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[Stick Slayer Episode VIII]

Very good...

Way too many references to list here... happy tree friends , Dune , it goes on.... but YOU KNOW THAT!

This was an awesome submission - Daily winner with ease, front page in no time and most likely in the top 5 by the end of the month.

Can't say enough good things about it.

You're extremely talented - keep it up!

[3Million]

Nice job..

The only thing I would suggest is to set your sound to stream instead of event - this will sync the animation with the sound, skipping frames is necessary. The sound (on my machine) stopped long before the animation and it took away just a bit.

Animation was good - flash skills not bad - very simple but effective - you pulled this off nicely without a hundred unnecessary bells and whistles.

I imagine that you've suffered a loss that may have inspired this - if that's the case then please accept my condolences. Hopefully your creativity may prevent someone else's.

Keep it up though - you do great work.

[Black & White : Destiny]

Absolute crap...

I really hope your mod skills far surpass your flash skills as this was just an all around horrible submission.

The sound was annoying - skipping popping choppy sound...

The graphics were so far below sub-par that you must have TRIED to make them look that bad...

The text was completely unreadable...

and finally it seems as though the entire submission was just a cheap marketing ploy - no that's not right - 'marketing' implies that there is money involved- it was a cheap "hey lookie lookie, I'm making a mod to a 4 year old game" ploy...

Don't bother - Black and White 2 will be released soon anyway and the entire B&W/B&W-CI thing will be so far outdated that not even YOU will want to play your mod...

I know it may be harsh - but it's all true - tough love brother...

[Lethal Sneezes]

Not great

Not terrible either though - I guess...

I'm giving you the benefit of doubt here though as I could SWEAR that I've seen something VERY similar to this not to long ago...

Maybe you based your work on something you've seen - I dunno...

Not completely terrible - you did a half-assed job on the animations (which is better than alot of submissions) but it wasn't very funny overall....

faye-smith responds:

Yeah, that submission was mine, but i'd just got flash it was stick people, so i redid it... I didn't do it half-assed thankyou very much! it's mostly FBF

[D R E A M S]

Nice job

Really nice job - some of your effects were done very well - the blurring in and out was good - overall good animation - not crazy about the sound - a little too gothic - the harpsichord gave it too much of an adams family/stereotypical horror-esque vibe which I think took away from your animation. - Something darker - more uncomfortable - sickly sounding - would work much better...

But that's just my opinion and I'm often wrong...

Great job though overall!

I would really like to see something a little more fleshed out.

[CRAP (special edition)]

Not a single rotating dog...

The last one was most likely blammed because there weren't any clocks, fruit, muffins, pube-muppets or synthesized voices in it...

Good job. Could have been a bit longer - I think you could've gotten two or three other software error jokes crammed in there - but either way it was good overall...

Keep it up!

Melchior898 responds:

you hate cc aswell? thank god.. (hates clock crew)

i would have liked to make it longer, but you know how flash is.. i just wanted it to end. but.. meh. it could have been better, or longer... but yeah.

[30 seconds of randomness]

Sort of blew...

There did seem to be a theme, bricks and tripping... But there's really not a whole lot there that was very funny.
Just a pet peeve of mine but this was not random. Random would, and should, imply that there is an unscripted element involved but there wasn't. Too often people use the word "random" when what they should be saying is that there is no connection between one scene and the next. If your FLA doesn't contain something that looks like this:
myVariable = random(100);
...and maybe a few if-then statements then what exactly is "random" about it?
How about 100 different scenes where something unconnected happens - then at the end of each gotoAndPlay() a RANDOM new scene - and only use 20 each time - that way the movie would play back a random selection of 20 scenes out of a possible 100 in a random order - then each time it was viewed you would see something completely different.
Try that if you're up to it...