blackideas

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Location: Vancouver - Quebec
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What else to do when you come back from your work with a particle accelerator in night... Watch flashes...

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Score: 3
:: Squirrel Songs IV ::

"It's like eating at McDonalds"

date: June 11, 2007

Watching Foamy's cartoon today is like eating at McDonalds... You already know how it will taste before putting it iun your mouth... but some persons eat there everyday...

Foamy is great, but he is always the same squirel. Period! McDonalds was a creative restaurant chain back in the days, but today they represent mass junk food because they sticked to their menu, however they still serve millions persons everyday... They don't change in order to keep the fidels consumers.

However, I have a problem with the irony of Foamy telling everybody to free their mind while becomming a so non-creative cartoon... But that is just a squirel, just like the one i ran on with my car this morning...

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Score: 10
|~Love Us Forever~|

"Maybe not killing themselves is the best way"

date: May 13, 2007

Maybe not killing themselves is the best way to achieve greater art.

I like your work, the moral of this one is very deep... It took me lot of time to decide if i agreed or not to what I've just seen... and i cannot totally agree with you.

The artist act as the medium between the ideas (or opinions) and the public. It is the artist that brings ideas to the world through his creativity. If an artist wishes to die while performing, what artistic truth does he brings his public except fear or death. An artist tries to communic his art and tries to understand it in order to go beyond it (like the philosoph that is looking deeper to find truth).How can these artists go beyond their art if they kill themself? Will their art get better? No!!! They only remove the possibility to repeat themself in their new creations (or create something lame). I'm thinking of the painter Riopelle, he just quitted art at some point, saying that he cannot go beyond what he already accomplished and lived old in a perpetual fame. The fact that the artist decided to stop creating brings a loss as big as its death.

I have a big issue with suicide, that's probably why i disconect with the concept of suicide as something that people should think of as a good way to end their life, as it is somehow shown in this flash. However i'm also aware that this is only a movie, it isn't real life...

And finally, i don't like the fact that this flash cannot become this deep without reading your comment. There should be a better explaination at the end than one sentence. This way your flash would have all his deepness and be a whole masterpiece. Not only a good flash with an incredible text joined to it.

High five to you

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Score: 9
NightmareCity:Catastrophe

"Great work"

date: April 26, 2007

I liked it, even though the characters movements aren't easy to follow, but great piece of action. Maybe add more distinction between charaters than different colors, it's confusing when they have all the same shape... Dendyn dynasties doesn't have that problem.

Have you been watching to Bleach recently? Because the blue arrows, the red sword shape, the city view at the end with a single mountain... Seems that it from there, but you drew them well.

I really liked it, but i'm wondering what it would have been like it the weird human movement has been replaced with a more-motionless manga animation, or more realistic movement as in Dendyn's first fight... You gave me a good time, high five for you.

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Score: 2
Mario's Revenge: SE

"It's LAME, Nothing new, nothing exceptionnal"

date: April 13, 2007

So where to begin
Graphics : Wow you know how to overdraw common logos

Animation : Mario's walking motion is awful

3D : Good, but nothing like "DucktalesZ", draw over your 3D figures, it gives more texture. And for bullet time circular panning, try to draw more faces of the trees, it will get the thing better.

Style : Except being a copy of about EVERYTHING you have style... not much... try to develop it... you obviously master Flash basics, but don't hold your creativity in copying fads... when Sasuke's cursed seal jumped in, i closed my eyes saying "No".

Violence : yep pretty violent, but the blood looked just like brushes strokes... no bubbles, no round spilling

Humor : not funny, maybe the punchline at the end for the shallow mind.

So you have 14 minutes of bad fighting scenes in this movie, the clock fighting at the end while flying looked like being done by a 3 years old, no shades of blue, no coulds, just bland boring raindrops with tweening clocks...

You need to experiment more than with fads kid, you master flash, you have potential, but this movie has no creativity in it.

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Score: 8
Armor Trigger

"not bad at all, great game serie"

submission: Armor Trigger
date: March 12, 2007

Im comparision to flash point, i prefered the characters voices in flash point.

The games were cool, a bit more difficult than FS (i have to admit i really craved for FS, so that's maybe the reason i was a bit dissapointed by that game, the are too similar)

However you have a great game serie so far :) Great work

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Score: 10
Tomorrow's Nobodies Ep.4

"what's with the pants ???"

date: March 2, 2007

Man, the oppening pants... Pure comedy :) sweet...

Seriously, great flash, the first episodes were lacking a bit of rythm but this episode was really well coordinated

great job

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Score: 10
- The Nail -

"The foamy is dead, hurray for the next foamy !!!"

submission: - The Nail -
date: February 21, 2007

Isn't what we all thought one time... Foamy is getting old... Sure it is a cool character with intelligent ideas sometimes, but iwillpress should renew itself... (or it will become a monster of bad taste like microsoft... taking adventage of noble thoughts on a over used mercantile medium)

Now that foamy has met the reaper, what new flash creation will arize ?

And now about the animation, IT IS GREAT. Even the facials of foamy are alike it character. It is a great satire of him, it is a great homage for him, it is a great flash

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Score: 8
F.E.A.R.

"agagouagagou du SANG!!!!"

submission: F.E.A.R.
date: February 18, 2007

That's a nice animation, some jokes made me laugh."ca m'exite" for instance. You should at least add some english subs, now you're cutting about 99% of your auditory... enven the France since it is Quebec speach.

By the way, good job mon pit, l'animation était fockée à des places, travaille la marche et essaie d'avoir plus que une voix dans tes prochaines animations. Il semble y avoir une histoire qui se déroule au début, mais ça finit par des extraits sans suite... Sert toi d'un script à l'avenir.

Mais j'ai bien aimé... But i liked it

Author's Response:

ouais je sais qu'l'histoire se suit pas ben ben là... mais c't'un vidéo de style "random" on va dire ! merci pour ta review... pour les subs en anglais j'vais faire un autre version avec les voix en anglais ! quand ? je sais pas... en tout cas ! salut !

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Score: 9
-Pina Story-

"Good movie, small details but good movie"

submission: -Pina Story-
date: February 15, 2007

Marvelous graphics, good plot line... but the movie goes too slowly to be greatly entertaining. The sound effects were okay... not too repetitive, but used a lot of time.
The pig that was thrown in the moon made me laugh, however, the E-T joke right after destroyed it. When i saw that pig flying, i thought "Good old combat joke, just like in Kill Bill" but the unrelated shadow destroyed the punch. You should draw something like the Pink-Floyd pig in replacement.

Anyway, the movie is a bit too static for my taste... too much like a sprite video game, but worth a view for the graphics :)

Author's Response:

thank you for the review~~
I think i over did it with the ET~

I will try without the cliches next time :)

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Score: 10
Future

"If TRON was like that..."

submission: Future
date: January 24, 2007

If the movie TRON was graphically like that, it wouldn't look so damn old today...

Man, this is a colourful flash with action and incredible graphics. That's what i like about this site, sometimes you find great animators that within the first 3 seconds of an animation are able to create a whole universe where you are draged into it for the whole movie length.

Great job, i like that "neon" style like TRON, but way better in term of graphic texture. That idea to put blurry light on a black background is fantastic... And the 3d !!!!! Just insane !!!!

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