Score: 2

"Tisk Tisk"

submission: The NG Rules

date: March 6, 2008

Nomader, what am I going to do with you? ;P Here is your review, you review whore.

First, you had good taste in music. It is probably what aloud me to keep the window open for as long as I did.

Second, your copy and paste skills are most supreme, when forgetting the very end of the movie where the text starts overlapping and it is impossible to read.

Implementation was poor, to say the least. Perhaps, I might have found it amusing with Star Wars in the background, but scrolling rules made it difficult to read and the lack of organization makes it difficult to find the rules you are looking for.

How to improve:
1) Navigational buttons and menus to go deeper and deeper into the rules.
2) Mute options for sound, or alternate music selections
3) Spiffy menu graphics to give the flash some flare

The movie was ok, Nomader, but you need to put more effort into your future flash and consider the way you present your material.

Score: 3

"A Valant Attempt, Falls Short"

submission: Lonely Days End Strangely

date: January 15, 2008

When I watched this movie, I took note of what was going on. Let us disect it only for a moment to identify what is going on here. Still shots, like from google (but thats fine), a crudely drawn figure, and a decent song. Lets call this part 1.

Now lets look at part 2. Guy walks down the street into a bear trap, screams loudly as his foot bleeds.

This is exactly what your movie is in short. I have to say I enjoyed the first part. You were able to convey a lot of expression in the character, even with the lack of realalistic body proportions. So long as you can convey that emotion, it won't matter how you display your character. Remember that because this was a strength and you should continue to use it.

The images in the back, while nice at times lost quality and importance. They had a grany feel to them and in some cases this worked and others it didn't. My favorites, which exemplified the "lonely" were the first and the subway. I think you may want to look at these scenes more closely and see what they had that your others didn't. Again, these two scenes were good, and I think if you had some how carried the mood of them into your other scenes it would have been fine.

The song, well, it motivated the entire first part of the song, which is why it seemed to fit at first, but it is also the reason that the last part did not work for me. I felt that the schism created between the song "aka Part 1" and the bear trap "aka Part 2" was too large. I could not find the motivation for it and could not reason why it was that way.

I think Part 2 is the weakest part of your animation because it doesn't fit, it lacks the emotion of the other two good scenes I mentioned. The emotion in part came from the character's silence. In the second part, however, he talks, in a poor quality sound clip that does not really seem to fit the mood of the rest of the movie or the song.

As for the bear trap, I just didn't get it. I might ask you why you put it in there? What was the reason? Was it to show utter hopelessness? Perhaps freezing just as his foot were about to step on it and ending it would have been more powerful. Ending on a note of suspense. Perhaps shortening the length of the scene in which it seems to me to take a long time to move down. He doesn't need to move quicker, but perhaps less time of him moving would be better. A shorter clip, or multiple angles which you aren't able to achieve with still shots unless you take them.

The lip sinking was a nice touch, I would encourage you to practice it more, it wasn't quite on, but it is clear you put effort into it.

In the end this last scene left me upset... at the movie. I felt the need to close it before it had finished. I don't think this is what you want your viewers to do. Ending a piece is really just as important as the beginning. I would encourage you in the future to take into account how the whole thing fits togeather: What your point is, What the mood is, and What your motifs are.

Perhaps after doing this you'll find a way to make your next movie or this one better. Like I said, valant, but in the end disjointed. Hope to see better work from you in the future.

Score: 10

"An excellent piece of FBF"

submission: There she is!!!

date: January 12, 2007

I've watched this movie for 2 years and never grown tired or it. The drawing, while simplistic is the perfect style. The song is upbeat and great to listen to. Whats more it always makes me smile.

The best movie for a rainy day. Plus it helped me get my girlfriend, and how many flashes can you say that about.

Keep up the work, I can't wait to see step 3.

Score: 7

"Heh, nice movie..."

submission: Yiddish Band

date: April 24, 2006

Just so you know, that movie wasn't in Yiddish, it was in hebrew...

Enjoyed it none the less, a bit short... room for improvement but still cool to see.

I think the only problem was the lack of plot or length... nothing else to really say.

Score: 9

"Very well done"

submission: Red Riding Hood

date: March 13, 2006

Near perfection, sad thing is no one can achieve perfection. As a reviewer, I will try to point out some things I liked/thought needed improvement. Please take it as constructive criticism.

First of all, the graphics:
Well done, in the anime style. Good use of photoshop by the looks of it. Truly enjoyed it. The only comment I have is that some of the characters were really rough at times. While you did a great job. Proportionally, giving them weight, etc... I felt, some of the images could have been cleaned up a bit more for everything else you had done. Obviously you still did a great job there.

