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Score: 10
Blockhead: Episode 7

"Best episode so far"

date: June 2, 2006

The Blockhead series has to be one of the greatest humorous movies on Ng, if not the best, and this one probably is the best one among them. I enjoyed watching this movie very much, and I even laughed on the first 6 times I saw it (the joke gets old after that). I can compliment you a lot about this movie (and I mean a lot) and throw some ideas (and I mean some) and comments... And this is what I will do, so listen up. Most of the comments I will say are little problems that bothered me a bit, not something serious.

The graphics were super, so let me compliment you for the great job you did on with drawing and animating. How did you do the houses in the into at the beginning? It looks great. Anyway, the job you did on the charecters was fantastic, but I don't think you animated them as fabulously as you have drawn them. Firstly, most of the people in the courtroom neither moved nor blinked, it made them look like background, while they were actual background charecters (which is some of both I assume). Secondly, the fat, grey haired guy never moves his arms, while moving his arms could help emphasizing his anger. Plus it could add humour when done correctly. Thirdly, the atterny at the beginning's face didn't look matching to the situation most of the time. Fourthly, when Blockhead says llllovely, his dancing doesn't completely match what he says.
The background was very good, though, nothing to say there (exept for no motion at the clock, but it is not critical). In general, the graphics were totally awesome, just work a bit harder on making the charecters look more alive. Also, the writings at the beginning of the movie disapears pretty quickly before I could read it. BTW, I love this "the Swain" intro, as simple as it is.

The style was very good, I just love your directing, it couldn't be more humorously great and matching to the movie. The intro of every blockhead episode, the one with the houses and the great music, adds a lot to the style. I just have nothing bad to say about this perfect directing of the movie, it was genious.

The sound was also magnificent, the music in the intro matches the movie and it's style perfectly. So as the music you put in the middle of the movie matches this part. However, I must praise you for the extraordinary and stupendous (I am running out of words here) voice acting, which matched the charecters, the style, the humorous atmosphere, the graphics, and blah perfectly. AWESOME!

About the script, I only can say that it is genious, I can't really explain it, neither can i point on the thing that makes it so funny, but it is so. I simpley can't say anything more on the script, since it was too perfect to be talked about. The ending where blockhead explain why he didn't say it sooner sucked a bit, though.

Now, for some advices i can give you in order to make this movie generally better. Firstly, add a loading bar at the beginning of the movie so that we can see what is the movie loading progress. Secondly, add this board at the top where we can stop\play the movie, because it is getting annoying when I have to stop with a left click. Maybe add also a quality option to it. Thridly, add subtitles please :-D.

Anyway, this is a super duper irregularly funny movie, and I enjoyed watching it a lot, just fix some of the things I told you to, and it will be perfect. Great job!
>Lidov<

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Score: 7
She's Gone..

"Nice one"

submission: She's Gone..
date: May 13, 2006

It was a nice music video, I have enjoyed watching the movie, but I have enjoyed listening to the music more, a very good pick. Of course that whenever I think of this song, I think of the superb collab that was made for it, but this one was fine also. However, there were some things that really bothered me about this movie and I think that you need to change them.

Well, the graphics in this movie weren't very good, a lot of improvement is needed in this aspect. The charecter doesn't match the serious themed song, maybe something which looks more real could do the job. At the beginning, the moon doesn't look very real, just like a huge circle, try to look at moon pictures and make it better. The text at the beginning and at the end moves a lot from place to place, use the align to mkake it steady. The walking of the main charecter is very strange, plus he doesn't move as fast as he should move with this kind of walking. The charecter is almost in the size of the houses and the doors are really small. The lines of the buildings are bent and there is no space at all between one building to an other. Not to mention the main charecter's house, which looks aweful, and I believe you know why. Inside the house, the lines are way too stright, the pillow looks like a rectangle (which they are). If the charecter's beloved one has hair, also he can have hair, he doesn't have to be bold because he is male. Also, the grass when he walks too kill himself looks horrible. The lines are too long. He is, once again, in this scene, larger than the trees, which can't be right. At the stars scene, there is still a little line of the last scene. Also, the colours of the cliff are too bright and it doesn't look like a cliff.

The style of the movie was pretty fine, not a lot to say at that matter. The style is what makes a music video, in this case it seemed liked the directing was very nice. Of course that the graphics bothered me a lot, and some of it also intorrupted the style. ANyway, there are a few stupupid scenes in my opinion. Firstly, the scene at the end when he wants to jump but she tells him no because she loves him and then they both fade out. What does that suppose to mean? Fading out is usually when a charecter dies or something. Also, the scene seems kind of silly. Secondly, the texts at the end are also silly and they ruin the serious theme of the music video.

The sound was awesome, gotta love the Oasis, or something. Anyway, it looks like the movie only deals with the meaning of the song rather than the actual music. This is one of the things that bothered the style. You need to put something there thatconnects the sound to the animation. Besides that, it was fine. Awesome song.

Just one note that bothered me a bit, the reply button leads to the play button. I don't want to click twice to see the movie again...

