Score: 9

"This was fantastic"

submission: Sweet Nectar

date: April 2, 2006

Loved every second - would have possibly loved more of the office punching guy heh. Loved the 'accuracy' of the commerce talk, halarious. Loved the head heh, watched that about 20 times - fantastically animated I must say! Great voices, great sound, great animation and graphics - this really is a well made peice, well done! Usually I'd find something to recommend, but really you don't need it - you're onto it, for sure.

Score: 7

"Fantastic!"

submission: Astroblaster

date: March 31, 2006

This was great fun - I ended up dying due to clicking back into newgrounds and taking too long to get back on level 10 .. i guess there's nothing you can do to stop people being stupid like that heh. The sound got messed up, playing over itself later on which was a problem. This is a fantastic little game! Great effort!

Score: 6

"Good, but could be a hell of a lot better"

submission: Apartheid

date: March 26, 2006

Stream your audio! And have a preloader! Just edit the NG one it's pretty easy to do and it's encouraged - it makes your work look so much more professional, and saves people on dialup like me getting pissed off with having to listen to that soundtrack for 10 minutes until it loads! Luckily it's sorta quiet so I can play other stuff over top of it. Movie wise - the fades are crap they just pop up infront of the dude at the start. However the stylistic colouring with the pencil is a unique little touch there. The frame rate is too slow, the whole thing moves a bit too slow really. Are you trying to portray genocide or apartheid? What's with the pile of dead bodies. The floor moves slower than the stuff ontop of it.

This movie does nothing but give vague ideas of what apartheid is, it doesn't offer any critique. I think we all know it's about separating different people, no need to take 5 minutes showing that when you could show some inequalities or something. It's tough subject matter, and your style is good, but the movie is too slow and pointless.

And you need to learn how to use some very basic actionscript - your movie loops!

Score: 8

"Do it."

submission: Fields of Vespillo teaser

date: March 24, 2006

I don't really approve of trailers, but since it seems you're just getting your sh!t together and this'll be a massive project I'll support this one. Your graphics are gorgeous - this could've used a small bit of action rather than alluding to action and never having any, even if it was just a slice at the screen or something. Anyway, beauty graphics, I think you should go for it. It'll take forever heh but maybe it'll be well worth it! You look like you've got the ability to go hard with attention to detail, and that's the kind of thing that really separates the chaff. If you can keep it up, the completed product will probably get front page, and there's like 100 000 views right there - quite a reward! Get someone with a real strong grasp on grammar to check it before you submit, a couple of missing aposotrophes in this one could detract from the perfection of the rest. It looks great, you've got a perseverence with that detail I only wish I would have heh - best of luck with an actual plotted 'episode'!

Score: 10

"You were robbed"

submission: Flystrip 3

date: March 24, 2006

This was a great little movie! Way better than it's rating - I don't know what went wrong here, usually things're rated properly. You have a great cartoony style, it's a great little story, amusing voices, it's great! Pity you killed em off, hehe. My only possible suggestion for a better rating in future would be to crank up the frame rate to at least 18fps, maybe you could also put some buzzing fly noises in there - although they're pretty horrible. A fantastic little flash here, I'm gonna go watch the other ones in the series now - keep it up!

Score: 4

"Hmm"

submission: A fight without meaning

date: March 21, 2006

Well you need to avoid using the standard 'blue-black' gradient fill, edit it to 'blue-darker blue' or something that makes it look better. At one point your background edge is clearly inside the stage, need to fix errors like that too. Increase framerate to at least 18fps for this kind of thing. Need a conclusion, or at least a real cliffhanger.. Faster action such as the eyes opening and all that, it was just too slow in those places. Just some stuff to work with if you're interested in taking your flash animations to a higher level - it was a pretty good effort though, well done. I liked that you gave the sticks bandanas and had their eyes in it - its a small difference from other stick movies, which is all you need really to get the originality points there.

Score: 4

"Are you going to make a movie?"

submission: COTD 2 trailer

date: March 21, 2006

You've only submitted two trailers. Planning number two before number one exists? The definition in this is lacking I feel, you can't make out tables from people etc. - but maybe this is a stylistic feature that just doesn't appeal to me. It would be nice if you could make a movie not a trailer, it'd fare better too.

Score: 7

"Great idea"

submission: Kite

date: March 20, 2006

You've got a fantastic idea here - unfortunately your execution didn't give it a chance on NG. The figure was just too .. dynamic is the nice way to put it heh. His limbs bent too much to crazy angles, he turned into a stick which looks less like a stylistic feature and more of a halfassed effort in this film. If he was more solid and acted more like people would (albiet riding a kite) this could've been superb. Nice effort though, really original - I gave it a 5 but it didn't do much to the score heh.

Score: 7

"Cute"

submission: Twice A Thief

date: March 17, 2006

You've got a nice style there, everything is so cartoony and colourful - nice! The tree does look like a giant penis lol, classic that it's not just me who noticed. My suggestions would be to up the action a bit - this could probably be done simply by increasing your frame rate to about 18fps. It seemed a bit clunky. I like your style, keep it up!

Score: 7

"Very nice"

submission: Mittens Episode 3

date: March 10, 2006

The only thing I would've liked better is if the dancing Ipod commercial at the end was a bit longer and had some of that terrible music they use heh. Very nice little joke there, well done. Geez people in those sony shops etc. are so like that, too.