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[RUSH.]

eeej dirst.

LabaJs!!! Beidzot kads latvietis uztaisiijis augsha ko loti kvalitativu... laikam .
*Cough* *cough* Sorry.
I will be posting the rest of the review in english so people can actually read it.
The quality of the animation was very good, was a very high quality and timing was.... somewhat decent. However, the plot and the events seemed boring and uninspired. I mean the quality is really good, but there is no events or plot to drive the viewer to keep watching. I cant give you a higher score because it seemed pointless. Maybe it had a deeper artistic meaning, but I failed to grasp it.
Keeping that aside- Good job! You are quite talanted.

gzilbalodis responds:

Redzu ka neesmu seit vienigais.

[Ask Raptor Jesus]

Political debate shows in a nutshell

I consider this a fine satire of the basics in political shows. You don't need to have a great understanding of politics in Australia to understand some of the jokes. There is always one politician who cant comprehend the situation and evades a touchy subject by talking about things that don't matter, which you pulled off very nicely. There is the guy who demands the answers (Rage melon). And of course you have the humour relieve characters like Captain Planet and Raptor Jesus, who symbolizes the epic bullshit that is politics. I may be missing the point, but that is my interpretation.
Of course the animation and the voice acting is very nice (very professionaly made), and thumbs up for the randomness in the end. I was not expecting that. There is a thin line between stupid randomness humour and Epic randomness humour, and you, my friend, have nailed it on the epic one. It was unexpected, quickly timed and fast, like it should be.
Sir, you never cease to amaze me with your well-played, slightly off humour. Keep up the great work.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks deathwiller, you're not far off. tony abbott frequently refers to himself as an "iron man", is a fitness junkie (hence the flexing) and is also frequently photographed in his lifesaving costume - the pole dance is an attempt to parody a public figure being photographed almost naked knowing full well the photos will be huge publicity for him.

and both sides of politics are trying their best to avoid talking about climate change so thats why captain planet is on the panel.

[Stenchu Stealth Shinobi 2]

I have no Idea what to say

It is really hard to decide where to start this review.
Ok... As it seems to me it is a typical shouen-type (probbably misspelt it) cartoon, with ninjas or samurais in it. I can tell where you got the inspiration for the main character. It felt pretty generic.... I couldn't grasp the feeling of the story or the pacing of the story and events. It didnt give me a impression, the impact that something is happening.
The writing is cheap, and I mean seriously cheap Filled with the most typical one-liners of battles - like ''I will avenge the people''. It isnt well thought out writing and your story-telling abilities are not the best. To help the pacing, story you must make that the viewer would ''get the feeling'' of your cartoon. Maybe if throw a short flashback of the ''Avenging character'' the plot would seem more plausible. The character needs motives, you cant just put labels like "He is bad, therefore I must kill him". Seriously - More character development and pacing.

Second of all the voice acting was below average, and you cant balance the volumes of the voices I couln't tell what certain character said. The subtitles saved it... but not by much.
Although the animation feels not right (did not hold my beliefs), it was rather.... decent. The style was wierd, but acceptable.

Bottom line: Terrible writing, Bad audio, decent animation. Author had no Idea for a actual plot, author intended a animation of a kakashi-looking ninja killing a bunch of stuff.

But in the end - It kept me entertained.

What you should do: Dont force stupid jokes (zelda (if you do, just make it short)), have more character development (motives, backstory), fix the audio, and think of pacing more. (some Scenes rusher, while other scenes were dragging in it).

I see a lot of potential in you.... Good luck!

Rikimaru-Azlar responds:

I agree that short punchy ideas will be received better. It was quite deadpan but the original tenchu (psx) was like that, all Rikimaru does is preach in one liners, but bearing that in mind, I will take it to the extremes and adapt it further. I will also work on the voice overs. This episode hints at themes that will be explained in more detail next time. If you look up tenchu 1, you'll learn a bit more about the characters, Rikimaru is the spitting image of Kakashi/Takashi(?) maybe the character inspired the Naruto character. I'm glad it entertained you, my main focus was on the action and clever shots, next time I'll balance the comedy a bit more. Thanks for the review

[Chicken Sammich]

My spidey sense is tingling....