Anyway, this is a pretty nice music video, I have enjoyed watching it and listening to its music. However, you need to improve some things in order to make it better. Improve a lot of things about the graphics and also the connection between the sound and the animation. Besides that, the animation was cool, you got an extra point for the awesome song, good job.
>Lidov<

Author's Response:

Thanks for the review. A bloody long review if I do say so myself.

I agree with quite alot of things that you have said. Let me just start by saying this was my first movie and it was actually going to be an experiment to see if I could actually use flash.
Anyway, lets start off with the graphics. Indeed, they were crappy. The guy was bigger than the doors in the buildings and the guys house. I have no idea what I was thinking. Everything you said about the graphics, I agree with. The pillow was a rectangle. The guy should of had hair.
Well, I'm glad you liked the style. Thats probably the main espect of this movie. When they were fading out, I guess I wanted the view to come up with their own ending to what happened to them. And all that writing! Why the hell did I do all that. I guess I just ran out of ideas.
You loved the sound, eh? Indeed, Oasis are cool. I wanted to follow the lyrics of the song, but I couldn't really. So I made my own story.
And with the replay button. I only copied and pasted the actionscript for replay. I had no idea what it meant.

Overall, I'm glad you liked it. Even though the graphics were not to your liking..or mine.

Oasis rock!

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Score: 7
The Simpsons Soundboard

"Pretty nice"

date: May 12, 2006

This is a pretty nice collection of sounds (and other things) you have there, it was nice for me to hear all of thos sounds. You have also chosen very good and funny sentances, which also makes the soundboard better. However, there are somethings you need to fix in order to make this soundboard better. A lot of technical problems which, I think, can be fixed easily.

Technical problems:
1. When you click on the first sounds in Homer's, Burney's and Professor Frink's page, the sound doesn't sound like them at all, it is much lower than it should be.
2. When you click on a sound and then "back to charecter selection", the sound continues to play.
3. In the extras, when you click on the pictures and then on "back to extras menu" it brings you to the extra sound selection, rather than the extras menu and the help page.
4. I am not sure if it is a technical problem, but there is no soundtreck (background music) in the extras menu.
5. You can't get out of the extras menu to the main menu without clicking on one of the extra options and from there to the main menu.
6+. There might be more, so check it, but I didn't find more.

The graphics were pretty good, most of the soundboards are not as elegent as this sound board. I like the way that in every charecter's page there is his picture and his name. However, it is a "The simpsons" soundboard, so what about making a "The Simpsons" font rather than a regular font in different colours? Also, the buttons for the sound are not very buttony (which means looks like a button), also the "back to main menu" kinds of buttons. Try to put some graphics and colouring into them, that way they look boring. Also, I believe you know how to use the up, over, down and hit, so use it. (in case you don't know, you can make a graphical shape a button by clicking it and pressing on F8 then chosing the button option. Then you could double click the new symbol and there are 4 frames-up, over, done and hit. Up is the how the button looks like when it is not pressed or being hold with the mouse over. Over is how the button looks like when you hold the mouse over the button. Down is how the button looks when you click it and Hit is the space of the button, which means where you can press on it). So use it, the linking text annoys me. Also, what about making a background which matches the Simpsons, rather than just being elegent? I think that the 'shape' snimation you do with the text when you open something is nice, but it is too slow, try to make it faster so that people could read it without waiting for it. Also, the radar produtions intro is too long, try to make the red thingy move faster.

The style, as I have also implied before, was pretty good. There is not much of a style, of course, since it is just a soundboard and there is not much of a place for directing, but the whole board seemed elegent. However, as I said before, it barely had any connection to The Simpsons.

The sound was good, however, I didn't like the background sound of the main menu, it was pretty annoying and didn't match the Simpsons at all. What about making the background sound "The Sismpsons" theme? It would be superb. Also, make a button which allows you to stop the background sound when you are at a menu. The sounds of the soundboard itself where pretty strange too, most of them were differ by their tons, which was pretty weird to hear. Besides that the sound was nice, nice collection of sounds.

The whole board was also pretty interactive, many buttons leading you to many places. However, as I have written in the technical problems, you have a lot of problems. Fix them, and it will be good.

Anyway, this is a very good soundboard, very nice collection of sounds. All you have to do is to fix the technical problems, make the graphics more Simpsonish and graphicize the buttons, and it will be a lot better. Very nice one, good job.
>Lidov<

Author's Response:

Wow. Thnakd for the huge review! Your review offrered tons of good things to help with my future movies/games. Thanks a lot!

On the note of technical problems: after I submitted it I realized that (most) of these technical problems were there. I don't know why some of the voices were so robotic; it happened to me again when I tried to make a flash using sounds saved through MSN Messenger. It's odd. When I was making it, I discovered the robotic voice for Professor Frink's, "Good Morning" quote, but I thought that that was how his voice was supposed to sound for that particular line... oh well.

Yeah, I probably should have made more 'Simpsons-like' background music in the background. Oh, and I don't why (I might have just forgotten) to put a 'stop sounds' action on the frams with the sounds. I only put one in Barney's. That was a mistake, sorry about that!

Anyway, thanks for the review!

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