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[the Last of the Dashkin]

Narration was such a bad idea...

The score is mainly for the animation as per usual it was excellent.

I Personally believe you made a HUGE mistake adding naration, it was poor story telling and often the atmospheric/background music was way to loud and overpowered the narration. Her voice wasn't really that soothing and the script she was given seems to have been hugely rushed.

"Deep down, he harboured loneliness" etc, really didn't need to be told. You could of easily shown this through facial expressions and camera movement, i mean if there was no narration at all at that one part it would of worked alot better. (Personally)

Overall, i'm not a huge fan of this in comparison to your other work as i can tell this was a rushed job (4 weeks) and i'm pretty sure if you had longer, it would of came out alot better.

Think more about the sound next time, as sound is often more important than the animation itself (Don't mean to sound patronising as i couldn't animate as well as you, but i think you know yourself the story was hugely rushed and the narration was a huge slip up).

chluaid responds:

Everything would look better with more time spent on it, and yes I admit I'd like to have dedicated some extra weeks to tweaking. That happens on every project though, but at the end of the day, I'm happy with this one and ready to move onto the next. Lessons learned, new plans drawn up, etc ;)

[Narwhals]

The horn was abit bigger? (Much bigger)

Nice to know people actualy WATCH the documentaries the BBC flood out. Was an intresting watch i'll admit that much.

[Bowja From His Cashle]

Voice.

Perfect as a sound clip, the animation just gives it visuals.

I came back and watched it again parlty cause i was bored partly cause of the voice :D

[I.E.S. ep.1]

Inspiration?

It's funny that you wrote a letter to tom about ng being inspiring cause this in fact was one of the most inspiring peices of flash i've seen in a long time. It had all the characteristics that makes an animation great.

Excellent humour
Excellent animation
Excellent sound quality and also a sense of belonging. I'm sure alot of people who watch this will be able to, in some deep personal way, connect with this. Be it moving away, making new friends, trying to get a girl conversations they've had. Everything was well formulated and executed perfectly.

Huge props to you and you've got a huge fucking talent so i hope to see more :D.

[Best present ever]

Purely amazing.

Like many people have said the animation quality along with the music sync was immense. Correct me if im wrong but there was a little cow and chicken/Tom and jerry influence in there right? :P (The legs of the parents) a clever way around skipping character design.

I'd love to see more and i'm sure you'll get the highest mark possible (Guessing your pre-work is just as good...right?)

Either way very nice job and an amazing submission.

[Awesome Gaiden]

Man of a thousand voices??

I really have to applaud you on your voice acting here. I personaly think if it was anyone else it wouldn't have the amazing impact that you seem to put across.

"Hey theres a ninja over there with big boobs" The reply of "Awesome?" Was EXTREMELY well done cause it captured alot of emotions in 1 short word. Confused>Scared>Conformity(Him trying to make the ninja happy by accepting and following what response he "Thinks" is wanted and ofc it actualy being awsome that there's a ninja with big boobs. Your incredibly talented in voicing and your a credit to yourself.

I personaly think you could easily make voice clips telling stories and they'd be just as amazing as your flash animations. Keep em' coming Ego.

[The Fox]

I have to be honest

Yeah the character design was decent and the animation was pretty smooth, but seriously the sounds effects PISSED ME OFF. I'm trying to listen to the song then i'm spammed with sounds of a duck squawking and bad warner bro's sound effects that seem hugely out of place.

Maybe if you'd scrap the SE's it may improve the overall flash but i can't tell you how annoyed the none needed sounds effects made me.

Good job never the less >: [

[RWD: 014 Dead Lead]

Ok i guess.

For anyone instrested the dirty riff at the start of the animation is from "Welcome Home- Coheed and Cambria".

Animation wise the style reminded me alot of "Watch my chops" Some show here in the uk. Also the noses were very Kricfalusi-ish.

Nicejob

[Chatty Katty]

Nice script.

More so than anything i think it was the script that really got me, it was amazingly hilarious. The kinda cuteness of the animation was also a nice touch.

P.s Was that a penis joke i did see? :D

Great job

[Metal Gear Awesome 2]

Once again comedy genious?

I don't really know what it is with your animations that seem to grab my attention. Being british our senses of humour for many parts are seperated, but the "Piss" joke was incredibly funny. I've often found myself thinking "Wonder what jesus would do if someone said "Jesus christ".". n' the fact he complained about the piss and called god??? Genius.

It's a great flash movie and a great comedy masterpeice. Kudos' on both.