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[Strawberry goes Shopping]

Best Clock Day Submission

I know it's not hard to get the best Clock Day submission but you did it! XD

Imacow responds:

I woulden't say that just yet.

[The Apocalypse Collab]

Awesome!

Great collaboration! Congratulations on finally releasing this out. The music was great and suited it well. Great job - hope to see more from ya!

Rudy responds:

Thanks. Glad ya enjoyed it! ;)

[Jedi vs. Ninja]

Great

Great work, good action, good music, good idea, art was decent but the animation was great. Keep it up!

ActiveObjectX responds:

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[-screwdriver-]

Not Bad

There was some good FBF here but it all was the same shape doing something, it got boring after a while. Also colouring in would be good as well, it just takes a lot of effort to do so.

Graphics weren't the best because it was mostly just an outline with the brush tool but they did a few cool things which was good. The parts with the square, black and white things were good too. The music suited perfectly.

5.7/10

2.3/5

-Review Request Club

possibly-yodd responds:

Thanks ^_^ and as I mentioned earlier, tis visual tests + missed collab part. So I wasn't really expecting anything good to come of it. Maybe SOME DAY I can finish one of my big projects... maybe.

Thanks for the review.

[Operation Gi-go: File 2]

Daily 3rd Place?

This should've gotten daily 1st place... this was so good! Graphics were great but you could have some animation practice. I have not seen a Flash that actually keeps me going and interested like a Flash you made right here!

Did you use Photoshop for a few graphics?

10/10

5/5

Can't wait for the sequel but take your time!

-Review Request Club

Gi-go responds:

Thanks!

Yeah, I used photoshop for every background.

[FrameStorm: The Rise]

Nice FBF

It was alright, had nice fast and smooth FBF which I liked but it was very short and random... People don't realise how much it gives to a Flash movie when it has a story line - It's much better than just random cool animation.

You're drawings weren't very detailed but the animation was very good.

7/10

3/5

-Review Request Club

Ramirezoid responds:

Yeah, you should see my real draw3ings though. I'm very good.

[Cow on Trampoline]

Ok

It was ok, there wasn't really much that I liked but the "3D" cow flying in space impressed me a lot. The trampoline effect bouncing was pretty bad - a trampoline doesn't extend the amount of the material, it stretches lower, your flash made it look like the trampoline produces more of that material when someone goes to bounce.

You also need to put more effort into the jumping animation, it didn't look like he was doing much.

And your drawings need shadows, those really make a difference to drawings and improve graphics by a lot.

5.8/10

2.8/5

-Review Request Club

Imacow responds:

Thanks, I was going for a cartoony effect.

[Twisted Minds Ep. 1]

Pretty Good

I thought this was pretty funny and enjoyable flash to watch. The intro music was great. What needs improving is the voice quality, the spelling mistakes and some graphics.

With the drawing you should add shadows... it really makes a difference. And the walk cycles were a bit robotic, both of the legs and arms are usually moving at the same time, not one at a time.

Lipsyncing was pretty good, but you definitely need shadows on your drawings. Good work! 7.7/10, 4/5.

-ShortMonkey

Triple-Elemental responds:

We'll try to fix some of those things in the next one.

Thanks for the review!

[Sr. Pico]

Not really good at all

The music was the best part about this really... most of the animation was laggy, like half of Pico's was getting cut out as he was moving... the gun animation was just horrible, the shape tween with sun could've at least been tweened back to its first position instead of just suddenly going back the first frame of that symbol...

Please don't make your own text with the brush tool, download fonts off a site and type it in... I couldn't read what it said... and the part where it says "Imacow made this" was too quick, I could barely read it.

Try better next time, I can't really say this was a good animation with much effort in it. :(

-Review Request Club

Imacow responds:

Thanks for the review.

I realy spent no time on this submission at all.

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 2]

Well...

It's very short no doubt about that. The preloader was nice and the background effect during the movie at the beginning... with the green and greyish circles fading into the middle.

The music suited perfectly, and it was funny... what needed lots of improving is the graphics:

The roller skates we're very well done. The body wasn't done very well, definitely needed shadows and better colouring. Eyes could've had more detail... the main part that really helps is the shadowing.

A lazy way to do that is to convert each part of the body into a symbol and apply the drop shadow filter, inner shadow, set the alpha down to 18% or something like that, set each blur axis down to 3 and choose the distance and angle.

Made me laugh but next time make one longer please or a whole animation with heaps of funny shorts... and graphics need improving.

-Review Request Club

Jimtopia responds:

Well, the reason these are so short is so that it doesn't take too much time away from one of my bigger projects, like, one of these episodes I can make in maybe 2 hours. I'll try that shadowing thing next time, thanks for reviewing!