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[King of the Bongo]

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...I'll take the chance two things before I see it. One, King of the Bongo is such a long song that you probably should've sliced it up a little in a sound editing program (like Sound Forge, to name one) to prevent it from getting boring to the average NG viewer. Two, seeing the filesize, I'm sure you just used the music as an event sound. Which is bad because not only does it push up the filesize, but the movie's animation will quickly fall behind on the music. In the sound panel, change "event" to "stream" and be sure the layer the music's on is stretched to the very end of the movie. Now your animation will keep up (as best as possible) with the music, and the filesize will be rigorously downsized, at the cost of some quality (but we can live with that).

Writing now while the movie's playing...

Uh... the character's mother reminds me of Barbara Bush. It's not that important, but shouldn't these characters be black or at least a little more dark-skinned? His dad's from the Congo, after all...

OK, the animation starts off well with an animated character, background and monkeys, but it rapidly gets more repetitive and animations are more frequently just duplicated. There's some imported photoshopped fonts that don't look so well in this context, a lot of nonsensical stuff that's not random enough to be funny and then...

...when the song's not even close to finished, you suddenly leap into a political statement and push an ad for your site in our faces, then you just let the last three minutes of the song run on a credit screen. I know it's a long song, but this way it just looks like you got bored with it with one-third finished. And that's a real annoying way to end it. If you're willing to go back in and change stuff, I'd say cut up the song till it fits better in your movie, set it to stream, take out the political statement and hold the ad for your site till the "end" screen.

Olisdragon responds:

uh first of all. it was barbara bush u retard....

[Euro 2004 Footy Short]

Just perfect.

I guess the stick figures could've been changed to simple people toons, but it probably wouldn't have changed the effect much.

Smooth animation and perfect timing. And a filesize that doesn't trick you into thinking it'll be anything other than a short movie.

Thanks for the laugh. Hup Holland Hup, though.

[Gummi Bears Season Finale]

Dammit, that Gummi Bears song...

So cheerful, yet addictive. Kind of funny, but way too short movie. You used a lot of music, but it raised the filesize to a point where I'd expect more. Like, Gummi Bears retaliating.

DjMitri responds:

yea... I am just learning flash really, This summer i should be able to make a longer flash... that one right there took me 2 days but i learnt alot from it

[Popup Quest]

Hey, not bad.

Your style of animation's a little rough, but the quick presentation of pop-ups made me laugh, as did the Scots falling over. Uh, one thing I didn't get though, if the customer hates pop-ups, why did he buy one?

[HitTest Tutorial]

Agreeing with LeekClock

Tutorials must be in clear, legible fonts. The viewer is supposed to learn something, so when you use a sketchy font like this it might look cool, but it hampers the tutorial's purpose. I find it really distracting, even in such a short tutorial. The actionscript should definitely be selectable and much more explained. I doubt a novice will have any use for this.

I think it would be better if you carefully discussed the separate parts of the actionscript one by one, so the viewer might actually understand what it means instead of just copy-pasting it. As long as you use few words to make it digestible, but clear.

Another must would be a "back" or "previous" button, aside from the "next" one.

[an example]

A dolphin dandy... or a dandy dolphin?

Shed your physical bodies! Reality is a prison!

Nicely animated random short. Made my head spin.

[Joey - Zoom Way Out]

Mwah...

I'm not saying it's not impressive, but as a standalone movie it's just not much, and could be done better with the right knowledge and skill. This would be great when integrated into a real movie (meaning, a movie with a story or something). The transitions just weren't smooth enough - the speed of zooming tended to jerk whenever you moved to a greater pespective, and it doesn't really look so good when you're zooming out but you only see one clump of clouds or one detailed block of city. Great effort no doubt, but not much fun to watch. It could really have used some nice, calm music too.

This would've been totally sweet if done in 3D, by the way.

[Savage studies]

Almost good.

It starts out like a nice, crazy random collage clip, but when it gets to the audience with the floating fat guy, it just completely bleeds to death. All the speed goes out of it and it's as if you abruptly run out of ideas. I liked the way the images constantly panned in the first half, though. It needs catchier music and more speed to stay interesting.

[Kung Fu Mario]

Cute, yet bloody.

A nice tribute or parody of fighting Flash movies. Nice drawings and blood effects. The filesize is rather high for a movie of this length, though. Maybe you could optimize the sound some more and upload it over this one.