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[ZONE-tan Rustlemania Promo Betamax]

I liked the old-school TV, felt kind of comfortable looking at it. I also thought the way of selling your stuff like and old cheesy infomercial as well. Thing I didn't liked was how long it was though, kind of like one of those really slow-time-consuming family guy jokes, you know what's comming and when it finally gets to the end it exactly what you expect and get kind of underwhelmed.
A whole 4 minutes for three rather simple products is way too long. Don't get me wrong, I think the products themself are hilarious, especially the invisible hotdog shirt. But as a viewer I just got like: 'wow that looks neat, and we're just in the beginning of the video, wonder what stuff comes next'. And then it feels like it takes forever to get to the next thing while the enthusiasm has already dropped.
So long story short, didn't like the pacing.

And on a technical note, after the infomercial part, whenever Zone lift her hand, the hand under it just changes color. I know it's a different shade, because when the hand is covered it's in shadow. But whenever Zone quickly puts her hand down and lifts it up right after it just flashes color, wich looks kinda weird. Would probably look better if you tweened that color instead of straight from dark to light shade.
It's not a big problem though, only pretty weird if you notice, couldn't help but keep checking it whenever I saw her hand move XD

[Nebula Girl: A Lonely Star]

It looks and sounds FUCKIN NEAT! Also, I'm kind of supprised I haven't ever seen any serious drama done pixelated before.
The first few seconds in, I kinda felt annoyed to hear the computer voice talk so caring and sympathetic (since I'm used to computer voices only talk cold and factual, or like a butler who doesn't give his oppinion, like Jarvis from ironman) but he quickly grows on ya, with his friendly face chillin on the dashboard.

Also pretty cool how as a viewer, you don't care if she's gonna be resqued, but if she's gonna be able to beat that game or if she's gonna run out of power. Don't know about the rest who watched this but I cared more about the gameboy problem than the whole stranded in space issue :p

The only beef I have with this animation is personal. And that's the name of the main character. All of the Ambers I've known and seen were totally selfish, egocentrical and rude cunts. But it would be bullshit to take off points for that. And hey, this might redeem the name a bit for me :p

Hope you're gonna continue working on this.

Also, the voice actors did a fine and dandy job ;)

ClockworkPixel responds:

Thanks for this great review! Sorry about the Amber thing haha hopefully this can change your mind and the caring more about her gameboy is wanted I really wanted people to care about and prohaps trying to piece together the story before this with dialog and background clues but mainly caring for her beating the game. I hate A.I. That turn evil well hate might be a strong I'm just sick of it, I wanted to create a nice A.I. You'd like to see on your phone or something :)

[Out of Order 1]

Great! Looking forward to episode 2! ^_^

Loved the background and character style.
The characters look drawn simply (of course you animate on your own instead of having a big-ass team to animate it so you cant have that many details and have it do-able) but they aren't looking cheaply animated. And that way it's really looking more like it's a chosen style choice instead of a natural compromise you have to make as an animator.

The voice acting was great to. They put up some great voice. Not only sounding that they can do a good voice but you can also clearly hear there people know what they're doing with voice acting.

Little point of improvement to the voice actors though. The voice acting itself can great, but I think the voice actors should pay a little more attention of the articulation. English isn't my native language but when watching other series in english, most proffessional voice actors manage to articulate their sentences a little more clear than you would actually speak in real life, and I as a foreigner can still easily understand everything said. Not that I couldn't understand jack shit. It's just a a foreigner i had some more trouble with certain parts clearly understanding everything.

So, yeah. Kinda small thing i'm trying to tell but I needed a little more explanation to make sure I got the general idea across :p

kmau responds:

I know what you mean, I'm from germany and I just can't understand a few english-speakers very well. In movies etc. however most (voice-) actors utilize a clear "school english" non-natives are more familiar with.

The simpler symbol animations ARE a compromise! I wish I could've had the time to do everything frame by frame.

[Kingdumb Hearts BBS 2-2]

my god....

That ending had so much win I couldn't even imagine XD

[SS13_1 - Crystals]

holy cr@p, it's true

While watching this, i remembered i had a tiger eye at home, it always kinda felt like a kind of lucky charm, while i didn't know anything about it. I also somhow felt more energetic while carrying it around.

But about the begining of this episode: yup. Crystals are the escence of life. Somehow, directly or indirectly, life comes from the minarals of these crystals. I mean, where do plants get their nutriants from?

[Kawaii Robo Star: Xtreme]

waste of good drawing skills.....

The animation looked just wonderful, the shadman also did a nice job on the background. It just wasn't really funny.
I mean, it was mostly: robots say some boring stuff and then explode, wich has been done before (just not with robots) and wasn't really funny then.
And the funniest thing was a cock joke wich was actually a funny cock joke for once. Since it took the flash time for something like that and was done in a quirky way.
Also liked hearing some really old-school sound-effects (I think from the jetsons), was nice to hear something nostalgic like that again.

But overall, the flash was just too boring, as it felt it didn't really have a punch line or was well written. You could have at least used some clever subtle refferences from some mech animes. It was just a video with pretty much some random shit happening, and not random in a funny way.

I just really don't know what to think of this flash, it all looks really well drawn (like you guys really made an effort to try and make something good) but it feels like just another kitty krew troll thing.

[SMRPG Waltz of the Forest]

no...

Of all the great songs super mario rpg has the only song people seem to do is this song that's from a part of the game that's not even signifficant, not even verry interesting at that. I mean, who actually got stuck in the forest? O.o

As for the song, the one from the Rawest Forest was nice, but not really more than that. And this one wasn't even half as good. And it wasn't even a waltz, not anything NEAR a waltz. The only thing that was nice in the song was the opera part, and I friggin hate opera music.

But the animation was good, Only problem with the animation was that it hardly made any sence, and with that I mean that there's no kind of logical order in the animation. It basically looks like you've took all kinds of stuff and characters from the game and just throw it randomly together.

So the next time making a music video: put some thought into it before making it. Cause this just seems like a waste of time and skill to me.

[SS - The Flower of Life]

too much information XD

Gotta re-watch this a couple of times and try and draw the flower myself. But it does pretty good sence so far. Except for the alien part. I personally think that the cropcircels are artworks made by people.

RiverJordan responds:

Consider the fact that all of these sacred geometric crop circles are made absolutely perfect, and would be next to impossible to be made to that level of detail by a single person in a single night, especially without a helicoptor to see it with.

And now consider the fact that these sacred geometric forms haven't been known for over 3000 years by the average man, and even when it was known, it was sacred and studied.

Do you really think humans could have made such intricate designs that match the ancient forms just by coincidence?

[Babies]

Dream Team!!

You two making a video together... I wouldn't have dared to dream about it!

And I listened to the loop about 6 times and still didn't get a single bit bored, the song was just perfect, especially for Sexual Lobster to animate to.

The only minor imperfection is the part where the guy's eating the sandwich. But I really hope you two are gonna team-up more often, because Weebl's songs and Lobster's animations go together perfect like peanut butter and jelleeeh!

[Jerry 2]

well.....

I don't really see this as an april fools joke. Cuz april fools flashes are normally just trolling ceasure crap thingies.
I'd rather see this as spoofing your own movie. Just too bad that you didn't really animate anything new, except for the lypsynching perhaps, and that you kinda named it officially Jerry 2. Though it gave me a few nice giggles :p