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[Mr.Roots]

Pretty good stuff, and effective use of my darker pieces.

Always interesting to see how others interpret my work.

SuperPhil64 responds:

Thanks, happy you approve of how i used your music. : )

[Teyeler Ep0: The Orb]

I really liked the way you cut my various musical pieces together for this. The animation and art style also work very well for this concept.

Superb work!

SuperPhil64 responds:

Thanks! Happy to hear you approve of my use of your music! Once again a huge thanks for letting me use your music, it was perfect for the mood i was trying to acheive. Keep it up!

[LONELY ROLLING STAR]

You have something nice going on here. However, it looks like your aspect ratio's a bit messed up. Screen's a bit taller than it should be, and we can see a bit too far behind the scenes, if you know what I mean.

Apart from that, you have a nice actual animation here, which is more than I can say for most submissions these days.

buffpixels responds:

UPDATE: For everyone's sake, the swf format is fixed. BUT still watch as mp4, it looks better overall.

[The Hangover]

So, if I understand this correctly, I have reverse-color underwear inside my body...

Familypants responds:

It's entirely possible.

[Mercias and the Moon Man]

That was real nice. Definitely an outlet to let the imagination run wild. Just a few things I should mention:

*That didn't look like Earth. The continents n' stuff were all wrong. They wouldn't have shifted that much in just 2000 years.
*Had a hard time understanding the Moon Man at times. Subtitles would have helped.

In the future, you should shoot for more odd and quirky scenarios. Try to get some comedy up in here, if you know what I'm saying. Other than that, stellar work!

Joemadethis responds:

Cheers!
*The idea was that continents had shifted partly from time but I also wanted it to look like it had been changed by war. Also I wasn't really that bothered about it not looking accurate, it's sci-fi, it's a cartoon, y'know? whatever
*I did try my best to make the moon man as easy to undertand as possible, but I will admit it didn't always work. I will defintlely use subtitles for any future projects with weird /modified voices.

I wasn't really going for the comedy angle for this one particularly, I felt the Moon Mans dead pan responses were enough. I do plan on doing some more comedic shorts in future though! Thanks again for the feedback and I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, stellar. interstellar.

[PRISM]

I almost feel like these two things would have been better separate.

By that I mean, either just go with the narration, or just go with the animation.

Together, they seem redundant. Just my thoughts.

Still, very good technical chops here. Keep on chugging.

Bleak-Creep responds:

Thanks, I understand what you're getting at. My goal with the animation was to put the poem into a context. I meant for the poem itself to be more open to interpretation and this was meant to be one such interpretation of that.

[Unbe-LAVA-ble - Jack And Liane : Episode 4]

That was pretty snazztastic.

I really have no complaints. This deserves to be on TV.

subterraneanlosers responds:

Wow thank you!

[05/213]

Interesting stuff.

I noticed your repeat use of that scrolling background, which seemed to prompt you to switch scenes every time you had to re-roll it. A lot of repetition in general in this cartoon. Not sure if you intended for that or not.

The themes I'm gathering are fairly basic, but there's nothing wrong with that. My only real suggestion would be to have expanded it with more unique scenes, animations and backgrounds. If you did that, you might end up garnering quite a bit of attention.

Keep going!

OverwhelmingNothing responds:

I actually will be honest with you and say a lot of it was just accidental and not on purpose but now looking back it, it seemed interesting.

And yes I understand your part about expanding but I am still learning and am very passionate about this and will get better.

Thank you (:

[Starlight]

Come now. I know the space program isn't perfect, but surely they could come up with something better than wasting millions, if not billions on a child sacrifice.

I am unsure of your motive behind creating this. Precisely what is it that you are trying to denounce here?

Be careful with your response. If you choose silence, I'll just have to sigh and walk away.

LeonardHan responds:

Maybe the animation couldn't explain well and that would be my fault.. sorry.
Well, the reason why they shoot a child to the sun is... to sacrifice for preventing apocalypse, the wrath of the God. And shooting child with a rocket was a kind of expression of sci-fi version of an ancient religion ritual. You know, burning them alive... to reach to the God in heaven.
So that's it. The rocket was just part of the ritual.. only just it costs a lot.

[Dog in Space]

To be honest, it wasn't that great.

There was no sound, and all of your animations consisted of tweens. You're definitely off to a decent start though, and I like your use of framing. However, this has a long way to go before it can be considered a decent Flash movie.

Advice: Do more animating, add some music at least, have a preloader, end on a proper sequitur. I'm afraid there's a lot more pain ahead, but maybe it'll be worth it.

Best of luck,
-Fubaka

StealthyBurrito responds:

Thank you for the constructive criticism!