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[The Sketch Collab 2010]

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Really nicely done, overall. Obviously there's a great amount of work that's gone into this, and that's definitely to be commended. And a fair few of these were really outstandingly done, which is always nice to see.

Like a couple of other people have said, I think maybe if there was some kind of theme to follow or vague story to base a flash on this would have been a little more coherent...not that this is bad for not having pieces related to eachother, but I think having a theme other than what it's 'drawn' on may be an idea to consider.

I liked the music, but it drowned out the one or two flashes which had sound effects, so I think either you should have not had sound effects, or had the music turned down a little for the ones WITH sound effects, so people could hear what was being said a little more. Or even just a mute music button would've been good, because while the music's alright, it may not be to everyone's taste, and no-one complains about having a mute button available.

Really nicely done, overall. Congrats on the daily first, and guess we'll see you next year for Collab '11? :)

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[CoolJaw: T.T. IIII-V]

Awesome.

Yay, number 4! It'll be interesting to see how you can tie up all (or maybe just most) of the loose ends of this chapter in these next two episodes without it sounding to long-overdrawn-explanation-y. Because you answered a lot of questions with the last episode, but opened up a whole set of new ones at the same time, so I'm hoping to see a few of those cleared up here.

On the first run-through, I can see a lot of improvements from last time; the speech bubbles kind of come in one after the other, so your eyes know what parts to read first so the story flows well together, and there's no obviously noticeable typos in the speech, which is nice, because it means crazy grammar pedants like myself can enjoy the rest of the story, xD Though I did pick up on three which my mind feels obliged to tell you about:

"And the man with the serpents smile..."--There should be an apostrophe in serpent's.
"Mason left, and Malik, and I were left in the hands..."--You don't need the comma between 'Malik' and 'and I'
"Now 3 decades later, I'm at Masons door"--There should be an apostrophe in Mason's.

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Anyway. Still really liking the artwork! The way it's mostly black-and-white, but with the odd splashes of colour in the red blood and green uniforms kinda gives it this dark film noir edge that I really like. It also makes me think that maybe in the future (Perhaps the third chapter?) you could play with colour a little bit more, maybe even have some of the more crucial scenes in near-full colour, or completely devoid of it. Though I do really like this current aesthetic; it almost forces you to focus on the more gory aspects because your eye goes straight for the colour...which tends to be the colour of someone's open throat or something equally as delightful. The drawing between the panels does seem to vary more than somewhat, but it's not incredibly detrimental to the flash as a whole; the entire scenario's a little messed up and jagged, so I don't see why the drawing can't sometimes reflect the harsh mania of the reality.

The development of the storyline was really nicely done. It starts tying everything together; how they all met, why everyone's out to get Mason, why Malik is so very disfigured...
Though it does make me wonder. Scissors do seem to be the weapon of choice; with the man in the first episode, and with Malik here...they both seem to be going for the nose as well...perhaps there is a connection between the two? I almost get the feeling that Colin's going to be looking at an enemy who's not all quite there...but I guess that will (hopefully) be revealed in the chapter conclusion. This was probably one of my favourite parts of this chapter though, purely for the story arcs of it and how things have started to fall into place for the conclusion...though DAMN YOU for making another cliffhanger! :P You HAD to leave it right there, didntcha?

Anyway, I'll end my ramble there. Still very much enjoying this, looking forward to the conclusion of this and the beginning of chapter 3!

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Celx-Requin responds:

Your rambles are always fun, and informative!
I need to end with cliffhangers, or else people wont salivate over the next one :D

Thanks again!
- Celx

[Rama Lama]

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Well one thing I took away from this video is that you have a far more interesting real name than I do, ahahaha :P

This might have something to do with the fact it's about 6am here, but I found it kind of hard to follow...xD I mean, yes, it's random, it's meant to be pretty odd and out there in therms of cohesion, but given the sheer length of the song I think having your sections fit a little more, or tell more of a story would have helped a bit, because three minutesish of randomness can get a little excessive.

Drawingwise, there were some little clips that I really thought were drawn well, and a few others which were more simple/sketchy. Maybe focusing on fewer things, as Coop said, would have helped here just in terms of overall drawing quality (And as I said above, might've helped a little with the general progression of the video).

It's the same kind of story with the animation; some is good, some isn't as good. Which shows both that you've got the skill, but perhaps not the sheer perseverance to see it through every little scene; just getting everything on the same level, qualitywise, would have helped this a lot. All that pedantic stuff besides, I did find it quite funny for the first minute or so! ;D But more than that was a little much on the ol' sleep-deprived brain, lol xD
But you always succeed in making me laugh a little, which is never a bad thing. Keep it up man, nice to see the collab on this one. (:

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MonoFlauta responds:

"Well one thing I took away from this video is that you have a far more interesting real name than I do, ahahaha :P"

Lol whats wrong with my name! hahaha

"Drawingwise, there were some little clips that I really thought were drawn well, and a few others which were more simple/sketchy."

All of them are simple and sketchy hahaha

"It's the same kind of story with the animation; some is good, some isn't as good. Which shows both that you've got the skill, but perhaps not the sheer perseverance to see it through every little scene"

Haha yes but yes the animation was bad itself...

"But you always succeed in making me laugh a little, which is never a bad thing. Keep it up man, nice to see the collab on this one. (:"

Haha glad you laughed haha
thanks a lot for reviewing!

