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[Real motion clouds]

Dull

This is pretty dull and pointless to watch... Also, there's more to clouds than just blurring up some white blob. If you've actually been on a plane, or if you perhaps look up some pictures, you'll see that the clouds look like a land covered in snow. The simple blur cloud is passable from a distance, but, since it's the focus of this animation, you should've tried to give them more detail.

inhstudios responds:

idc.

[Song of Healing Backwards]

Good crap

I wish spam crews could be this creative. This wasn't amazingly made or whatever, but nice job singing along to something that'd generally be used as "epic" music and being nonsensical in a good way.

LeatherFatty7 responds:

kthxby

[Run Kirby, Run -Short-]

Cute?

Not that Kirby is particularly hard to draw, but this was animated pretty well. Good job with the lighting and making the enemies get startled/out of the way.
The ball enemy made me think something else would happen, but it turned out it had no significance at all. I don't expect everyone to whip out a Final Fantasy A+ for a classroom project, but it couldn't hurt to give this movie a little more meaning/conclusion.

Other than that, I think you should credit where you got the song/sound effects (or anything else you didn't make) from. Keep at it, I like seeing Kirby movies (particularly non-sprite ones). Or whatever else you make, I'm sure it'd be decent judging by this movie.

AdventAxl responds:

I originally planned to make Kirby do the Epic dance, Kirby copying the ability and fight the tree enemy, but I had a deadline and freezing flash program. It also would've been too much for a 1st assignment...can you image how much I will have to top that one flash for 10 weeks? Craziness right?

It's a good idea I should give credit. I just edited the flash giving credit, thanks for the tip. Also this flash inspired me to make more flashes, so I might be making more as good as this one.

[The Power of Xein]

Pretty decent

The general idea was alright, more original than having him fight some other faceless stick man like many others do. I liked how the weapons were formed and that jump-smash with the pole was pretty great.

There are three main things I feel could be improved.
1. The speed... A lot of it was too slow to feel the intensity of the attacks.
2. The character had noodle arms that would simply curve around... While it's possible for you to develop that into a recognizable style of your own, I felt it took away from the intensity. Having a sharp angle at the elbow when preparing a punch would look a lot more fierce than simply curving your arm to hit the thing in front of you.
3. The lack of background was kinda bland. You could let the character interact with the background (like picking objects up) or smash through one background into another, etc. Having a plain white background is just kinda boring. Even a simple black background with small white dots ("stars") or a typical black background with green grid would be more appealing.

Sound can be synced in flash by going to the properties panel, clicking the frame the song starts on, and selecting "Stream" as the sync option (it's usually on "Event" by default). This will make the music pause when the movie pauses and stuff.

darkpower508 responds:

Thanks in general.
1. Really? I thouhg it was just right. I'll see next time I'll experiment with speed and stuff.
2. That was thanks to shape tween, maybe this is by FBF can benifit over weening. I'll work on it.
3. I was hoping no-one would notice. a) I didn't think of one, and b) I thouhgt you wouldn't be able to see the stickmen properly. I'll work on that aswell.
4. Didn';t know about syching, I'll edit that stight away. Thanks a lot :)

[Inside the mind of Craig]

Confusing

Very nice technique, but that was pretty fucked up and hard to follow. I particularly liked when it was zoomed on his legs before that zoomed out motion tween walking. The way his legs moved there looked so smooth and awesomely done, but not just some simple motion tween. Though I feel a bit weird complimenting something like that in a stick animation.

jocki responds:

Thanks, But I didn't tween anything... some motiontween on stuff but never tween on any sticks.

[Huge Thick]

Check out my huge thick review...which is small):!

I lol'd a little. The animation was pretty sloppy and stuff, though, and there was no colouring or backgrounds. Those things could use more effort. Not much else to say; keep on keeping on.

Lone-X responds:

I am still new to flash. All my work are basically drawings frame by frame I did on photoshop and then I put them into flash.

[Infiltration error]

Great

It was funny and decently made. The humans could've just used some shading, but otherwise great.

balbod responds:

yea the people were gonna be animated by my freind but he decided not to at the last minute so there a bit rushed

[Three Robot Stories]

Pretty bad

ROBOT_DISCUSSION.exe made me laugh a little. The whole intro thing was pretty good. Rather pointless/poor overall.

Lare responds:

Whatever, baby!