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[|~Snow Snow For Lucy~|]

A real tearjerker

This is the sort of legit creative work we need to see more often. It was a very deep plot simultaneously full of and completely bereft of villainy. It's the sort of 3d stuff that's hoped for but too often never gotten.

Sure, production quality of a few of the scenes suffered, but the world that existed throughthe clockwork toys (and people) was mysterious and completely encompassed the world the movie threw at you. So props.

[8 West 9:KanyeOnTheAttack]

Amazing...

and DL FTW!!

[Fallen Angel Ep. 1 (Pt1)]

A promising start

This was absolutely out of right field, as far as I was concerned. But it's good to see an old portal player out there still animating. And, damn, you weren't jsut sleeping it off, either!

The animation quality here was absolutely slick and well executed, all the way down to the gas thrusters on the nuke and the kinetic kill vehicles trying to wipe it out. I can't complain in this regard at all (you even avoided the wonky fire in the last go :P)

The ambience and atmosphere of the piece was distinct and unmistakeable. I think the big success here was the utter lack of fluff or sentimentality to the whole affair, even if it was tetering dangerously towards military-industrial complex chicanery.

Overall; get cracking on Pt.2! Every day you deprive us NG boffins, one of them somewhere starts making a crappy tribute. STOP THE MADNESS! :3

[Circuit Skirmish 2]

Gold

honestly this is among the creme de la creme of action shorts on NG. This was a great improvement over the original yet thoroughly avoided being "more of the same." Anyway, though, you naughty, naughty son of an animator, you're such a tease! Disk 2, can't wait! :D

Falconer02 responds:

Teeheeheehee!

(Thanks, man)

[NEW LIFE- English version]

Good quality

However, I felt somewhat patronized, the message was pretty overbearingly clear. It felt pretty sterile and fictitious, which, to me, is very dilluting as the message was distinctly Buddhist. I would have expected something less clear and more believable.

Other than that I didn't ever feel connected to this girl, she was decidedly under-dramatic for what she was going through (whether or not she was cultured in Buddhism, as was suggested.)

So honestly this felt very new-age, old teachings taken lightly and under applied. Thus I honestly feel insulted, I'm sorry to say.

[[2008] REBOOT 10]

Not bad!

This series has changed a lot from its inception, from what I can tell. I'm pretty impressed with everything except some of the voice work. Most of it is good, the female leads are pretty good aswell. But if you need a devious laugh or two let me know. I have some experience doing voicework ;)

JMartin97 responds:

I am going to need a few voices for the next, I'll send you a PM

[Katar II]

A gr5eat concept but...

Honestly, the epic presentation of chapter one is lost here in a flood of backstory. Not only that, but the pacing is, to be blunt, absolute shit. You need snatches of these scenes, flashbacks, something to break them up into something more than a sombre march of memories, this piece needs the action the previous installment had by the horns.

That, and I'm really dissapointed that massive explosion/beam didn't have some kind of epic SFX... honestly I could dot hat kind of stuff so it shouldn't be that hard. Also, the final fantasy music, although well composed, is VERY dated for this sort of piece.

I only say this sort of thing because I REALLY want this piece to see its full potential. Hopefully it can be done.

[The Creation of High Art]

Antidisestablishmentarianism

That's what this is a case of in some form or another. That said, it raises good points that our modern sense of aesthetics within the art community seems very oddly skewed towards authority.

While at the same time it seems to be "bucking the trend" through the continuing modern art movement. Ultimately though, as is brought up in the movie, it's up to you, the viewer to decide what's liked. So go for it!

[The Lost Gift Trailer]

Good luck!

This is a fairly ambitious project from what I can surmise. Hopefully, though, it can be puleld off. You've got a good sense to character design and animation and it shows well here, hopefully this will be big.

[Charlie the Unicorn 2]

This flash deserves a doctoral thesis

Okay perhaps that would be overkill, but I'm seriously beginning to think Charlie is, in fact, grappling with accute schitzophrenia. Seeing as he faces mostly anonymous threats to all existence regularly and then goes on adventures that are absolutely non-sequitur. Then he ends up confused and abandoned and finds he's been hoodwinked (is it really by those technicolor washouts or perhaps by an individual that is not part of his fictional world?)

Yeah my other friend just thinks you guys tripped on acid to come up with the idea. I really have no clue.