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[Zionic Eclipse]

A pre=work review

Hey dude -

Nice movie! Nice work with the 3D - personally I would've cheated a lot more and had less of it in there, but I'm all about compression heh. What was in there was great. I didn't notice the stars being out of sync with the action like the other guy said, apart from that initial shot with the enemy ship. Plus it's bloody difficult to do!

Laser effects were wicked - for when they connect with ships - depending on what effect you want there, you might want to remove the 'splash' when they connect with the enemy, unless they are plasma or something, I think it's more dramatic if they slice into the hull rather than splatter. (and less work!)

Yea, there's nothing wrong with the action sequence itself - however i think another layer of SFX and in-battle chatter would help to know what's going on. You start with your pilots dialouge to himself, and he sounds like he'd trash-talk whilst fighting, but it's completely silent. On from that you should definately put some of the character in otherwise you can't connect with it at all - it's just pretty. Like, just before he does that spinning manouver, there should be a shot of him saying 'lets see how you handle this' and yanking the stick or something like that.

Quite liked the ship, reminded me of my F18! The swearing did too, I stopped swearing for my SC episodes as it is kinda pointless, and people ripped me to shreds about pointless swearing.

I also thought that damage readout at the end was pretty pointless. Adds nothing to the plot, and the ship fixes itself as quickly as you read what was wrong with it - might've been more effectual if we were actually in the cockpit with the pilot hearing the warning bells, maybe seeing the fixy robot / whatever he does to fix it - but since it has no baring on anything it just kinda ends the clip in a lull rather than an intense action funfare.

Great work, keep at it - the biggest things I'd work on would be character development. I'd also probably make the episodes longer / have something significant happen in each one, this felt like a teaser. Must go to work now heh hopefully that's useful - it really is a great peice of work!

DutchinLive responds:

:D Great to hear from you, the nose cam was a direct homage to 'Air Skirmish', heh, glad you wrote a review! I'm taking it all onboard for my next submission! The splash effect was really there only due to poor planning, not realising what I had done was going to screw me over in future-half completed scenes where changing the layout of the ships to provide effective-looking damage.

I won't be removing the swearing though, I know I may receive some criticism, but It's gonna be an adult series with adult characters and realistic adult language, in other words, the language used will be based on the character.

Anyway man, good to hear from you again, don't be a stranger now! Submit some new cool stuff!

[Starcraft II]

I'm jealous

How come none of mine get daily feature! ROAR! Haha.

Nice to see some more StarCraft Flash being made - although I was expecting more from this, in terms of something happening. The lag is a problem, cut some of your alphas out and replace with gradient fills if you really need to - making everyone watch it in low-quality makes your graphics look worse, it's pretty stink. (lousy browsers only dedicating so much to flash windows!)

Loved the voices, of the High Templar in particular - watch your accuracy if you want to do really well, like the 'Zergs' thing (the plural of Zerg is Zerg) - run it past a few SC hard-cores before hitting NG with it.

Quite liked the blur effects, most noticeably on the bunker bit.

But I rate things not on graphics but something actually happening, and this is a trailer dude! I hope you continue - (although it might pay to steer clear of Blizzards storylines, because SC2'll probably do something different and it'll make your movie irrelevant and dated)

Congratulations on the award!

TheQookieMonster responds:

Thank you sir , Im a fan of your work! Great series it was.

I've send you an NG Email. Check it out. ^^

[SC:PT Remakeded]

Pretty cute

Not a bad wee movie - pretty stink of your teachers to not accept it - although it's true, flash ISNT stop motion, stop motion takes much more work. But get with the times teachers! heh. Loved your C&C movie too by the by, I still remember your username and it's connection to a movie, not many people I do that with.

I'd work on the special effects in future movies - put an alpha on the laser beams and things so they're not so solid and they'll look more real. It's a cute style, well done!

NightShadowTWO responds:

im honored to be remembered in such a way. i wonder if the guy who stole my aforementioned C&C movie is still around. will check.

ah okay, alpha, got it, thanks =)

[Diablo - Lord of Terror]

Excellent!

Great to see other people playing with Blizzards game worlds! This flash is fantastic, great effects, absolutely amazing graphics - must've taken you forever for the tiniest bits of animation in places - but well worth it with this finished product. I especially liked their hands opening the seal, that was well done, as were them getting beaten around. I'll definately be watching the next one when you get it done. I read only a few of the other reviews and I see some of them are kinda 'great, but paladins don't usually use axes' etc. - ignore that shit, fuck I hate people. Don't let it sour what an accomplishment and stunning peice of flashery this is!

vorxs7 responds:

There just aren't enough Blizzard flashes out there! Love your Starcraft series and Thanks alot

[BM's: Road]

Very nice!

