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[Across the Universe Ep.2]

Hmmm...

I have to say, I'm not quite as impressed as I thought I should be. Let me explain.
First of all, I'm gonna start with the story. It's simply ok. I'd assume you're releasing these epidoes in the form of "shorts" in order to get them released faster, but it's not working for me, who atleast is interested in what's happening. The whole thing, guestimate,was around 3 minutes.

Which was around the same for the other, episode 1 and possibly Delusions of grandeur, which is still my favorite one after 4 years now? The voice acting, sub-par. For the girl's, which I think is still unnamed, it's slightly above average for me. Not the most perfect thing, but it'll do. However, the man's is slightly below. I don't know, it just dosen't feel right, they way he sounds. Maybe I'd need to watch episode 1 again, but I'm rushing this review.

And now, the worst part (but it's not bad!) for me, the graphics. The first thing that caught my eye to this, was how their head moves. When they talk, or in the begging when there was a lot of "action" it felt really wrong. It gave me the impression that they shoudn't be moving like that. Personally, the way you did it in episode 1, with real pictures and not drawn backgrounds, was better.

For a giant step up, I'd like to see how it was done in Grandeur, but I can't expect it all. Then there's the running scenes. I can't quite remember what he said, but I got the impression that the animation did not match what he said, in mouth and character movement, right before they lept out of the window. And for the last part which was quite obvious to me, was when he ran from the cyclops?

Anyways, whilst he was running from that, it felt slow. You know, when the camera panned way back and it was leaping from bulding to building. The legs on the man just felt like he was running through mud, not in the street as fast as he can.

I would wait 2 years, maybe 2 1/2 at most, for an ATU 3 if it had the same feel as Grandeur, was longer, say 10 minutes, and overall, looked better (^). It felt more "Deep" when there was no dialogue, but I'm more interested long term when there is.

Maybe you can find a happy medium?

6/10

crystalpencil responds:

Thanks for the feedback! Alot of people seem to prefer the Delusion of Grandeur installment, stylistically and conceptually. I need to reexamine it again. Although i find it hard to watch sometimes, it's like looking at an old awkward photo. Im still trying to discover what it is Im doing here, so with each episode this series will morph. Into what, I don't know, but I'm hoping to make progress either way.

[Bagel's Budget Triumph]

What?

I'm sorry, but what is this? When I first started it, I heard no sound. I just saw the pictures of a bagel moving around. Secondly, that's not very interesting. You could've done better, instead of a looping .gif of a bagel, by having some animation. And if you can't animate, then maybe you should stick to audio. An example being "Look at my horse"

When I did a right click->play the sound came in and my god was that song annoying. It wasn't catchy, and not even well made. I had to refresh the page to write this review, it was that annoying. Not even catchy in the slightest. Some songs that are annoying atleast you can sing along to them. This one, the only word is bagel and that hardly makes for a song.

If you had some decent animation about a bagel doing bagel things, then maybe it might've been better. 4/10 review 2/5 vote.

Garage responds:

I'll admit that I laughed when you used "Look at my horse" as an example of good audio, but I tried my best to take the rest seriously.

Thanks for the review!

[School 13 - TongueTied]

It's just

Beautiful. You've certainly improved your volume style. One thing I have to complain about is that russian note on the pole. Mind putting in some subtitles? Or teach me everything from A to backwards R?

Anyways it was cute. That's all I need to say. I have no words for this flash except that it is great. You always do good, short flashes around the holidays.

Nightwayfarer responds:

Thanks)
The note says "Magical Pole. One lick grants you one wish"

[y my 3rd movie]

Stupid

Was alright. I found it to really drag on sometimes. I mean at the beggning it dragged on until they got to Earth, and the next morning part with the hen went for about 4 crows too long.

The alien voices were just terrible. I know they're supposed to be aliens, but you can do better than this. In terms of plot it is really nothing special. I don't even find the scarecrow aspect of it funny. "He's too stupid." Really? Sounds like a 7 year old.

