Score: 9

"Totally slick"

submission: newgrounds xmas boner

date: December 28, 2009

Oh man, I had no idea that you could animate this well. This is some of the most aesthetically pleasing new stuff I've seen in a while, even though it's very short. The voice acting was good as well. Plus, it was funny shit.

Honestly, the only flaw here is the short length. I realize that maintaining such fluid animation makes even short flashes like these time consuming, though, so I won't take off much for it.

I'm going to look into your other stuff now, you've officially got my interest.

Score: 5

"Lots of effort, but the end product isn't worth it"

submission: Super Mario bros Z ep.8

date: October 29, 2009

Let me start by saying that this was not bad. This obviously required a lot of time to produce, and I recognize that. The scene select was also a good idea. However, despite the amount of work you put into this, I have some serious, SERIOUS issues with it as a series and as individual submissions that made me lower your overall score.

First, the sprites. I realize that not everything in this episode was ripped from games and that you did produce some stuff of your own as well as used some advanced techniques in the sprite animations, like filters and blur effects and all that good stuff. However, this doesn't change the fact that most of this stuff requires so much effort not because it is extremely difficult to make, but because it's so mindlessly time consuming to make that many symbols and make so many layers and tweens. You've definitely gotten better with flash, and this episode shows it, but it's just sprite after sprite after sprite. You did render the Doomship, but honestly, that kind of 3D modeling isn't that hard at that level of detail, and I wasn't that impressed. You tween very well, but it doesn't really satisfy me. The fight scenes are well choreographed, but the hardest part in a good fight animation is the frame-by-frame rendering of fast, precise movements. Sprites are significantly easier to make fight scenes with. You should consider making some animations without any sprites and make stuff from scratch. You can only push sprite animation so far.

The there's the story and dialogue. The memes came across as desperate attempts at humor, and of course, most of the fans of this series may find them amusing, but it's not real humor, it's just regurgitating something that someone else says, and anyone can do that. They just irritated me. The dialogue wasn't terrible, but then again, it wasn't really good, either. Average, really. Shadow's dialogue was the worst. Just typical contrived anime-style angst. That kind of shtick is overdone, and you should avoid it in the future.

Then there's the entire concept of the series. Mario AND Sonic AND DBZ? That's a huge stretch, and honestly, not that creative. Instead of just basing your work on a single franchise, you decided to draw from 3 franchises, all of which don't really have very good story lines (DBZ sometimes has good stories, but as the series goes on, it just gets ridiculous). It seems forced and artificial, and honestly just makes me cringe. Until the fight scene, when it was very dialogue heavy, I was forcing myself to read it so I'd be a better judge while reviewing it. I really just wanted to skip it. Even the fight scene seemed to drag on too long. It moves very fast at times, sometimes too fast. You can barely tell what's exactly happening with the fighting, it's just blurs half the time. I just started to get bored and waited for the fighting to end.

In the end, what we have here is a cartoon that will only truly satisfy either teenage gamers or people who are obsessed with sonic/mario/DBZ, and I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm just being honest. It's just fanservice for them, really, and it lacks substance. Sure, as far as sprite animations go, this is very good. But, that's its only honestly redeeming feature. Once this series finishes, you should really think about branching out into non-sprite animation, since you've pretty much exhausted your options with sprites.

Score: 9

"Pretty fucking brilliant."

submission: Pico's Adventure

date: July 14, 2009

I don't know what the fuck these other people are talking about, the animation in this was quite good, easily better than the majority of animation on this website. I guess they don't know what makes animation good.

I loved the female sexual imagery in the beginning, and your use of color and highly fluid animation was as aesthetically pleasing as ever. I laughed at the "high five" gag as well. Keep up the good work.

Score: 5

"Too bass heavy."

submission: Hall o.t. Mountain King Remix

date: August 22, 2007

The bass drowns out the actual Hall of the Mountain King tune nearly completely. Either take down the bass or increase the volume of the Hall-King track.

Score: 0

"What is this?"

submission: Gay Condums

date: January 7, 2005

This is just some prank call, right? I usually like prank calls, but this one just sucked. First of all, "gay condoms"? What the hell is a gay condom? It was pretty offensive, and really juvenile. Seriously, if you're going to do a prank call, you have to it right. Deepen your voice, or get a friend who has a deep voice. And a believable one, too. No one's going to really take you seriously if you try to sell them something totally bizarre with a voice like you just got hit in the nuts.

Score: 2

"Just plain bad."

submission: BUSH

date: January 7, 2005

I'm just going to be blunt with you. That was horrible. And it's not the subject of the song I don't like. I hate Bush, his cabinet, etc. But this was just bad. It was pretty difficult to interprete what you were saying. Annunciate more next time. You trash Bush, but you don't even mention why you dislike him. If he's stupid, why do you think that? What do you disagree with in his policy and agenda? Try and keep a more consistent rhyme scheme and try to stick to a uniform meter.