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[Thomas was only following orders]

I liked the style and the concept was quite funny. Kinda reminded me of some of u m a m i's stuff, in more ways than one. The music choice was great too. I mean, yeah, in a world of sentient tank engines, Thomas would knowingly be transporting things (or people) for nazis. I was gonna say I would have liked a little more elaboration on that part, but I feel like the ambiguity adds to the movie.
Keep it up, you have a nice (I guess) sense of humor!

[Cammie's drawn day out]

A nice short clip. The concept has, of course, been done before, but I still liked it. It was cool how you showed the process. At first she was black and white and rough in a void. Then you dragged on a black and white background. Then you added color. Really liked how she kept going in circles around her little world too, it was a fun detail. The animation wasn't perfect, but it didn't need to be and it was charming. The background music was also pretty well chosen and fun.
Keep it up, I would love to see more from you, this was a nice short!

Kavallier responds:

That is completely fair. The concept was one the choices we had to animate for the project, and is heavily inspired by other work. I priority was the animation itself to be honest. I tried my best and I am willing to do more in the future, hopefully with a concept I'd like even more.
Thank you!

[Game Grumps Animated- Atari Tennis- Game Grumps VS]

I liked all the different ways they did the tennis. In all seriousness, you had a diverse range of things they did. They were all pretty creative, and they weren't super exaggerated, so they didn't get stale. You had some different shots to spice things up. I liked the crowd, the bee, the shot of the bois in pink and blue silhouette forms. The outro was also pretty funny. Still, maybe you could have cut the clip down. It was a bit too long.
Overall a simple but fun movie, maybe could have been a bit shorter. Otherwise nice selection of voice clip.

TheDogtor responds:

Aww, thank you so much for the great critique! Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[One Reality Over - [debut single]]

I liked the style, though the animation was quite choppy. The voice acting was nice though, and I really liked the concept. Loved how the screen guy was so pessimistic the whole time. Loved the trainwreck camera movements and cacophony of the video. The joke at the end was funny too. I thought this was the perfect length, by the way.
Keep it up, I'd like to see more from you! You've got a nice sense of humor (Seashell is my favorite character).

albmoore responds:

Thanks!

[Monster Running]

It's a very short, choppy loop. I'm sorry man, but this can go in the art portal. It goes on for unnecessarily long and nothing happens. Next time, please make something thst feels complete, has a beginning and end, something with entertainment value. There's not even sound for, like, 15 seconds.

[PunchoutMon]

Haha, a trend quest. Pretty funny concept. The animation was pretty nice, the style was unique. The voice acting was really great too. I just couldn't understand what Doc said before the bike part fpr a while, I just now got it. I wish the ending went in a different direction though, it doesn't quite make sense. I expected Mac to be left supportless and Doc disappointed. I mean, this was nice and fun, but if at least Doc didn't directly hit the pokemon trainer. If he sent out a different boxer or something.
This was a neat parody, but could have been better.

Stanpai responds:

Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. Doc Louis was a boxer in his prime, and I thought about what kind of silly way this two man team could try and make it to the limelight. Doc's only "Pokemon" is down and out, so why not throw the punch? I love your idea of having a second boxer on standby, and now that I think about it, I have a few ideas on how to expand this. I think if I made it longer and not for the Smash collab, there are some ideas to explore.

Really appreciate your feedback a lot! Thank you.

[WINSTON & SMITH PROGRAM 2]

Well, this wasn't nearly as exciting as the first one. The "ads", while pretty funny, took away from any suspense there may have been. They were way too long. You tend to overdo the random things. That sorta "commercial over" montage was pretty fun and I really liked the thing where the bullet hole transformed. But then there was another commercial, which kinda ruined it. At the very start the narration was barely audible. Seriously, you don't need to crank up the music so much. The comedy wasn't that great either. I mean, I guess there was the thing at the end where Dick got mauled, that was pretty funny. The rest was just exaggerating mean-spiritedness in a predictable fashion. I mean, if they started shooting at the happy beast, that would have been funny. It was the logical way for that to go. I liked Smith taking the gun though. The baseball game was pretty interesting. But the story was also kinda all over the place, with the thing about Winston failing at everything.
Overall you put in too much filler, left the outlandish humor a bit by the wayside and lowered the exciting factor by a lot. I know your quality varies, so I hope we get another good one soon.

