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[Loss]

The art that is remembered through ages is the art that speaks volumes of those ages.
As much as I don't want 21st century to be remembered as the fallings of democracy and its futility against countries that go in with armed offensive, this really brings in close the late moments happening to our neighbours.

The medium used here pronounces loss. Good use of colours and scenes as they bring about thoughts of war and aftermath of violence.
It is clearly made not as a movie, but a show of painting, a sliding show of a breakdown.

I thought every scene was a bit too long, but that might be my impatience.

I too hope this war ends, as much as I want people to get along, we might be the next target.

Maffi responds:

Oby do tego ostatniego punktu nie doszło.

[The Holiday Network]

Few of them were really good, fully animated (girl sitting in front of pink doll, russian guys at the end), some had nice ideas (1st one, alien boy).
Some seemed like they were inside jokes (Santa in the mall going ballistic for...reasons?), felt a bit unfinished or rush, some were made pretty fast and choppy, other seem hand animated - so pretty diverse.
And some were not even animations, just phone recorded teenage jumpscares that attempt to rupture an eardrum or two.
Pretty much solid 3-4 to some while BLAM to the others.

All in all, a Merry Christmas collab made by both nice and naughty.

EDIT:
P.S. Shoutout:
I'd rate the music and all that if I had not listened to this collab on MINIMUM volume level (feels like the question was a sarcasm).
Unfortunately due to the parts with very loud noises trying to compare audio quality is just not worth it. If you guys really want RETURNING people to listen to your pieces, go on and persuade your friends to try out venues that don't involve damaging audio quality. I mean, sure, you can go on with this infinitely, but that just mean they will instictively always lower volume and miss out whatever someone of you put heart in it. Feels like art cannibalism :p
Which is a real shame, it's like you get meal where you love bunch of stuff and somebody puts intentionally a surprise aimed directly at getting a nasty reaction - and you sometimes wonder if you want to bite later on.
But you do what you want, it's Newgrounds - everything by everyone. Still like the meal, if the chefs want me to LOVE it they can try something different in a recipe - just make sure whatever you put on the plate it is still YOU - don't like much chefs that throw coriander into their burrito art just cause someone nagged that it's not there :p

EDIT 2:
Oh yeah, threatening others will suuurely improve everything, especially opinion. I'm sure Michealangelo was running around stabbing around the haters. And Leonardo DaVinci was hanging his victims upside down. And we all know that Van Gogh didn't use his own ear in his auto portrait.
But seriously, I did not mean to insult anyone, it's called a "critique", don't waste your breath, cause I'm not stopping.
I wrote it, cause I believe 2 things:
- any random Newgrounder has the right to know what he's looking at if he wants to, it's called a "Review", not a "Comment" section for a reason
- you guys can do more than this, maybe not today, but one day, you decide the date. But you ain't gonna do squat unless you get feedback, I think harsh feedback is better than little patting comments, but we have a 5 star system that most use like youtubers are using "thumbs up/down"
If you insist it's an insult, check details below - and I think you mean this "Teddy" you keep writing about is the one who did the "Santa night stalking" part - here's the scoop:
- good acting on making impression of genuinely looking for beliving in Santa
- good use of night vision, or green filter, or whatever you used (me <= not a specialist)
- nice touch with choosing the screenshots before filming yourself - creepiness level increased
- awesome handling of the camera on the face, looks similar to Blair Witch and REC scenes where people give their "Famous Last Words", was missing snotty nose from "Scarry Movie" but if you wanted to do that it would kinda give away your intent (horror movies fan here)
- transition-effect between different scenes to make it look like movie is cut - good
- the appearance of Santa - AWFUL, simply AWFUL sound, drawing was meh
- Good finishing touch with the "body being snatched" leaving a sleeping hat (or a Christmas hat? IDK).
Summing up: It would be pretty good (for a video recording/producing) if it wouldn't be for that god awful sound at the end, which is irritating, because it's long and awful, and covers the initial impression I get when watching the movie - if you wanted to make people rethink horror movies - good job; if you just wanted to jumpscare someone - GET OUT of HERE :-]

I know that's just a one of the phases and that everyone in this collab, regarding of their level, will find even better ways to express their work.
Until then (and after that) I'll keep reviewing :-)