I would have given it a 4, but it deserves more. A 6 is too high for it. We need something better than this.

Violet-AIM responds:

yeah the voices were meh but thanks anyways.

[-Monsters-]

Monsta!

This flash is too epic. Not only because of the song, but because it goes so well. The points when the song builds up to a sort of semi-climatic point is when the SWAT guys come and also when the first murder happens.

The monster is even more mysterious. Alwqays in the shadows, always moving. Never seeing his whole body until the end when we think he's dead. That part is also pretty epic. THe part of the song does make it happen. The we are the monsters with his revival after the cops is certainly good.

It takes skill to sync up a song with your own flash. Making time cutting out adding to make it happen at that one specific part, all make you a talented flash animator. The graphics do not need to be improved, but that would be pretty top 50 for this type of flash.

His eye looked like a werewolves, too. Could that be what he is? The last parts I can talk about are these. One is that I saw an NG Blam/Protect symbol on an officer's hat. Polive sergeant? Could that have been me? The other is that the only thing that could stop him is a nuke. It would have ended better if he came back alive with a shot of his eye at the end like in the icon. Good flash. Good flash.

evan210 responds:

I'm glad you caught the easter egg with the badge ;D

Also, about the syncing...

The way I did it was I listened to the song about 20-30 times, and while doing so I planned out the basic timing of everything in my mind. First, I just did the major points (The first kill, the climax, etc.), then filled in the details. By the end of that phase, I knew almost exactly when to cut from one scene to another.

[Madness Assasination: KT]

A little short

This flash is a little short which does not warrant my usual 1,000 character reivew, but I will try to add as much of it as I can. The assasination is really good. A little short and sweet, but that's all you need to tell.

Maybe an escape scene could make it a lot better. The song could be way better. I remember how it went and heard it all the time on youtube. But now when I go and try to find it, nope. Nothing. It went duuuh duuh in a sort of techno style thing and everyone used it in pwnage videos of things. Had no words, that sort of thing. Maybe it was DJ something, but I'm not short.

The thing I found the most funny was that Mr.Freeman was there, just probably as some sort of joke. Or maybe he was part of it? Who knows.

C-Doodlez-Man responds:

Mr. Freeman was apart of it man! Not really, just seeing how many people would notice, which most do. I'm currently working on the next madness assassination which takes place in Nazi germany. I am using alot of this critisim to improve.

[Paper flow]

Deep yet stupid.

The flash was beautiful. The style could have been better if it was one of those no background moving line things, but this works just as well. Why else would it be called PAPER flow?

It had a very good meaning that moved me. It was about death, and the love and tears someone had because of it. However, at the end I was un-moved when I remembered it was about breast cancer. Personally I do not care about that. Call me whatever you want it is a fact.

The music was also a plus for this flash. Classical does work wonders for the soul at times. I myself, am a metal man. One thing that did disturb me is that the female, who apparently died, was drawn like one of those little movable dolls.

This kind of creeped me out. Why can't she be drawn realistic like the man who I suppose is her husband. Perhaps I am thinking too much. I would have liked it better if it was simply about death and not cancer.

Zyphonee responds:

The whole flash was random clips I started animating for the fuck of it :]

[MW 2 in 28.3 Seconds]

Not implemented well

While I do say it's an ok flash. You did not use it well. The backgrounds were taken not drawn which you should have done, the things you did draw and voice acted were really bad. You had a good idea, but didn't use it well. Also it's called 5 seconds not 28.3.

ZooAnimal responds:

I think I know the title of my own flash >.>

[Billy Mays: Pilot]

next time

MAKE a billy mays commerical using his voice edited

masterguy-1243 responds:

NO.

[Earth Hour]

gag

so i fucked the earth chick when she came to kill me I FUCKED HER good

Sh0T-D0wN responds:

... Lol.