Score: 4

"Umm"

submission: World cup soccer!

date: July 11, 2006

Did you have anyone beta test this game before you released it?

The final score was 18-1 in favor of me. I had one player score every single goal. I'm sorry, but something is very wrong with the game if its THAT easy. The opposing goalie moves slower then a snail, the opposing players are horrendous at keeping the ball and WAY too slow on defense, and the other team only scores if you fuck up big time.

It needs some serious tweaking. Perhaps add difficulty settings to make things more challenging. Add more teams to choose from. Make it so you can do more moves with the ball. Get better music. Then you might have a very fun game.

Score: 9

"mmm"

submission: Dailytoon #205

date: July 5, 2006

theIRG's toon is the best dailytoon of this season so far. Good god I laughed so fuckin hard at that shit. Clearly the best flash involving j00bie's picture that has ever been done.

The others were ok but IRG's was the one that really shined.

I'm still workin on some shit urghgh

Score: 10

"rrrrr"

submission: Dailytoon #201

date: July 1, 2006

This was great, a wonderful remake of dailytoon 200 that was much funnier then the original IMO, even if it wasn't as good graphically. Classic starberry touch, the usual peppering of funny SS in-jokes, made this a fitting first toon of the REAL third season.

Expect a lot of toons from me this season zero, I really need to get back into flash-making form and I think dailytoons are the perfect way to do it. I know we have won a lot of the NG audience over simply through our absense, but I want us to prove em right this season. I'll do everything I can to make some great quality shit and hopefully we can rival some of the great quality movies we made last season.

I would also love to be a third season organizer, as I've already mentioned. Ya know, so you can spend more time with Natale hehehe.

THIRD SEASON COMIN ATCHA

Score: 10

"Now what?"

submission: Flash Comedy Extravaganza

date: June 4, 2006

Where do we go from here? I mean, you've accomplished a lot with this flash. You presented a compelling anti-overrated pro-originality argument with plenty to support it, then you threw in some funny parody to keep people interested. And apparently, people get it. This flash is already very succesful, the most succesful "hate" flash on Newgrounds (I love how these kinds of movies have been labelled "hateful" when in fact the people making them were probably giggling the whole way).

In the end, I think this may be the most perfect parody movie I've seen on this site. It encompasses the spirit of the crews that we're both members of (SS, UCFD, etc.) while pleasing everyone else at the same time. That's the beauty of it: even people who disagree with the message won't care because the flash is still funny. Hell, the message might even end up getting through to them! The last person I would expect a good review from is KupaMan.

You're like da messiah rtil :')

Score: 3

"8 months???"

submission: 26 ways to die collab

date: May 31, 2006

8 months.. good god. I could sort of understand 8 months for the Anime Collab but not something like this.

Graphics - 90% of them were bad quality. The vast majority of the people who made parts for this need some serious practice in flash. The walk animations were painfully awful and the character design was sickening. The only truly good quality parts I saw were the one with the plane crash, the one with the teacher, and the one with the video game. And even those could use a little brushing up. Overall, the graphics were very disappointing and in some cases unbearable. I can see potential in a lot of the artists but they need a TON of practice.
Style - I don't know if it ever occured to you in the 8 months it took you to make this that "people getting killed in random ways" isn't exactly the most original concept for a collab. I can recall countless flashes that consist of a metal soundtrack and poorly animated stick figures dying in bloody ways. Come to think of it, the best comparison of this flash is to "All NG Fads Die," but without targets for the violence. Plus, there's less talent and even more mindlessness, which were already down points for the AFD flashes.
Sound - The song tries to hard to be hardcore. It's just annoying.
Violence - clearly the highlight of the flash, but the violence was only truly creative in the teacher and videogame parts.
Interactivity - you had a misleading preloader thats actually very good quality but doesn't match the quality of the rest of the collab. The menu sucked ass. Where's the scene selection and author bios? Anyways, the secret was alright.
Humor - I don't think I even cracked a smile, but I can see a few attempts at humor here and there.
Overall - To the collab leader: the name of the game here is quality control. If someone sends you a part that is extremely shitty, tell them to improve it. Don't except low quality stuff when you're already getting quality work from artists like Zielak and whoever else made the good parts. However, if this took you 8 months, maybe it would be easier and quicker to simply find someone new when you get a crappy part. Also, search for a more compelling subject for a collab. Try to be more innovative. To the collbers: you need some serious practice. I guess collabs are a good way to hone your flash skills, but you're not going to improve much if you join a collab that takes 8 months to finish. Most of you probably made your parts early on and had to wait out these agonizing months, and thats not gonna make you any better at flash. I think part of it is the ngcollabs website. Everything I've seen from you guys suggests that all you do there is come up with ideas that go nowhere or come up with ideas that drag out over long stretches of time and become overhyped, like this one. So if you really want to improve, I would suggest joining a flash crew of some sort. You will be much more compelled to make flashes for people who are actually productive. If you don't like any of the crews or don't want to have to become a clock or lock, go solo. Anything is better then 8 friggin months of WAITING

