Score: 8

"Bone-chilling and toe-tapping!"

submission: You Cried Me

date: November 10, 2009

Awesome character designs and sweet frame by frame! Gotta love it. I totally dug the whole general style too. It fit the song perfectly; fast paced and frantic. Well done man! The shot of the car driving with the moon changing color in the background went on a little longer than I would've liked, but other than that, good shit! I'm always impressed when people can tackle animating a whole song without a bunch of "time-filler" shots. Good stuff.

Score: 8

"Spectacular aesthetics!!!"

submission: CW: Down to earth Pt1

date: November 2, 2009

First off, I have to tell you that your superb animation, beautiful backgrounds, and the overall care, craftsmanship and detail that went into the general art style of this project is simply astounding. Literally, I can't comprehend how you did this, much less in less than two months with illness, computer problems and bad luck all fighting against you. This completely raises my expectations for what level of brilliance is possible for one animator/artist to archive. The bar has been raised so high, it's almost touching the moon. Your skill is, in a word, unbelievable.

But I must admit, that's about where my undying love for this short ended. I was excited when I saw the first couple of shots and marveled at how beautiful and engaging they were. I willed myself to be captured by the story, but by about three and a half minutes into it, I just didn't care. I want to be brutally honest with you because I feel so highly about the visual aspect of your work here, that I feel you deserve to know what I felt about the rest of it. The characters seemed about as cliche as an anime-space adventure can get, and the dialogue seemed like it was poorly translated from Japanese (I'm guessing that the script was written in English, but I may be totally wrong here). The overall plot though seemed vaguely interesting, albeit nothing new or captivating. For the most part, all I got out of this was absolutely BRILLIANT, GORGEOUS, MIND-BOGGLING animation presenting a story that I just couldn't care less about.

I will say however, that storytelling and the appreciation that there of is something COMPLETELY subjective and relies on the taste of the viewer. What I'm saying is that this story was totally not my taste, but I am also totally wrong. As a quasi-anime, action filled space oddesy you did a brilliant job. And tons upon tons of people will become enthralled by this story (for good reason!). So phooey on me. And just to make it clear, your storyTELLING was fantastic. Pacing, framing, mood and direction was great. It's that actual story and dialogue that had me cringing.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know how I felt, because I was so impressed by your animation and storytelling skill. I'd just like to see something a bit more fresh and original (what do those words even mean though???) in the writing department. I totally have great respect for you, your drive and your work. So overall, well done. VERY well done. Take care man!

Score: 8

"Fucking perfect."

submission: Professor Fucking Layton

date: September 15, 2009

Animation wise, not too much going on, but it totally suits the storytelling. The visuals themselves were awesome though! I love the colors you used. The writing was perfect too. Your timing is impeccable. ;) I love PL, and this actually made me want to go buy The Diabolical Box. Well done!

Score: 10

"... the Fuck???"

submission: Pico 09

date: April 30, 2009

This isn't nameless.

I loveeeedd it. ;}

Score: 8

"Great work."

submission: Promenade

date: March 30, 2009

This was a really cool experiment! I like the idea and your execution worked nicely. You're really skilled at rendering too! Was this for a class assignment or anything, or just for fun? Either way, good stuff.

Score: 7

"Good stuff."

submission: Sketched - Super Bored

date: November 20, 2008

Loved the dialouge in this one! Felt very natural. Almost Home Movies-ish. Did you guys write out a whole script beforehand, or was a lot of it imporved? Anyway, enjoyed it. Keep 'em coming!

Score: 9

"You beat me to it, dammit!"

submission: Scott Pilgrim: Flash Ad

date: August 8, 2008

Very. Very. VERY, Well done. I'm a HUGE Scott Pilgrim nerd, and this animation did a fantastic job of capturing the vibe and feel of the series. I like how you didn't focus on one scene or character from a certain book, but encompassed the whole story. As a fan of SP, this left me feeling the "Infinite Gladness" (stupid pun).

On another note, you totally beat me to the punch with this one. It's crossed my mind more than once of making some kind of tribute/SP related animation. I think BLO'malley's art style totally lends itself to being animated, and I seriously thought about taking a crack at it for a while. On one hand, I feel like watching this inspired me to actually do it, but on the other, I'd kind of feel like a copy-cat doing one right after you :/ (plus, I'm trying to stray away from parodies for a while...).

Anyway, I'm kind of rambling now, but I heard Bryan talk during a panel at APE last year, and someone in the audience asked him about the movie, and if he'd considered doing it animated. He said <paraphrasing> he didn't think Scott Pilgrim would lend itself well to animation </paraphrasing>, but you totally proved him wrong.

Once again, well done and great job! It'd be great to see you do more with this.

Post.Script. I found this by reading BLO'M's blog, btw. Kudos for getting the author's praise!

Score: 8

"Drove up in my BONE CAMARO!"

submission: BEEP BEEP

date: July 13, 2008

Fuck yeah! The Unicorns are one of my faves! I got really excited when I heard those first quavering notes. I really dug the stye of this; the soft colors and simple design. Suits the music very well. I agree with BEBE that it kind of lacked purpose, and the length left me wanting SO MUCH MORE! Wish you would have done the whole song. But for what it was, I really enjoyed it. Extra points in my book just for using such an awesome song! You have fine taste friend. Keep it up!

P.S. People seem to like the song. You should say in your description who it's by. Just a thought...

Score: 10

"Ohmanohman! Outa SIGHT!"

submission: Collin & The Wishing Tree

date: July 1, 2008

This was so brilliant! I loved absolutley everything about it! The animation was well done (all with a MOUSE!?!), the art style was great and original, the voice acting was well delivered, the comedy was superb, and the overall quality, including sound and visuals, was notched to the top! I'm definatley going to be watching for more from you in the future! Well done my friend. Well done.

P.S. I actually laughed out loud at the end. And not just a little giggle. I full-on guffaed! I don't normally do that when watching flash cartoons.

Score: 9

"DANG!"

submission: EMIL

date: June 27, 2008

This is some fast pace, ninja busting ACTION! Well done man!