Score: 10

"Genious"

submission: A Muckle Sad Christmas

date: December 4, 2006

An deeply moving emotional piece...

...blended with masochistic satire. Watch this film!

Score: 6

"Fluid As They Come"

submission: Artificial High 3

date: March 3, 2005

So sporadic, trying to keep up with all that was going on and still sit back and appreciate the amazing transition animations was challenging on my end! I can see a hell of a lot of effort was put into this to keep it flowing well. The morphing animations were very impressive.

However, the music made me physically sick, I loved the animation in this movie but I don't think I could watch it again with the sound on before throwing up. It did fit the style of the film, but it also lowered my score for it.

Hope to see more of this type of crazy shit

~Rhyth~

Score: 5

"Art was nice, shame about the humour"

submission: Awkward Nature

date: March 3, 2005

I'm confused as to whether or not this was actually supposed to be funny or an even worse attempt at being moral. Either way, this was nothing more than fancy artwork and some pretty plush frame by frame animation which I liked.

Voice acting was well done, it was trying to be like television though, which I can't bide in flash cartoons. However it was of better quality than what I've seen elsewhere so you get kudos for that, as well as for the background music.

In short, make it longer, and optimise a tad, 1.7MB is too much for a movie this short.

~Rhyth~

Score: 7

"Polished And Professional"

submission: Aggressive Alpine Skiing

date: March 2, 2005

Very slick looking game, the art was more detailed in this than I see in a lot of other flash games, but onto the mechanics.

I felt that however well coded this game was (didn't notice any bugs, very smooth flow, transitioning worked very well) I felt the mechanics weren't fluid at all. The horizontal movement was not the right proportion to the velocity at which the skiier was travelling, and the vertical movement wasn't moving at a constant deceleration making it very difficult to judge when to jump. This also didn't gel very nicely with the insane difficulty curve this game presents. Too difficult in fact.

I can't really comment on the length of the game, if there's more than one slope I can't get to it.

Music and sound effects were quite plush actually, good audio quality and exclusive music are rarities in online games, that's what clinched the "polish" for me.

~Rhyth~

Score: 1

"Shoddily Presented"

submission: .GiD.

date: March 2, 2005

The introductory menu I think was the best presented part of this. The rest was awful. Let me run it down.

What actual art was there was barely animated at all, and the real animation consisted of a whole load of raster images you collected and flash in front of my face in a random order. That's not animation, that's a slideshow.

The voice acting was quite possibly the worst I've heard in a long while. Stop slavering into the mic and learn some live audio techniques. It was more painful to listen to, especially coupled with the terrible overused sound effects and background music which was badly levelled.

A film this short shouldn't have 'acts'. 20 seconds of pictures does not constitute an 'act'.

~Rhyth~

Score: 6

"Interesting, I'll Give You That"

submission: -Play-

date: March 2, 2005

Well I can't really praise you for the art or the animation since they're clearly traced, but I can definately congratulate you for the sequencing of the animations.

The beat is kinda rhythmic even by itself, but coupled with the amazing syncrhonisation of the silhouettes it's pretty damn entertaining, especially when you sit and pick out which characters are making which noises.

The sounds also sound very authentic like you made them yourself, and make the piece look very professional.

~Rhyth~

Score: 8

"A Moving Story"

submission: -Obsolete-

date: March 2, 2005

I really liked this piece. From start to finish I felt immersed in the story and animation. It's not a really deep story, but probably one a lot of people can relate to.

Art was simplistic, use of shade and shadow, no lines which is fast becoming a popular style today. Colours were all in blocks, something I find myself usually complaining about because it irritates me, but I'll let it pass this time.

The animation I thought was a little hesitant at times, it didn't flow well at certain points in the movie, but having said that, it didn't stop the flow of the movie as a whole, it kept it going.

The music was what really immersed me in it. It puts you in a hypnotic state more than anything in the film. It was a good mix which draws you in and makes you feel more for tha robot. A really good subtle tune, I love it.

Great idea for a story, pretty powerful, hope to see more like this.

~Rhyth~

Score: 4

"Minimal, But The Joke Was There"

submission: "Shame"

date: March 2, 2005

It was good enough for a chuckle, but to be honest, this 'cartoon' was all audio, and since I can't be sure you even invented the joke, I can't give you any points for that.

The art and animation were both poor, and the raster images were of awful quality, I can't understand why you'd put those in your cartoon at that standard of image quality. However you did put some really good effort into lip-syncing which works pretty well.

The audio itself was poorly recorded or set to an extremely low quality in Flash, but either way it was sore to listen to.

Short enough joke to watch, but executed sloppily.

~Rhyth~

Score: 2

"Awful"

submission: "Megaman" (1/3) -Short-

date: March 2, 2005

The art was simplistic, I did like some of the perspective techniques you used, but apart from that, it was all terrible.

Firstly, the animations was lacking, there was very little and what was there was not impressive in the least. Although some of the best immersion comes from pieces with little animation, it needs to have a good plot, which this didn't.

This I found to be extremely childish humour, generic jokes with no original twist to them, and that toilet scene was unforgivable.

And we'll move on to the crowning touch, the audio. Artificial reverb only sounds good if you know what you're doing, if it weren't for the subtitles (which were very ugly), I wouldn't have been able to understand them. Music also nothing special, annoying actually.

This film confirms my theory that megaman fans are some of the most boring people alive.

~Rhyth~

Score: 8

"A quality piece of work with a great concept"

submission: Tetris'd

date: November 20, 2004

It may not have been that long but the idea was flawless. You maybe went a bit too over the top with the gradients, but your animation skills especially with limbs and the comedy timing couldn't have been done any better.

The music added to the effect brilliantly, had it been the old music I don't think this would have had half the explosion that it does. CS sound effects maybe overused but they work perfectly in a piece like this.

I especially enjoyed the subtlties like the true high score increments of the actual blocks and lines, and shows you don't need to be an amazing artist to pull off something that's actually funny.

~Rhyth~