P.S.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

pollyanoid responds:

mucho texto

[Taco Spaghetti]

Nicely done, catchy music, just one side note: he's basically singing ONLY about spaghetti (pasta + sauce + tomatos + cheese), where's taco in it (Chilli beans, corn, salad)

BooneBum responds:

In the Raining Tacos Universe, tacos *CAN* have those ingredients but the main 4 ingredients in TacoBot 3000's tacos are shell, meat, lettuce & cheese. In this cartoon, his ingredients are reduced down to seasonings/toppings w/ taco meatballs! :)

[Crazy Japanese Man Screaming Sex while Running in Tunnel]

Looked funny, sounded horrible - is there a filter that makes sound purposefully distorted going around the net or something? Is that a thing these days? I remember poop-piss jokes being a thing, but not this aduo.

Animated representation quite ok

Lunydoobles responds:

audio was taken from a video online

[WhitePeopleBeLike]

Let's see a "Black people be like" and see this survive here
Also, racism aside, nice animation, but really poor joke.

EDIT:
Game on Potatoman! Find a good one :D!

Potatoman responds:

Ok, I will make that next

[REPENTANCE'S SECRET ENDING]

LoL, that was a voiceclip? I thought it was this:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/608431

Still, good reuse, pretty relatable to Binding of Isaac.
Also, a well deserved hail Oney and TomaMoto!

EDIT, Yeah, I see the credits to the left, just couldn't resist to butter up everywone :3

DegoDraws responds:

Its in the credits lmao

[Monday Dawn Modding | FunkinJam]

Although I generally despise the idea of putting harsh noise (due to hearing/sound system damage it can do), the animation and the idea itself were spiffy. Pretty colours and nice emotions added to the GF and Dad, translated pretty nicely. Would watch again if not for the noise part.

Sethotron responds:

Thanks for the constructive criticism! I'll be sure to take it in mind.

[Crying Sister]

Kid's humour, mediacore animation (still kinda nice for a startup)
Awful idea, by all standards.

JunkYardAnimations responds:

ill take the 2 stars!

[CaramelDansen Collab 2020]

TL;DR:
Turn off movie sound, turn on original music, hit play.

Short nice animation per person, shitpost that is not taxing. Pretty much would give 3,5-4/5 when played without sound.
But horrible horrible music, lyrics very unsynced with the melody.
And even if it would be synced, some of the melody parts are making the infamous "shitty flute" sound good.

KawaiSprite responds:

Ur fun

[Full HD Patreon : Foney The Squirrel]

So called "shitpost" parody, low quality in graphics and audio.
Very stretched jokes about money and patreon (I mean, in which episode does it even say they want to get donated? It's in the Author's comment's, sure, but it's not all in your face during watching a movie, like all the youtubers want to "like&subscribe") and repeatedly used in the movie.
ADDED: And then I played that one episode about songs. Although still think they meant it as a joke, giving half star more for this.

It's an interesting point to ask: why a squirell? Perhaps it captures it's hatred and objectivity towards society a little better than any other human. I would suggest some different motive to that though - back in the Disney times the squirells talked too (Chip & Dale for instance), they had high pitched voice. The voice was produced mainly by speeding up what someone has said on cassette recorder. Since Foamy series are focused on LONG tirades nobody would probably want to stay to listen , the author decided to "FF" the whole spiel - and what is better than to mix it to make sense with the author's childhood liked characters.
Why Foamy likes coffee? Because who would be rambling more: someone who drinks coffee, or someone who sips tea :)?
The voice of the characters (pitch) would be ok as far as parody goes... but even if you wanted to point out that they talk really slow in comparisson to Foamy, you just made their lines unlikable... that with the slow talk makes it unbearable - and what's a good parody if it makes you hate it more than the original?

This is quarter-quality, does not gather much to make fun of from the original. (maybe beside the motion tween joke, but gotta say, still like their animation way more over this)
All in all, the jokes could have been made a tad more sensical an likeable, and there's alot of ways to pull it off, even if you do not want to relate to the series: a use of different animals, sex changes, crossover with something else, pixelating stuff has already been used but are still good ideas.

Little-Rena responds:

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.