Score: 1

"I couldn't even watch the whole thing."

submission: Banjo Masacre

date: August 25, 2003

C'mon, man, this didn't go anywhere. The visuals were simple but decent, though the animation was terrible throughout. Characters just slid in and out of frame and the two banjo players made choppy movements that didn't even attempt to correspond with the strumming. I know the humor is supposed to be in the things going on in the background, but it just wasn't funny. The banjo playing was just far too repetitive and didn't seem to build up to anything. It just repeated over and over, with occassional things floating around in the background. This simply wasn't entertaining.

Score: 5

"An interesting interpretation of music piracy."

submission: Pirates of Music Industry

date: August 24, 2003

Though I thought it was rather mediocre. The action took a bit too long and the slow frame rate added to the mediocracy. However, it was a cute attempt at satire. The fact that it was represented through actual pirates was clever, and I liked the way you represneted the Kazaa-like interface. Overall, simple but effective graphics, okay use of sound. I think there's a lot of room for improvement, but this isn't a bad start.

Score: 6

"Cute!"

submission: Face Bag

date: August 20, 2003

The corny voice acting, simply visuals and somewhat morbid humor made this enjoyable to watch. Needs a preloader and a replay button (instead of just looping back to the beginning) but other than that I really don't have any complaints. It was a pretty funny idea and I'd like to see more ads from you in the future.

Score: 0

"Complete lack of direction."

submission: Chick'N"Stu lock style

date: August 20, 2003

You obviously have no idea how to put together a Flash video. Insted of really striving for originality you just used various Clock icons but added locks to them. You didn't even make the visuals flow to the music. It's just a bunch of random shapes bouncing, rotating and swirling around the screen. It's completely out of sync with the music, is incredibly tedious, is uncreative and quickly loses the viewer's interest within seconds of play. Although the music was somewhat interesting, the accompanying animation wasn't. You just seemed to throw things together randomly, with no regard to coherency or direction.

Score: 5

"Extremely repetitive."

submission: My Angel

date: August 20, 2003

I have to say, that walking scene went on for far too long. The fading pictures became extremely tedious after the first minute or so, and the suspense that was built up was all for naught, since the ending simply consisted of her waking up, an ending nearly anyone watching this would have expected. However, the visuals were above average, with precise contours, an amauterish but sleek anime design, brilliant shading and choppy but effective animation. The audio was also excellent--the gothic metal of Nightwish was a pleasure to hear, especially since I had not listened to them in several months. On the whole, however, this movie was largely uninteresting, but the effort put forth should surely be given credit.

Score: 3

"Needs a lot of work. A whole lot of work."

submission: Death To Flanders

date: August 20, 2003

The visuals weren't bad and the sound bites were pretty fitting, but it's still sub-par. The Flanders game could probably use the most improvement. Instead of having a flimsy white box around certain parts of his body, and having him slide around the screen like a maniac that movies so fast you barely have time to click on him, make it more like an actual game. Flanders should be able to attack you (probably with the power of his bible), and Homer should be able to select different weapons on the spot. Perhaps he could eventually turn into a zombie, much like in one of the Haloween episodes. The sound board was also lacking, as it one of the sounds wasn't even related to Flanders, and there should have been tons more, at least a couple dozen or so. Overall, the ideas are good, but they need a lot of improvement. Work on them, and come up with something more fun and complex.

Score: 7

"Doesn't hold a candle to the second one..."

submission: Arfenhouse: The Movie

date: August 19, 2003

But still a mindfuck. This is like Monty Python meets anime meets nerdy internet culture meets, I don't know, like fucking LSD or something. I can't describe this other than pure entertainment. I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next. It was so sporatic, so random and disorienting, yet hilarious, fun to watch...everything I look forward to in a flash movie. Good job.

Score: 8

"This is insane."

submission: arfenhouse teh movie too

date: August 19, 2003

I don't know what to say, really. The visuals worked so well for this movie. It could range from intentionally crafty to precisely crafted, and it was all animated so well. This movie managed to satirize so much of the stupidities of internet pop-culture, while being completely original, entertaining, very well thought out and hilarious. Even though I had no idea what was going on, the randomness and overly jovial nature of this film kept it fresh throughout. And talk about content, I'm going to have to watch this about a dozen more times before I catch all the little details going on. Truly an incredible effort.

Score: 2

"What?"

submission: Teletobbies

date: August 19, 2003

This looked like it could have been a decent parody of the Teletubbies, but you didn't go anywhere with it. While it was humurous that there were numerous references to Hitler and Nazism, it would have been better if you had attempted to create a short episode instead of an intro. It was difficult to sit through the irritating intro music (which should have been compressed better) only to have it end, when I was expecting to watch something more than just a title. Play with this idea and try to go somewhere with it.

Score: 5

"Very well done..."

submission: Miss.Dynamite XV

date: August 19, 2003

But not my cup of tea. I've really never had an interest in anime-style cartoons except for serious, adult oriented ones (such as Spriggan or Akira), so the campy style of this one, which kept true to formula of traditional Japanese animation, was a bit bland. It was extremely well done however, with sub-par (but for anime, decent) voice acting, excellent, crisp visuals and a coherent, well flowing storyline. Everything was executed and arranged well but this series just doesn't capture my interest as strongly as it does for others. Very good work overall, though.