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[I Like Vegetables]

Firstly, hats off to your animation skill, this is honestly one of the best things I have reviewed in my time with The Review Request Club. Truly worthy of it's Daily 3rd Place and Front Page, congratulations for that also. Anyway to business.

Starting at the beginning is always best, The instant I saw the preloader I knew that this was going to be at least a better then average flash. It's always best, I feel to not skimp on a preloader and you clearly haven't with the little details like the buttons beyond a simple play button. It sets it out from 7/10 of Newground flashes. So far so good.

As I've already said I find the animation in general to be great although I would say if I was nit picking, looking for something to improve, I would have spent more time on the frame by frame drawing, especially around the characters hand movements, they could just be a tad smoother with the lines and at one point in the animation, where the character is having veg conveyer belted into his mouth there is a little line across his neck. Just little things like that. Really small things. Maybe spend a little more time watching what you think is the finished product and really looking at every detail. Honestly there is nothing else I would say to improve.

It's a great animated music video, the song and the animation are both funny. You should be proud of it. Keep this stuff coming.

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Yusuf responds:

Yeah with the conveyor belt part, I think something happened with it because the moving part of the guy's head is on a mask layer, and it screwed up. Thanks, I'll take these into consideration :)

[UMoN- Pandas]

O' okay, well I'll start with what I was confronted with once I had pressed the play button. A highly pixelated image of what I'm guessing is a bush with some calligraphy just placed on the top. You really can't get away with using such low quality images.

The panda itself was not a great illustration. Low res and with a stick of bamboo which I'm guessing was meant to be going from his hand into his mouth appears to be stuck to the back of his hand, more time should have gone into this, especially as the vast majority of the animation was a still image. Just a complete lack aesthetic.

Spend more time in the pre-production planning stage in the future and please, please, please, if you are thinking of making a simple, almost still image animation, make that image perfect. No more low res thanks, you're better then that.

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bamboo behind hand.

ForNoReason responds:

Thanks for the review!

[Adventure of a man - 2]

A much more amusing short then the first and it feels more drawn out and well written too, the duck pooping scene is especially funny/horrific. The duckling eating the ass worm also a nice little gross touch. Maybe I'm reading too much dark into this but I kinda hope not.

It has to be said that I'm drawn to wanting to see more in this series so that shows good writing, especially when you don't use any dialog.

I'd maybe consider working more on your backgrounds. I feel that more time could be going into them but with 8-bit it can be hard. The only real advice I can give, the rest was good.

Keep it up and I hope to see more of this series soon.

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Pepeto responds:

Thank you for the review, I appreciate it!

[Previously On The Walking]

I've never watched the show so I can't really grade this for how humorous it was as I might be missing some parody in it. I would have liked to have had a few more scenes and have them cutting between each other quicker.

The animation is good, especially as you have stated that this was your first attempt at animation. I'd say the next move for you would be to improve your drawing. Look more towards little details in your characters, the two guys hitting what I guess was a zombie on the floor where the best animation because there was a lot of details.

It'll all get better after a bit more practice. Think about the script first and then get to the animation and take your time. It's a great start man.

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[BLANK2.swf]

I really did enjoy this flash especially the level of macabre humour involved, although I do have some thoughts about how it could have been improved. For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse. Also you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are but I did get two different endings for one short, for some reason.

On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far and you don't get compliments as big as that easy. If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score.

I'd like to see more creepy shorts from you in the future, keep it up.

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Surn responds:

"For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse."

Already noted in Author Comments.

"you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are ..."

If you're still curious, try reading the first review for this cartoon by Handsome Tyler.

"On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far ..."

Well, I'm glad you like it. If you liked this then I'd recommend "aufeis".
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/612292

" If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score. "

I was going for a minimalist, enigmatic approach, but I'll admit: it kind of sabotaged the final product. I'll note that in the author comments.

Thanks for reviewing.