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[Pants off Dance off.]

The animation is pretty nice and I like all the fast-paced visual references. Your voice is kinda high-pitched but the visual stuff that makes fun of the sssses and lip smacks and stuff makes up for it. I actually liked how you went back and forth a bit, occasionally saying nonsense. The ending could be more satisfying, with maybe a closing statement from you or something. Otherwise, pretty funny story.

[Waterhole]

I really like the style. It's super cool. Animation is great as well, and you've got a great atmosphere. It's very weird and really feels like a desert. The whole thing has a sort of dark sense of humor. The music was pretty cool as well. You've crafted a unique world all about survival. All of the characters exist within the world and they all feel like they're just trying to make it. I also love the cult, it plays into that dark but silly humor. I love how one of the birds had its beak buried in the sand. All the plain zoomed out shots help with the realism. One thing that I felt didn't really fit was the cult eating the bird. It was a bit too short, though I did appreciate the surprise factor.
Overall, this was great, both surreal and real somehow.

TheScollop responds:

Thanks so much for the review! I agree about the devouring scene, sadly didn't have time to make it as long as I'd planned.

[Deadline]

I ADORE this! The style is great, and the animation has some great moments as well. I love the song as well, it was so good and fitting throughout the whole thing. The story is super cool and I love how you made them all puppets with stuffing. It was so cool how you showed her being under pressure from the very beginning and alluded to this having happened before when she was sewing up her leg. It's that kind of attention to detail that I love. If you rewatch it, you suddenly see a whole new thing. The creatures everyone turns into are great as well. The character is so endearing. About the deadline, maybe it represents anxiety or how everyone has a bursting point that they reach under the pressure of society or something. I think the dead guy in the office that no one seems to care about supports that. Or maybe it's running away from responsibility. I don't think that literal dead end was just a thing. It's symbolic. She narrowly escaped, and found refuge with her cat, the creature who loves her. Either way, I love everything about this, the cute moments, concept, style, everything falling apart and the music. You have outdone yourself and everyone else. This was absolutely beyond my expectations. This will be finding itself on a certain someone's Best Of list for August.

[URAMESHI]

That was a pretty funny clip and the animation was really good. It wasn't very long either, which meant you could go really over-the-top with the animation and it wouldn't get boring. Still though, I feel like the expressions and everything were very funny. I especially like how he looks when he says he was only knocked out for a little bit. The ending was also beautiful.

[Snowflake and Rainbow]

There's pretty much no real animation and it's not that surreal, at least not in the way I'd hoped. The transitions are very sudden so it can get kinda disorienting. There's no rhyme or reason to anything, and it doesn't have many qualities to make up for that. I like the way it escalated and the jokes could have been pretty good. The alien cut to speech too suddenly so it was confusing though. Also, it seemed to be facing the wrong way when talking to them, which made me think it might have been a whole new scene. The cheese in the end should also be a bit more yellow.
There was some cool weirdness in this, but it sorta felt meaningless. You should take more care with the transitions and maybe add something cool to the art and you could have something good.

colmendean123 responds:

Thanks a lot man I'm really just trying to get footing with this idea. I wanna make something without a beginning a middle or an end. I really appreciate it.

[A Day in the Park!]

Hahah, that did not go the way I was expecting it to go. It started out so pleasantly. I mean, I thought something funny was going to happen, but jeez. The style is great as usual, animation's pretty good too. I love the smug face he did as well. That punchline just came so unexpectedly and the ending was contrasted so well with the cheerful music. Good job!

[Short Attention Spam]

The animation was pretty nice, and the jokes were great. Some nice social commentary in there too (though I'm not sure what was social commentary and what wasn't). The mic quality was not the best though.
You've got a very good sense of humor, so keep it up!

[Dice paper role prologue]

The narration is good, but it was quite simplistic. I get it's an animatic, but still, the environments should be a little more detailed and interesting than this if you're going to upload it. The music was chosen well too, though you should credit the person who made it, unless you made it yourself. I also don't really get how the two parts connect. There's no indication part two is a vision or anything. I like that second part more because it's energetic, I guess. The first part just looks bad, like the trees are far too thin, and the shadows just look like more thin trees. You have a cool enough concept and some nice narration skills, but the visuals need to be better. And, like I said, credit the person who made the music.

BobTheFurby responds:

Thanks for the feedback! The audio is from the podcast (both narration and music) this is still work in progress so I will definitely will be going back to fix those things

[Psycho-Analyze Me, Please]

This was another good one! It felt shorter but it was certainly funny. I won't describe every single joke I liked, since that's repetitive and boring. I'll just say the dynamic was great in this one again and the jokes were funny. Just one thing that seemed off to me was Kirsten woah-ing along with Skylar when Kelly sorta yelled but not really. It did fit Skylar and it would have fit Kelly if he was on that side of the discussion. I also did learn something new about Kelly. He likes bringing scary strangers home. Love the message he derived from it all as well.

[Retro Convoy: Retro Raiders]

The animation is quite good, and I really like the colors. The concept sounds interesting too. There's just something that feels off about these guys. Like, they feel kinda boring. There is a bit of humor in their boringness and how they're so casual and uninterested though. It just felt kinda weird. And with their lips being os small, sometimes it looks like they're not moving, so that can be a little off-putting. I can't really sense a style of humor in this, when that mini-montage of them shooting started it was really weird. Maybe if it was a bit longer it would feel more natural. The squelches and gibberish as food was a bit funny though. It feels very Rick and Morty.

KelthorPower responds:

I appreciate the focused feedback! Still trying to nail the tone, which will hopefully come about on further projects. I'll be re-doing some of the character features when I make the jump to Eevee on Blender 2.8, so I'll definitely consider making the mouths bigger.