Score: 7

"Nice concept"

submission: Sugar Plum Penguins

date: July 22, 2008

Very cute, very adorable. The high frame rate and nice use of motion guides really gave the animation a smooth and classic feel, and your drawing skills have improved quite a bit during your practice.

But the aspect I feel most inclined to praise you for is your concept. Too many users don't think about a script before beginning an animation project, but your had a very nicely thought out script that ultimately worked out to be sweet. True, there was a point or two where I didn't exactly understand what each character was thinking, but at least there was constant motion that was nicely timed to the music.

All in all, a good job.

Score: 1

"Akatsuki? "Sunrise?""

submission: Akatsuki Chronicles Ep.2

date: July 9, 2008

-Little to no actual animation
-Music that was too loud
-Unoriginal, overused characters
-Little attention payed to script writing
-Zero voice acting
-Tenuous grasp of standard drawing techniques

All these are characteristics of animators who have not practiced enough, and by the looks of this animation, you need more practice.

Now I know I may sound harsh; you're probably new to flash or are 13 or both (since Naruto is predominately enjoyed by 13 year olds). My point still stands: you should practice for a long time on your own before you try submitting things. When I first got flash, I had the advantage of already being able to draw, but it still took me a long time to get anywhere near good enough to make something I was proud enough of to submit to Newgrounds. I made dozens of test animations that only myself and a few friends ever saw, and now I have an animation with a score over 4.0.

It's not a hunch, it's truth: a lot of practice is required before anyone gets good with anything artistic. Flash is no different. Sit down, draw for 6 months straight, and then try again. If you're not ready after 6 months of continuous hard work, I'll eat my hat.

Score: 6

"Cool idea"

submission: Dancing Tumors

date: June 27, 2008

Yup, that's pretty much exactly how that recording session went. Tumors showed up and magic happened.

It's a nice idea. Maybe not the best executed, but it shows some promise. The lip synching actually wasn't too bad, especially for the spoken word interludes.

But, my curiosity gets the better of me: how ever did you come up with the idea of tumors singing my song?

Score: 0

"Well, how horrible."

submission: Universal Studios Florida

date: April 27, 2008

I am also appalled that this got passed into the portal. It was a rediculously stupid idea which was implimented in a lazy, half-assed manner. We understand that you have opinions, but, contrary to your belief, the internet does not care that you had a miserable time at Universal Studios Florida.

This would be better off as a blog, a myspace rant, or possibly a poorly produced video review on youtube; the idea doesn't stand alone as worthy of having a flash animation around it.

And for the animation, I can safetly say that my seven year old cousin has actually produced test animations that show more creativity, technical skill, and artistic merit than this little steaming pile you've produced. And I don't want to hear your standard defense of "J00 no have fl4sh. GTFO." I actually am a flash animator who has contributed to this site, so I know what I'm talking about when I say that this would take anyone with modest intelligence about 5 minutes to produce.

Anyway, that's all. I'm done berating you now. I'm sure that you'll come up with a very n00b-ish sounding response that either questions my sexuality or otherwise unsuccessfully tries to belittle my manhood. But doing so would only prove my point about your lack of maturity and tact. So, good luck with that. I'm just glad that I got to add another zero to the review score of this piece of crap.

Score: 3

"I'm sorry to be the voice of reason"

submission: The finger- Dane Cook

date: February 25, 2008

I really don't want to sound like the only guy that thinks this is pretty bad, but unfortunately, I do. It just seems like an animation test that you didn't put much work into, and therefore probably shouldn't be on the portal.

It passed, though, which shows that if you base an animation around good enough audio that people will like it; but let's be honest, this looks like you spent maybe an hour drawing all of the static images, and maybe another hour working on the lip synch. I mean there was:
No color
No animation outside of moving lips
No original humor on your part, only the humor of Dane Cook.

All in all, it was Dane Cook that people passed into the portal, not your animation. I really suggest that you continue making little tests like this, but that you also just keep them to yourself. Good flash artists don't submit everything they ever create to the portal. I, myself, make tons of short little animation tests to work on drawing skills, or animatic timing, and only submit to the portal those which are a cut above the rest.

I suggest that you do more work for yourself before you share that work with others. If you ever want to get a score that's better than "barely passed," you'll have to present something that looks like it took some time and effort.

Score: 0

"You think noone will notice?"

submission: [KK] Epic Collab

date: February 20, 2008

You gotta be kidding me. You have GOT to be kidding me! You talk so adamantly in your comments about turning over a new leaf and trying to prove to the portal that you're a talented bunch of animators, and then you upload a submission that purposefully doesn't load all the way, trying to take advantage of people's sympathies?

That's just wrong.

You've done all you can to make this look like a legitamate flash, and you're counting on people to assume it is. But in reality, it's a loading screen that loads slowly, and stops when it's almost done. I know because I started loading the movie, and then disconnected from the internet, and, lo and behold, the flash continued to "load" despite the fact that there was no connection, and, lo and behold again, it stopped loading once it had reached the same "almost full" spot.

Don't insult the Portal's intelligence like that. People are going to be able to tell, "Oh, it never loads fully." You're never going to be taken serriously because you've tried too many times and lied about your intentions. I just can't believe that for a second I actually thought you spammers had actually and sincerely changed.

