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[Exercise in futility]

rated 4 because only half of this video had realistic audio

gruelty responds:

The character is deaf you insensitive.

[Sadness]

voted 3 because baked bean

DoubleDenial responds:

omg I knew it would help

[One Punch Man vs H2oDelirious]

I don't get why there's two different languages, but this was really good, man. I thought it was a clip from the anime or something at first. Well done!

DuDuL responds:

When i was working on the main audio there was no english dub for One Punch Man + i liked how bored the original one sounds.

[Incident : 001]

those "very crate" and "not funny" things threw it off for me. the characters are a little small though

LTHS1222 responds:

That is because the new feature of Adobe Animate CC ( Camera) is a little bit buggy

[Café Catastrophe!?!? - Animated Me]

The animation in the very beginning was really good. The rest of it was as was mentioned in a previous comment very "vloggy", which normally doesn't allow a lot of movement to be animated. So it was good for what it was, a telling of a story. It didn't necessarily need any extra animation. Your camera placements are a little bit off though. By using a v-cam or converting the whole scene into a symbol and scaling it in a few scenes could have helped it get more interesting, because you don't need to see your girlfriend standing next to you in every shot, she was distracting with her big ol' blink animation. If you're talking I feel like you should be in the center of the shot. The hot drinks girl was also a little small. The 180 degree rule also gets boring after a while, especially if the whole point is that you waited for 10 minutes and if it's an animation where there really are no other elements than how much animation you're willing to spend on it. That's why zooming in in certain shots is really good, especially in a vector based software. I'm not really a fan of the different colored outline. I also feel like if you're going for that sort of outline you should have it in every shot. The only reason I can think of for having a different color there is if the sun was shining on you and not the drinks lady. I don't know why you did that. I'm all for mixed elements but there's usually a clear detail and not an annoying one. ALSO, if you want to keep on making these Animated Me's you should try to tell something more with the animation that you couldn't already tell by listening to the audio. Will you get more out of the story by watching the video or is the video only for eye candy and translations?

3.5 stars because I feel like there's a lot to improve and I liked it enough to write this whole review.

Crunchlins responds:

Thanks for the feedback :) I'll take it all into account!

To be honest, this series began as something I could make regularly that wouldn't take as long as more detailed animations - the idea was for it to be a less detailed, animatic style series that I could make with ease whilst working on more polished animations, however, since then it has evolved into something with more colour, movement and now often takes just as long as parodies etc that I make ^_^ But also it has evolved into a series that I actually want to look more polished so this episode in particular I deliberately spent more time on. The series may differ in complexity from time to time, sometimes being more like an animatic to allow me to keep active on YouTube & Newgrounds but also work on commissions etc at the same time.

Thanks for the suggestions regarding cameras etc. Noted and appreciated!

As for outline colours, if I remember correctly they're actually all black outlines, but I sometimes experiment with adding gradient filters as a sort of camera effect, which personally I think makes the general colours in the animation a little more interesting, for me at least, however, you're right in that they're not used in every shot, or are used to different intensities depending on the colours already used in the scene, which was why it's not present in the barista shots. I agree that this would have been better if it had have been consistent. :)

Thanks for the in depth feedback and sorry for such a long response, I find it's only fair to give a detailed response (when I can) to those who spend time giving constructive feedback! :) Much appreciated! Have a great day!

[Silly walk Animation: Bird Swag]

That's actual swag right threre

FaveyOfficial responds:

Haha, thanks!

[Bite Sized Horror Vol. 3]

Damn. You got the mood right at the last one. Not to say the other ones were bad! They were more like a build up for the last one.
Maybe next time make them link up for ultimate mind blow or something.

LinkTCOne responds:

The linking up is a great idea - I'm running low on source material so maybe I'll try to write four linked ones :)

[Allergies]

Cool little office world with lovable animation. You used the same scream like three times, which is a deal-breaker for me if you weren't trying to make it funny that way. If it was it's in my opinion more fun if they go next to each other instead of spread out through the whole sequence.

funymony responds:

Haha, yeah. Didn't help that most of my scream recordings sounded the same. I tried changing the pitch on some. I should of done that for that reoccurring scream. :D Thanks!

[Akumi the Bounty Hunter]

That animation was sick! I love that she needs to charge her sword and there's this whole world I just wanna explore!
She didn't ever seem afraid of the swarm so I get she was just playing with them in the beginning since she could just blast them all into oblivian at once. It's interesting how she needed to charge right after that though. I'm more excited to see the world than the fight with the boss guy, since she never really seemed scared to do it, as if would be that easy. The boss' laser balls didn't look very powerful. Not sure if that's what you were going for with the surprise that they actually are, but it wasn't delivered that well. It looked like he was shooting bubbles.

MiltoniusArts responds:

Thank you! Yeah I really want to expand the Akumi Universe and explore her world as well. I'm just getting back into the practice of animating again so there's gonna be some gaps in my flow. But just like when I first started the original Akumi series, each one got progressively better than the next.
I'm glad you enjoyed it overall. There's more to come in the future! :)

["Newspapers" by Zach Paulus]

Pretty animation, shitty audio quality. I get that it's from this live show thing but geez. I didn't really think it was that funny either, and like was mentioned before there's not enough context. There was this guy just standing there in the beginning not really doing anything which made me a little confused. The animation was really good though.

zachpaulusart responds:

I get ya, that makes sense. I suppose in reality this short only appeals to the extremely small fan-base that has listened to this PARTICULAR episode of Harmontown (episode 199). Otherwise, I can see how there is little to no context of what is happening. Still, thanks for the critique!