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[LARRY episode 1.5]

Great, but...

Well done, once again. This series really showcases some genuine professional level writing. It's not just the usual low brow, ad-libbed, thrown together stuff you see so often on here.

That being said however, I must say that priest paedophilia and gay references are real bottom of the barrel stuff. I guess once upon a time it WAS novel and edgy, but these come about a year too late (if not more). They weren't even an original take, just a straight up carbon copy of the hundreds of times I've seen these 'jokes' before.

I'm surprised you felt you needed to put them in, as the rest of this was REALLY strong. I'm pretty sure you're a talented enough writer to come up with more original jokes than these, but even just removing them - I thought would have made this a stronger piece.

I wasn't too much a fan of the poop joke, or a few of the more in-your-face pop culture references but that's a lot more just my personal opinion.

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Anyway I don't have much else to say, as you can pretty much pick anything else from it, and I either loved it or learned from it! Great punch line, and the backgrounds were particularly excellent. Well done, as always.

Jazza responds:

thank you very much. i get what your saying. truth be told i dont consider myself a writer by any means, and i think my strength is how i can draw from cliches, and yeah sometimes it is JUST cliche, but in other cases i think i pull it off in a defferent or original way. look at all my old crap, it's a boat i get very stuck in, i cant think on too many original ideas! but i think thats why i'm so at home making this series because EVERY character is an overendulged RIP on big cliche's. so yeah, it wont always come across as perfect, but nowadays EVERYTHING is cliche anyway so i'm just having a bit of fun with it.

i DO agree with what you said though, you are right. i wrote the script in 20 minutes and animated over 2 months, and i generally just write whatever crap comes to mind... i'll spend more time on the next script.

thanks mate!

[Beauty is Humanity]

Hooray

A bit of optimism for once! As well as originality. That's two big ticks already.

The visuals were pleasant, I think you're only going to get better. The fact that you actually went to the effort of animating the transitions - massive points for that. Well done, I look forward to more.

Though I have to say the text made no sense. In what context does 'Beauty is... Exploration' make sense? Beauty isn't exploration, and has only the vaguest of connections.

What about 'Beauty is... Intelligence'? If there was an ugly, immoral, disgusting, irredeemable, offensive - yet intelligent - person standing before you, would you really be able to describe him as beautiful in any way that wouldn't dilute the meaning of the word?

Anyway, that's a small point. Good job!

vezanmatics responds:

you just dont get it.

[A Letter from God]

Let's review the actual animation

There's a lot of people here reviewing the song, but that's not what's this section's for. So, onto the review!

I thought the idea behind all the visuals was perfect. I thought the editing, and timing was excellent. I thought the movement was professional. That was all great.

However, the actual picture quality was unpolished and sloppy - and it didn't need to be. It felt like you took a long time carefully storyboarding, but then ran out of time and rushed through the drawing. It still looked alright, but I thought it was a missed opportunity.

I also thought it could have benefited from a more consistent style - maybe you could have done more with that simple black outline style that you used for some of it. That was cool and suited it very well, made it feel like the funkiest graph or power point ever made.

Anyway, over all very good. You easily earnt an 8 which well surpasses the passing grade in my book.

Lankie responds:

Good review! I'll admit to time constraints, the deadline to handing this in for my Media was looming so I had to rush a bit. Shame really but oh well.
Thanks for the feedback!

[License to Combo]

This is not a criticism

For everyone's sake, team up with a writer! You could rock the internet.

You are so talented, it feels like a waste of talent simply rehashing the 'two stickmen fight' routine.

Nhazul responds:

Yeah i've been planning to make an animation with a lot more than just "fighting content". Thanks for the suggestion.

[River Ob: The Project 1.0]

This is really well done

Let me tell you Calum, being able to make projects like these got me through some tough assignments really easily.

Even though all the information contained in here would have taken up about a paragraph on a piece of paper, it feel like several pages worth.

Keep it up. I'm very impressed.

The music suits it very well. Where's it from?

CazmoV responds:

Hey mate,

Thanks for the feedback. It feels great looking back at my work here. As for the music, it is Angels & Airwaves :)

[Sketchy Friends Dance]

I... can't stop watching!

Is there some trick to not spending hours at a time watching the damn thing?

But seriously, fantastic. I want to make my own now!
The eagle character at the back = worth making special note of

TheBoogley responds:

I also want you to make your own now! Get inanimating! :D

[HOSUE [sic]]

Loose

It feels like you had drawn these (admittedly excellent) caricatures, and didn't know what to do with them.

If you had have spent a bit more time working out what this animation was supposed to be, this would have been an easy 10. All points are for design.

TmsT responds:

I'll let you hang on to those 2 points andwork out what this animation was supposed to be for yourself. ;)
Making stuff up as I go along was fun for a change.

[Rocket Crotch Halloween]

I've watched this so many times

It's so funny! ...till the last bit.

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't find any of the scary bits scary, just boring. Replace these with funny pseudo-scary scenes like the rest of the movie and this would be an easy ten.

lenkalamari responds:

I was going for pseudo-scary, but looking back i think i was a bit too convincing.

thanks for the review!!

[The Library Party]

This should have won an award

I hardly favourite anything, but this time...

I was just re-reading P-Bot's post for the day you released this - how did you slip through the cracks!?

BadBoyMcCoy responds:

Thanks!

I think a lot of people don't understand the humour and just think its weird, plus i think a lot of the newgrounds community is quite young and prefer flashes about mario to this sort of thing.

I've put it on youtube and had a bit more success (3800 views and rising, with 4.5 star rating which is pretty sweet for me)

but unfortunatly its at a lower quality

Thanks for the review, I really appreciate it, especially coming from someone whos flash work is so good!

[forevers not so long]

Ditto

Beautiful, captivating, masterful etcetera...

Though you said you made up the characters, why not draw you and her?

ChrisAlain responds:

actually the characters are both of us, except for the girl with pink hair, she doesnt exist, thanks for the review.