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[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! :)

[Satan's Casino]

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

ToadBurgerTV responds:

Thanks SHITBAGxDETON8R, that means a lot.

[Space Bams]

Honestly massively underrated.

BigCronch responds:

cheers man!

[What's the Buttons?]

Oh my god, "co-brodamol." Fucking hell, man. I thought it was alright up until that point, but that one word made it worthwhile watching it to the end.

BigCronch responds:

hahaha thank you, a lot of people seem to like it so I'm glad I used that over any other 'bro' variants I had in mind

[Evening Flight]

All style, no substance... and that's ok. It does a pretty good job building up a hype with the music and none of the scenes drag on for too long There's some areas of the drawings that could be nitpicked sure, but you won me over with the shadows moving across the character's face as the aircraft was tilting in the sky.

PanzSan responds:

Haha that's fair. Burnout hits hard during finals seasons so sometimes you just wanna draw a plane doing plane stuff :p
Thanks for the critique!

[Into the Zuckerverse]

Some of the voice lines could have been a little clearer, but I appreciated the guy getting eaten/absorbed in the background there.

LudeConcepts responds:

Zucks always playing these human jokes on other humanoids 😆

[modern art]

Some pretty decent preliminary work, nice and to the point with the animation clearly being competently done. Just a bit of fleshing out with a few more frames and color to finish it and I'd gladly rate it higher.

MrHappyGoLucky responds:

I will keep it in mind for my next project. I was thinking about fram economy when making the animation (like what is the least amount of frames for maximum effect.) But I can see that it makes some of the motions look choppy. Anyway thanks for the feedback.

[Oh Yikes.]

You know, back in the day, it was only a few hours to pass judgement.

The premise is okay, but there's not that much animation and while the atmosphere changes to show the passage of time, the backgrounds are a bit too basic for something that's static and takes up an awful lot of screen time. The character is very simple at first, but showing the fatigue and wear from simply sitting at the computer is a nice touch.

I feel like 2 minutes might be a bit long to get to the punchline, especially since you're just reading the joke. It's kind of like a slideshow which is a bit of a waste of the format, some voice lines with funny delivery emphasizing the increasing debilitation of DoneByDon would really help, maybe something like those game show countdown tunes on the screens declaring that time has passed to play on the contrast between the black-and-white screens with serious, factual statements with some silly tune, you know?

EverythingByElias responds:

Y'know, you actually have valid points. I think this is what the internet is missing these days (that being constructive criticsm). I'm gonna keep the "slideshow" format and the simple designs (purely because I just think that both of those things suit my style of humor & writing), although I will add voice lines in my next video, maybe some fun music if there are transition screens like you said, to compensate for the simple visuals & motion and overall production value. Thanks a lot for your response! :)