Score: 2

"a cliche goldmine"

submission: The Tail's Ghost

date: August 30, 2009

Sonic the Hedgehog? Check!
Random J-Pop? Check!
Emo Tears? Check!
If I didn't know any better I would say this is a brilliant parody of what fourteen year-old boys think is powerful, emotional, and dramatic.

Score: 9

"very nice!"

submission: cupcake?

date: July 7, 2009

I like this very much. You made the pixelation look too easy. I was wondering what your secret was, but after reading some responses, I'm guessing you just did some old fashioned and time consuming importing and exporting?

Score: 6

"executed nicely, but a tad dull"

submission: Castle Repercussions - B

date: April 8, 2009

It's easy to see why this will have thousands of people blindly jizzing their praise all over this. It has guns, blood, zombies, and stick figures. The latter being the most horrifying and offensive of them all, it's a shame that such talent is being squandered staying within the confines of the stick figure design. Although technically the characters aren't stick figures in the literal sense. They have weight and mass like any other person...well maybe like an anorexic person. The whole point of stick people is that they require no skill to draw and they're disposable. So I guess there's something kind of post modern about the way you're using them. But other than that I find stick figures to be incredibly dull.

It's clear that you have a keen eye for design and solid command of flash. I think that if you're going to put so much effort into these then you might as well develop unique character designs which people can recognize as your own, but that's just my opinion.

Score: 5

"Really people? The best thing you've ever seen?"

submission: Purgatory Pizza!

date: March 28, 2009

After reading through some of the reviews for Purgatory Pizza I became very confused as to whether or not I had watched the same movie as everyone else. After a second viewing I'm even more confused as to why so many people are gushing over this. It's not a terrible animation, but I don't think it's deserving of such lavish praise.

One of the things that I noticed is that the artist is probably a bit of a novice with flash. There were some parts where white space was showing or symbols overlapped. The animation was aslo very limited and awkward, such as when the angry hectopus crashes in on his bike. Same goes for the lip-syncing and voice acting. It was really lacking polish presumably from experience, which is fine. Something can be kind of raw and still entertain people. There were a few things I did like, such as the video game style transitions. In general I think inserting radom pop-culture references is well worn territory by shows like family guy. If you're going to do references then you should shy away from stuff like obvious Star Wars and embrace more forgotten Andre the Giant.

So don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad cartoon. I just think it needs some work.

Score: 4

"Racism?"

submission: Racism!

date: March 10, 2009

It just seemed like that nerd with the backpack was making everyone else upset because he was upset, not because he was discriminating them based on their color. Why would all those different people assume he was being racist just because he was a grumpy-puss? If someone looked with a sour face I'd think that they were having a bad day maybe because someone told them their backpack was stupid, or because I they're walking animation was sloppy. If everyone is getting upset over these assumptions of racism do we deserve to progress as a society? And will simply telling someone to stop being racist really reverse the deep seeded hatreds that have been so ingrained upon them? If you created characters that people could relate to, rather than people on a power rangers zeo planet, then it would compel someone to take the message more seriously.

Score: 6

"fighting AND challenge"

submission: GunChest Episode 08_03

date: February 17, 2009

despite the awkward title and similarity to every episode of dragonball z, this isn't that bad. Well, it made me laugh, but I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be serious or not. Being crushed by big robot and screaming out 'I'm not dead yet!' was certainly odd. That and his robot torso wife, or whatever she is, crawling around seemed sillier than it should have... or maybe that's just the english dub.

Score: 3

"circular logic"

submission: : Bastardized Musicals :

date: February 13, 2009

I like how the frustration at bastardized musicals is rationalized by simply stating the name of the musical. Bob Dylan, i mean come on, BOB DYLAN! Well shoot, I'm sold!

Score: 1

"Animation or Karaoke?"

submission: Frontier Psychiatrist...

date: January 27, 2009

One of my biggest peeves in animated music videos is when the artist cops out and just has the lyrics to the song drawn up there. So I wouldn't exactly advertise this as an animation. Yes, there were pictures that moved, but it was more like fancy karaoke. Expectations are also very high for a song such as Frontier Psychiatry because it already has such an awesome video to accompany it.

Score: 10

"Top notch!"

submission: $00pah NiN10Doh!

date: January 3, 2009

This was amazing, and very entertaining. There was obviously a lot of time and effort put into this collaboration. It was both silly AND irreverent! Everyone did an awesome job... except for the blatantly tweened legendary frog parts, which were bland and brought down what was an otherwise orgasmic cornucopia of animation.

Score: 7

"what's my secret pleasure?"

submission: An Excuse

date: October 6, 2005

Voting five on this movie, that's what.
hot hot hot.