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[marioworld invaded]

Pace it up

That long scene where Luigi and Mario are talking needed some major fixes. For a start you can't have people just reading text for that long, you need to animate them walking around, or have some different camera shots (panning or zooming), perhaps flash some images across the screen to illustrate what they're talking about or at least cut out any necessary dialogue and keep it short and tight. (I suggest all the above)

These suggestions applied to most of the animation. You can be both dramatic and fast paced. Make the text bigger, and make sure you stop all sounds at the end.

Other than that I look forward to the full thing.

[A Sonic Short]

More of a test rather than a short

Come on, a bit of story never hurt anyone.

[Gaybar : Guest]

All those Authors and you come up with this?

The only thing funny about this submission is your replies to everyone's criticisms. Each one sounds like you are barely keeping back the tears while pretending you 'just don't care'.

I think it's better just to realise that this isn't a very good submission and leave it at that.

Heil responds:

aww what a shame im rly hurt

[Pokemon Collab]

An impressive display

I have never seen Pokemon stick figures before... I don't know why I'm seeing them now.

More of a show-reel then something in its own right, but regardless - an excellent animation all round.

carstraft responds:

Thanks, I appreciate how you gave it a fair [fair to you, at least] score when there were things you didn't like about it.

I don't know why everybody is so anti-Pokemon stick figures. I thought they turned out great. [Well, I didn't care for Etch's that much, but MrAzn and Geo's parts were great!] Even if stick-figures 'take no skill to animate,' you can still tell that the people who made the stick figure parts are good animators.
For MrAzn's part, his effects are pretty god, especially the explosion part, and he uses some cool 'camera angles' and good cuts.
For Geo's part, not only are his stick figure movements really smooth, his effects are pretty awesome too.

Thanks, again.

[Madness styl - part 1]

Oh, that guy was meant to be /punching/

I saw it, but I didn't feel it.

Bodies flinching as they are getting shot, people 'bouncing' as they land, sounds as people are being punched - These are small things, but they are the things that separate just a Flash File from an immersive Animation.

[christmas 20XX]

In theory: Excellent

Trying to save a failed animation by turning it into a Trailer: Genius

Willingness to overlook faults because of Trailer format and empathy: Very

Amount your animation resembled a trailer: Barely

Disappointed: A little

[School 13 - I H8 X-MAS]

It has much humour

I always thought that a 'pie hole' was a mouth... you know, where you put pies.

Why would you need to beep that out? Perhaps pies are ingested differently overseas.

[Not so Funky]

Yeah yeah

When I first watched it, I thought that it was strange and that it that the music did not sound like a violin.

Then I watched the original, and you've come such a long way since that that suddenly it didn't seem so strange, and the violin didn't bother me anymore. It's strange what some context can do.

Keep it up.

Kuoke responds:

Well electric violins... Yeah, I don't know what they sound like either I'm sure there's a way you can tweak them to sound similar.

[I Like 2 Move It musicvid]

I'll be honest, I didn't finish watching it

You know I actually went and watched the trailer for Madagascar 2 again, just in case - but no. You are using some foreign use of the word spoof which roughly translates to 'uninteresting movie with only the most cursory relevance to Madagascar and no humour'.

This was not worth 9mb of my bandwidth - keep working on your 3D though, it is a useful skill to have. All 4 points were for effort.

[Mr. Grumpy]

Almost

I think if you really stretched yourself, you could take this from 'Animation Test' to 'Animation'. A subtle difference, but you're almost there.

Keep working on it.

pawlakt responds:

thanks, I'm actually turning this style of characters into a series, so check those out if you want a "animation" instead of a test! thanks for the comment though!