Score: 8

"Nice"

submission: Shopping Trip

date: September 25, 2005

Wouldn't it be grand if all shopping produce could do that? Ah, the possibilities...

A previous viewer mentioned that they couldn't play the movie, that's probably because it's using Flash Player 8 which was only released a few days ago. If it doesn't play then you need to visit the macromedia website and get the update. The animation has some nice use of the brand spanking new blur effect so it's worth doing.

Score: 10

"It made me smile"

submission: Mexican PinkVisor CarRide

date: June 24, 2005

but then again I did the optimisation on it. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't like it!

Reading the other reviews, I get the sense that many of the people on here take life too seriously. This vid brings back happy memories of those silly moments when it seems like it must be sunrise all over the world. If that doesn't mean anything to the people watching then I can't help but think that their lives must be a cold place. Relax, smile, enjoy the moment. The vid catches that time. If you can't relate to that then I think that's a shame.

Score: 7

"Not bad"

submission: a series of random morals

date: June 16, 2005

As a collection of images it's not bad. The randomness, which is recognised in your title, does mean that it doesn't really hang together. If there were any 'morals' in the piece then maybe that would help, but this was more a set of pictures.

I liked the style a lot, and it's something I've not seen much in the last ten years. Go back to the nineties and Eastern European animation and there was tonnes of stuff like this, and those also felt like they were a bit lost in what they were trying to achieve. Maybe that's why they died out too...

But still. I can see there's a lot of work gone into it, and I think that some of it has paid off, but maybe you should focus on getting a central theme. 'Morals' suggests that there was going to be a theme but that never really appeared. Instead you concentrated on the randomness. That's fine if randomness was what you were going for, but I don't think it was.

All the best for your next animation.

Score: 10

"Love it!"

submission: Zombeanies Trailer

date: June 16, 2005

It made me laugh, which is more than many things on this site!

'Cocky muffins' :D

See you on b3ta!

Score: 9

"Great sound!"

submission: Blot shorts: volume 1

date: November 15, 2003

I love your choices of music, it's nice to hear some things on Newgrounds that aren't taken from The Matrix soundtrack :)

Your animation style is really nice too, I particularly liked the blur effect in the zombie episode.

One tip for your buttons, go into the button's timeline and put a rectangle around the text in the frame marked 'hit'. The rectangle will never be seen by the viewer but it will mean that the whole area will be clickable, not just the letters.

Keep up the good work!

Mata
http://www.matazone.co.uk

Score: 10

"Blimey"

submission: Perfect Kirby 3.2

date: November 13, 2003

That's really very very good. Those bits of mock-3D must have taken ages to animate.

You clearly both have a lot of time on your hands, but if you continue like this then you'll have a career in Flash animation ahead of you both.

Best wishes,

Mata
http://www.matazone.co.uk

Score: 9

"Great as always"

submission: Free Your Mind

date: November 13, 2003

I've always enjoyed your animations, your visuals are sparse but always expressive but what really brings them up is the vocal performances. Brilliant.

Mata
http://www.matazone.co.uk

Score: 9

"Very very odd"

submission: BEEBO Part 8

date: November 1, 2003

but good nonetheless.

It's good to see someone actually putting effort into writing a decent script and then having enough of a sense of timing to make it work. The best thing I've seen on here for a fair while. Nice one.

Score: 9

"A really good trailer"

submission: Mushan - orb of balance

date: October 30, 2003

It reminds me of Ninjai the Little Ninja, although maybe that's just the font you've used.

If there is anything to be picky about I'd say that it's a really large file for such a short piece of animation. Maybe the sound quality could be reduced?

While I'm on the subject, the sound is excellent and fits the visuals perfectly.

Good luck with making the first episode. I usually try to make my animations in two to four weeks, but I'm guessing from your ETA you're taking a little more time than that!

Score: 6

"Nice animation but..."

submission: Enter The Portal Ep.1

date: October 30, 2003

it doesn't really go anywhere.

Your skills with Flash are pretty good but you're not using them to their full potential at the moment. Try to get a clear idea of what message you want to convey to your audience then set out to convey that.

This animation is quite a large file what what is essentially a very simple piece of storytelling. The dead files are returning from the grave, fine, but what do they do once they go back through the portal? What you've given us here is the first line of a story without anything more and it leaves the viewer thinking 'and then... Oh, that's it.'

Next time you make an animation try to see it from the audience's point of view. You've obviously worked very hard on the visuals but they don't achieve as much as that work should. This animation could convey what it has in half the time, which would then leave the remaining half to show what happens when they get to the other side... You could have them lumbering ominously through the dark, the lights come on and all the successful .swfs are holding a welcome back party for them, the zombie .swfs stand around looking embarassed, the end.

Something like that would have given the plot a feeling of resolution rather than leaving it open ended.

Actually, that's a pretty good punchline, I might use that in one of my animations...

Have fun and good luck with the next one!