Well, I enjoyed it. The music just stopped before the end for me which was a bugger, nothing like a silent flash movie to make you bored! However as far as random stuff goes it was quite enjoyable, nicely done. a year + after the fact, but who doesn't like seeing reviews of their old movies ?! heh.

BritishMoose responds:

Haha, very true. Sorry about the sound, but (as you may have guessed) I'm not gonna be doing anything about it anytime soon xD
Thanks very much for the review, I do enjoy responding to them. Be sure to check out my new projects which should be hitting NG later this year!

[Blockhead: Episode 1]

Well executed!

I haven't seen any of the other episodes, I'm loading ep2 at the moment, but you know - dialup. This is really quite amusing - it doesn't try and blow you away with graphics or anything, just entertain. And for that it gets a 4, but I don't think a stick figure will ever get a 5 out of me - but maybe later episodes are graphically more impressive - that's the only thing that's weak in this, graphics. The voicing is fantastic, quality is nice (too nice, attributing 1meg to the file size of this I would guess), but yes. You could feel the irritation in the 'inner self', which is a skill to create - well done!

The-Swain responds:

The original file was maybe twice as large as this, but I figured out how to take it off of stereo mode, which effectively cut the file size in half.

And although I don't agree that Blockhead is a stick figure, I do agree that the graphics in this episode are nothing to brag about. It took me about a year, but if you've seen Ep.7 by now, you'll notice that I've gotten at least a little better at it :D

[Alien Sea]

Well.

The effect is somewhat good, but ... in terms of flash animation, it's pretty halfassed. Learn to use movie clips within your main clip, so you could have fish tails swishing, jellyfish moving etc. so it gives it a bit more credibility. I had to score low because this is just a bunch of really halfassed graphics tweened over very long periods, the best thing is the music and you didn't create that so no credit. I was expecting alien sea too, not poorly drawn dolphins, better drawn clownfish, and stingrays that pop out of nowhere. So yes you've got potential I suppose, just put effort into your graphics next time. That's what let you down here.

clarke0 responds:

You must actually animate with Flash... darn. Yeah you have a point, but I meant for this to be a quickie (I made it in an afternoon and a morning.) I was hoping the style, color use, and effects would be enough to leave a better impression, but that seems not to be the case. I do know how to animate, I'll work harder with the moving parts for my next production.

[Flystrip 4]

I remember your previous episodes

And this wasn't really as good in my opinion, and I'm sorry about it. I came into watching meaning to give you a 5 because the other episodes were underloved from memory - but this didn't really warrant it, the added character and cameo of steve were a bit ... reaching. The whole concept relies on the fly humour, and adding other things just makes it like every other short skit on here, which is nothing new. I am sorry about this, but I thought I should suggest why the vote is low.

GUTOONs responds:

Thanks for reviewing again.
Input is definately appreciated.
Hopefully their trip to the Chinese joint in Fly5 will be more to your liking.

GU

[Zombies8myneighborTrailer]

Worst thing I've seen this year.

This is the biggest turd ever - I was expecting crap, but not to this extent! Every single bit of text had a gramatical or spelling error, every single one - and since all this movie is is text, there goes the content. I had a great time playing that game with my buddies, and all you did here was make it suck by association. Here's some tips - you're not a big name animator, so let your work speak for itself - don't flash your name all over the place until AFTER the movie. Noone cares if you made a screenshot of a couple of GIFs and did a slow tween on them. There's no content to this, it's just crap. Absolute crap. Make the movie, don't make bloody pointless, stupid, ratarse trailers!

AngelnX responds:

You got issues, serious issues

[-The Bridge-]

Not there

Looks like you've got that whole camera pan and stick generator crap working fine there - but that's all you've got! Use the camera thing to better use, have characters that aren't poo. There isn't a story, it's just random sliding around etc. 17 objects too, bit too few for any impressive work - detail is where it's at. Why not use those techniques in the action sequence of something that has a point - the random stick thing has to be incredibly impressive to get anywhere these days.

HammerGod responds:

To be honest with you, I was around 12 when I made this, so if you wanted something good with a story and some decent action sequences (surely misspelled that) you should at least cheack back in when I find the patience and enthusiasm to make another flash movie.
The camera pan I got from some flash tutorial (can't remember which) and I actually animated everything else fbf/tween myself.
I hate this creation of mine (although there are some good parts), so if you don't like it you'll just get a "Sure, what ever...".
Also, it was one of my first relatively completed flash movies, and my character insight and development wasn't that advanced (as I told you, I was TWELVE YEARS OLD when I made this). Got my point?