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[YouriX Music Reviews EP4]

Not a bad watch

A good episode, I really think some of your drawings require either more obvious gesture or more frames of movement. Everything feels very staccato. Art looks okay, and the sound is also not bad. A good review too with some light humour

YouriX responds:

Thanks for the positive review. I promise to do EVEN better with the next episode. ;)

[OUTBalanced Promo]

Refine it, define it, make it look sweet

I enjoy watching a compilation of several artists work, all based on the same piece.
The only thing that took it down quite a few points for me was the spelling mistakes at the start and the cluttered credits at the end. 1-2 columns in white using the same consistent font would suffice.
Overall it's a nice collaboration with nice motion.
The background does not compliment the weapons or characters colour wise (look at a colour wheel, orange, red or white characters would pop from the blue/green background better than black), or I would suggest a short gradient/ a neutral colour background in future. The animation is also incredibly fast paced. Some slow elongated encounters with an enemy would make it more interesting, but I understand that that type of criticism may not be directed at you individually.
Keep em coming, it can only get better.

[New Years Resolutions]

Alrighty

Not too shabby, nicely style. Feels and sounds like a slow-paced Jerry Jackson cartoon from David Firth.

[Ex and Wai: Enter the Ex]

hmm, alright

Animation is fluid and the background consistent enough. If I had any criticism it would be that you need to look at cleaner fonts/ colour coding type to characters more clearly. Research all the old Xiao Xiao animations and you'll know what I mean. Your animation needs some kind of background audio or vocals. Most of the sfx were great apart from the sound of the overused scream sound effect.

You have the skills to animate well, why not use them to produce something more detailed, or to create a finishing story (it just kinda ended)? Perhaps if you don't enjoy storywriting you would work better in a team, with a friend writing the script/colouring or doing audio.

Some great motion though. Keep 'em coming

[Hey Monkey!]

Good in a way, bad in another

Simple idea, simple story and some nice drawing an animation. The quality of voice acting however, is not so good. Work on that/find a volunteer to voice act for you.

If you had made it more cinematic, you could have turned it into a bit traumatic comedy drama using some of the great music in the Audio Portal. Those guys love seeing their work integrated into animation! That'd completely bypass the voice acting problem

[Eat Shit and Die Booby]

Not good at all

You seem to have a knowledge of tweens, lip-syncing and pretty much at least the basics of flash. I don't see why you didn't use that knowledge to create something more brilliant.
You gave characters designed, and a background that I presume has been taken from a stock photo site or game. If you have created it from scratch, then I see no reason why you can't make a brilliant flash.

[Mr. Giggles]

Take your time

I fear that this animation was produced with the idea of fulfilling the entire story rather than producing a good quality flash.

Take your time, you could have easily turned it into two or three 30 second episodes of well drawn, well sounding and well produced animation.

It baffles me as to why at the end you would use text and straight lines when the style of the rest of the film is hand drawn and sketchy.

I say try again. If this flash survives the Blam, then attempt to remake it, or a sequel with some TLC, with sound, fluid action and some slower dialogue!
Keep working hard, you definitely have a style that could make a good short animation.

Chrisspy responds:

Thank you for giving useful feedback. It did actually take me about 2 weeks to make this, but you're right. I'm better with paper than a computer tablet.

[Tron Light Bikes!]

Waoh

Looks and sounds fantastic. The flash had a really great atmosphere =D
I'm yet to find out how you created the depth of field between the two bikes.
Awesome stuff!

[MusicBox]

Fantastic

Amazing flash, brilliantly timed and composed. I love the use of only the colour red among the grayscale. Everything red makes the sound. It's great. I love showing my friends this video, everyone loves it.