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[ORCHID PORN - Rehearsal at Hellven High]

== ORCHID PORN?? ==
Overall Score: 8

Animation's great, you're using a lot of complicated angles, you used some kickass music and the twist at the end got me, but
What Were You Thinking When Coming Up With That Title?

French Translation:
L’animation est géniale, vous utilisez beaucoup d’angles compliqués, vous avez utilisé de la musique kickass et le twist à la fin m’a attiré, mais
À quoi pensiez-vous en proposant ce titre ?

Graphics: 10 | Sound: 10 | Entertainment: 9 | Style: 10 | Hindsight: 5 | Humor: 10

[An Kid 2]

== Jank ==

Extremely stiff, clunky, low-effort and basic looking (not in a good way). Also no sound until 12 seconds in.

Graphics: 0 | Style: 0 | Sound: 1 | Entertainment: 0
Overall Score: 0

[eggs!!!]

== This is cringe! ==

UPDATE: Yes this is a remake, but it's still cringe.

It almost looks like you remade an older animation, and also switched software, but even then there's minimal improvement

BAD QUALITIES / THINGS TO FIX
- The same egg on eye then on cube animation is repeated several times for a minute
- That weird laser thing she shoots out with her hands looks like crap.
- Outlines are very messy. I can excuse the right eye over her hair as a stylistic choice, but there are spots where outlines bleed through other outlines. In addition the cube also has rough corners.
- No background
- Bland + forgettable character design
- Motions are very stiff and non-expressive
- Typos, notably 'perpouse' instead of 'purpose'

GOOD QUALITIES
+ Intro was pretty nice, but could use thinner or no outlines and further refinements.

Graphics: 3 | Style: 2 | Cringe: 10 | Improvement: 4 | Sound: 5 | Entertainment: 2
Overall Score: 4

RosieUV responds:

This was a remake of an animation I made back when I was 12 so I was trying to replicate original in my current style

[Madness Combat 9.5 pt2]

This is not Sparta!

GOOD POINTS
- We finally got to see how Hank escapes Purgatory. Well, in Madness 9, we got to see Hank's corpse get magnified, which ended up resurrecting him.
- We got to see a precursor to Madness 11's Tricky
- A variation of Madness 6's Hank got to return, while 7's Hank still shows up later to attack the real Hank just before the magnification. A good amount of Madness fans would say this version of Hank is the strongest and/or the best version of Hank prior to getting magnified.
- Animation is just as good as part 1, aka the reason this took years to come out. It's already a known fact that Krinkels doesn't use tweens to create movements, even though they could theoretically be used with the same result.
- Sounds are just as gory and music is just as kickass as the rest, thanks to longtime composer Cheshyre and sound effects by Cturix, who's work was first used in Madness 11.

(sort of) THE ONLY BAD POINT
- Both parts take place during (and possibly before) Madness 9. I don't know why you did the whole parts thing. The last episode could've been called Madness 8.5 and this one 9.5.

OTHER POINTS:
- Some assets from part 1 were done by Cethic and they would've contributed to this part as well, but some drama forced them off the team and all their stuff had to be replaced (which I won't get into)

- Obviously everyone is excited for another new Madness episode after almost 2 years of not getting one, but keep this in mind. No matter how big or popular a series or creator is, the fact you're getting another 'fantastical masterpiece of work' from them should NOT be a main point when pointing out how good or bad a certain entry may be and this should not be the main focus of your review if you are writing one and is not a defining factor on what makes a submission good or bad. In addition, 'Keep up the good work', 'LET'S GOOOO!!' and 'Perfect!' are all examples of super generic reviews here, so don't say that.
If you don't have anything good to say, (the definition of 'good' in this context is coming up with a review that qualifies as a review and can actually stand out against the generic BS) don't say anything at all!

Graphics: 10 | Style: 10 | Violence: 10 | Sound: 10 | Entertainment: 10 | Writing: 9
Overall Score: 10

[EOFS - To Use Glasses is a Patience Sign (Unie cover)]

I wouldn't call it a cover

That term more so applies to music than animation. This is actually a 'remake' of Unie's video, with new 'animation', a masculine sounding voice dub, and English subtitles, but otherwise follows the same structure, except this is a little bit shorter.

There's minimal animation and only character torsos are drawn. It's obvious that Unie did it better. This feels more stiff and obviously rushed. Watch that version instead.
There's also no lip-syncing, but Unie's doesn't have that either.

