I don't use the word "lolzorz" very often...
...but I just might whip it out for this review. The whole thing was just hillarious. The close-up of his heart was my favorite part. I'd compare it to Bonus Stage in terms of writing but it's funnier than that. Just when I start to think that some walk animations might be a nice touch, you find a new way to make fun of the lack of animation. Keep 'em coming!
Huh.
I totally do not get what I just saw, but the quality was pretty good for a clock collab. The pacing of each part was perfect for the song, and the flickering candle-light tied the whole thing together. Good job.
^_^
I liked this. It was cute, it was fun, and it was bizzare in that special way only authentic anime can be. For those of you who don't get it: It's a visual metaphor. The author is trying to convey the emotional content of the ups and downs of a long-distance relationship.
He's there one minute, gone the next. He's always striving to be there with her but never quite able to stay there very long. She will always want more closeness than the situation will allow, and she tells him so on the phone.
By making the situation suddenly change in impossible ways, the artist (hopefully) causes the viewer to feel the same unfairness of the situation that the characters were feeling. If you identify with the characters, you feel like there's a happy ending when they meet, then you feel robbed when the happy ending gets taken away. Then you can't help but laugh when, after all that toruble for a hug, she demands to be kissed.
They do this all the time in anime... remember the montage near the end of Wings of Honneamise? Or Armitige The Third? It's not such a big deal, it's just being SLIGHTLY artistic. It just means that you, the viewer, have to get off your butt and INTERPRET what the movie means.
And really, don't rely on my interpretation. Figure it out for yourself. Any real art can be interpreted multiple ways... that's what makes it art. That's the difference between "high art" and "commercial art." Most anime that hits the U.S. is treated as commercial art, but in Japan there is more of a mixture.
Bottom line: This anime flash is a slightly deep piece of high art. The author can't explain it to you. You have to interpret it for yourself. Don't like to think? Then close this window and go back to watching Yu-Gi-Oh or something else that was written to be taken at face value.
Nothing much new here.
Graphics: Okay, it has FBF in the title, so we know it's gonna have little dots bouncing around, stick figures fighting, splashes of some sort of liquid, squares or other geometric shapes, and if we're lucky, 20 or 30 frames comprising something that's actually original and interesting. We weren't lucky this time. Oh, well. Can't win 'em all.
Style: One thing this FBF did differently from your typical FBF is that many of the random lines and shapes seemed to be drawn using vector tools, rather than pen tool scribbles. I have to admit this is used to good effect in the scenes with the square bouncing between two springy lines.
Sound: Great tunes. That you've heard before. Ripped straight from the audio portal. Better than nothing, but he runs out of frames 1/3 of the way through the song.
Overall: Nothing really new or original here, just another "me too" FBF. While it tries to copy a lot of what's in other FBFs, some parts, especially the splashing liquids, are actually less impressive than in all the other FBFs on Newgrounds that inspired this piece.
That said, the artist shows competent use of the vector tools and a moderate work ethic to have come this far. I look forward to future submissions by this artist, especially if he throws something together with a story and characters. I think he could do some impressive stuff.
Not bad. :D
Graphics: Quirky, detailed, but not quite realistic characters. Well-developed backgrounds with simple fill coloring. Jerky, lurchy animations. Many scenes are little more than photographs with one or two poses per character, but these shots have nice composition nonetheless. THIS is how you execute a "talking heads" cartoon in less than a week.
Style: Music, voices and what little detail there was in the graphics, all came together and contributed to the whole. I thought winning the doughnut was a nice touch. Not quite over-the-top like winning the lottery, not as cliche as the other nice surprises were.
Sound: Well-recorded samples and just the right ammount of music. The acting was cheesy and ham-fisted, of course, but I assume that's what you were going for.
Violence: Okay, I get it, he's gonna get hit by a truck or something as soon as he steps outside. Just get it over with... oh, no. He survived. Okay. Well, I guess he got a promotion, now he's gonna get mugged on the street and all the money in the world won't save him from the mugger's knife... oh. Okay, he made it home... oh... Oh, I get it, he's gonna find his wife in bed. Okay. Then he'll either shoot them both with a gun or slit his wrists. People in these flash cartoons ALWAYS slit their... wait... what the... is this a loop? Replay? What the...? Has this guy ever been to newgrounds before? It's like telling a joke with no punchline.
Humor: The acting was kinda funny due to the cheese factor, but that's all. If there was a joke here, I guess it's "cuckolds exist! Ha!"
The thing is, the way you set it up, the audience sees it coming a mile away, and they expect a twist of some sort. You didn't provide one. That's like, standard procedure on The Internets. If you're attacking a theme that's older than time itself, like cuckold jokes, you've gotta at least TRY to mix it up a little by doing somehting unexpected.
I mean, think about it. The audience knows, from the moment the dude with the bad 70's moustache starts talking, that he's gonna have something bad happen to him. And then as soon as he says "Honey! I'm home!" the audience knows that there's going to be a cuckold joke. You'd have to be dead not to see it coming.
So... why would you end it this lamely? The audience was expecting something to happen, and instead... nothing happened. The thing the audience predicted on like, page 2, was exactly what happened. No more, no less.
And it's not like we identify with the protagonist or anything... his lines are so cheesy, we don't even think of him as a person, but as a device for advancing the plot. We expect an anvil to fall on him or something, because that's what classic media has trained us to expect when a character says "Ah, what a beautiful *noun*."