[MonKKey Chapter 2]

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The drawing overall was very awesome, but there are parts which are of a slightly lower quality which detract from the flash in total; some of the backgrounds definitely needed more detail, in this aspect. In the same way, the animation in general is really top-notch, but there were some parts what seemed a little choppier than they needed to be, such as when you had the armymen 'charging' towards the main character, where it kinda looked more like it was flicking between two frames a little too much; but maybe that's just me. Though I really liked the ending scene, where the drawing style changes just as the axe starts coming down on the guy's head, because that felt really artistic and rounded off the cliffhanger nicely.

I think like most people, I had trouble hearing the voices. Just turning up the voice level in this would have been so much help because most of the time I couldn't decipher what they were saying. And/or having some sort of closed caption options, so those of us with messed-up hearing can at least read what's being said. That aside, I really like the stereo image you made, and the sound effects/music choices in general were all very nicely done.

Overall, this was a really good flash; definitely deserves a higher score than it has, but I definitely think that if you flicked the voices up a little next time around (as well as not having such an interval in between them :P) it'd pretty much be perfect.

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[You can !]

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Definitely better than your "frozen banana" flash.

It had a nice simple storyline which was executed pretty well. But in saying that, I think the slow-motion of the last scene was too slow; if you were going to spend about a minute of the flash having him fall, I would have expected something extra visually to come with it, like flashes of memories of better times or something, instead of just having him slowly slowly fall for so long.

I liked the switches between the still frames and the lightly-animated scenes; it kind of created a difference between how trapped he felt in his life and how free he felt when jumping. You could exaggerate that even further by maybe making the colours less vibrant when he's at his job, or even the drawing itself even more sketchy and just...desolate, I guess.

I think with the still frames you could have done with a little more detail, or just some little variations just so when it does repeat, it doesn't get a full feeling of repetitiveness, like it starts to here.
This definitely shows potential for the future though, so keep working at it.

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Icandraw responds:

:D i have potential ! yeay !

[Uzbekistan]

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The drawing in general was alright, though some of the backgrounds were a little sparse. Loved the first background with the bullet-holes in the wall, would have been nice to see that extended to some of the other backgrounds. It's just those little details that can really help improve the submission. And you can also use it to add humour, such as the "Obviously not made in Uzbekistan" scrawled on the TV.

The animation again, was a little static. But the lip sync was a little better than last time, and the drawings themselves as well as the changes in scenes helped it be less of a problem than it was in one of your last flashes. Even just having a few arm gestures or people moving in the background would improve this flash greatly, and again can be a great scope for potential additional humour.

The humour there was was good...but maybe a little few and far between? You could have thrown a few more jokes in there, I think. And especially if you did a few joikes within the drawing and animations, this flash could have been even funnier. Though it definitely had its fun points...I'm not sure a single person wouldn't find the singing at the very start very much epic, and the jokes about the gold/cotton I found perhaps more funny than I should have. The laughing scene was perhaps a little overdrawn, but I guess that's a matter of perspective.

In general, there's a marked improvement on the last flash (The one based on 21 Guns is what I'm really linking to, here), so I'd just say keep going in this direction and you'll definitely keep heading in the right direction. just keep it up!

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MonoFlauta responds:

"the backgrounds were a little sparse."

Yeah i didnt care a lot about that.

"And you can also use it to add humour, such as the "Obviously not made in Uzbekistan" scrawled on the TV."

Yes that would help the backgrounds :P

"The animation again, was a little static. But the lip sync was a little better than last time, and the drawings themselves as well as the changes in scenes helped it be less of a problem than it was in one of your last flashes. Even just having a few arm gestures or people moving in the background would improve this flash greatly, and again can be a great scope for potential additional humour."

Yes it will improve a bit each time lol :P

"The humour there was was good...but maybe a little few and far between? You could have thrown a few more jokes in there, I think. And especially if you did a few joikes within the drawing and animations, this flash could have been even funnier. Though it definitely had its fun points...I'm not sure a single person wouldn't find the singing at the very start very much epic, and the jokes about the gold/cotton I found perhaps more funny than I should have. The laughing scene was perhaps a little overdrawn, but I guess that's a matter of perspective."

Yes a lot of people think that, but it has it stronges jokes :P

"In general, there's a marked improvement on the last flash (The one based on 21 Guns is what I'm really linking to, here), so I'd just say keep going in this direction and you'll definitely keep heading in the right direction. just keep it up!"

Oks thanks a lot for reviewing!!!

[KK NES Vol 04 R.K. Ransom]

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Markedly better than the last two flashes. I actually laughed at this one! xD

The storyline felt a little more fleshed out, there was more of a sense of development in this one, whereas some of the other ones just felt like a totally random addition to a game without much time to explore it completely. It could still do with being longer!

I think the phrase "Keep going in this direction" may be one applicable throughout this flash. The animation, while choppy, is better. The storyline, while still a little sparse, is better than the previous flashes I've seen. Keep going in this direction, and there's a definite potential for some massive and tangible improvements. If in the next one the storyline was longer and had more depth, and the animation had a little more tweening to it, it'd be pretty damn awesome. I think you've gotten in the right direction with this one, it's just a case of staying the course as you continue on.

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PantyWipe responds:

This is prolly the best review I've gotten for a flash! It's typically either lip service from other KK kitties, or "FUKK UFAGGET Y0U SUXORZ!!!!!111111ONEoneuno" from 12 year old NG'ers. I am very happy I asked the RRC for reviews, you guys kick MAJOR ASS.