Score: 8

"What in the bloody hell??..."

submission: House of Squid

date: November 5, 2006

Jesus on a pickle sandwich, that was... odd.

I was thoroughly confused throughout the whole thing. Perhaps because I don't know any of your characters - there was no introduction for anything, you just kinda jumped right into it. While the spontaneity made it funny, I do get the sense that this was made mainly for those who already know all about your characters - those who read your comic.

It might be nicer next time if you introduced your characters in some fashion, because a lot of your audience here on Newgrounds is going to be first-time viewers.

Nevertheless, this was definitely funny. And I'm not even into S&M, unless you're talking about the 6-foot anthropomorphic dog and hyperkinetic rabbity thing.

Score: 8

"you have a promising talent"

submission: Pandora's Book

date: October 21, 2006

The character animation here is quite good - you did an admirable job showing many of the little movements and gestures that are so hard to animate. It's not the best I've ever seen of course, but it was good - keep having an attentive attitude to the world and I'm sure you'll get better. You skipped showing details like toes, which would've been nice of course, but it does take more time. I really liked how you got a sense of the characters' personalities.

One thing to definitely work on is your animation of nature. It seems like it was a bit of an afterthought here, but I think it would be a good idea next time to pay attention to how the grass REALLY moves in the wind. The here was simply not very good (just having sections of grass statically rock back and forth). The best animated grass I've ever seen in animation (gave me goosebumps) was in the film "The Humpbacked Horse" from 1947 (there's a page for it on wikipedia). Another good example to use for reference would the banner at the forums of the website "goober.nu" (the "Nim's Journey" logo).

That's about it. Good work, overall.

Score: 9

"Zekey, you're a genius!"

submission: Squaresville

date: September 17, 2006

This film felt like I was trapped in some completely incomprehensible yet hilarious dream.

I have no idea how you do it! There were still a few sections which dragged a little, but you're getting better at keeping these to a minimum. The majority of the film was bewildering, interesting and very funny. There was one bit that was downright creepy, too, near the end.

Keep doing this stuff - I love it. You're one of the few people who make films that are this uncoventional. Have you ever thought about making a feature-length film in this style? I'd be willing to pay for it. :)

Score: 8

"Really nice."

submission: Life Factory

date: September 12, 2006

I saw this from your review to Zekey's "-Created-" (I guess you were hoping for that ;)... this is a very nice film, better than I expected. I can't really recommend anything as far as ideas and structure go, since that was quite well done. Maybe my only suggestion for improvement would be to make the visuals more striking - you had that factory animation in the background all the time that added a lot of atmosphere to the proceedings, but I think you could've gone further than that. There's a certain elegance in the simplicity, of course, but I do think that you could try working on making your visuals more striking while at the same time making sure that things don't get too crowded.

Score: 9

"Why do I love this?"

submission: -Created-

date: September 12, 2006

It's hard to put a finger on it... on the surface this seems to be one of the most serious Zekey flashes, but behind the soundtrack of Mozart's Requiem (I still think that should've been mentioned - it may have been the "Lacrimosa", but that's just one part of the Requiem) there's a lot of joy, humour and a love of drawing that comes forth. I love the Zekey style, and my only trepidation about viewing your films is that they can often be rushed. Thankfully that's not the case here - when you put your mind to it you can create something really wonderfull.

There's not really any plot to speak of, nor does there need to be. It works quite well without one (perhaps the music holds it together). Definitely deserving of a daily first.

Score: 7

"heehee..."

submission: 3-2-1 Relaunch!

date: September 1, 2006

"I'm a professional! You should flock to the things I create!"

This was quite funny overall... though I didn't watch the first two parts (I tried to watch the 1st, but it just wasn't very interesting).

Sure, it's in essence just an add for a site relaunch... but it's a well-made one, and it has drawings that have improved a lot sinced you started out and now look pretty nice.

Score: 8

"Something different :)"

submission: Kittaays animation

date: August 30, 2006

First of all, I'd just like to point out that the long and rambling (my how they ramble!) author's comments were unneeded - your film speaks for itself very well and needs no explanation. I love the way that you animated all of the cats and that style that you used. Their emotions and antics were perfectly captured and made this film very fun to watch.

An excellent film. I hope that you'll stay at Newgrounds and submit more delightful films like this one. However... please stay to mostly dialoque-less films. And I mean that in the nicest possible way - you're very good at dialogue-less. I'd kinda feel a bit scared to watch a film that you wrote the script for (seriously, I don't mean to offend... take it as honest criticism if you can - reading your author's comments before seeing the film was a bit frightening, because I was afraid - needlessly, as it turned out - that the film would be like that too; rambling and never getting to the point, when in fact it was quite the opposite).

Score: 8

"Better than a first glance would suggest."

submission: The Spider and the Fly

date: August 29, 2006

Sure... the story seems familiar at first. But stick with it and you'll discover a really good animation that's rather funny too (in a kind of sick way).

It's refreshing to see that you didn't fall into the trap of taking yourself too seriously - the humour at the end was just what was needed to make it stand out. It is unfortunate that in real life everything after that "transformation scene" only happens in your head, though (yeah... don't mess with me guys because I'll get really angry and get you back... somehow... in my imagination). :|

Score: 8

"Great!"

submission: Snakes on a Plane-TRAILER

date: August 21, 2006

This is one of the better SoaP parodies that I've seen, and it made me laugh my ass off. The animation could've been better, but it did its job admirably. The most important thing was that the voices and the "script" were bang-on target. Excellent trailer! I really enjoyed this one.

Score: 9

"Nice!"

submission: Upstairs

date: June 27, 2006

This was very well done. Excellent graphics!

The only thing is, I wish that we were given more time to look at the coloured landscapes. There's no time to really look at them, because as soon as you finish colouring one you immeditely move on to another.