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[The Tainted Ep. 1]

Review by Valstein

I like the idea of the plot. Reminds me of the book Velocity by Dean Koontz, vaguely. I may have voted too low, based on masterpieces like Castle III, Bitey of Brackenwood, and Lilium. The animation and voice were kind of painful. That's not an insult. I'm terrible at flash, if you look at my submissions, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to review something. I know you must have put alot of work into this, unless you're just that good, and rushed it. I wouldn't know you money situation, but maybe a better mic, and many, many takes for voices would definitely help. As far as the animation, too much frame by frame, with alot of experience or training can be cheap looking; joints don't hinge realistically, edges can seem sloppy. My advice for the animation would be to quicken things up, and use jpeg blurs, or even half transparent streaks to make up for the loss of frames by making movements quicker. Less frame-by-frame, and more symbols and motion tweens. I know from experience that eye close-ups, and first person shots are almost always a bad idea, unless executed very well. If you do learn to do eye close-ups and first person shots well, don't forget to make them come and go quickly, before people get bored with them and want to see more. You can take my review with a grain of salt, or appreciate my advice, just please don't get offended. I liked it. You'll most likely do what the animators of Joe Zombie and Castle III did, grow and develop as a quality animator, and want to remake your first flashes with your new skills. Keep up the work, and try to learn new techniques if you have that much time to dedicate to flash.

lvl4l2C responds:

i'm definitely not offended and i really do appreciate the advice. i know, i need to work on my animation skills more. i haven't really taken any classes for making good animations, only a class for the basics. i'll keep on working on it, and i guarantee that you'll see much better results in the upcoming episodes. thanks again for the advice.

[!!!jump Around!!! Iv]

ummm...

For being on the front page, I was almost sure that this was just gonna be a preloader for something worth-while, or that it was only gonna be this stupid for a little bit but nope. I was wrong.

This is pretty rediculous.

[Erik the Juiceman MikeEp7]

WAAAAAYYYY too dragon ball z

So far, all I see in this is a remake of dragon ball z, with worse animation, a worse storyline, and worse sounds. Make something original.

Gobolatula responds:

Yes sir. Right away sir. God my balls itch. Dude I'm gonna learn how to play poker. Screw you.

[Chuckles]

overrated

for its score, i'd expect much more. The animation was unralistic and way too slow. this movie should have been like 10 seconds long, but everything that happend was so damn slow. And it had nearly no point. The creepy loop was pretty good, but thats about it.

AntiClockClock responds:

Believe me... this was once running at 12 FPS... it looks good to me at 16FPS.

[FF: Mixed in Balamb]

very boring

yeah, i didnt even finish it because it was so boring. im not sure what the point was. if it was supposed to be funny, it wasnt. if it was supposed to be serius, it wasnt. if it was supposed to have great animation and sound, it didnt. it was an overall OKAY flash, but it really had no point. i see that quite a bit of work went into it, so i gave you an eight, even though it wasnt entertaining at all.

Toonimated responds:

Ok

[Smells Like Dead Alive]

really really gay

it was pointless. why does it have a descent score? it looked like it was at like fuckin 5 fps. and the sound was out of sync. why the fuck did you make this? damn this sucks.

theMikey responds:

whatever...

[Star Wars Gangsta Rap: SE]

FUCK YES!

I love this movie, it was a great improvement from the original. The animation was amazing, I'm still not sure how you did it. I know there's masking and motion tweens, but some of it was too perfect. The animation went along perfectly with the song. And by the way, i HATE rap, and even i liked this. I love the very first few rhymes "what is thy bidding my master, it's a disaster, skywaker we're after" man, that was great. I end my review with a question:

Do you like rap?

pyropymp responds:

Nope! Hate rap ;) But I know a good parody song when I see one!

[Bitey of Brackenwood]

get ready for a long ass review

This is some of the best animation i've seen, maybe even the best so far. The collaberation of motion tweens, and fram by frame was amazing. The character models for all characters was amazing. Bitey was my favorite. He resembles a kiddy version of Satan or some greek mythological creature. either way, he kicks ass, i'd like to meet him. and the very first bit of text "Hello" said by the witch's friend was really clear and was great for a flash with not much text. i know, by making flash myself that it's hard to stay with one series, but damnit, if you don't go through with this masterpiece of imagination, i'll hunt you down and kill you... not to sound insane or anything. Just saying i'd love to see sequels of this wonderful flash.

chluaid responds:

ok, put the knife away.. I'm working on the new one right now :D

[Black Ops: Virus]

HOLY FUCK!

this might have been short, but an orgasm is short and nobody complains about those. yes, i am comparing your movie to an orgasm, its that damn good. the animation was insane. it was fluid and quick. atleast he didnt get out completely untouched, with the bullet hole in his side and all. i loved the stealth kills, and how alot of the pople noticedhim before dying, because realistically, who's not gonna notice a dude jumping at you? this was a definate five and is now on my faves.

teek-83 responds:

Wow! thanks, I think thats the highest comparison I've ever got! Glad you really enjoyed it!

[CC / LL Collab of Sadness]

i voted 10 cuz it was good but,

thats not the reason for this review. WHAT FEMME SONG IS THAT?!?! i've been searching for it all day and i cant find it! please give me the name of that song. thank you.

bgryderclock responds:

Violent Femmes "Album 3"
Date: 04/01/1989
track number 8

thanks for the vote <3