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[Dick Neck: Origins]

One thing

Guy with high voice trying to sound like guy with low voice makes me shit. Get a new VA.

Aside from that...it was alright. Decent animation, okay jokes.

Galneda responds:

Well, which voice are you specifying?

[Without A Mushroom]

Zip zop

The ending was the best part. I also like how you knew you couldn't sound like Mario so you didn't try. Not everybody can speak in the eighth octave.

Sh0T-D0wN responds:

Exactly. I figured doing a lame Italian accent while trying to get my voice that high would come off as lame.

[New Dubya-Doo Movies 2]

Hey it's that joke I heard six years ago

The presentation was very good for a flash. The voices were, while not hollywood-quality, good, the music was decent, the graphics were great, etc etc. The problem? Well, there are two related problems.

First, you told the same jokes over and over again. It was like going back to 2001 and watching The Colbert Report.

Second, the jokes (that were already lacking) were told poorly. You were lacking in fine-tunings such as pauses, reactions, etc. One of the most glaring ones were as follows:
Bush: "...Then can I run for a third term?"
Whoever the other guy was: "You're kind of slow, aren't you?"

The response killed the entire joke. You may notice that in most if not all cartoons (GOOD cartoons), stupid comments by the stock "stupid" character are usually ignored by the other characters. Responding to every stupid comment with "lol that was so stupid" is called stepping on lines, and is frowned upon in the etc etc

In short, study comedic writing or something and you could really go somewhere. Also get new jokes.

[Unrelated Occurences]

Decent

Black and white + "charmingly witty" title + being british = instant 0, but since you didn't say anything I can't accuse you of being a noir british bandwagoneer. So I'll just review it normally.

Lip sync was off, and the fight scene was drawn incredibly poorly. Besides that it was good. Final vote: 3 (-1 for graphics, -1 for having the word "korn" in it)

billyjr82 responds:

....what are talking about!?!? being british? noir british bandwagoneer? none of us are british....what the hell........british!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! .....besides that load of nonsense I thank you for the critism although I will have to disagree with you about the fight scene...I found it to be quite well drawn, quite well indeed.....good day sir ~billy

[Floyd The Snail]

Needs more Ugoff

Au contrair (or however you spell it); there are FAR too many works with Mozart in them, flash movies included. Classical music to a silent or pseudo-silent piece is old and boring. Also, you had absolutely nothing keeping the audience's attention except the promise of "unfortunate" events and shiny pictures. It was just an extremely slow moving flash crawling through syrup toward the conclusion. I myself find it much too aggravating sloshing by at an eighth of a mile per hour, so I quit halfway through. The graphics, obviously, were your strong point. But that's nothing special anymore. Graphics only captivate those trapped in the 20th century, wowed by skilled Photoshop manipulation. You need to get to the point and fast, but not TOO fast. Remember, this is the internet. Shiny pictures will get you far here, but in real life you're out of luck (think Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within). I will vote 3 for your effort and, as far as I could tell, dynamic personality of Floyd.

Gobi responds:

..thank you

[American Idle]

Decent

You misspelled "Americal Idol". Although you may have done it on purpose...whatever.

The voice acting was good, except whoever played the black guy. It sounded like his mic was sub-par. I don't think it was really that funny, but the concept was good, so I'll rate 4.

Dustball responds:

Yes, it was on purpose. And I did all the voices with the same mic.

[TmsT's Zero Wing Rhapsody]

A few problemos

First off, you used a midi synthesizer to make the background music. That's not a good thing. Second, the lyrics could have been fine tuned a little. Third, I forgot what I was going to put here. Besides those things, it was pretty good. I'll be voting 4.

TmsT responds:

^_^
The third thing was "you made crappy anime graphics". Then you would be almost perfectly describing the original Zero Wing movie that I was remaking. Thanks!

[PEACETANK]

I don't like you

But I did like this flash.

DanPaladin responds:

i appreciate your honesty and I'm glad you found enjoyment in this. I wonder why it is you don't like me? I know you as well as you know me, which is... not at all! Have a flower, haha

[Prowlies at the River]

What these morons don't realize is:

To be a Disney animator means to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to pump out a new 21 minute long show each week. It took our buddy Adam here about 2 months to make a 6 minute cartoon with poor animation, albeit good graphics. Also, animators are poor.

This flash was not that great.

chluaid responds:

To be a Disney animator working 24/7 for a 21 min show each week, ALSO means working as part of a huge team of animators, layout artists, special effects animators, cleanup, inbetweeners, background painters, ink and paint, editors, sound effects, musicians, and production-tracking and admin staff.

Did you know this but neglected to mention it? or is it that you are so ill-informed (if at all) that you actually thought one animator is responsible for a 21min animated TV show? hahahaha! You're the moron, sister!

As for the poor animation, that may be so because I'm not a character animator by profession.. I'm a special effects animator.. I taught myself the rest, i.e. character animation, backgrounds, camera work, storyboarding, music and Flash (to name half the work).

[Manga-Gaga 100 Omake]

Two huge huge problems

1) The sound. Dear God. Clearly sound is not your realm. Either learn to splice or don't splice at all.

2) Stop being such an immesurable Japanophile. I mean, a cat girl with wings and a muffin on her head? How Japanophile is THAT? I don't mean stop watching anime, or drawing anime style. I mean stop naming things "Baku No Tori Singetsu`Yan Komo Sugoi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!", especially since you're clearly not from Japan.

Other than that, it was great. I'd watch it again but the splicing makes it a bad experience. 3/5

GagaMan responds:

1) This was the first time I tried. Sorry if I wasn't perfect the first time >_>

2) Oh please, that's the one thing I really would never want to be. If you read the comics, you'll see Manga-Gaga is nothing like a "Baku No Tori Singetsu`Yan Komo Sugoi" kinda thing. In fact, it takes the piss out of things like that. And no, I can't say that I want to be Japanese or any of that because I'm too British =P