Fredman's Reviews

[Minecraft is for Everyone]

I was really looking forward to this animation.
I felt like this song was one of the funniest songs on the album, and it was really easy to visualize what they were conveying through the two characters. Unfortunately this animation depicts 3 characters (not including Notch) when clearly it's just a conversation between "A guy" and a "Creeper". This ruins the story. It looks like maybe you designed the third guy to look like Egoraptor which is nice fan-service, but not accurate. Aside from that, you also mixed up who is supposed to be singing the end part of the song, it is in fact the creeper who is supposed to be singing the end, it is when he's finally come to terms with being nice, so he is happy, but ends up not being able to control his explosion.
Furthermore, the creeper also looks only vaguely like a creeper, it would have been nice to see a re-designed creeper for your style, but this was too far from the original design. I want to say, honestly, that the animation is on par with other Starbomb videos I've seen. It was well done, and it was great to see some real frame-by-frame animation. Great work, but I am disappointed at the actual content.

P.S.

I actually feel like an ass for leaving this review, I used to make animations, too so I can only imagine how much work you put into this over the 2 months that you were making it, and I really see that.
What's even better, is that there are people like you who are willing to do fan services like this.
It is far more important, though, for me to be honest, and I hope you can appreciate the criticism. Even if you don't agree with me.

Freddy

obsu responds:

well SHIT

thank you for the review, its very much appreciated. trust me, you don't look like an ass. you gave your honest opinion, and that's great! i prefer people to focus on the negatives so that i can see what i've done wrong rather than be kiss-asses, it really helps me out a lot.
again, thank you so much! :)

[Dream star fight!]

Exactly what you were aiming for.

Someone mentioned they thought the music was the wrong choice. i definately disagree with that, this is exactly completely what i would expect from the style he used. to me it felt very retro in alot of ways, and the choice of music really pulled the whole feel together. think back to the out of control anime styles if you've ever seen them, and this is very similar. i give you an overall of 9 JUST because you nailed the style.

[SOAD - Cigaro]

This sucked pretty hard

With a good song, and you didn't even pick the best one, but with a good song, and one that has a lot of potential as far as a video or flash is concerned, you did a terrible job at portraying it. there was no point in probably 80% of the shit that was in that video. i think the only band member i saw in the whole thing was the damned bassist. the drummer wasn't even worthy of counting.

you should re-do this with more emphasis on the band mates and the actual song. the whole cock thing is cool, you could leave that in, but get rid of the phonse, get rid of batman, and get rid of all the nobodies that are singing in the damned song and replace them with bandmates. DO IT NOW!

jessejayjones responds:

I'M DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBLE!

[WTF teh messy]

it needs to be faster

walking is such a chore. yeah it's cool to be able to do the viewtiful joe thing. but you can hardly hurt enemies cuz u can't run after them.

[Thirst: A Survival Game]

This sucks

i gave it a 0 in interactivity because well...clicking "wander around" until the game is over doesn't really count as being interactive. picking up bags, and not gaining ability points rocks!

just so noone else wastes their time, you will come across many bags on your journey. i ruined the whole game for you :o

[Dead Weight CT]

I LOVE IT

ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY LOVED THIS MASTERPIECE!!!!

PS. see you as bbs

FourStar responds:

why thank you my good unbiased man :-D

[Truth In Lies]

I get the picture.

I think you've explained yourself enough on the vocals so I won't critique that, but I think the overall song itself was done just fine. Dynamics are always good. Can't wait to hear it with your singer.