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["Earth" by Muramatsu, feat. Emily Kaplan]

Splendid piece of work!

EDIT: Just corrected grammar

The animation was properly looped, and the little things were appearing sometimes normally, sometimes very delicately, felt like you were walking down a magic road buried in interesting scenery/thoughts, only to suddenly stop and look around, to be surrounded by a magical garden. I really liked the snail, not sure I normally see anyone going to lengths to properly show someone how long does a piece takes place :)

The animator did a great work syncing all of the effects to the music, showing that he indeed, is inspired by it, and no wonder!

The music itself is beautiful, worthy an animation, game, a movie, a theater play. I'd love to come and listen, but I'd had to hide in the crowd so that no one sees me crying ^_T.

Overally the work of Art here touches oneself as me. Especially the last part with the "pollinating scene" after which everybody started vanishing. It felt like you wanted to symbolize a passing of time and people, but not a sad one - a joyous one, promising new Spring to come.

Well done~!

clarigaricus responds:

I can't express with words how happy this review made me. Thank you.

[Robot Cowboy Duel]

Nice animation, good use of sound effects and overally a high noon made fine in robo-punk style.
Was missing just one thing: the "after duel is won" winner's stance. Usually they do some trick with the gun before putting them away into holster, or throw in the punchline verbally, but this guy just stands there unamused.

[Elvis & Dimmi]

tl;dr: Cudos for this piece of art

Really good animation, a bit eye candy, but that changes just when the gore scenes are shown. A real morsel for lipsync as well, wondering however what tool was used for creating the graphics and how long did it take to animate one whole sentence (does it take it longer when you would have used hand/tablet/mouse drawn animation?).

The voicework shows off when the goblin village scene arrives and later we meet the heroines (female villans?). Every sound and music piece sounds like a game, which is really putting the pressure on "this is a game parody")

The idea of creating a piece about video game parody from the side of "villanious" side sounds almost like Starbarians in pixelated form, but you do efortlessly slide the atmosphere from "chaotically merry" Starbarians to "gruesome cold-hearted" adventurers. Because this makes the adventurers look like some kind of evil mercenaries, or kid-bandits without a charm, some viewers will likely oppose the idea of such story telling, some other won't be bothered at all saying "its fine".
Both will likely be kept captivated by the series thou, one half rooting for their success and the other half waiting for the heroes tragic demise. Because the viewers will be split, maybe try to direct the story based of votes :)? (although bad idea, even the bastard viewers will want to see the guys HUNG at the end :P)
Got to add, for a pixel art about dungeons and dragons it sure has a tragic atmosphere (why are the protagonists so hard assed)

[Malls : Foamy The Squirrel]

As always, nice, the Foamy rant is nice to my ears (am I becoming deaf?).

Flat jokes aside I do find this episode strangely less emotional in the voicework. Its not bad, just a bit less high pitched yelling :) . Most of the ideas touched in the series are true and I agree with the fact some types of people should rethink their style of life or get the heck out of other people's faces.

All in all, Foamy series as a medium to produce a rant I do relate to and find stress relieving, and are a good idea I wish that will continue.

I kinda miss the other squirells thou.

[The Harry Partridge Documentary]

This is one long documentary of one of the most original creators I know, fiercely devoted to animation. Expect witty comments, brightful collage of his masterpieces as well as insight into why he loves to animate and why we probably feel atuned to his work.

I know I've turned down docummentary about Einstein for this, and I don't regret!
As always, clear voice, bold in an interview as well as in his animation. If you love his animation, I guess its time to know the man himself.

P.S.
Because this brings alot of Harry's work that is not whole, I advise first watching EVERYTHING he has created here, in case you were wondering what to watch first :)

Avonom responds:

It was a fun project to work on because of the humour he brought to the table! Thanks for your review!

[Mia's World]

The idea is quite original, the graphics are good even with lower. Somehow the girl's voice does not seem like she's the little girl she is, it means that, with her b*tch attitude, it gives a vibe that she is more of a sour-life woman in her 25, trapped in a petit girl's body.