PapaLegba responds:

Thanks appreciate the honest feedback

[Project_HBD_A]

Yeah, this wasn't great. I get it was just to have some fun, but still. A-Max, your first part was slow, though the weight was pretty nice. There were unnecessary flips that weren't followed through with anything satisfyingly. Again, the weight lead to some satisfying gore, and I also liked the endinf of it, but it just wasn't really interesting. The next clip was cool becauseof the somewhat different fighting style, and I liked how fast-paced it was. Reminded me of Kill Bill. However, the soldat getting impaled was hard to see unless you kept pausing and unpausing and I'm disappointed that the guy down at the bottom didn't shoot for a long time, it would have made the action much more interesting. FSTA's part was very brief and the animation wasn't great because all the stabs happened so fast, and it was all just repetitive stabbing except for the last kill, but again, zippy animation and not that cool. Next A-Max bit was not that interesting really. The guy in the hockey mask really didn't do much, he only swung once and then waited to die. EviltRoTo needs to practice his foot movements a bit, Jsoull's looked seizurey when he was getting shot. I do have to hand it to him, @EviltRoTo was probably the best animator here in terms of variety. His part was fast-paced, had strategy and cool moves, not to mention loads of different characters. The way the sword was sent at the Tricky clone looked weird though, it didn't have proper momentum and the flip leading up to it wasn't fitting. The ending was pretty funny.
Overall a small collab, very low quality overall.

[NWAR: Total Deboot]

Mabe it's just that I remember the previous ones as better than they actually were, but this one seemed a little slow. The puns were there, but they weren't coming out in such a rapid succession. I did really like them though, they were still fairly original and fun. You had plenty of fresh ideas for them. NWAR's self-awareness was great as well. I liked the understated bit sof humor, like a random royal ball being held and NWAR bringing a crown and dancing. The villain of the week was an interesting one. I liked her motive and the bits about good guys and bad guys. However, the mom and pop store being replaced was weird since it was in isngular instead of plural, which made it confusing for someone who had no idea what a pop store is.
One thing I didn't really like was the way you brought him back. The whole point of an epilogue was to see what happened after that incertain ending, and here it's all summed up quickly and ideal. I wanted to see NWAR moving forward with his new reality, not sum it up at the start and ignore it for the rest of the episode. In fact, I might have preferred if there was no epilogue, the ending felt perfect for the end of NWAR's character arc. Surprisingly, though, there weren't many callbacks here, it was all fresh humor.
Overall it was a funny episode, an interesting episode, but perhaps it was all unnecessary or at least could have been handled better. I guess fan pressure truly is a terrible thing.
Upon revisiting this review, I've raised the rating by half a star, and removed parts I've changed my mind on. I still agree with the sentiment about this maybe being unnecessary, but I think the jokes were, for the most part, good. It was like some of the first episodes, but it takes place at the wrong point in time.

[STARBARIANS - Episode 3]

Well, at least the plot advanced somewhat. Way more than the last one. The animation was great, as usual, some really awesome things in there. I really liked how Hogstrong was the good guy in this one, and Kilgar was made to be absolutely despicable. The humor was really nice too, with stuff like Kilgar's terrible grammar and logic, the "betray Hogstrong" procedure, basically I didn't think any of it felt forced or bad. I thoroughly enjoyed it. None of this felt that cliched either, despite the way the plot is heading, since it's shaping up to be pretty interesting.
Overall a satisfying continuation, when I thin about it not much happened, so I'm not giving it a 5, but the plot did actually advance and it was fun to watch.