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This is in Bad Taste
I laugh at Puppy covered with spooge in "Retarded Animal Babies." I think Salad Fingers rubbing his nipples with thistles is hilarious. But making fun of a man so soon after his death is beyond the pale. Funny drawing don't make something funny. This is sick.
Constructive criticism? Stay away from ridiculing the recently deceased. It's not edgy. It's juvenile, mean-spirited and -- here's a word I don't often use, but I mean it literally -- retarded.
Why? WHAT changes 5 years after he's dead? Nothing.
You didn't know Jobs personally and nothing will become funnier. The guy is dead, but I gaurentee you'll be one of the people who tells a Steve Jobs joke or laughs at one in a few months or a few years. At least I'm not being a hypocrite and saying; "YEAH IT'S FUNNY BUT NOT NOW BECAUSE IT'LL BE FUNNY LATER BUT DON'T LAUGH NOW HYNUCK"
I believe you're the retarded one here, and anyone in your boat. If you can explain why it's not funny now because he JUST DIED, I'd love to hear this. If not, you're a massive hypocrite who gets offended when I lightly poke fun about a guy you didn't ever know. Ever.
All Of These Are Great, But...
...This is definitely the funniest of the six so far. Blorgulot (is that how you spell it?) was adorable, although you were right when you told someone who wanted to see more of him that you didn't want to overuse him. He was laugh out loud funny in this episode, but a cute little Lovecraftian horror has only so much potential as an ongoing character. Either the joke would get old, or his personality would have to be developed to the point that he wasn't cute anymore.
I mentioned this in a review I wrote for the second part of Episode 6, but you really know your zoological anatomy. (Surinam toads! YUCKYUCKYUCKYUCKYUCK! And then to have mice come out... genius! I think I'm going to puke! HA-HA!)
All your creature designs show you know what you're doing.
Outstanding! 10/10
Oh yes, I'm almost a bigger weird-animal nerd than I am a monster or cartoon nerd! I even OWNED a surinam toad once, a large male, though it died of a fungal infection after a couple months (I think the same dread fungus that has decimated all frogkind)
It's been dangerously long since I released ep6-2...I've gotten voices recorded for a new episode, but I'm so procrastinatey, could be another couple months before I get around to animating :(
Great! Just great!
I waited until seeing all six episodes (or seven if I count each half of this two-parter separately) before writing a review, and all I can say in summation is great! Just great!
Your comedic timing has really developed since the first episode. Your writing has always been good (regardless of what you think of it), and has gotten even better. You have an amazing flair for creating monsters that are funny and creepy at the same time. Obviously you know quite a bit about anatomy and weird zoological specimens (including housefly mouthparts and Surinam toads... YUCK!) Your character designs are first rate.
If I have any negative criticism at all (and I don't really, but I've seen where someone else mentioned this and I agree) it has to do with your preload. You need a status bar, a start button (on which the frame should freeze after fully loading), and a replay button at the end. At one point I had to check something in the kitchen while an episode loaded. I didn't know how long to expect it to take, it started automatically while I was fussing with dinner, and since there was no replay button at the end I had to reload the whole thing while I sat here watching the screen. But that's technical stuff. It doesn't affect the quality of the 'toons themselves, which is first rate.
You're excellent at this. Personally, I liked this last, more story-driven episode. Not everything has to be a laff-a-second. I've even tried doing drama in Flash, but I can't say I've been successful at it yet. Flash seems to lend itself better to comedy or surrealism than to serious storytelling, but that's an inherent limitation of the style the software produces. I thought you handled it well.
Your funniest moments, however, definitely involved the adorable little Lovecraftian horror: "I love you." About him, I probably agree with the mainstream. I was literally laughing out loud during parts of that episode.
Excellent! 10/10
It's great to get a long and detailed review!
Yeah I know very little about setting up things like buttons and links, I know there's lots of pre-made loaders floating about though so I'll give one a try for the next episode.
Everyone wants to see Blorgulotch again, and I'm sure he'll crop up somewhere but I don't want to be one of those cartoons with too many callbacks. Even when I find something that seems to work, I always let it rest to try something new :)
Pretty Cute
I liked it. The comedy was quite good (especially the "Skip that, they never put anything uselful there") and the characters, while simple, were compellingly random and bizarre and for once weren't stick figures. I loved the goofy-looking raster-based guy (the animation's creator?) coming out of the well. That was unexpected.
The reason I didn't give it a "Ten" was that it ended with a character shooting itself. In "The Ring" (if memory serves) victims tended to die in more creative ways, not by their own hand, although it's been years since I saw it. Didn't they simply die of fright? Anyway, everything here on Newgrounds tends to involve shooting, stabbing, or flying kicks. Far as I'm concerned, Dave Lovelace's "Retarded Animal Babies" owns the violent payoff (and some would say he stole it from "Happy Tree Friends," which stole it from "Bambi Meets Godzilla," which stole it from...)
Anyway, violent payoffs have been done... and done... and done. Still, not bad!
that was a picture of me (;
Somebody Please Explain
Let me start by saying I don't want to single this Flash animator out. This submission was simply the top good score on the list. I've looked at others over the last 24 hours, and all the high-scoring animations seem to be the same: stick figures (or in one case, low-res refugees from a video game) kicking the shit out of each other. No story. No plot. Just the simplest possible characters (unless they were simply a circle, like "Jot" or "Blode") fighting to Heavy Metal music.
Constructive criticism? Try something that doesn't involve fighting stick figures. It's been done to death.
I'll admit, I've got a bad taste in my mouth right now, because I just had a Flash presentation sink off the list without a trace, ending with a 2.8 score. Most of the reviewers slammed me (most reviews gave me a "3" or a "4") which is okay--that's subjective--but what burned me was the content of the reviews. They said there was no story (there's no story to fighting stick figures either). They didn't like the raster-based images (which are vastly more artistic than these vector doodles: artists who can do strong vector work--Dave Lovelace comes immediately to mind--are the exception, not the rule), and they didn't understand that it was a PREVIEW, even though I said so in the description. A preview is not supposed to give the whole story away, but even so, it told more of a story than this does.
But I'm guessing the slow music I used, and edited to, is what really shot me in the foot. However, at least one reviewer specifically said he didn't like the high-res raster work.
This isn't so much a review of this piece, but of Newgrounds content--and the gamers that seem to dictate it--in general. If I knew of a better place to put this, I would. My distaste is not so much for the creator of this piece, who only appears to be supplying the same-old, same-old that is in demand, but of the AUDIENCE.
What's up with you people? Do you spend all your time in front of a screen stoked to the eyeballs on black-market Ritalin or crystal meth?
I don't get it. Perhaps this is only the bitching of one over-the-hill artist, but damn! If this is the kind of product that sells these daze, I'm glad my work is outdated.
I know how you feel.
The problem with newgrounds, and submitting flash pieces is that since this site is a complete democracy, your rank all depends on whos on at the time. It sucks. I've put out submissions that i thought were top notch (well at the time I did, it's that narcisism in me.) Anyhow, they would either get blammed or would get a really low score.
Anyway this review is a bit malicious, but i'll keep it anyway. This long thought out message should have been somewhere for the whole world to see, like on the forums. But you had to fuck up my review score. Oh well.
Thanks for taking the time to review. I'll try not to make the next one quite so much an instant fight animation, but instead have real substance.
Dave, if you're not rich by now, you oughta be.
Time travel. Carnage. Childish vulgarity. Only more tits could have made it better than it is!
I ate ramen noodles for lunch today. So no, not rich... :-)
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