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[A moment of violence]

Keep On Practicing, You're Getting There

The animation was for the most part smooth, but in some places it was either choppy or too smooth. Remember that not everything is perfectly smooth but lots of things are smooth to a degree. The blood was excellent, absolutely superb. The artwork could be better. The character design was subpar, and although simple character designs aren't necessarily bad, those seem to be way to simple. If you want to keep that style of character designs, add some better shading and other details to them and maybe when they jump and land their bottom could squish and un-squish. The background was extremely simple and needs some work. Maybe add some lighting or a more complex background to it. Remember: Shading is your friend. The sword and the grenade could use some shading and overall more detail as well. Once you choose a basic color you can use different shades of that color to make it look more detailed, you'd be suprised at how much better something can look with two shades as opposed to one shade of color. The AK wasn't bad, but it looked like it could do with some touching-up. The song went pretty well with the animation and was a good choice. Audio is extremely important in animations, and you seemed to have gotten that down. The effects (gun shots and what not but excluding blood) could also use work. Try to use filters (if you have Flash 8 or Photoshop) or use gradients and once again, different shades of colors. But remember to not go crazy with color, a good muzzle flash should be maybe a yellow-orange and orange-red color that mesh together well. I think I have covered everything now. Keep practicing and don't be afraid to try new things. Good luck with your future projects.

[Taegukgi]

Very Well Done

Very well done, there isn't much else to say as this is one of the best stick animations of its kind.

@the guy who reviewed this before me: Dude, chill out. This is a small Flash animation, also, many people die from being shot in wars. You have no clue how many people die of that. It is true that bombs are used a lot, but people still carry guns and still use them. There are constant conflicts involving two factions shooting at eachother, and many soldiers on both sides dieing from being shot. Don't be such an asshole. Also, how do you know the marine "just dropped" the grenade, it would have most likely killed everyone in the room depending on its dimensions. Also, a marine can have a grenade, he's a marine. This animation is for fun, only assholes like you can find a way to take it seriously.

[Meteor High: Episode 1]

An average comedic Flash animation.

The graphics in general are okay, but they need some tightening up in places. The character models need some work too, you seemed to have done them in a rather lazy fashion.
The voice actors were okay, but could be a hell of a lot better, so that needs work. The sound effects were good though.
The violence, well, the bit of violence in there was good, I guess.
It was kind of funny, the pepper spray part was probably the funniest part. I think the alien isn't a good idea, those kinds of characters in animations are just getting really old now.
Overally, an average comedic Flash.

TheNakedNinja responds:

Nrom has always been a part of the crew, he shall never go away! Without him there wouldn't be a "meteor high"... and beside we don't know he's an alien we think he's our dog.

[NewbieScape 4 Members]

Not To Good

The first thing you need to do for this series is get better voice actors. Once you have acquired these better voice actors write the dialouge... well, better. Most of it was rather small stuff, but get someone whom knows the English language better because the way it is now is kind of irritating to read and listen to. Also, if you are going to scream, please, scream. Don't be afraid to hold the mic back from your mouth and scream, "Nooo!" into it, because when you try to scream in a quiet voice it sounds, well, horrible. The overal audio quality was pretty damn bad, so I think you should mainly focus on that for upcoming episodes. The graphics are bad and the animation is pretty choppy. The humor wasn't bad, but the audio quality and how the dialouge was written really brings it down. Also, I believe you used that "I had a stroke" joke straight from "The Simpsons" and although it is nice to see a continuing joke used throughout a series it isn't as nice when that joke has been stolen (plus, the way the character whom had a stroke sounds bad). I believe I have touched on everything, sorry if it is hard to read, it's 6:00 AM, I haven't slept yet, and I've got something else to do so I'm rather rushing this review. Basically you need better voice actors, better dialouge, better artwork, smoother animation, and huzzah! You'll have a great series. The humor is really brought down by the audio quality, I can't put enough emphasis on that (well I probably could, but...). Good day and I'm looking foward to the next installment in this series.

Lopaxe responds:

i respect to your advises... only 1 thing. Y the hell u spent so much time on this review if ur not going to rate it high? :p

[XIN Session 02]

Average

The graphics were okay, although the animation could be a lot better. The voice acting was good, but the whole pasting real faces on animated bodies was just horrible. It made this whole movie look like a joke, which I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be or not.

[I Will Beat Pacman!]

Not bad

This movie is pretty good. And there is a sort of ending to Pacman. Technically it isn't a real ending, but on the 256th level the right side of the screen becomes messed up and the player can't see what is going on on the right side. I don't know if it is still possible to beat Pacman if you know the maze well enough, but level 256 is pretty much as close to an ending as you can get.

[Hostile Tribute]

Really Good Flash

This is a great Flash and a very good tribute, especially when the guard standing outside gets picked off and the cam zooms in on him as he gets shot and he falls out of screen. That was extremely accurate to Hostile, good work. The main problem I had with this movie is that the walking sound effects go very tedious. They were loud and instead of having 2 or 4 of them (1 or 2 for each footstep) there was just 1. Besides that, this movie was great.