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Skilled Japanese Animating?!?

In all honesty I was a bit worried the very second I saw the anime face. However your animating skills were great. Your character moved fluidly and consistently almost to a point where I'd challenge to say you producing far great pieces than those in production in the genre (yeah I'm talking TV worthy). While none of those are terribly impressive, the fact that you're there is.

The art was great too, less traditional then the standard anime (you no inking) but it worked.

Great job.

waste of time?

It seems that theres a "random humor" thing going on out there in the nerd world such as crap like Napolean Dynamite, 12 ounce Mouse, and SeaLab 2020. But even those piles of wasted time show more effort than your sorry excuse for an animation. I really hope this was just for laughs on your own behalf, possibly a flame magnet (as it is).

Incase you were making a serious attempt (God help us) then I suggest making the voices clearer, better, and have an intelligible direction.

constructive criticism

It wasn't a bad flash, I will give you that. But it had a lot of no no's and problems that tned to occur in this recent trend of "collab" works. so here's a list of what needs tweeking and other stuff i noticed to help you:

1. Too large of a talent spread, you may have to leave a few friends behind on the project but it's for the better. Have max 6 of the best, and have them all communicate with each other,

2. Use different images. You had basically 3 categories of animation: bombs/war, lip syncing, random additions. Mix it up, try to make it look like it was done from the mind of one director and then cut it up for the artists.

3. No emotion. Often the animated characters emotions were vastly underpowered for such an intensely vocal band such as SOAD. add some "pop" to the skits. EX: big explosion on a first or last note of a verse. Basically make the animations fit the rythme and intensity.

Some constructive criticism...

Well I didn't like it. But I'm at least gonna give you the common courtesy to tell you why and how to fix it.

1. study anatomy. While getting the human form down, simply having proper proportions will let you slide with bad drawings until you can get those linear lines down.

2. motion tweens are bad. while frame by frame can be hard and require a lot of skills (especially animating a human) doing one layer of tweens is bad. If you're going to use tweens, tween multiple parts and do some in frame by frame (such as the hands or head). This will give it a more natural feel.

3. style. I'm a major fan of anime, however the style you chose to portray falls in the category of yu-gi-oh, pokémon, roruni kenshin, etc...generally animes with really bad artists. If you wanna pull anime faces good references would be Neon Genesis Evangelion, Love Hina, Hellsing, or Cowboy Bebop. Now you may be in love with your style but here's why not to do it. the eyes and nose are in improper places and not setting in the face right. While the frame may work and get by, when it comes time to change angles you have to change the entire face since the parts are in the wrong place and wont look right. Also using photo references is a great idea. I recently attempted it and my art has improved ten fold. Anime still follows the rules of basic anatomy (well it should at least...) so attempt to cell shade an actual photo and you'll learn a lot.

4. clichés. Once again you've referenced bad anime for action sequences (it was DBZ-esque). While moving lines and pulled up dirt can give the illusion of intensity or motion, you need to focus more on cleaning it up. For a character heading in a direction make a marker. The pull lines from that mark in a radial pattern. Erase so that the lines only appear on the edges of the box and you'll get a nicely drawn still anime action technique. Also try not to dwell too long in these illusions, it becomes obvious when its just filling time. Trust me, we can all live with out another Matrix: Reloaded.

decent graphics, great sound, but not much else...

a good piece but leaves far too early to make the story or segment have a lasting effect in my mind

Holy Shit Fuck!

Its very rare that a flash of this quality comes around, not too mention it holds few if any flaws. The graphix were phenominal and used great contrast, the textures used were very ncely done and the highlights were dead on. My favorite part has to be the fluid animation as the creature emerges, it felt perfectly times, flowed, and executred.

Hope to see more stuff...maybe a little more narration though, this can deffintely have a deep plot if your intending a series as stated.

point well taken

while they aren't professionals, they can at least do something. Their vehicles are certainly able to get around the area and transport people. I feel they should do some reporting though, but then again they are milking it for all its worth, and probably not morning the disaster.

Little sad that it's not animated and funny, but people need to be bitched at. Mostly they deserve it too...

A Brilliant Metaphors to the Sins of Today America

For you people not living in the US (like the last guy) an elephant represents the Republican political party and a donkey represents the Democratic party. The Republicans are a fairly conservative party that often rewards the rich and drives the nation to better those on top while quashing the less fortunate, or as they consider, bringing less noticeable profit to the machine. Our current Republican president has been a pillar of facism masked by a blanket of lies that has been bought by the generally low intelligence of our nation.

This cartoon represents in full detail of what happens if the current Republicans were to have it all there way. Bravo. Keep it up, i loved the twisted characters and unique style too. Bravo.

Poor Rabbit

Well I liked it, it had everything essential to a good cartoon: good graphix, appropriate music, witty humor, and a joke we can all relate to from our child hood. Might want to inform people IN the cartoon that the intro is from an older thing you did because I almost closed out 4 times thinking it was a web page error since I watched the old one before the new one.

I feel you should make a continuation but don't drag it out too much. I think the world will be satisfied with one or two more installments.

rtil responds:

sry about that intro i made a note on the author's comments. i will try not to drag it on i dont wanna do a bunch anyway..

Amazing animation

A little shorter than I would've liked. However in this short you've done some amazing story telling leaving the viewer with a great way to create their own scenrio and be confortable with it. The artwork was amazing too. The most spectacular thing though, by far, was the realistic and fluid motion of the main character. Good work, make more. Now...

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