Style:
A decent style. I really liked your twist on a well known story. The anime isn't especially new, but its still cool and your originality on a classic fairy tale is good. I have to say, seeing a wolf in a shirt like that threw me at first, but I should have known when I saw the corsette. Your style works well and I can't think of anything you should really work on, you'll just refine it as you move on.

Sound:
Interesting take on the narrative, it being the wolf's voice. I like the twist as well. The music was chosen perfectly for the peice. Maybe some light background sound in the future for the woods or a fire crackling if there is a fire. Or the knife scraping on the plate. I realise it was a story being told, but those could be put in to enhance the realism of the story. The narration did get kind of long, it was a good voice for the wolf, but maybe more emotion next time or some other voices to give the ear more to listen to.

Violence:
It was there, it was used well. I don't have much to say on it, besides that you should always reserve violence for when it is needed and only make it as graphic as needed. This has the tendency to hit home in an audience harder and reflect the seriousness of the situation. You mastered this prety well.

Blah on interactivity and humor.

My last remark, the only plot thing that bothered me is how long it took her to realize it wasn't her mother, you could have cut that down a bit, especially since the bird and cat were just brushed off and the audience already knew.

Other than that good job.

Score: 6

"It just went down hill..."

submission: X's Awakening

date: February 6, 2006

First ditch the shape tweening. It just bumps up the size of the movie and is freaking annoying to watch anyway.

Second, get better microphones, I couldn't stand to listen to the voices.

Third, Less still shots if its going to be that long. I was getting so bored sitting here watching the same shots over and over again. Additionally that first fight scene blew. There was almost no motion in it whatsover and then you showed it to me three times. It wasn't exciting it didn't make anything look powerful.

You seem to do a good job tracing because that is probably what those drawings of X were, if not then I commend you on your ability to reproduce an original character, but this thing needs work.

Its too slow, the scenes are drab and boring. The artwork fluctuates from decent to shotty...

My biggest complaint is the size. 10 megs for something like this... not worth it. I feel sorry for the people who sit through dial up to watch this, it just doesn't live up to its size.

Now, you aren't with out hope. In future videos, increase the frame rate, spend more time on background. Learn how motion works and do it. You've got potential, but this thing was horrible.

Score: 10

"Loved it, pure and simple"

submission: Hanuka Special

date: January 3, 2006

Great Graphics... but more

You were able to show emotion with the characters. I liked the added shading and the expressions.

I'll add this to my favorites. Glad to see some Hannukah flash around. The originality is nice and the story line hits home.

A thanks for an entertaining video from the Jew Crew of NG

Score: 7

"Kinda disapointing"

submission: Akira The Don - CLONES

date: November 20, 2005

Its so big, but I just didn't enjoy it at all.

The graphics were cool, at sometimes they slipped below where the rest of them were. You used to many actual movie files which increased the size of the movie.

I wasn't really into the gore either. It didn't really do anything for the movie. And I wasn't really into the bashing of all society either.

Lets all hate the man and follow what you have to say even though you have nothing better to say. Meh, so you lost points there.

Graphically good, but it didn't have any emotion to it, or it didn't inspire any emotion in me. It just seemed like you were attacking the american government because you had nothing better to do with your time.

The coding was good, I liked having the options and everything.

I didn't really like the songs. So sound goes down a bit.

I didn't find it funny, hence the humor score.

This movie is great for a certain click. I'm just not in it.

Score: 8

"Wowzers"

submission: Harry Potter 5th trailer

date: November 10, 2005

Good choice... well done in actually taking the book and applying your imagination to create it...

Graphically week at points... Some of the 3d portions... such as zooming down the hall need some work. Parts of the actual drawings look a little shotty, but over all it was good.

Keep at it and we can expect great things for you.

Awesome amount of suspense... I almost wish you were actually doing a series of the book in flash form, but this was good still

You've left me with a smile

Score: 10

"Not perfect, but necessary for the internet to see"

submission: eBaums world dot com

date: November 8, 2005

First of all I really enjoyed the movie. It was well done, and the fact that you actually took the time to create that audio says how commited you are and I respect you for that. Graphics weren't perfect, but they didn't need to be.

So here I am left giving you a good score :D

Also as far as the ebaums thing goes I have always known that they steal work, but what bothers me more than that is the malicous script that they pass on. Steiling is wrong, but causing harm to people's property is worse than stealing a flash movie. Both are wrong, but I am proud to say I have NEVER visited their site.

Thanks for the enjoyment and good luck with spreading the message.