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meh

This just seemed poorly done. I've heard variations of that joke many times, and you didn't even do it yourself. All you did was the sub par animation, which was almost painful to watch. You obviously didn't put effort into your character design. Him randomly jumping when blinking or moving was just irritating, as well as the needless and overused camera movement. It looks like you were just trying to add life to a bland and badly done animation, and cover up the fact that you have absolutely no inbetweens. This is really not front page worthy, and it makes me sad that a bunch of lazily done still frames, mediocre lip sync, and audio that you didn't come up with can be concidered an animation.

Nice

There was no real animation, just stills with tweens, but it had good composition.

Wonderful

This is really a masterpiece. You have a nice concept of motion. I like your art style and the angles you chose. You managed to do some things with limited animation, but you pulled it off very well so the motion didn't suffer, and when you went all out animating it was very impressive. I also loved the music- good choice! My favorite scenes are when he takes the apple, and when he attacks the guy with the gun. Overall this is a great flash and you've certainly made Newgrounds a better place by posting it. Bravo, you should be very proud of your work.

sigh...

Well I know that everyone will say 'this review isnt helpful', and that even by saying that I've cemented my fate of being badmouthed by NG fans, but seriously come on. This collab was just... disappointing in so many ways. Most of the parts concisted of a couple tweens and someone getting crushed or shot. Really now, its tweens. Its the easiest, most lazy form of animation, in which you can ignore almost any principle of animation or motion you want; the least you could do is make a person with a full body who isn't just a floating head raising a gun, or a hammer tweening down on someone. Even with that, where is the gravity in the hammer? It seems to have no weight. It doesn't bounce, or act as if it has the mushy pulp of something it just smashed under it. For something so simplistic you really should put some effort into it, especially when its so short.
Concerning the frame by frame- Its nice to at least see that some people are trying to do something beyond tweens, but you need to understand motion and what animation really is first. FBF is more than just filling in the spaces between two keyframes with pictures. FBF is about getting the motion correct. Easing in and out of movements, adding weight and realism, and most importantly figuring out which pictures should go where in the frames, since you only have a limited ammount before the motion is over. Just using the onion skin and drawing lines where they'd be between the two keyframes you have does not suffice. Even the keyframes were not timed well with how long the movement would actually take.
In summation the tweeners have no excuse to be that lazy and have such boring characters with so few parts do so little, and not even move realistically. The FBF people need to start thinking of animating as more than inbetweening, but actually capturing the different rates of speed, and realism in their works, since their style is the most versitile.
I know this seems kinda mean, but if you ask a really great, well known animator (nanoko, adam phillips, etc) they will tell you the same thing. Unfortunately most of the animators that know this, the ones that I look up to an appreciate, dont submit to NG because the quality of this collab is mostly the quality of NG's stuff as a whole, and their skill won't be as appreciated as it really should be, because people don't understand the principles of animation. So please take what I've said and proove me wrong. Make something amazing so I can say "Wow, theres a great animator" and congradulate you. I'd really like that.

Beautiful

Animation was so smooth and perfect. Really top notch job. Unfortunately this is on Newgrounds, so theres bound to be the random 13 year old who has never animated before that hates this. But seriously, this is an amazing piece, and luckily (since you're on JA now) it can be appreciated by real animators.

=D

Loved it, as always.
Can't wait for you to start animating Fabulous Battle. You're still in, right?

nice

poetic and well made, despite the fact that there was no real animation.
Plus the elfen lied song. which makes it win.

Hmmm.

The only reason I can see this getting front page is people are impressed with it's length, or they're judging it on it's song and not on the animation.

Seriously

If you want a fighting series, you may want to add some frame by frame stuff in, instead of still pictures and fast cuts and tweening limbs to make slow motion. It just seems like this was lazily made and its lack of good animtion, its repetative and cheesy voice acting, and its mediocre drawings make it hard to watch. It could defenitely be a great thing, it just needs more work.

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Ok, how the hell did this get on the front page!? This is crap. Its still in the latest 5 and its on the top of the front page. If this isnt some autovote thing then i dunno what the hell NG has come to...

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