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[madness horsefication]

You know, it might be stupid garbage, but it was pretty snappily animated and unusual. There are so many of these that are just the same old madness sprites clunkily going at it, the use of the photorealistic horse and the original sprite for the guy getting stomped made it a lot funnier than it otherwise would have been. So, fair's fair, it could have been no value trash, but it wasn't. Nice first try?

[Everyday’s a Nice Day: Albatross.]

I definitely think the refinements are paying off in this one. The backgrounds and characters are distinct from one another, there's a bit of additional character animation where it matters to add expressiveness, and the timing and delivery works without any one part being grating or dragging on significantly. The ambience outdoors is a nice touch too - it helps the scene feel a bit more alive even during brief pauses. I appreciated the little details in the shot of the farm like the wires coming off the satellite dish.

For feedback, the only thing I can think of is relatability. Albatrosses are, indeed, freaky birds - but they're not very relatable, a lot of people have never seen one in their life, or at least not cared to study them very closely. I feel like the end bit where the dead albatross hits the ground could have the effect amplified with a brief super-detailed closeup similar to those Spongebob gags, after which Bill acknowledges that yeah, they are pretty freaky. Could help sell the punchline to the viewer, you know?

I guess another, less morbid/more family-friendly option could be to have the albatross be more of an actual character standing on the lawn, and Tofu repeatedly missing his shots (as Weebl once pointed out, cattle are not known for their dexterity and skill with weaponry) allowing Bill to complain about the noise, assess the albatross and maybe have it try to consume his head with its large beak, at which point Bill defeatedly does admit that indeed, they are freaky.

Overall a pretty solid improvement though!

EverythingByElias responds:

Thanks, I thought it was better too!

[Stay aware or else you'll get punched in the face...]

Damn. I was going to dumpster this, then the last 5 seconds happened and I was pretty impressed! You should do more with this!

T0bbit responds:

Oof! I'm glad you didn't lol. Thanks

[Snuffy - Animation meme]

It's nice and colorful, but I really wish you'd used some kind of music. Some kind of free cover, or re-sync it to match something you can use for free on this site... Anything, really. It's a bit of a waste otherwise.

[The Response Video]

Yeah, about right.

Pretty cool visuals and style, would be cool with some more frames here and there. The blood being a different art style from the rest was a neat choice. Nice and snappy at least.

Maybe the dancing pig would have been more poignant if it was bright pink on a neon green grass field to contrast against everything else being so monochrome? Kind of goes with the look of a lot of those crappy attention-grabbing videos, and the brightly colored buttons on the phone app. Just a thought.

DivanityRose responds:

Thank you.

I don't add that much colors because I want my animations to be in a monochromatic style,but making the pig's video in bright colors could have worked.

[OLD VHS haunted?]

Hmmm. Pretty alright. Didn't overstay its welcome, punchline was decent-to-good. Maybe Make the day 1 scene a little snappier, maybe some visual gag in the day 2 scene like some flickering to the lights to make it more eerie?

Not much to say about the visuals, very stylized and functional. The way you used the space was fine, some of it might be a bit too "dead" at points but I can't really think of any better way to do it either. Just about the only thing I think could be improved is the hole in the wall to make it mesh with the background a bit more, since the wall already has cracks drawn on with shading and highlights.

It just ticks all the boxes, but also doesn't really impress if that makes sense? I can't say anything truly bad about it, but also nothing extremely positive. I liked it, but didn't love it.

Comicdud responds:

Thank you for the thoughtful review! I really do appreciate the breakdown!

[BOB THE MAN: Literally every modern Anti-Woke show]

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The drawings are nice and I kind of wanted to give it a better score for that, but since it's very reliant on the dialogue the harsh robotic voices and difficulty making out everything they were saying hurt a lot. Like actually painful to my ears to try to intently listen to what is being said and try to catch the gags, especially the voice used for Bob.

That could be a gag in and of itself that he's so annoying to listen to, but it wasn't really enjoyable in this context.

BluetheFoxyboi responds:

I knew I should provide captions for this but at the same time, it's intentional that Bob's voice is scratchy and inaudible since he's a old man himself.

[OOOHHH YIIIKES.]

Ah man, this is a tough one - mostly because it's so long, so it's very hard to comment on any one particular thing!

Adding the voices definitely helps a lot. The quality is a bit mixed, but it's loud and clear with no sound effects or music interrupting, and the delivery is mostly fine. Way better than using some text-to-speech stuff. The gag with Tofu's swearing being bleeped was funny, though the actual mooing sound started getting extremely grating. Clicking through it again, a good example is at about 1:47 where Tofu just retorts with an "uh huh" but the sound effect lasts for a good 5 seconds, doesn't seem to align well with such a short response and there's not much of a gag payoff anywhere, and then the very same thing occurs right after at abour 2:05. It really slows the pace down and after a while it's kind of painful to listen to as it's kind of a slow, "scraping" sound. You could maybe get a similar effect through a visual gag with some extra face graphics, like one where the top half of the eyes are covered to create a disinterested expression? The other characters have at least a couple frames showing various moods, even the news anchor.

At 9:37 Tofu just seems to moo for no reason, was a line missing?

The backgrounds are definitely improved, though you could maybe tweak the colors in some to be a bit muted compared to the characters, or give the characters somewhat thicker outlines to stand out more against the backgrounds. Maybe not use black outlines for the backgrounds too, but it's not a massive problem. The "human" characters could probably use a couple extra identifiers since they all have the same voice, like Doc having some prominent glasses or something, and Rufus could have a more pallid complexion. Either that or lay it on thick with your best Igor impression. It's probably easiest to lay out the script, and then do all the lines for one character at a time with whatever impersonation or accent you want to use.

Animation is hard and there's always something that can be tweaked and polished, but I think you're on the right track. As stupid as it sounds, I think the mooing might be better if you just do it yourself so you can match the length to the lines better? The sound quality might be better too so it hurts less to listen to for 15+ minutes.

EverythingByElias responds:

Thanks (you seem like a cool guy). And yeah, Tofu was supposed to say "Well, I guess we're here" at that time, but I think something screwed up in the editing software, or I just accidentally deleted the text. In general, I just wanted to make something longer & more of substance, with the addition of voice acting (It took 5 days to make, I had a good time with this one!) Tofu is general is meant to be a static character, his face is meant to never show any emotion (unlike the other characters), so the only way he conveys emotion is through the text (it just made him unique from the other guys). And you know what, I think I might just voice Tofu for another video lol. Thanks for the advice, dude! :)

[Alien Cartoon]

Very off-beat and not appealing to look at, but it surprised me so that definitely helped. It wasn't entirely random either, there was a certain flow to it, and the highlight for me was the line about having to call the county district. Appropriate voice work helped a lot too.

[Satan's Casino]

Really cool! Impressive variety, good timing, very elaborate and unusual.

ToadBurgerTV responds:

Thanks SHITBAGxDETON8R, that means a lot.