One thing this version has that Unie's doesn't is an image of a girl with a hook shaking up and down with the caption 'Amputee Fuck'

In addition, I feel using 'Enchanted Ones' in the title rather than the 'EOFS' acronym' is a whole lot more descriptive for someone who hasn't clicked on the video yet, who would've otherwise had even less of an idea on what they're getting into.

Graphics: 5 | Style: 6 | Sound: 7 | Accuracy: 8 | Time Spent on Animation: 3

Overall Score: 6

TheMiamiDeSantos responds:

Thanks for the review! I'm calling it cover because I love music (specially metal music), this one i did like when Gut covered Blasphemy - Atomic Nuclear Desolation. It's a little shorter because I didn't make the part where she says things like "sub to my channel, my instagram and lalalalalalalala took some time to release new animation because of lalalalalalalalala", and yes it was rushed, because i did speedrun it (there is at least 2 errors on the animation). Also, my dub on this one was sick, i sounded like Alice Cooper

[Pokemon: World of Chaos 14]

A week already?

I'm not going to comment on the story + writing of this episode. That's not within my expertise. The story, writing, and voices are things I feel don't need any changes or improvement. The plot here is that a Pokemon has poisoned the main water supply and it's up to Teejay to resolve the issue

However, most of the technical issues that I pointed out in the previous episode, notably the blurry backgrounds (this wasn't an issue in older versions that had SWF versions.), inconsistencies with assets from multiple Pokémon generations, and battles that blend Gen 7-8 with the Gen 4-ish style used (they're very slow-paced and also try to imitate the original games way too hard, which can compromise the viewer's experience). However there's only two padded-for-time battles as opposed to three in the previous episode.

Being released so close to episode 13, I'm guessing this was already in production before I wrote my review, but if you're using sprites, especially if you're going for the Gen 4 style, stick to sprites.

In addition, maybe you should consider exporting to 1080p, but please do fix the blurring issue. If you're still using Flash / Animate, there may be some settings you can toggle.

Graphics: 3 | Style: 5 | Sound: 9 | Writing: 9
Overall Score: 6

teejay-number13 responds:

I'll go over the stuff this time. About the backgrounds, I do agree sometimes they're blurry. This is sometimes my fault, but there are other reason too. Since I use ripped assets I find online, sometimes I'm at the mercy of whatever quality I can find, so as long as its not too horrible, I'm okay with it. Sometimes the backgrounds cause lag with the video conversion, so I reduce their quality to fix that. (I'm working on learning better ways around that.)
About the battles, they're not "padded for time". In fact, I noticed the battles in older eps dragged on so I added jump cuts in the newer eps during the battle to quicken their pace. I can't cut them out completely, that wouldn't make any sense. Not too mention, they are fun for me to make.
About blending the different gen styles, thats just a small price to pay to get access to using more assets. For example, if I only used gen 5 animations, I would lose hundreds of possible pokemon I could use.
Anyway, I have adopted a sort of "assembly line" method of making the episodes now. This is too keep me from getting bogged down and losing my motivation. Not to mention the production has run over 10 years now, and I'm ready to finish it. So I think I will keep this style up for the rest of the series, even if quality takes a slight hit.

[Elmo & Kermit Start a Podcast]

No animation.

It's a pretty entertaining podcast, or rather it's interesting to see them talk about US presidents' middle names, reusing the characters' iconic quotes in the different context.
Also the 'I'm 42' is pretty much historically accurate. The Elmo muppet was introduced to Sesame Street in 1980, but wasn't fleshed out as much until 1984 and didn't gain popularity until the 90s. This video was released in 2022, so you do the math.

However, actual puppets were used with barely any animation, with one being the letter F and the letter U at the very end.

Graphics: 2 | Style: 5 | Sound: 9 | Writing: 9 | Entertainment: 6 | Humor: 8
Overall Score: 5

[Loop animation, Cheemy. Support my art on patreon.]

There's three titles. You know there's a description. When you submit an animation, there's a "Short Description" and "Author Comments". "Author Comments" is your description, where you can put text (which includes bold and italics), images, and of course links, where you could link your Patreon and also the source for the music you used.

As for the loop, it's a bit choppy, but otherwise it's alright. It uses frame by frame, but the same loop is sped up to do running. Doing a 1 second loop is a whole lot quicker than doing even a 30 second animated short with writing, voice acting, etc, of the same quality. And to save even more time, there's very minimal shading and a patterned background.

Also a bit of irony, hypocrisy, or whatever people want to interpret this as. This animation uses the Cheemy / Bonk / Go to Horny Jail meme, yet you also post NSFW stuff.