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[Dr. Mario with Lyrics]

Very nice!

I love your use of cheats and smears, especially when Mario stuffs those pills down Toad's throat, it really read well. You did a fine job of combining tweens with fbf animation, too. There's a few moments that need just a tiny bit of cleaning up, but that's the only complaint I have, and it's not a big deal. It's the motion that's put front and center and you've controlled it very well. :D

DarqV responds:

Finally some actual animation terminology in a review. Thanks for taking the time to write it out, I really appreciate it. I'm not afraid to admit that ALOT of this was rushed. When you animate 8 hours a day for a living, it's hard to want to put in the extra effort to make everything SUPER finalized when all you want to do is have some fun.

That said, you're ABSOLUTELY right. There are alot of sloppy bits throughout and they could use with a second pass. The bit towards the end where he's going wild with diagnoses could use alot more inbetweens. Some of that secondary necktie action is terribly innacurate and there are some lazy arcs throughout (not to mention alot of cheatsy pose-to-pose squashing and stretching).

[Cooking (bocodamondo)]

This is a joke, right?

Well, whether this is a joke flash or not, I'm going to have to rate this by what I am seeing here.

To get the good out of the way, it's not the worst thing I've ever seen. You can somewhat draw, and I don't know if you're using a mouse or not, but it's not just the style that's hurting you, but the placement of your objects. Stuff being cut off here and there, being off-center here (like the commercials on TV). I mean even 12-oz Mouse, though badly drawn, manages to be somewhat acceptable by how they present visual elements. So really, it's not all about how good your art is (which helps) but also how you present it. Though, to your credit, it seemed you got better after the halfway point, but decided to be terrible on purpose when you shrunk yourself down as the car drove away near the end. :/

Also, clean up your lines, especially for closeups. When we're staring at the mane open-ended lines on a guy's face and not paying attention to what they're saying, then that's a problem. That can also hurt your sound score, because if we're paying attention to these little odds and ends, then you're wasting your cast potential.

The voices (not including your own) were good. Sorry, but when you're voicing along with people who have better mics and speak better English, it's going to make you look bad, if not worse.

I lost total interest by the time Tomamoto showed up as the manager, I'm not even sure what the story is.... guy watches TV, decides to cook, has a flashback of him making sausages, gets on TV, loses his riches and.... ehhhh.... Dunno how to help you here, save for maybe bumping up the frame rat, which made the whole thing very very slow.

My final analysis: Slow, sloppy, well-intended (unless this is a joke, in which case you lose the "I'm just a noob" pity points) but executed with the tact of a 12-year old discovering flash.

On a final note, at the very least put more effort inyou your titles and labels. No one wants to watch a movie if the title and opening credits are done in a default font... or mis-spelled. Almost always, it's the first impression that will affect the rest of the movie, and when I saw the title, the commercials and the way you labeled the food items I got the feeling that you didn't care or did it poorly on purpose.

[HappyNoodle Vs SadNoodle]

I will never get sick of this song

Never ever ever for never. :)

The staging, the pacing, even the filler was most entertaining! A very fine piece of work, man. You should be happy to add it to your demo reel! :D

[nockFORCE: Deadly Assault]

I like it!

I'm definitely enjoying this stlye you have here, and the animation, when it's there, is pretty good. It's a really funny style and the scenework and timing adds to that funniness. My only complaint is that it's a bit short, but that's not a big thing, you did fine. :D