noticed the Cube-style clothing of the guys ;).

HeRetiK responds:

Thanks, I'm always glad to get constructive criticism! I know, the beginning is very slow, but thats just because I wanted it to match with the music, and I think I succeeded! The rotations took me very long, thanks! The plot... well... *caugh* take it as a metaphor...

[depression/korn music vid]

not bad

decent music video, things moved a little slowly however. Not that I'm asking for something frantic, but something more hard hitting would have been more impactful.

my main comment regards the images. This is an extremely personal movie, it seemed, and I would have preferred images that weren't so cliche. Blood, bats, skulls, explosions, tears, these are all images we've been conditioned by society to fear and consider as depressing. But unless you were actually poked by pitchforks or have your house blow up, I refuse to believe images that were more concrete wouldn't have made this a much more artistic movie. I think the reason you decided to use those would be so other people would relate, but we all know that's not really the point. If it was, you'd make a XiaoXiao movie or something. Anyway, I think I made my point. Original, concrete imagery/symbolism. It's the lifeblood of actual, good poetry (read a poem by Ginsberg or Rimbaud and try to find something cliche), and it should be the same for serious films.

Rikimaru-Azlar responds:

This was just a one off, i wanted to try something new, something serious and it had little vision. I think im gonna stick to lighter things in the future. Thanks for your review.

[-=Stick Wars Episode I=-]

um

pretty simplistic, more like. and i have a problem with how anakin has more of a british accent than obiwan did. otherwise, nothing's original.

Rob-D responds:

You should try to appreciate the fact that none of the characters were british. Yup, I'm just a texan trying my best to play the voices of 10 characters.
You should also appreciate that I took the time to respond to this review, I hardly ever do that. I must be bored.

[Sperm's Story]

hahahahaha

that was great. and the last reviewer was right, the file size is awesome. only complaint: it's spelled "ovaries" not "overies".

Metal-Man responds:

spelling....oh well

[thistler - ROBOTECH]

shizzle

as an animation by itself, quite good. i am wondering why it has the name robotech however. i know, you said there were no veritechs, i was just wondering what made this prompt into a robotech animation.

thistler responds:

well.. i needed an idea for the robotech comp.. and i didnt want to ripp off robotech like everyone else. so i made a different style, different chracters.. different enemies.. i actually had the thought of changing the name when i remake this episode. the reason theres no veratechs is becasue they'll come into the series next episode

[Evolution (MovieTrailer)]

not bad

my main complaint remains the large file size that could easily be reduced by marginally lowering the audio's compression (you should still be able to halve the file size without any noticeable audio degredation), as well as compressing the JPEGs a bit. As a trailer it's decent, but the file size really takes away from being able to jump right in... i have broadband and it was still quicker to view the animation than to download.

LucidDREAMS responds:

I think the reason for the filesize is the jpegs I used for the backgrounds, audio was a very low quality, its 48k mono MP3, also the lighting effect on the title was frame by frame, so this adds a huge chunk into the filesize.

[Ytown Public 4]

i guess...

you have the graphical knacks, but if you don't mind my saying so i think you may need to hire someone else to write the jokes. honestly, that "stupid joke book" would probably need to show up more than just once... and while the acting has gotten better, the sound quality really hasn't...

McRhyme responds:

The sound quality has improved some. It has, but it still isn't perfect, far from really. The jokes are not all funny. I know that. The book joke was a failiure. I added the book because I wanted the have another VIEWER'S VOICE, but I gave up and submitted. I'm thinking of deleting that part.

[Smokey - Jump Around]

you got what you did

the synching is indeed impressive, but unfortunately i think because of all the time you spent making the mouths move correctly you didn't bother making the animations of their bodies at all exciting. even the dj, who should be very animated (and his head should be bobbing in sync too) just sorta slides across the screen.

Smokey-Chipmunk responds:

Meh. Whatcha gunna do