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[The Last Degree]

Your art is improving

Hey buuddddy! I like what you've done here, you've taken your old style and remixed it into your own, something i respect you for ;)

If there's one thing i notice with your animation, its that you're working with two's at 24 fps. I know this is a personal preference with animators, but might i recommend switching to two's with 30 fps?

Working with two's at 24 is like working on one's at 12 fps, and we all know that 12 fps looks choppy. Suffice to say, this video, while the animation was good, did look a bit choppy. Were you to up your framerate to 30, it would be like drawing one's at 15 FPS which looks a lot crisper and smoother.

This is just my personal opinion though, i hope it provided some insight.

Bubbowrap responds:

Thanks! Guess it was worth taking that year break from animating to practice drawing.

And, nah, I'm actually working on four's in most cases (I KNOW, I KNOW). With three weeks and wanting to put out the most realistic animation that I can, I had to sacrifice the smoothness/frame rate. I was planning to go back later if I finished before the deadline, but well.

I'd totally do 30 fps, but the standard is 24 fps and I want to get as comfortable with the norm as I can (if that makes sense). Thanks for the tips, though!

[//Necropolis Xenophobe]

Go yungJazz!

I remember when you showed me this WIP only a few weeks ago, you did alot of work in that time it seems :D Nice job ^^

[The Facebook Problem]

Fantastical!

Extremely well animated sir, especially the whole "everyone getting hit by the car" scene, you definitely outdid yourself there sir ^^

Sh0T-D0wN responds:

:D.

[Spider-Ninja]

Heh, pretty sweet!

Have you ever read a marvel manga called "Legend of the spider clan" ? Its actually a japanese art style take on spiderman, if you havent you should definetily check that out, i personally think you'd love it!

[Stamp on the Ground]

I love it!

You get a 10 for so much FBF animation, even though it was just a few simple moves for each character, there was like 100 characters :P So it deff looks like alot of work :)

I especially enjoyed seeing some of my favorite characters from way back, like miguel and tulio, and ESPECIALLY Teasel Bonne and Glyde :D

[Phoenix Ash Opening]

As its your first movie..

Its actually not bad, you seem to know your way around flash and have an idea of what happens in the series.

My very first thought is "Change the framerate to 24 or 30" as in its current state, 12 fps or whatever it is looks kinda choppy. Not only this, but change the audio quality to at least 60 kbps, the sound quality wasn't so great here.

Generally just work on your animation of everything, i'm not saying its bad, but you're definitely skilled, you just need to keep working at it and you could have something really awesome here.

Good luck on your series! I expect to see more flash movies from you in the future.

[Tarboy]

Phenominal!

This movie is a cinematical masterpiece! The shots you used, the music and the story, the voice acting, all combine to make a brilliant flash movie!

Excellent job.

[How to Hook Up the NES]

I still dont know how to set an NES up

Haha i liked it, it reminded me of those classic Goofy cartoons which go pretty much just like how this one does. Was this inspired by such a cartoon?

[Pika VS Onix]

Nice, perhaps toooo nice....

You spammed the filters like your life depended on it, i have a pretty standard computer but it definitely lagged my comp to the point that i couldn't even change the quality controls. Finally i got the page to reload, i changed them, and then watched again.

Same problem :/ Lighten up on them blur filters and it would look a lot nicer on most computers :)

[GUN & SWORD]

BUT WHO WON!?!?!

Man, that was pretty epic, you have a good eye for viewpoints and timing in your animations. Right on :D