Score: 3

"The message is lost"

submission: Ambiguous Realization

date: August 26, 2008

I can only assume, based on your comment in the description, that this is satarizing, or at least criticizing what some people consider to be art. That message, however, is not at all apparent in the flash, and truth be told I didn't even make it 30 seconds before calling it quits. For what it's meant to be, I suppose it's all right, but ther must be better ways to go about it.

Score: 9

"Lol"

submission: Rest in Peace

date: August 26, 2008

Good dog.

Score: 9

""Mother fucker, we've got guns""

submission: oh look, satire

date: August 22, 2008

It's funny because it's true, which actually makes it scarry. Seriously. I'd watch your back if I were you; this has likely gotten you a frount row seat on "The List" I mean, did you see what happened to the last guy to discredit recycled humor. Beaten to death with a herring by the Knights who formerly said Nee. Seems satire begets irony....for massive damage.

Score: 5

"Well...."

submission: Professor Layton pt.1

date: August 21, 2008

This is a clear deviation from your previous works and I have to say it's rather disapointing. The humor is there, but just about every "joke" is long and draw out to the point of absurdity. Plus the delivery of each joke is so nearly identical that it feels like the same one over and over again (doctor neglect in a serious situation/abrupt statment of shocking quality). Also, the animation was, for lack of a more adequate word, shat-tastic, but I gather that this was due to extreme laziness and therefor intentional (a condition I can well except and understand, but it does not help the video one bit).

From reading some other reviews, I gathered that this is a game pariody, so I may be missing a great deal of the funny due to that, but I still can't find good with this, especially considering the quality I associate with your other works. Having seen the second iteration, it just seems more of the same on a downward trend; the jokes being now not only repetative and drawn out, but blatently juvinile. What I would very much like to see is more of "the pickup" and similar caliber works, or at the least a brief explination as to the sudden shift in status quo.

Score: 9

"Success"

submission: A Smucker's Moment

date: August 21, 2008

This could go anywhere, but here it is of particular significance due to the short length of the animation.

Something I have noticed about your movies is that dispite the high quality in nearly every aspect, what really brings them togeather is often the voice acting. I'm not sure where you got your people, but hang on to them like grim death. Case in point: this entire clip is made with just 5 words (now I wonder which ones THEY might be). The tone, the delivery, the pause leading up to it. Gold. And it seems so natural. On one hand it's often the case that a single line may have dozens of takes before an acceptable one is made, but on the other it's hard to imagine the line delivered any other way, because any other way just wouldn't work.

Course I may just be looking to hard into it, and I may be trying to attribute the overall feel these videos tend to give me to a single aspect undeservingly, but there is something to your work that is above the rest in many ways. Keep it up.

Score: 10

"Noble sacrifice"

submission: Animate This!

date: August 21, 2008

Talent of this caliber is not without it's drawbacks: this particular one I hope never to experience, but you push through it with a smile and a joke. The weight you carry is great, and for that we salute you. May you continue this indirect form of maschosim well into the future.

Score: 3

"Again with this."

submission: abscess

date: July 27, 2008

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: wierd is not sole criteria for good. And that was all I saw in this. Wierd. No deeper meaning, no underlying message (that I could descern, anyway. The garbled words and text faded into the background make for....well, just that), no real point except perhapse as artistic practice.

Trying to think outside the box is good, but a work cannot sustain itself on that alone. Too many people make that mistake. Give it some meaning; make it draw an emotional response from your audience. When you go back and watch it, you should feel something you cannot put your finger on. If you did, well.....sorry, but it didn't come across. Keep at it, and improve. This, however, ain't up to snuff.

Score: 9

"That was fun."

submission: ~SpeedAnim:FreedomParty~

date: May 17, 2008

And fun is good.

Score: 3

"Unique and strange are not sole criteria for good."

submission: Bad Baby

date: May 17, 2008

Throwing a schlew of disturbing and deranged images at your audience does not make you any better a film maker than throwing paint randomly onto a canvas makes someone an artist. Your style is interesting, and your animation is solid, but your choice of subject is, to put it mildly, something to be desired. I can see a specific group of people enjoying this sort of thing, and if you made it for them, then success to you. I, however, am not that group.

Score: 9

"That damn cow!"

submission: Link's Prize

date: April 22, 2008

This had a very fluid feel to it animation-wise. Great style, fun subject, and flawless execution. Incorperating sound effects from the game was a nice touch. I can't say enough good things about this. Kudos.