You had the opptounity here to either eclipse those expectations with some kinda crazy, over-the-top disaster, or else surprise us with a twist ending, like his wife WASN'T in bed with another man the way we expected her to be, or Moustache Dude goes "Kinky! A threesome! This is the best day ever!"
But instead of playing with our expectations, you just... showed us exactly what you foreshadowed. No more, no less. That's boring.
Overall: Competent animation, despite rough surface. Voice acting was cheesy, but recorded VERY well. Writing was a huge disapointment. No jokes at all despite a cheesy comedic look & feel.
I like the fact that you actually tried to write, though. You have all the neccessary parts here to tell a story. Next time, just work harder on playing with the audience's expectations. Telling a joke is like a magic trick. Make us watch your right hand, then BAM hit us out of left field with something unexpected.
But toy with us. Don't just show us stuff that happened, unless the stuff that happened is inherently weird and interesting. Cuckold jokes are ancient history man. You gotta punch the old material up a bit!
Meh.
Uh... understand your position? Uh... sure I do. Kirk in '08!
I think you got the point!
Wow. That is surprisingly good shit.
Graphics: Various random crap photoshopped together, with a static overlay that serves to smooth out the rough spots as well as adding to the ambiance.
Style: Campy, cheesy, and weird. Feints at character-driven drama for a moment there, before stabbing directly into the heart of irreverant web-humor. This is the same formula everyone uses at NG, but beefburger and his cohorts managed to really nail the execution, this time.
Sound: Great voices, decent music, kinda crap sound effects, but who cares. It's great.
Violence: Shooting skyjackers makes red lines fly all over the place. I've seen worse. Like, today, I've seen worse, on the protal. I'm not complaining.
Humor: It was more weird-funny than joke-funny. Nothing new in terms of making fun of the establishment or parodying the sterotypical holywood blockbuster. The timing felt a little off on the "suck my dick, nah not really" joke... maybe some extreme close-ups showing the (lack of) character reaction, or else the burger guy just barely starting to move towards the end of the awkward pause like he's actually thinking about doing it, might have added to the humor there.
Overall: Funny. But more than that, it was weird and attention-grabbing. I'm not sure why. Probabaly something about the aesthetics. It kinda reminds me of... shit, I can't think of his name. You know the guy. Did all those animations for Monty Python. That dude. It reminds me of his work.
I do not know this guy you speak of. But thanks anyhow.
It's too short. :(
Or should I say: "excessive reduced continuity of a film in this surrender. Please produce infinite drawings for adequate happy look fun time in future! Audience requires advancing animation for three minutes. Less than this is unacceptable. Please forgive many blam points. Surrender again with longer life span of movie!"
What the...?
Okay, the graphics were decent, and the audio you used was funny. But... I mean, just... why? Why did this need to be made? Monty Python already made it! I could see if maybe you'd changed all the visuals around to make it different or ironic or more funny, but this was almost exactly the same... Even the placement of the bushes look the same as the original video clip! The only thing you changed was to use squirrels or something instead of people. Do squirrels really add that much to internet humor? I don't get it.
Then again, I guess I laughed really hard when I saw Do Me, because I hadn't seen whatever show the audio came from. I guess this would be about that funny to anyone who hasn't already seen Monty Python. But seriously, who hasn't seen Monty Python?
In short, next time, be more original. Or at least more obscure.
it's a fucking parody, dumbshit
The action synched up with the music saved it.
Graphics:Sprites, and not particularly good ones at that. Slow FPS frame rate and Sonic do not mix, my friend. The camera-work was ambitious, but the execution fell short in some places.
Style: It actually tells a (very simple) story and does so with a bit of pizzaz. Unfortunately, poor production quality really hurt the piece as a whole. See Overall, below, for a partial list...
Sound: Okay, I can respect you for re-using a professional Sonic soundtrack. But why, oh why did you have to pick the one that's a relic from the 90's preserved only on home-recorded VHS tapes? Other songs, you could have found a decent MP3 to use. This song, there IS no clean copy of it. (Or if there was, and you had a copy of it, your compression settings ruined it.) Also, the soundtrack reminds me of the old TV show, not the games, which picks fights with the sprite graphics. Personally, I woulda gone with Sonic Boom.
Overall: A good idea, but it had lots of little flaws which detracted from the whole:
-Poor choice of soundtrack.
-The title screen was kind of dull and long. (But at least you didn't submit JUST the title screen...)
-The distant background kept scrolling by even when sonic slowed down in the loops.
-There was nothing happening visually when some of the explosions were going off in the airship part of the soundtrack.
-The airship generally looked bad from the outside, like a big metal bananna with vents in it. (Surely there's some cool egg carrier establishing shot from some sprite game you could have used? If not, you should have made one up, or heck, I'd have settled for the airship from kirby with an Eggman logo slapped on the side.)
-The final explosion looked VERY cheap and lame and fake.
All that said, I liked it for some reason. Probabaly because it told a story and had some good ideas buried underneath the crappy execution. I look forward to your future submissions. Keep practicing, and keep trying to do better. :)
Yeah I agree with you on some of those points, however I just want to point out it's only an opening video. My comic's been up for quite some time and this Idea was meant for season 1. It has nothing to do with actual comic plot wise, just kind of a "corny" action scene to establish the characters. Thanks for the in-depth review and I hope I can figure out how to get rid of the glitches.
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