Score: 10

"Magnificent"

submission: The VRROOMMM Collab 2

date: May 28, 2006

what a stunning masterpiece :')

Menu - brilliant work three. i love that song ahahah. the cars were all done very creatively, i especially got a laugh out of reverent's car. who is that asian chick in the back seat of my car?!? WHOA. help button doesnt work btw ;]
Rev - man i love yours. fantastic graphicsss I love everything ya make, rev. poor sevenstar jr. died :'(
Roymasta - a touching tribute to grape. banana still hasn't recovered, i see :(
Roymasta 2 - WOW this was amazing! trippy graphics, interesting concept. its as if banana has entered a paralell universe or maybe he's entering his OWN MIND and he's trying to come to terms with the tragic death of grape! i was disappointed when it stopped though, i NEED CLOSURE!!! I CANT LIVE WITH MYSELF KNOWING GRAPE DIED SUCH A MEANINGLESS DEATH :'(
jet - trademark jet style. the ending made me crack up. absolutely brilliant stuffff
BFC - wow you're an amazing artist BFC. the ending was a bit predictable but still, your work is phenomenal.
me - well the menu button looks rather ugly when its partially up in the corner. its that dumb AS camera is tweening around :(

Score: 5

"no point"

submission: Anime Collab

date: May 23, 2006

I'll be honest, I went into this expecting the worst most overrated trash imaginable, but you did prove me wrong, so I give you credit there. The effort put into this collab is pretty apparent and it has its great moments. You get most of your points by disproving my expectations. However, there are quite a few big problems with this collab that make it mediocre in my eyes. Allow me to explain.

Graphics - They were decent as a whole, but they were inconsistent. Some of the parts were truly excellent. I have to hand it to Astropuff and Ginilla, because they did a great job and are pretty clearly the most talented animators in the collab. As much as I dislike anime, I really enjoyed those guys' parts. However, there were some parts that were just downright awful as well. Horrible, sloppy, awkward and didn't fit the collab. When you have parts like that and you spend 8 MONTHS on a collab, the collab leader really needs to do some quality control. However I have a hell of a lot more respect for the people who made sloppy low quality parts then I do for those who simply traced the characters from their favorite anime and passed it off as their own work. It is a crock of shit that these artists should get to bask in the success of the collab when they didn't even do their own work. Another case where the collab leader should have stepped in.

Style - my least favorite part of the collab. I've always disliked anime because I find its a cliche, overused and unoriginal genre. I find most anime is gut-wrenchingly painful to watch and utterly stupid, but I realize not all animes are that way. Still, when I see an anime with a compelling storyline or one that required an immense amount of talent to make, I find myself thinking "why couldn't the authors have made this in their own style instead of using the same damn style everyone else is using? Or why not just make it as realistic as possible, without the big eyes and crazy multicolored hair?" I've still never had that question answered adequately. Essentially, this collab is a tribute to all that I dislike. For that, I couldn't give you anything more than a 1 in that department. The 1 point is only because the talent of several animators was able to show through the tired style, IMO.

Sound - Really sappy music. It fit the anime style which is why I didn't enjoy it much. WOW MAN RIPPIN ELECTRIC GUITAR WHOA

Violence - Wasn't a big fan of the violence. It was well done at points but mostly was just the same old anime violence I've seen a hundred times before.

Interactivity - It was mildly interesting to read the authors' bios.

Humor - Very very very little humor, clearly not what you were going for though.

