Score: 10

"THIS is what I save my 10s for"

submission: Castle Repercussions - D2

date: August 29, 2009

I don't have a count of how many 10s I've given in my nearly 8 years here, but it can't be many.

I got over the 'stick thing' early on, as your camera work, sound mixing, presentation, animation and story telling prowess dwarfs any disappointment I might have in you choosing to use sticks.

This series is absolutely epic, and might just be the BEST work I have seen in FLASH. I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Score: 9

"Impressive work that could lead to something great"

submission: Eternal Tale Intro

date: July 15, 2009

This is one hell of a start, from an artistic standpoint. Your backgrounds are actually painted, not hacked together with vector art, and your characters appear to have a lot of thought put into them, from what I can see.

People complain about Anime all the time, mostly because all they've seen is Pokimon and other 'sell-toy' shows. To such people I say; Go watch Jin-Ra, Akura, CowboyBeebop, Evangelion and Macross Plus, then tell me anime sucks with some conviction. You won't, because if you have any interest in a good story, and a great way to tell it, you'll have been converted.

Back on subject here. I like what I see. I don't see nearly enough serious animation. Hell, I'm the one who practically introduced the idea to newgrounds in 2001, so trust me, I'm looking out for it. Flash can be a great medium for telling stories. Its nearly perfect for animated Manga/comics and Anime, and its easy to use. I very much hope to see you put it to good use to tell your story.

Keep using the music you think fits, and ignoring complaints. Its your vision. Hell, I chose a rare techno song called Dreamers, which caught me a lot of flack, but I still to this day get E-mails asking what it was and where to get it. The people who you want to see your work, will understand your vision.

Don't leave your following in the dark! Put up a blog or something, or blog on Newgrounds to keep us all informed on your progress.

You've got my attention, and vote, and I'm saving that 10 for your actual episodes ^_^

Score: 8

"Good show ladd."

submission: Like Poetry

date: January 25, 2009

This would easily be a 9, but you compressed the living hell out of the audio! Your animation isn't even 2 MB, bump it up to 64 KBS in stereo, as it is the only audio, and sets the mood for the whole thing! Its a shame otherwise.

Score: 10

"...Wow..."

submission: Serpent's Grave :Pitch:

date: January 12, 2009

THIS is what I save my 10s for. I don't know what to say. Amazing work here.

Its a little chain reacting self contained package. The preloader is upstaged by the animation, witch is upstaged by the sound design, witch is then somehow upstaged by the MUSIC! I find myself coming back to the sound design though. Holy shit, I'm blown away.

Its too bad you don't plan to make this into a full length animation, but I think its best. Look how big the PREVIEW is! A full move would be in 10 to 20 parts at best. I can see this as a move some day and I wish you all luck with that. Just please, for the love of god; Don't let it get dumbed down into a kids film, and don't pick someone like Danny Elfman for your music! This kinda story needs James Horner, or Hans Zimmer!

Score: 9

"Very nice"

submission: Don't Leave

date: November 29, 2008

So what if it was a test? I think the response it has received is a good indicator of the success of that test. And remember that the secret behind creativity is hiding your sources. It does not mater how you put together the art (as long as its legal), all that maters is that you are able to put together what you intended to.

I see animations like this and it reminds me of back in the day when I could animate. I remember that I tended to rush through things, and when I forced myself to take my time, my work was much better. You should consider it. With a little focus, you could make some amazing work.

I agree with the other reviews that say the NG logo was a mood killer, and the one top down scene was very out of place. Otherwise, everything was fine. The story was a great idea. Interesting enough that I could imagine writing a whole series around it. Girl dies, comes back and tries to make things work, they obviously don't because she is DEAD, story peaks when she gets him killed so they can be together, but ends in tragedy when he discovers she did it intentionally. Just a thought.

Anyway, keep it up.

Score: 9

"A few tips"

submission: KR47: Club

date: September 14, 2008

The animation was great, as was the style. Not knee slapping funny, but that's ok, I like to go a day without bruised knees.

Anyway, once you have all of your lines ready for your animation, download goldwave (google) and load them up in that. Copy a section of silence onto the clipboard (not really silence, obvious fan's and shit in the background that we want to cut out). now select the whole sound, and go to effects > Filter > Noise reduction. Set it to use clipboard, and click ok. It should remove background noise based off of the sample you gave it. It might need a longer, or shorter sample, but try to get one as uneventful as possible so it only removes the fan noises and room tone. Once this is done with all your files, your voices will fit in flawlessly with your TOTAL SILENCE BACKGROUND SOUND!

Try looking for roomtones on free sound effect websites. A room tone, or background loop of SOME kind would be much better.

Good luck

Score: 10

"Exelent work"

submission: Wacky Pod Races

date: September 6, 2008

I always like to see dedication like this in an animation. You set a goal and reached it. I never was a fan of the original Waky Races cartoon, or a big Star Wars fanatic for that mater, but you have done a great job combining two things that don't seem to go together at all!

I see how much work you did to stay true to the sources, and I have great respect for that. The voices where as good as they could have been, music did its job, and animation was flawless. Thank you for your time and effort.

Score: 5

"Not horrible!"

submission: Experi-Fight

date: August 13, 2008

Actualy, this isn't tooo bad for a first submission. Your drawing really.... REALLY needs work, BUT you do have a basic understanding of animation, its not dificult to understand what is going on, and for the love of god, you didn't use a white background! (Though the flashing isn't much appreciated)

Its also not super short, whitch is another big mistake of first time animations. Keep working, take your time, and submit again.

Score: 8

"Almost"

submission: :Endless:Pilot:

date: August 10, 2008

Your animation skills are better than your drawing, and that's not an attack on your drawing. You have a strong understanding of how to use the camera, and it shows, but you really need to cut that frame rate in half. Its obvious you didn't intend for it to run that fast, but you thought it looked cool when its running so quickly, and looks so smooth. Sure, keep a high frame rate, but that was WAY to fast to actually make out whats going on.

Spend more time on your artwork. I'm not saying make your characters more complex, and thus harder to draw, just, give the backgrounds some love, and when you are story boarding, don't forget to add some establishing shots to help the viewer understand where the combatants are, or where they are going. That will help to control your pacing.

Again, the animation is there, but the pacing is all wrong and the backgrounds need some attention.

Score: 6

"Good energy in the wrong place"

submission: AKIRA 16-bit Part 1

date: July 24, 2008

Maybe its my preference talking, but I don't think sprite based animations are any good. Even if your drawing skills are limited, its important to develop them, instead of relying on artwork from others to put something together.

You are right, Akira is one of the more popular anime movies, and oddly enough, a lot of people I know who don't like Anime LOVE it, I'm sure you won't have an issue with people recognizing it.

If you put this exact same effort into drawing a animation as a tribute to the movie, even if it was a quarter as long, it would do a lot better. It seems that around here most people only like the sprite stuff in comedy, and its hard to take seriously.