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[Say Something!]

W00t

That was good. Although it had no apparent plot (wait a minute, no, the plot/"so what" of the animation was how those ads are annoying! silly me), The song was good, catchy, the animation was good too. Violence points at the end there too, and er..that's it! Those are the components to a good/decent animation. Heck, this might even be a wonderful animation. the MAXAM gives you a ten.

[Time Squad [Part 1]]

WOWOWOW!

Amazing. Fantastic. An inspiration to all of us animators out there. One thing though that i would SOO appreciate if you answered this question, is when Blockhead and the woman and doctor were flying in the car through the future, and they were passing skycrapers, I paused the cartoon and noticed that the buildings weren't just stretched to the side to look like they were going by fast, but they were actually drawn with brush in a very dragged way, so that if you paused on them you'd see that they didn't really look like buildings, but more of a stretched Shagal painting. How the hell did you do that?!

The-Swain responds:

Man, I don't quite remember now that you mention it. How I drew it isn't something that comes back to me, but I do recall the idea in my head at the time. See, when you look at a long-exposure photograph, it's always the lights that are prominant. Thus I didn't just draw the window lights, but instead I drew them all together as one huge blur. Since the buildings were gonna be flying by so quickly, I wanted to make sure that the lights were what stood out most.

[Broken Saints Chapter 2]

Great but...

Very cool but you should have scene selects on these animations. DFor some reason the animation started to go really slow (but the music went normal speed so it ended soon while the animation continued to slug along) and so i had to restart it, and watch everything up to the point i quit again.

[Mario Bros. Arcade]

So...tired...of...Mario....and.;.everything else..

Please. I mean the music was nice, but seriously, how many mario spoofs are there? along with Matrix and LOTR and Donkey Kong and EVERYTHING?! Why can't animators make something ORIGINAL these days? sheesh.

[Fat GIrls on Bicycles]

Not bad.

Hey now that wasn't bad. Good art, nice catchy tune, deserved a four.

[Android X-19]

Aw man!!

Well, I gotta say the visuals were absolutely amazing, and could be in the ranks of the top flash artists. Unfortunately, the scenes were WAY to slow moving, and there was no plot whatsoever. All through the flash I was thinking "OK, so....wha'ts the point?" Then the end haappened with the no battery thing and that just turned it all to shit. I was very dissapointed that you did that. Also, the sound editing wasn't that good -- the song changed too abruptly. But other than the lack of plot, you have amazing potential with those flash art abilities. Most flash artist would kill to be able to draw like that.

[Jesus H. Christ]

Please, I can't take them anymore

That sucked, like all of your other animutations. And it barely fit in the Animutation category. Sure, you stole pictures of a bunch of famous people, but where were the subliminal mseeages? The fast-paced-ness? The interesting(ness) of the entire thing? Also the song was boring as hell also.

[Down At Juice Bar]

Very good, not your best though.

WELL....I really loved the music. Where did you get it?! I'm guessing you made it. Anyway,
Music: Amazing
Animation: Crappy because there is no transition movement of the limbs, but unfortunately that's your style, and I cant change that.
Graphics: Wow, very good!
Story: MMph.. well i mean it was funny a bit because I love those russian characters, but otherwise it was kinda dumb. it's ok though because I've seen you do better and I know you're a good story person thingy lol.

[All Girl's Boarding Schoo]

Nice!

Man, I need to know how to create fear in the eyes of the viewer through flash like you did. The part where she's in the room and she flicks on the lights. Oh, man that's creepy every time I watch it. Even though I know it's a silly monster, I'm still creeped out. What does this animation mean? Where did it come from? It's weird, and I love it. The lesbianism was hot too.

[PsychoPlo Din Tei]

Hey!!

Now that was good! Screw that loser fat kid who danced and lypsinched to the same song. You were better!! w00t w00t! Also, in the first scene where you were standing infront of the road, it looked like you sped the background up, and made yourself normal speed, giving it a very strange, videogame-esque sense. I liked it! Me likey!