Score: 10

"Stellar."

submission: War, Snow and Fire

date: May 21, 2009

Ha, I don't know why you're not 100% happy with it... but an artist is his own biggest critic right? Anyway, I was 100% happy with it, and it seems the vast majority of NG was too given your sweeping of the awards this week.

The animation was simple and quite effective. I enjoyed the white/yellow eyes and features on black characters, it's a style that has always resonated well with me. Keeping the visuals impressive while not over complicating them facilitated the viewer's ability to focus on the REAL magic of this flash, which was the story.

I say this as an aspiring writer myself: you nailed it. It's a classic framework with a beginning, middle and end, good character establishment and wonderful character development. There's the necessary conflict and resolution... all crammed into a few minute's time with no dialogue! The lack thereof is another stylistic element that I enjoy; it's always neat to see what people can do with imagery as opposed to written or spoken word.

And the music was fitting, the timing well executed. It wasn't boring and had a very medieval feel to it. Like a spooky village in an old English countryside with a haunted castled resting cancerously on the horizon... Huge props to Mr. Partridge, especially for whipping the score up in such a short time.

For all the violent and funny flashes on NG, it is very nice to view the occasional serious short (a collection which I've recommended this for and encourage others to do the same), especially one that was so well executed. Favourited; 5/5; 10/10.

Tremendous work fellas. You're both very talented.

Score: 7

"Superb animation, subpar interaction."

submission: Flandrium

date: April 18, 2009

Yeah: The pictures and visuals were splendid! Short, but very bold. I enjoyed the 'Flandrium' construction a lot.

However, you're missing a loading bar, which REALLY hurts the first impression. Impatient viewers can and will auto-blam that kind of thing, especially those with slower computers. That is the flash's major fault and should be remedied ASAP.

Also, you should have the URL to your audio actually link to your audio page at the end there. Just a small suggestion for smoothness and efficacy. Have it open a new tab on the viewer's browser.

7/10
4/5

Score: 5

"Thank you, I suppose."

submission: Awesome Blocks With code

date: April 2, 2009

Well, I hope someone finds it useful as well. It was pretty, dunno how laggy it would get on slower machines though. I think you should have messed around with the code, altered it a bit, and had different buttons that showed the results as well as the code.

That way it would be more like a little showcase rather than just one thing.

Rating is neutral because it's not really a movie and can't rightly be called a tutorial.

Score: 10

"Yeah, they're right."

submission: RapeMuffin's Story.

date: February 26, 2009

See I thought all this hype about your mad voice skill was just fueled by sexually themed threats that you tossed out on a daily basis, but hot damn. You certainly know how to interpret written emotion, suspense, ... you have the pace down, everything!

Certainly, this is incentive for all Writing Contest entrants. Between this and $30 store credit, I'm not sure what is the better offer! Seriously! Have you taken steps towards investigating potential jobs/careers in this field? If so, best of luck. If not, [insert sexually themed threat here].

Score: 10

"Hits the spot!"

submission: Synthetica EP Demo Track

date: February 23, 2009

Do I want to hear more? Hell yeah! What a variety! It's been too long since I grooved out to some decent electronica.

Purchased and downloading as I type, soon to be riding along with me on my iPod. Good luck too all of you. I'll plug you guys in my blog for a while, how's that sound?

Keep it up!

Score: 9

"Club Quality"

submission: Rig - Damaged

date: April 5, 2008

Just needs to be a little longer. The loop transition (from end to start) is a little choppy but it can work. I want some climactic superbeat out of this.

You have your task, PROCEED FORTH.