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[[S] Cascade.]

Usually it takes an entire team of people

to make something this published, animation wise. The effects were great in this. What a sight surpassing fantasy with it's detail. You should consider putting those comics in animation form and then sticking them on here for real. This has made me more than interested enough to visit your site.

[FAUX - Chapter 5]

Congrats on adding voice actors

I was impressed how well animated you got with you character's details, hair moving and eyebrows, which I guess is the basic for good animation. Voices were added seemlessly to the series too, it almost feels like they were always there. The one thing missing here from your episode is the ability to make it stand out from something other than just a transitional flash. Maybe making people have no clue where you are going is something you want, but at the same time, the episodes need their own structure of rising, climax and falling action to be interesting. Right now, its kind of like the matrix broken up in 5 minute segments with a few months between their release. I think this would make a better movie than a straight up flash series. I would recommend that you just ask Tom for the ability to load it all, or atleast in larger parts as rediculous as it sounds. The MB would probably be over 100, but it would keep my attention, more so than right now. This is a great artwork, a tad on the cheesey side, in my opinion, but all great things are. My thesis would be to just add more linear dynamics to an episode, leave us with more questions, while answering some, not the same ones that we've had since the previous episodes. I enjoy your art direction, and am really pleased to see the series got voices.

[Hearts In Galaxies]

Subtley charming and nicely done until the credits

I don't understand after making such a statement why you would put a song by Daughtry in the credits, but is is your flash, and I will respect that, although I can see how it might kill the flash for some people. Not because I just think he is a bad musician, but it uprooted the subtle note you ended on, which was much stronger in my opinion. The animation was simple, I didn't mind that certain scenes were played twice to go with the song. I would have liked to see a few more shots of something different instead. Something of a different context too, besides everything resembling a melencholy end, maybe flash backs, who knows, but that was your given style for this piece. Overall a nice fan-made vid.

[A Dragon's Flight]

No story disapointingly, but not a bad flash.

This is something that took alot of effort; an nice fan homage to a movie (which I haven't seen) But basically it is just the dragon flying around the whole time, and encountering various weather climates is way too subtle for plot advances. You seem like a capable animator to make something of a story, which would make the flash much more interesting to viewers, maybe for your next flash.

[Internet Allstars 2011]

Mixing of metaphors or memes

It seems there are a couple of people that don't understand, but you were basically using a meme (captain falcon) to destroy over-used memes, which made it even funnier. It was smart in that sense. I liked the animation and the pacing as well.

RicePirate responds:

Yeah, I'm noticing that people don't understand that this is an ANTI-meme flash ... yes, using memes ... hopefully to the point of being annoying rather than funny... but ... I guess that message is getting lost.

[Mario's Castle Collab]

Hohoho

Ze review I will write in French hohoho. No seriously nice compolation work Travis, in regards to standards. Everyones part worked well together in my opinion. My only issue is that I love it when lady gaga performed by Glee comes on, I don't understand why mario is in pain? :P No actually I really do.

hint for the easter egg; it was designed to test the patience of the searcher. Happy Hunting!

[Practicing Kirby]

Nice use of animation and textures

While you said the textures were experimental, they seemed to fit in an interesting cool way. It would have been cool for it to go on longer, but it was nice to see that it had some story/ perpose, rather than just something random. Cool work man

[Blachnon & Flora EP 4]

lucidly experimental

Try looping your movie clips back to the first frame instead of just having them end, it will make them look alot cleaner. (walls while walking, floating z's, ect.) Maybe make the episodes a bit longer. If I had something positive to say it would be this had a nice ambient tone. Keep getting better

[SS - The Math of God]

Relations to Eternal and non eternal

So were you relating the idea of finite and infinite to fibinari and the other enternal structure? How we are like a seed but can never catch up to the eternal? I really enjoyed this one the most so far. I would also like to hear you mention something of the make up of color and complemetery colors in corrilation with geometry. I've been a musician for about 5+ years, and some of the most interesting and beautiful sounding formations are a mixture of major and minor. sad and happy becomes satisfying. That's how the beatles did it to. I will be watching next monday!

[SS - Dimensions]

I very much enjoyed it as well as your others

@godyousuck below, yeah surely we can create theories about anything with enough time spent in, but that only proves we can connect things because everything is connected.

Your comparision to music really drove it home for me too. so we are a third on the major scale, which coincidently sounds like "Ohm" when the note is played. The universe being written in math seems to prove the existance of a divide source. I am excited to hear how we have forgotten to travel interdimensionally 1000's of years ago. Thanks for making these! :)