Overall - The whole collab felt like an introduction to a show or something. It has no point, the parts are just slapped together making an unattractive collage of good and horrible. It doesn't feel like it has a good rhythm to it, and the parts dont flow very well at all from one to the other. Its as if the only guidelines for the collab were "make a super cool awesome anime flash with a fight scene!" I think adding more of a theme to the collab would've improved it a lot. OR a better theme. Anime has been done to death and I'd really love to see the exceptional talent of some of the artists to go to better use. My two cents.

Score: 1

"Detestable"

submission: IDY in Baywatch

date: May 18, 2006

I found this flash devoid of humor, an eyesore, and reeking of laziness. I cannot imagine why it has the score it has. Actually, I can. Newgrounds is teeming with people who enjoy this trash. Anyways, I'll try to be constructive here. On to the review:

Graphics: I can see you have some artistic talent. Your drawings here, however unoriginal they are, display some skill. The main problem with the graphics was the laziness. It is painfully apparent that you took shortcuts in every way possible with this flash. First thing I notice is the traced-bitmap backgrounds. Using traced bitmaps sends tells me you were way too lazy to actually draw anything in the backgrounds, so you just searched for a picture on Google then used this nifty little tool in flash to make it look like you actually did some work. Essentially, you cheated. You may trick Newgrounds viewers with that but you lose immense amounts of respect from your fellow artists. Then there's the animation. Its immediately apparent how little work you want to do when I see a circle tweening across the screen that is supposed to represent a character. You only actually animated about 5 frames in here, then looped each one to make it look adequate. The rest was just tweens and traced bitmaps galore. The only work you did was the run animation, from the front and the side, and that looked painfully awkward.
Style: I seriously can't think of a style I despise more than furry art. Allow me to explain. Of course, furry art is done in anime style. Wow, never seen that one before! Before you draw anime, consider just how often the same tiresome style has been used. Don't you think it would be refreshing to try a new style? Wouldn't it enrich your works to bring some semblance of originality or creativity to them, instead of just going along with what everyone else is doing? Besides the anime, you've also drawn anthropomorphic characters here, customary in most "furry" cartoons. I feel this reflects a strange sexual fetish in your works and it certainly turns me off, even if it turns you and your friends on. If you want to be taken seriously as an artist, furry cartoons are definitely not the way to go, even if they aren't intended to be sexual.
Sound: Boring music, but it was the highlight of the flash. Why exactly did you use that song by The Who? It was completely and utterly pointless. The voice acting was just atrocious.
Violence: Dead lizard girl.
Interactivity: Your ugly preloader highlights the groin of your main character far too much for me not to question your sexuality.
Humor: It couldn't be further from funny. It might have been, had the delivery been better. But I think I got pretty thrown off on the storyline as soon as I saw circles tweening around the screen. Anyways, I have seen countless parodies of Baywatch. What makes yours any better? Is it the fact that a freakish anime hybrid of a man, a cat, and a blueberry is acting out the parody? Sorry, that doesn't do it for me. The gag at the end was stupid as well, mostly because of the utterly inappropriate music. The only reason I gave you a one in the humor is because you didn't include a busty anime kitty cat girl to pose as Pam Anderson. I most likely would have vomited if you had. Oh, and for the record, the mere appearance of David Hasselhoff in your flash is not humorous in any way, except to morons who giggle at any pop culture reference.

Overall: The kind of flash I hate. I'd like to see less of this, even though I know there is a fanbase for it. It perplexes me to no end how stuff like this becomes popular.

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Score: 10

"Brilliant artwork"

submission: Experiment_11

date: April 25, 2006

I smell a Portal King of April...

As I told you, I love the artwork in this, especially the brilliant backgrounds. All of the "Experiment" films have this same trippy quality, excellent visuals with a great abstract feel to them, and a nice soundtrack to accompany the animation, but I think this one was the best out of all of them so far. Plus, you had to have been animating this for only a few days after you finished your marvelous Star Day film (congrats on front page), making it all the more impressive.

Yadayadayada I know I've told you all this homosexual shit before but thank you so much for everything you've done zeka!! :wub: oops that wont work here...

oh and enjoy your modship!! only ban gay people!

Score: 8

"Whoaa"

submission: Star Day: Frankiedaman

date: April 23, 2006

I love Frankiedaman, I'm not gonna hide it