Score: 2

"God I hate that song."

submission: Black History Music Video

date: February 19, 2008

Ok, your drawings were clean and decent, but boring and stiff. They lacked any flavour what-so-ever and just left me tired and my eyes drooping. The designs were solid, but you didn't explore them beyond bland generic shapes.

Second, that song was ridiculous. Those lyrics were tired and cliche. There was so much repetition. The music didn't change once. The rapping was more like talking. I'm not docking you for the inability of the musician, but I am docking you for choosing such a garbage song.

Finally, and worst of all, there wasn't really any animation. There were some drawings floating around, but no movement. AT ALL! I suffered through this until the very end, holding out hope that there would eventually be something worth while, but there really isn't.

I like that you're into black history month. I like that you went forward and put in the effort. But I can't give this a good score, because your chops just weren't there, and this was really just boring beyond all belief.

Sorry, but keep at it, and I think with time and lots of practice you could be pretty solid in the future.

Score: 9

"Flawed, but very engaging."

submission: [fishes]

date: February 10, 2008

There are alot of tiny details that I got wrapped up in/were distracted by, but in the grand scheme of things this was a fantastic attempt at breaking the mold and you succeeded in making something very atmosphere heavy.

I'll start with what I loved. T
he music and your voice overs were the top of my list with this. So brilliant and the were definitely the basis for the world I stepped into when I watched this.

Second is the colour palette. It's perfect. The colours are pastel and dreamy, and at moments border nightmarish and layered on your video they make reality seem spaced farther apart.

Third would be your poetry/text. It was cryptic, and yet entirely self-fulfilling without the need for advanced analysis. The word choice was awkward at bits, and splendidly spot on for the majority. It told a bleak tale of what it is the wake up to yesterday. As someone who writes alot of poetry myself, it was nice to see someone present some of my own thoughts in their own unique way.

What I liked least was the art. Rotoscoping is a fine technique that was deliver some fantastic effects, but it is a specific talent of it's own, and I just don't think you you're quite practiced enough at it. The wobbly lines are nice, but the volume of the subjects varied in strange way that might have been surreal but sadly weren't. You're drawings, though the got the point across, lack technical knowledge enough to really stand out. I did like their simplicity though.

The big issues: Sometimes the text blended to well with the rest of what was in frame and ended up being too hard to read. This suddenly snapped me awake a couple times and killed the mood, which is why I can't quite give this a ten.

Overall, I loved it though. Keep up the fantastic work.

Score: 9

"I think you're funny too!"

submission: My Mummy Says I'm Funny

date: February 7, 2008

I have to say, the badness of the jokes was hilariously great!

Art as gardbage, animation too. BUT IT WAS FUNNY AS SHIT!

Score: 10

"Hi Andrew Kepple!"

submission: ScientLOLojyuuichi!!

date: February 7, 2008

How's it going?

This was rather awesome, I have to say.

Score: 7

"Voice acting killed it for me..."

submission: Valhalla Knights 2

date: February 5, 2008

I enjoy your work well enough. Don't much like The Real Legend of Zelda, but that's irrelevant.

One thing MUST be said though, consistently, your voice acting murders the atmosphere of your work by being thoroughly laughable. I don't want to be harsh about it, but simply put, aside from the female voice actress, the voice acting in this turned the entire movie into a joke for me.

Still, fantastic work with those action sequences. I have only two critiques OF THE WHOLE ANIMATION in terms of the animating itself. One, when the sword contacts with someone, I'd like to see more resistance and he slices through. Some anticipation and some squash and stretch on it maybe. SECOND that weird thing were his face turned red and his nose bled when he saw the girl was pretty lame and cliched from anime.

K, well for you hard work I'm still dropping a 7.

Score: 9

"LMFAO!"

submission: Wii Are Sold Out

date: February 5, 2008

Holy shit! Ahahaahaha! I don't even WORK at the EB-Games I frequent and I want to do this when people ask the clerks. OR ASK ME EVEN!

I'm in there soooooooooooo often and I'm always chatting with the staff, so people assume I work there, and they ask.

Anyway, your voice acting is what made this. When you went berserk, I nearly pissed myself laughing at the noises you made!

Score: 10

"Hey there Connor Flemming."

submission: Small Talk

date: February 3, 2008

This was quite awesome, I have to say. I really enjoyed it. Like the rest of your work it had such a simple elegance and the timing was perfect. Great pace.

Looking forward to more from you, haha. Been I while since I even acknowledged your existence, and I was talking to Luis and I remembered you were friends with him, long story short I just watched all your movies.

Fives all around!

Score: 2

"I'm sorry to say it, but it was pretty bad."

submission: The Smoking Kills Collab

date: January 31, 2008

I'm not even going to address the idea, because when the production value is this low, the content is borderline irrelevant.

None of the animation was remotely good, none of the art was good OR interesting and it all lacked technique and style, not a single one of those segments were funny or clever in the least. OH WOW HE DIED BECAUSE HE SMOKED?!?! NO WAY! That's the sort of attitude I got from this and it was just downright boring,

Yeah sure, you might have some good message in there, down smoke whatever. I don't smoke, and I don't like it when people smoke around me, but if you want to do it in yoru free time, I'm not going to say anything.

Yet those points don't even matter because the quality of work in this was borderline unwatchable. Fine if you want to get a bunch of just starting out artists together and make some overblown collab, but just because it took a long time and has upwards of 15 people, doesn't mean it's good.

Note, I don't know the actual number of authors, I had to close it by the time to credits started. It felt like more than 15, but maybe there were less.

Score: 9

"Incredibly badass."

submission: Doobie and the Dragon

date: January 21, 2008

It wasn't clean. It wasn't pretty. But the animation was slick as hell, the music rocked it just right, and you set your scenes up nice and interesting. The story was simple, but it did what it did very well. You're characters, both villainous and heroic, we plain but engaging and well designed.

My recommendation here is to work at cleaning up your art. Line consistency. Smoother volumes. That sort of thing.

Still though top notch and very enjoyable.

Score: 9

"I think the thing I liked most..."

submission: -Falling-

date: January 20, 2008

... was that the way the male character moved was so surreal. It was completely strange and almost frightening.

I think it'd be hard to find a bigger fan of your music on the planet. Maybe Andre, but I am absolutely in LOVE with your music. Your camera work was quite fantastic. Truly brilliant direction.

If I had one complaint it would be that some of the camera movement was rather jerky, and the cut from the tracking shot of the Man against the TV to the next scene was pretty jarring.

Very good work overall!