I smell potential.... Dont get sad if this one kind of fails, because it was short, and felt a little bit empty. I liked the style and concept of the presentation.
I think you should keep making these cartoons, however.... Read my advice:
*Find fitting background music for the entire animation ( I think instrumental, neat music would do)
*Dont make single shorts, If you like making shorts, Make a lot of them and compile them in a movie.
*A little lowder, and if the background stays the same (for all your movies) color it ( I mean the TV) and add details.

Overall: It was nice, cute, but this was too short. Put more effort.
Good luck~! Dont give up!

8bitprodigy responds:

thanks for the support, and advice, im not too keen on making cartoons with colors, and ya, i do think it needs some elevator music and to be louder. thanks again!

[Ninja's Creed]

Noice.... (translation for nice)

However, it is kinda too big for a movie this lenght. The size I mean. Compress it, dont use 15 mb wav music. Be conservative.
Otherwise, it was nice,te animation. However your storytelling isnt good. :( Good job making these movies.

DISTRACT-A-BEE responds:

I did some tinkering, and hopefully the size problem is solved now :)
Still learning ^^; I'll get better I know it :)
Thanks for your advice :)

[My very First Flash]

hmmm...

I have only few things to complain and congratulate you.
First of all, There's no sound. You probbably think that it doesnt matter since animation matters. But No. Since you are probbably new to this I will bring up these points to you. The lack of sound made it stodgy and blunt. The lack of sound or music demoralizes the viewer of watching it. Without sound it feels wrong
Second of all the animation is tiny, and unfriendly big dialog boxes, where the letter ''i'' is bigger than the character is saying it. Dont make big screens and small stickmen fighting. If There is only 2 stickmen make the characters bigger or increase the capibility of the enviorment (probbably misspelt it). Make a arena or somthing to make it more tempting. I suggest dont make dialogs in stick movies, because all the viewers of stick movies just want to see characters beat the crap out of them.
Third of all, If you like this style of animating (which is small stickmen in big arenas, I suggest you to make a stickman clusterfuck. (where in one big arena 6 stickmen are fighting at the same time with each other)

Other than that it was very good for your first piece of flash animation. If you keep this wall of text in your mind, you will have more awesome in it.

Good luck making the next one.

I gave you a 4 because it is hard for me to make an opinion in numbers.

Ichi-Kats26 responds:

i actually didnt add sound cuz i dodnt know howXP... and i dont have vcam YET but wen i get it i can make the stks look bigger.... thx for the tips^^

[Eski: 008]

Still a crap

it was kinda fun but it was short and still kinda crappy. And it's done by kitty krew. So far this is first your's short that sucks about 0.005% less than other animations.

Magyar responds:

u are crap.
all your submittions get blammed.

[The Kick-Ass Monkey]

Be better. half of rewiev in lv language.

nav slikta animaacija man taaa patiik. If youre realy latvian than you can read this :). But it can be better. to Lv.: Pameegjini labaak...
Please make somthing better.

Dumb-Latvian responds:

Man nav ne jausmas ko tu tur esi uzrakstijis.. nesaprotu latviski.. Dumb_Latvian ir tik niks.. And english too.. Have no idea whatsoever what you wrote just now.

[My Clay House Episode05]

Clay man... Nice

I luv it. Nice animation and everything is almost perfect. keep up the good work. oh i wanted for it to be longer... Plz next episode, or somthing like that.

Phill64 responds:

Thanks for the review!

You want it to be longer? :'( You know this was a special extra-length episode right?, i don't think i can handle any larger than this, i didn't even plan on keeping them this long even... but tell you what, i will try :)

Cheers!

[The BIG Fight!]

A stick fight could be better.

i Didnt liked it... Maybe the beginning talk was funny :D. But the rest totaly sucked. I thought atleast you could ake a stickman movie normal movments, but it was only stupid flying objects. >_<

El-Jameo responds:

i know but i have only made 3 animations and my flash dosent work all the time and was that a tip?