And what's with pointing guns at parents, is this an American thing? (is this why her mom is Asian, dad Hindi and she herself seems Hawaian?)

Also, candy is good for you AFTER the dinner, :p

All in all pretty good animation, but kinda weird idea to have to rebel against normal parents with a FIREARM. Maybe it would look better if they... were robots? Villains? Maybe also armed?

Meeh

[TheBruvs - Talking With Dinosaurs]

BRILLIANT

The way you put irony and into every second of the whole series, I love it.

The animation itself is very sound. Your characters are depicted very clearly and contrary to other pieces on NG you allow various styles (like the 3D Panda in The Gallery). Although there is so need for any effects in your production you click every artistical taste bud a man has with your lip-sync and mimicry, not to mention bruises (The Dentist), lighting effects and body language (Rude Word). I mean, it might be me watching lately to many stick figures or Cyanide-alike characters with nothing to present but ideas, but you have really brought the body language back into the ART.

And speaking of that not only the body lnaguage is fantasmic, your whole ability to script the situation just bambozzled me with your ideas and the results of bringing them to life in The Bruvs series.

Sound is clear and its great contrast to put Dan's voice so high pitched. You clearly know how to create a character using even only your voice.

tl;dr;
I hope The Bruvs continue, and once they finish, bring to life another, wonderful project into life, hopefully to be aired in NG

Score for series:
4.5/5 on animation
4/5 on sound
5.5/5 on the ideas

TheBruvs responds:

Thank you - most exciting to read. Very much appreciated. You might take a look at TheBruvs.com - we have 17 films so far. More in production. We only just discovered NG. More fool us. Please check our other films - and maybe visit us at FB, twitter or insta. All pretty much @TheBruvsTV - all welcome. Thank you again. And thanks for taking time to write such a detailed review.

[Natural Born Suckers 2: Fast Times and Faster Women]

Wooley's view on solo Vampire Galore - Brilliant.

That being said, althought script was simple, I liked the way the story unfolded as well the small touches on screenplays (for some reason the "helmet" moment was my favourite).
Animation was more detailed than his other pieces, so pluses for extending his skill, meaningful background, good face mimicry.
The sound and sudden acts were not used as much as I would have hoped when speaking of a halloween parody (if I'm not mistaken, the music background was only present for "the MONSTER" scene, opening and closing themes), and yet the job on the voices was well-rounded. I guess its pretty hard to play the voice act for Izza.

All in all I like most of Wooleys animations for being a new take on story telling, although they are a bit to get used to I keep getting back to them and this one presents itself good enough to want to see a continuation ^_^

WooleyWorld responds:

That's a really good review to read. I appreciate the lengthy nature of it.
Reviews like this are actually helpful. Thank you.

[Rick and Morty: The delicious taste of ice cream]

Animation: Very nicely made, but copying another one's style 3.5/5.

Sound 4/5 - Nothing special, but almost perfect voice play.

the script is the reason for writing this review: 4.5/5
I've wanted to give it 2.5/5 since started watching it, because first 2/3 of the movie was basically Rick and Morty repeating same thing over and over. But the twist made me realise that it was intended that way, so that it stays true to the real Rick and Morty, which is clearly depicted in the rest 1/3 of the movie.

All in all, I'd give it 4.25/5.
P.S.
You might consider changing playing Rick voice a little. Everything seems fine except that Rick talks faster, there are almost no pauses between his sentences - normally he talks like he already has SO much to say that he tries to squizz it in the shortest time possible. That, and the fact he kinda hates explaining things to stupid people. The longest pauses he is doing is when he nervously looks for the right word, or belch :D

[Rey]

I kind of understand where the story was going and what's the moral, but I'd REALLY like to understand what the whole story was, including why the grumpy king did all those horrible things

Graphics are very nice, pretty original animation and style. Could turn it into great parody of historical events - a series just from you, for at least 3 episodes.

P.S.
Re-upload with Eng subs too.