Lesson learned: you'll never change, and I'll never stop voting zero.

Score: 8

"Not the best game to feature, but still funny."

submission: Awesome Video Games Ep21

date: February 20, 2008

While Fighting Golf isn't the most interesting game ever devised for the Nintendo Entertainment System (which is the point of the whole episode), the style of quick camera jerks, overly energetic retro quips, and a misunderstanding of deceptive titles makes this a fine episode of AVG.

What the actual game lacked in entertainment, the producers made up for with over-the-top punching sound effects, tongue-in-cheek treatment of Lee Travino, and seizure-esque exhuberance on the part of the actors. I personally felt that this was one of the better episodes for the actor who played the father character; his comedy made me smile profusely.

So, all in all, not the best episode, but definitely not the worst. Keep it up, and keep looking for those obscure titles to feature, like Section Z, Rad Racer, or Deathbots.

Score: 0

"AWESOME!"

submission: [L*]K1rby

date: February 11, 2008

Wow, that was completely and utterly Awesome, you guys. I mean, wow, I'm so simultaneously honored and overjoyed that my pesky little reviews annoyed you enough to make a crappy flash animation starring me. That serriously made my day. I mean, how much power do I have over you that my silly little comments made you mad enough to make this little steaming pile? Truely, I must be a master of ninja mind tricks to have enraged you so much. I kinda wished you would have used my more recent online moniker - The Ninjkabat - but I'm still happy to be a part of your horrible, horrible animation.

Now, onto the review. The animation was still pretty bad, but it was better than your last two submissions, which really didn't have any seperate moving symbols after your long intro animation. This one had at least seven different symbols that I counted, which when compared to zero is an increase of infinite%. You still have quite a bit to learn about symbol tweening, as made clear by the inwardly swinging arm rotation, which is caused by the two keyframes having different centering points. It's ok, though. I can tell you don't have much practice with tweens.

On the Japanese front, I really can't say you've gotten any worse. I couldn't find any grammar mistakes, or banal sayings, and I guess if an anime series you're piggybacking on spells Lucky Star in hiragana, then you can too. I kinda wished you would have written 'keikoku' in kanji, because there are a lot of homonyms for that word, and it could also mean government, short period, or courtesian, depending on which kanji you use. But, since I think I've established that you don't know any Japanese past what your dictionary can tell you, I'm not going to split hairs over it.

Now, the plot: much improved over your last couple animations. As any literature class will teach you, conflict drives plot most of the time; and there was definitely conflict driving this plot. Your last couple submissions are boring and lame because nothing happens outside of your characters talking about nothing. In this submission, there is definitely an outward conflict that culminates in the battle sequence which makes your flash much more able-to-be-watched. If you'll notice, this submission's score broke into the low 3's, which is something that can't be said of your last two flash submissions. I'm pretty sure that the sole reason is that there actually was a plot.

And with that, I think I can end my review. Again I thank you for thinking me a big enough nuisance to make me an enemy in your flash; it is something I will not soon forget. Sadly, though, I'm afraid that this will be my last review of your work, as I'm sure any one of my reviews will be applicable to your future animations, and as I really don't have any more time to waste on you guys. Nothing personal, I just want to finish college in 4 years, which means I gotta hit the books instead of berating you like this.

Peace out, and good luck with your future "animations."

Stealthily yours,
-The Ninjkabat

Score: 0

"Again, there is no humor"

submission: [L*]Tsukasa Write

date: February 11, 2008

Just like the last animation that I wrote a review for from these creators, this flash is nothing but an attempt to take advantage of people's ignorance of the Japanese language instead of being actually funny.

For those of you that cannot read or write Japanese, the text in this movie says boring, banal sayings, like "the weather is good today," "is that so," "you are white, aren't you?" I believe that the creators simply copied and pasted these sayings from a Japanese textbook, and don't actually know much of the language themselves.

Which brings me to my main beef with all of this: it's not funny. It's not funny at all. It's boring and complete tripe in terms of animation. But, because the average viewer doesn't know that the Japanese is complete and utter nonsense, they are unable to understand how completely pointless these animations are. If they had used English, there would be no question about it: they would be blammed. But using Japanese is so much easier than being funny that these creatively stiffled individuals seek that as a means to get their submissions passed, which just isn't acceptable.

And the other thing is that it is pretty much the same animation as the group's submision before this: [*L]Konata Wright. Submitting two almost identical animations that a) don't make use of sensicle Japanese, and b) are completely devoid of any animation harder than a two-frame mouth is just not something I think voters on Newgrounds can afford to allow.

So, that's my take on this animation: total carp.

Score: 8

"Pretty freaking awesome"

submission: - CoolioBeat 2 -

date: February 10, 2008

Pretty solidly put together, Coolio. The Guitar Hero-esque gameplay will definitely make it popular, and your solidly put together rhythms go well with the songs.

At times, the screen shake that came with every correct hit were a little cpu consuming, and made it a little harder, but overall it's very nicely made. You made a nice selections of songs to showcase, as well, which makes it a very enjoyable experience.