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[Deadly Discs (Sheim Story 4)]

Pretty good animation and I like the way it's synced to the music. The fight choreography itself was also good. My problem with this, and hough, is that the story seemed unclear, like I couldn't get who was talking to whom and what was going on. I guess the green guy was pretending the black guy caused the big zombie guy to appear. You could have made that clearer.

[Billy's Behemoth Blast (2017)]

That sure was an extremely weird experience! The animation is great and the style is just the right kind of weird. It's actually really cool that you managed to make things as weird as you did while still managing to have the explosion feel extraordinary and strong. The sound is pretty great. The shifting perspective is positively INSANE!!! That one shot you did at 3:37 is amazing!!! There are some great transitions as well, particularly when it comes to eyes and the shear force of the explosion literally vaporizing people was portrayed really well. I don't really get what that thing that went flying through the town was though. Could you explain that? Also, I think you may have had a bit of a racist depiction of black people, but the times were different, so maybe that is what a lot of black people did in Nova Scotia, and EVERYONE was portrayed not-so-flatteringly so I guess it makes sense. Man, your grandfather seems like he was a great guy.

Cookerzilla responds:

Yo thanks for the flattering words- that's a tooth flying through halifax based on a Newfoundland tall tale about the explosion (a tooth flying into the dingle tower pictured in the movie) as for the racist stuff (in your words) I based that scene off of a picture of two men in North Preston with a Ox Cart (dated 1917). i didn't want to make up bullshit so I just showed everyone minding their own business. Thanks for watching and im glad you enjoyed it

["Candles"]

Fitting art and ok animation. The concept could be more fleshed out. Like, I don't get how they're supposed to help anyone, even in an insane way. It was kind of inconsistent. This was just kinda nagging me. I did find this pretty funny otherwise, like with the watermelon and the ending. The voice acting was also pretty good. That one clip with the guy who got burned seemed kinda confusing because I'm not sure him turning into ash was literal or not. Overall, a decent Infomercial spoof.

StaggerNight responds:

hmm hmm. Yes you make good points! Thanks for the feedback!

[RealBadDream]

It was mostly a clip show of things I've seen before. Some I hadn't seen but they did come out separately from this. They were all pretty cool on their own as well so I guess it couldn't hurt to have them in a compilation. As far as I can tell, the things you added were Ssym's MightBear, The Stoics and that last thing with the dancing gorilla. To be honest, that was my favorite. Despite being so stupid, and most likely using music it doesn't own, it was just so good. All three of the original parts were good, with the MightBear one the punchline was great. The Stoics was quite weird and creepy. I liked it even though it wasn't directly a dream, but it did feel like one. The dream store was also pretty funny.

FlowDownStream responds:

Thanks so much for the review. I'm particularly glad you liked the end of the MightBear, I was kind of proud of that to be honest! I also agree that Flonch works some real magic, if you haven't seen it, that skeleton, Peter, is also in the episode Sensation (it's the first clip after the intro) if you want some more in that style (and if you haven't seen that one already).
Anyway, thanks again for coming back, I always appreciate your reviews.
-GoodL

[Madness Combat Android cap 2]

There's basically no animation, the feet don't move and it's very slow. Madness is usually done in Flash, so you should switch over to that if it's possible. You also should at least have bullet lines, because it's not very exciting when you have to wait a second to see if a character got shot and you can't see how close the bullets came to hitting them.

SansMLG responds:

i make in android then is hard to make it

[Stick fight heros 2]

The animation was pretty good and I like the idea. You might wanna use bullet lines for gun-based characters though. Also, it felt like you didn't really use Electron the way you should have (he didn't really do any cool stuff with electricity. This actually felt a lot like a video game, especially the first part, probably became if the sound effects and the fact that enemies feel kind of stiff and when the characters hit them, it feels like there's a sort of pause you see in games when you get combos. Also, you should really credit the person who made the music.

AshisAnimation responds:

Thanks for all this complements ... i am not a proffestional animator thats why i love to hear both positive and negative comments to improve my animation skill.yeah i forgot to gave the creadit to the person who made this music. By the way music was compose by FAT RAT. .... thanks ;)

[Mario Talks about the Super Mario Bros show.]

The voice acting is great, the animation is pretty good, and, despite the ugliness and simplicity, the art fits perfectly. This perfectly illustrates the manipulation of children through 80's cartoons and things made entirely to sell merchandise. I thought this was pretty funny, and I adore the way Mario says "Puhsta powah!"

MovieMaximum responds:

Thank you i wouldn't have thought that anyone would like the simplicity of the Backrounds and Mario himself.

[Welcome! - Game Grumps animated]

You picked a pretty good clip to animate. The animation is nice and the visual gags are pretty good. I like the part when they were doing the cute flirty thing. You also didn't go overboard with the visuals like some animations can do.

toelim67 responds:

Thanks for the input. :) Actually, i think i could have done a little more with the visual gags. im glad you think they're at least pretty good.

[A Recipe for Bad Dreams]

Pretty fun style with some awesome bits of animation. Even though most of the animation isn't that fluid, it didn't bother me that much because it was the style, and the fight scene really ramped up the animation. It was just a really enjoyable experience and the music was nice too. Very cute too. I liked that camera movement you did at 1:46. I like what you did with the camera when the guy leapt into the air but it is a bit confusing. Did he leap all the way over the bad dream? You could have given some better indication of that as he was jumping. Also, the way he flies into the screen at 2:12 seems a bit counterintuitive because he came in from lower than expected. It's still a great movie and definitely one of my favorites from the jam. Keep up the good work!

antdung responds:

Thanks for the thoughtful review, man! For this animation I wanted to focus more on readable character poses, something that I've never really thought about, so I ended up with some pretty chunky parts lol.

[The Bad Dream Goblin]

Well animated and pretty funny. I like the idea and the visual gags were great! I love when he pulls himself up by his eyes. I also really like the style, it's sort of old-timey. The first part with the blinking was a bit much, especially because of the wooden-sounding sound effect, maybe a slurpy, squishy one would have been better. I loved the part when the sleeping guy flipped out. A pretty great entry overall, and very funny.