Score: 10

"Good, could be better."

submission: the Last of the Dashkin

date: December 21, 2009

When comparing to the usual flashes, I'm forced to give this a 10/10, but if I were to seriously vote, pinning this against your other recent works, I think this deserves a 7 out of 10.

I'll be honest, you made this in 4 weeks, and it shows.
This flash is a massive breakaway from everything you've done so far in so much as it changes the 'plot' completely. You've added in a narration, and... *spoiler* some form of human I assume? The breakthrough seems far to radical, too unnatural, as if you're making it up as you're going along (which I expect you are). But this diminishes the value of your flash.

Quality wise, there is far less attention to detail in this animation than in Waterlollies, and as we all know, quality is far more important than quantity. As you said yourself this only took you 4 weeks, which is - unless you spent every waking moment working on this flash animation - too little to achieve the quality that has become associated with your work.

There is also less experimentation here, no new camera angles, no innovation coding to create special effects, and to be honest it feels a little cheap. For example, I zoomed in with my browser and this meant I could see past the borders of the screen, so I guess this can only be viewed at the exact resolution you've provided.. And the bevel on characters, and the colour choice blending characters into their backgrounds (especially with little Bitey in the snow) all factors I picked up on the first time viewing.

Sorry to be negative, as I am a fan of your work and think you're very talented, but it just seems as if this was a little side project, or even half finished. Your other works show constant improvement, more experimentation in each and every flash, decent character development and not bad plot, but the emphasis (as it should be) firmly held on quality animation. Looking forward to your new work in the future (although I assume the conclusion to this part will be of near identical quality unfortunately), especially this long in production Brackenwood feature film.

Score: 7

"Great"

submission: Hillside Settlement

date: July 9, 2009

Not much of a storyline, character development, plot and tbh there's little animation as it's mostly just time lapse... but it's still great :D

I really like your style, the artwork is all really nice and it's very good to be spending time on the little details that most people won't even see.

I actually replayed your movie and zoomed into the village and was surprised to find that each and every building is individually crafted which must have taken aaaages, so nice work.

I think you'd do really well at level design with all that detail, so why not try and make a platformer or something? You'd be good at it ^-^

Score: 9

"Brilliant game"

submission: Magic Pen

date: July 27, 2008

It took me ages to complete it, but I finally did - no walkthoughs or tips of any kind.
I love the challenge of this game; when you enter some levels you think to yourself 'this is impossible!!!', but after a little experimentation you manage to nudge the ball towards the flags.
The music was a little irritating actually, but that was fine since you had the option to turn that off.
Well coded, even if it is just 'a clone' - kept me amused for quite a while.
9/10
5/5

Score: 7

"Pretty Nice Game"

submission: Box Dodge Fury

date: July 25, 2008

I'm sure you just made this as a little money spinner but it turned out pretty nicely.
I like the simplicity of the game and easy playability.
Good luck in the future St1k and Toasterdemon :]

Score: 8

"Mostly good"

submission: Jack McHavoc Ep1

date: July 22, 2008

I can tell you really improved during the creation of this project :]
I think the menus are excellently done, I know an odd thing to say but I think they look really professional, also your timing as a 'director' was spot on, you picked really good scenes to draw.
One think I do want to mention, I think you should practise your character proportions as well as maybe looking into anatomy since you had the main bits correct, but some areas (like the chest) were a little out of proportion.
Animation was pretty smooth and well thought though. You managed to keep me entertained during what was essentially a 5 minute fight scene (didn't count) by using lots of different camera angles, so hats off to you, well done and I hope to see work from you in the future :D

Score: 8

"Nice clean game"

submission: Deep Lift

date: July 20, 2008

Very nice game with no glitches, bugs or bad graphics.
And as others have said the level 'preview' got a little tedious after a while; instead of a level preview you should have included a simplified map in one of the top corners of the window to show you where you are in relation to the game.

Nevertheless it was a very simple and enjoyable game, I managed to get to Zone 3 Level 6 before dying, but I got so far I really didn't want to replay the game.
8/10
4/5

Score: 9

"Brilliant story, well told"

submission: Collin & The Wishing Tree

date: July 1, 2008

That was brilliant!
A very well put together animation, it had everything it needed to have; music, sounds, interesting story, awesome artwork and animation.

I really hope you continue to animate, as anything even close to the epicness of this really is a must watch :]

Score: 9

"This one pieced together nicely."

submission: The 5 Hour Collab II

date: June 8, 2008

Very good choice of music, I'm surprised how well it fit considering none of the authors knew what kind of music was going to be in their piece.
Lots of really talented pieces in this 5 hour limit, I truly enjoyed this =]
Well done guys.

Score: 9

"Wow, talented."

submission: |~SpeedAnim:BattleCool~|

date: June 7, 2008

That was truly amazing, up there with the best of them... and it was only a speed animation!
I can't think what you could do if you put your mind to it, added colour and details along with smoothing up the animation, because you have the storylines, the basic artwork and all the sounds & texts in all the right places, so with a bit of determination for an ongoing plan you could produce stunning works.

Score: 8

"Nice game!"

submission: Sittin' at a Bar

date: June 2, 2008

Excellent game!
Nice music, fit the game perfectly :P
Addicting gameplay, ending up with 11,100 after about 8 tries.
Good graphics too, clean but nicely styled.

The only problem I had with it wa\s that it was pretty basic, but simple and good it still was. 8/10, well done.