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[Losing Track]

Really good

My ONLY complaint was the length, but animating is a painstaking, time-consuming biatch and who am i to presume that this was intended to be an epic feature-lengthfilm fest entry in the first place, so whatever.

The use of color was awesome, I really enjoyed the minimalism in the animation and how it established a real sense of feel with just some sparse audio and small amounts of actual motion. The sky in particular really worked, to me. in some small way it reminded me of Glassy Ocean, which is one of my favorites.

To me, this was all about style and atmosphere. GREAT SUCCESS, SIR

Rutger responds:

Thank you!
I like minimalism. Still I feel a little awkward, since I can see why people complain about the animation. But like you said, it wasn't meant to be a super epic long movie.

[Schmooper-Schmeroes]

amusing

This was awesome, not as smooth and polished as the last one of yours that was up here (cupcake was it?) but as this was for a contest screening time was obviously an issue, and your previous stuff is evidence that you could be capable of cleaning up the rough parts if time were less of an issue. or so is my guess.

excellent concept, i loved how weird alternate forms of the animals were and as usual your style of animating really brought out their characters.

PS, That sounds like an awesome bar if they screen animations once a month.

The few asshats on here complaining that there was no violence or pornography are literally the dumb jocks of the animation world... most of whom don't have the drive, interest or ability to create anything themselves and therefore have no place complaining whatsoever.

TheBoogley responds:

Ah redminus, I just checked out your userpage and love your drawing style :)
You are right about the bar, it's fantastic. Always screening weird locally made short films or music clips, they have an experimental music and video festival on next month! :D

[Squeak]

awesome

a really good showcasing of how flash-based animation has a place outside of the confines of the flash player. I immediately had questions about your process and order of operations, which parts came first and what was trimmed up later etc etc. which is a good thing, i think, because the more questions there are, the better a job you've done at achieving your goal without showing the "seams".
in short, really cool. maximum props.

gene-goldstein responds:

Well, I made an animatic first, which was set to a different song, which you can see in my deviantART gallery. Then I filmed my hand doing stuff while watching the animatic to know when I have to do those motions. It took a few tries to get it close. Then I threw the edited video file into Flash, and animated almost the entire thing frame by frame. Then I put the video file and the swf into After Effects, added sounds, the reflection on the table and tracked the cheese. I did some other stuff, but I don't remember. Then, I simply exported it as an FLV, put it back into flash and added a replay button and such.

[Telefrancais collab]

!!!!!!!!!

oh my god, this was pretty much straight amazing.
i remember being forced to watch this show in french class when i was 11 or 12, and even THEN being like "what the fuck is this trippy shit on about?!"

though its kind of an obscure premise for a collab and i think you'd kind of have to have grown up in canada to get most of the jokes, at least for the most part (correct me if im wrong as i actually wouldnt know?), the overall quality is really good and everyone seemed to unanimously capture how absolutely bizarre and unsettling the show was on it's own to begin with.

great job, all.

[The Crew Talks Art]

JEEZ

this is really amazing. i loved the family-guy-style akward ly paced banter with all the newgroudns cliches thrown in. the arrows that pointed above their heads when each one was talking was a nice touch, for example, and the parodying of NG's non-stop cock obsession was pretty on point. 5/10 FAVORITED. AND I NEVER DO THAT.

KartuneHustla responds:

OH thanks man!!! I feel SPECIALL!!!!!!

[nomnomnomnomnomnomnom]

cute

as hell. nice work, i was glad to see that this wasnt made into one of those annoying looped song videos. i think the facct that it's NOT looped really added something. the animation was just simple enough to pull off the idea, just detailed enough to keep it legit. bada-bing!

also, looks like the dude below me needs to take his computer back to walmart. HEEEYYY-OHHH!!

[Crotchless Chaps]

PHENOM

this is really funny. easily as good as stuff on adult swim, like i love sealab 2021 and the brak/spaceghost stuff and this is easily on par. awesome man

[WTF_Action]

omfg

just straight amazing, too bad you cant seem to enlarge the flash size, my only complaint is that it wouldve looked (or "felt"?) even better if it were larger.

all the same, great energy and awesome directing style. i hope there's something more that follows.

andreasng responds:

ah ok. yeah i blocked that sorry. i didnt think people would want to crank it up, since its flash and... yeah ok. sorry. but thanks for the review.

[Ng Voicemail #973]

AWESAMZ

the only thing that disappointed me was that there arent more of these. Straight up amazing.

Did you guys ever actually recieve his McDonalds trash? because obviously the bomb was a bluff, but if the burg0r wrappers were a bluff too, then that's just about the weakest threat i've ever heard....

[When Cloud Met Vincent]

HA!

the voice acting and general curt awkwardness of the conversation made this awesome. gj gj