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[Zelda- Disaster Sword]

The style was pretty cool and weird. I liked the fight with the red goblin guy (sorry, I don't know Legend of Zelda) when the sounds were actually referenced in the battle. The action itself was also quite good. The swords breaking was also pretty good. The final Ganon battle was a bit confusing, since I thought the sword had already shot its attack because of that little spark. Some of the animation was quite nice, and some of it was not. Some of it left me a bit weirded out. Overall, a bit confusing and weird, but it had some cool ideas and jokes.

artistunknown responds:

You are right the final battle is pretty confusing, and that is entirely my fault and it's not even justified. The explanation though, is that when link goes to swing the master sword, it runs out of power, as indicated by the spark, because in the game, instead of breaking like other swords, the master sword runs out of power, except it can't run out of power in the Ganon fight, so that part's not accurate, I just thought it would be funny to have it seemingly run out of power. Link then tries to throw the sword away since it ran out of power, but when you try to throw the master sword, it shoots a sword beam instead, which, idk if it can do that when it's out of power, but I'd imagine not, so I guess the only explanation there is the master sword is trolling Link.

Thanks!

[June Bug]

Oh, that was a really good one! I loved it! I also realized I wasn't following you. No idea what that was about. The animation seemed a bit different in this one, but it was still cool and had some awesome moments. I love how that June Bug exploded completely. This actually felt really suspenseful. I loved the Demon Lord guy's fingers pumping things into the heroes. That black goopiness was really scary and I love how Chutney started to, like, hallucinate. It looked really great. So did that shot when he went flying. And that ending was awesome too. Very satisfying, and funny too, since it was so unexpected. The part before the Skull Lord showed up was very funny too with the June Bug. Great job on this one, very cool in both a serious and funny way. Keep it up!

R.I.P. Duck.

ChutneyGlaze responds:

Thank you Trickster. also don't worry about ducky he's fine! He's just trapped under the roof of the mud hut!

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[Sexy Beats & Sexy Eats]

I like the idea, the style is cool, and the music is pretty nice as well. It's cool how it looks like an 80's workout video. I like the derpy eating and how the guy sees Tangy Mustard girl choking and then just goes back to eating traumatized once she passes out. They're also both pretty sexy, so yeah. I like the little bit of staticy glitch stuff on the tape when he sees the girl. It adds to hid surprise in a funny way. Overall, a pretty fun but short entry.

BrandyBuizel responds:

I'm glad you liked it!
I also wish I had made this longer, but I pretty much played bitch to 4cat's awesome tunes and pacing ;)

[Second Hand]

The animation is nice, especially the clock falling off the wall. The joke was predictable, as dad jokes are. I like the sitcom credits, though the voice acting could be a tad more enthusiastic. I still can't fully understand what the dad says. Cheaper what? Keep it up though, you've got some nice animating skills and I can see you making some good stuff.

ReddieAnimates responds:

Thank you! I definitely need to work on my voice acting, it is pretty bland and unenthusiastic and I should also work on how I pronounce my words to make it clearer. Oh and my scripts need work too since I've been told by people that they had to watch it a couple of times to understand what was happening. Thank you for your criticism, I'll try to improve those aspects in future videos.
Oh and the dad says "To get a cheap replacement for that, I'd say you need to buy one second hand" (a cheap replacement for the clock/ the clock's second hand)