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Ranked no #680WHAT??

THERE IS GREAT INJUSTICE IN NEWGROUNDS THAT THIS RANKS SO LOW!

*slams table with fist*

ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN AND A FUNCTIONAL EYEBALL CAN SEE THAT THIS IS QUALITY FLASH!

NCH responds:

lol oh comeon, I do have to admit its still not good enough.... maybe cause of the starting cause it was created 2 years ago and got abandon and then taken out recently and continued on...

Ha-ha-haha-ha ha! (style get!)

There are a few things that really make this animation:

Graphics: considering the visual style you were going for, the graphics were good. However, I'm sure you could have worked on some more complexity within those environments. But really, the graphics look great anyway.

Style: the style was the main selling point for me (next to the humour) from my 1 submission on this site, it may not seem that I simply adore unusual visual styles, but I do. I adore them good, and this has a great visual style

Sound: now THIS was good! The music, though simple, was hilarious and fitted very well with the sitcom-like setting.

Violence: Well that dude in the background got shot, but that's it, and I actually think that low violence is a good way to take this series. It may be about guys in tanks, but that's no excuse for cheap crap, is it? However, It'd be good to see some more actual combat in the next one, if any. Explosions, maybe?

Humour: funny as a fart in a mine shaft. The humour was really crude, but effective nonetheless. The jokes were good, but the whole homosexuality theme got a bit tedious after a while. (but then again, what else do they have to talk about? There probably aren't any tank girls in the area, heh?) Still, some variation to joke topics would have been nice. The Titanic thing was also quite clever.

Some things that need work:

Try to go for more advanced animation techniques. The Tankmen are pretty simple characters, so there's really no need to limit yourself to tweeining. Try to give them some more personality in the animation department, also, you should work on things like camera angles rather than having the story progress on a flat 2D plain. I can imagine many ways in which you could have incorporated more dynamic views into this animation. The animations that you did use flowed very nicely together, but it was really noticable that the characters only had two head positions: straight ahead and looking down. The lip synching was great though.

Anyway, killer effort, but you should try to make your next one a little bit more impressive in the animation department! Great job!

Also, aim to make the episodes a little bit longer.

JohnnyUtah responds:

thanks for the review. I kept the animation limited so I could have this thing done as quickly as possible. Tweening is smooth and I don't think is offensive if used minimally.

and remember - great animation doesn't necessesarily = entertaining.

interesting!

Great concept, and cool use of Flash 3D. I wish I had a 3D program for flash now...

I actually can't suggest ways to improve, seeing as I'm not experienced with 3D flash, but it felt incomplete somehow. Anyway, as I said before, a very cool concept and a great way of showing it.

Mutation responds:

If you can afford the entire Swift 3D package, go for it! It comes with great documentation, so the learning curve isn't a cliff.

You are right on the spot by saying it feels incomplete, because I feel the same. It was a bit rushed at the end, mainly because I had been tweaking and tormenting for 3 days and wanted it to be over with, but reviews like yours and the experience gained can only lead to better things, so thank you =D

Work on it...

Nice use of sprites, but it's really too short and not all that interesting. Perhaps if you extended it and used more complex animation techniques, it would work.

For the time being, though. It's not all that good. Sorry. Still, keep on trying! One of the things I think you did very well was adding a certain amount of user interactivity. The outtakes were a good idea.

Work on your presentation a bit more. Remember that in the actual game, there were many movie clips of characters as they talked. For instance, you could probably make Bowser splash about angrilly in the bathtub when he's yelling at Luigi rather than just turning around. I'm sure there was an "angry" sprite in that game for Bowser.

Just little things like that.

MarioandLuigiman responds:

Very discritptive, constuctive, and told me what to fix. Thanks alot.

It has ninjas, so it's automatically good.

And it's bloody hilarious too. I love the timing of the movements, altogether they create a very funny piece. The sound effects and voices were very well done. I especially love that foghorn sound when it shows the dirty ice cream. I loved the part where the Ninja tried to eat the ice cream through his mask and then did the ninja drop trick to escape, brilliant!

The tweening in general was great, but there were some bits you could have watched out for, especially the way the bunnycat's eyes seemed to be trying to escape all the time. If this was intentional, then it still looks a little strange when those pupils start to move in opposite directions.

The graphics were very good too. I love the no-lines look. Very clean and appealing to look at.

I like it a lot! Good work!

Wonchop responds:

I've always found directing pupil direction to be tough. For example when someone looks to his left, then looks down, the left eye moves from the left side to the bottom right, yet the right eye moves from the left side to the bottom left. It's all a bit confusing.

I have an account at Deviantart! Go have a look, there's hyper chibi anthro stuff, GO GO!

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