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[Diablo 3: Error 37]

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Well, your line-work is clean, coloring's nice, animation is smooth. I also liked the background at the beginning part.

But the animation was just so incredibly stiff. One thing I think you need to learn, along with so many other animators out there, is that smooth alone does not equal good animation. There's also laws of motion and bouncing, squeezing and thrusting. FORCE behind movements that become initiated. Some people do this but just do it wrong, like put too much force behind a very small movement or vice versa, but you don't seem to do it it all. Of course these do not always need to be over-exaggerated if that's not the style you're going for, but you should have them nonetheless, considering that that is just how physics works. With this, especially at the last part, the guy who threw the chair and stuff... it just didn't look good, it was smooth, but it just didn't make sense, he sorta like slowly transitioned to certain positions, rotated and slowly moved his arms to throw the objects.

This is an issue I see often, and to the untrained eye it may look "good" simply because there's a lot of frames, but there was no style, it's just so basic. I mean anyone who spends a bit of time animating could pull off that sequence. Animators should have their own specific animation style.

What really killed it for me was just the length of the video itself (not really any longer than 10 seconds), and the joke was so stock, I mean you could've replaced this with any game and there'd be no difference, all online games have errors. Just random screaming and freaking out with that same overused abrupt ending every single person is doing now just doesn't make ME laugh, at least.

You make videos very, VERY fast... you need to spend more time on a single one. Quality over quantity. But... thanks to your constant awards, front-pages and high scores, maybe none of this criticism even matters. I mean why should it, right... you don't even have to try and it's almost for-sure that your video will get super popular.

TerminalMontage responds:

Thank you, I appreciate this criticism cause I want to improve, I've only really started animating 3 months ago so I know I have a lot to learn, and my animation is very stiff. I think I'm slowly improving, but I need to focus mainly and making my animations less stiff, and work on my time management. And the humor, all my videos are pretty low key in that area.

I don't want to let my "daily awards" and stuff bump up my ego, I don't think I'm great, but they are nice to get for the things I do. I would hate to be a person that gets awards for sub-par work, but believe he's amazing and doesn't have to improve.. Like the guy who makes the CTRL+ALT+DEL comics.

edit: And Twisted, I imagine you as the food critic in Rattatouille, I look forward to the day where I can hopefully please you :)

[No Another Pokemon Parody]

Well that was actually pretty impressive.

The biggest thing this had going for it was the animation, most of the time it was pretty nice. However, there was just something about it that was off-putting... literally every few seconds the quality of it just kept flipping back-and-forth from great to just gloppy and strange. Very inconsistent. But it's not TOO too much to complain about, considering most animation around here that I see is just tweeny and bad. Looking at something more like this is pretty refreshing. Colors were okay as well.

As for actual content it really didn't do too much for me. It was just another Pokemon thing. Battle scene kinda failed to impress me since it was really just one attack that made the screen flash, which is extremely common in most battle scenes these days. Voicing was okay in some areas but sorta sub-par in others, it really wasn't anything special.

But it was a good effort and it does look like it took a long time so I'll give you a 4. Just work on consistency in the animation is all.

AngelXMIkey responds:

Yeah most of this was frmae by frame animation. Thanks for your Cnc it was really good and I will take what you said and apply it to my next animation ;D

[Lazy Writing 6]

I didn't find it super funny most of the time but I liked the animation, the characters moved around a lot and it wasn't boring to look at. One issue though is that I think the voices need some variety, I know you're voicing all of them pretty much but you might wanna work on your range a bit. :P Other than that though it wasn't bad.

[CJ Flies A Plane]

Loved the line-work, coloring, and smooth animation, awesome job, but it was so short!! Just make a video at this quality but longer and you have a home-run.

[Bongo Time Travel]

I really enjoyed this.

Wow... you... actually have your OWN style of animation?? It's not just another attempted-rip-off of another person? WOOOAH!!!

But seriously I loved the animation. Line-work wasn't the best but the animation was fluent and worked-out. Colors were nice. It was funny, a huge variety of characters. Nice voice-acting as well, excellent work.

coughing-dog responds:

Thanks! It was a bit rushed so the linework was fairly rough.

[Shadow of the Animators]

Hmmmmmm well, at first I thought it was pretty impressive-looking, but it got really repetitive and drawn-out after a while... your voice-acting was good, but the character's expressions and motions didn't seem to match it too well, it was very minimal and limited. Overall I sorta liked the animation a but but it was just so slow, I really wanted something to happen. Also that part with the horse at the beginning-ish wasn't animated very well, I dunno, it just seemed so off and choppy. BUT you're better than most animators out there, so it's still okay.

TerminalMontage responds:

Thanks, yeah, I did get a bit lazy with the main character's expressions, really just focused on his lip movements, and I normally make stuff that's a minute or less, but I did this to replicate the real Shadow of the Colossus intro.

And that horse! I actually animated the whole thing frame by frame at first, but with the guy sitting on it, it seemed, off. He was very smooth and neatly animated while the horse was a little shaky like Ed, Edd, and Eddy, so I made each body part it's own symbol and made it follow the first animation to keep the style consistent. But thank you c:

[Eternal Saturday]

Woooooah.

Alright that was REALLY well-done. First off, the style was pretty simple and it semi-reminded me of Adventure Time. The colors were very fluorescent and nice to look at. I loved the animation, it smooth and fun to watch. At a lot of parts I just found myself laughing.

I loved the way all the creatures and characters were designed, it was all just so strange and hilarious to me. Plus that Bill Cosby part at the end was just the greatest thing I've seen in forever. Overall I loved it, very interesting style and simple fun to watch. FUN TO WATCH = the whole point of watching a cartoon in the first place.

[Game Facts: Gears of War]

I laughed-out-loud, pretty rare to see a video do that to me. Animation was very tweeny and not the best, but the drawings were nice and the jokes were actually funny. Good job!

[Devastis]

Though a bit sloppy, very nice animation, fun to watch, awesome backgrounds. Good work! Very rare you see stuff like this on this site anymore.

['Cosmic Love' Storyboard Animation]

I really loved the drawings a lot, it all looked like painting, very natural, plus I love the song a ton. Story was cute, overall it's pretty beautiful.

But since this is more like a slideshow of pictures or an animatic and not like a finished cartoon, I sadly cannot really give it a high rating. It would be perfect for some place like deviantART though. I would really love this a lot if it was fully animated.

Lotsa talent anyway, though, nice job.