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[Shoo Fly]

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.

[The Gayest Showdown]

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.

[The assault]

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.

[Elite]

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

[No Man's Land Flash Anime]

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.

[Coleoptera Bibliophile]

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.