Score: 7

"Not bad..."

submission: Zone of the Awesome

date: January 23, 2009

A few suggestions though: you need a new microphone... this one gets waaaaaay too much noise in the background. One thing about the awesome videos is that the pacing is far faster than this and usually covers a lot more into a story and a lot more profanity. You're relativity new at flash and this is great progress. Your animation skills could use some work but since it was an "Awesome" movie I guess it's acceptable. All I can say is just keep on practicing, get a new mic, maybe find some interested voice actors, just keep going with the creativity.

Keep it up man!

btw, the penis thing on all the frames bug me too...

Score: 9

"You could have used another week..."

submission: With My Mind's Madness

date: January 19, 2009

Or maybe even a month, don't get me wrong this is very praiseworthy it's just that if you had more time you'd get a sleeker looking animation.

Although looking at the animation as a whole; you did an amazing job for making this in a week. Sure the animation looked a bit rough, but it gave it a certain feel that I think added to the intensity of the video. Your idea for the combat in the film and the music was very well organized and ran very smoothly together.

All in all you deserve every ounce of credit the fanboys give you, every bit of laud that the portal gave you, and every award they throw at you for this flash. If you only had that extra week though... ah well.

Keep up the great work.

Score: 6

"A quick critique..."

submission: the way of my madness 1p

date: January 19, 2009

Madness is a weird and crazy thing and you tried to match it and that's a challenge all in its own...

It looks like you have potential but at the same time you didn't use it fully. You have good art skills but I feel during some scenes you just half assed it and wanted to finish the piece. The music choice was decent but the action was getting bigger and bigger and then you just cut us off... ouch.

All in all I think you should spend more time on the detail for the next part and perhaps ask around on ways to compress flash files without killing the quality so much. This can be really good, you just need to work harder on the detail and maybe come up with some new ideas. Hopefully the second part will be even better. :D

Score: 8

"A suggestion for future voice recordings..."

submission: "Chaos with the Record Button"

date: March 7, 2009

I don't know if you made a script or not but usually having one around tends to help out a lot. I am curious on what you use as your recording program though... the gaps are waaay too far apart on your voices and I recommend you get a program that is easy to use and that will let you fill these gaps easier (I recommend Audacity).

The background feels sort of empty, I recommend that you put some music in the background and make your recording much shorter. A good recommendation would be "TomaMoto Voice Demo 2008" (http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/list en/136431)

You have great talent, you just need to show it off more dynamically because unfortunately people have short attention spans. Keep up the great work!

Score: 8

"Amazingly catchy..."

submission: The Swiss Formula

date: January 23, 2009

The song had a way of hooking me in and only taking me in more and more into the song. To tell you the truth it was like being on a roller coaster and just going up, up, up, up, and even more up. But the only problem was that the roller coaster never went down or went with the ride. You built up the song, but I sort of didn't feel like you "played" with the song but just "stacked" more on it. This would make an excellent loop for a game, or a scene for a flash video here but I suggest that you keep working on the song and I think that you'll find out how to make it longer, better, and much more intense (wow that sounded wrong...)

Maybe you could crank up the bass a little too....

Score: 9

"It could use some lyrics..."

submission: Saturday Night Blues

date: January 21, 2009

I'm not expecting you to get some lyrics right away or criticize you for not having any but when I hear this song I think of a blues band or just one very soulful pianist that could just go on preaching the blues from his soul.

It's an amazing song that helps bring out the flavor of the blues from the stereotype of being country's little old fashioned cousin from the south. The melody is upbeat, dynamic, new, yet somehow familiar. My main complaint is that the song is too short, other than that there are some small things here and there that bug me but nothing that gets in the way of the song as a whole.

All in all it's an amazing song that I could listen to whenever the Saturday Night Blues catch up to me and if someone on NG could sing (sing well please...) I suggest they make some lyrics to this and just hit a lot harder.