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[The Mourner]

Do you know what expression is?

expression is the showing or displaying something like emotions. in this "animation," the only attempt to express the emotion of sorrow and loss of a loved one. The pain someone goes through when they lose someone they care about is a very complicated feeling: a feeling that cannot not be expressed WITH NOTHING BUT A FROWN AND SOME FINAL FANTASY MUSIC! If it wasn't for the guy saying "I miss you" most of us would think he is sad about the fact that he doesn't have any arms (I notice, though, that they grow back in the second and third movie).

one way to help express this mans pain is by movement. why is it the man in this flash never moves? he doesn't even blink or breath. you can express the sadness in his soul by the pace of his breathing. look in the mirror and consentrate on your breathing. pay attention to how the bady moves as it breaths and create a 6-20 frame breathing animation of the charactor in your movie. Now you can express emotions of this mourner by changing the speed of his breathing: speed the pace of his breath if he is angry that he has been saperated by this girl (and his arms), or slow it down if he is overwhelmed with a need to just see her again. Facial expression also plays an important role. this man has lost someone dear to him. he is at a complete loss of what he should do. We should see some indecision between fear, sarrow, anger and exceptance.

This is the important thing. this animation needs some focus. there was a lot of that in the bard's song, but this is a complete lack of focus in every way. the first big problem is movment: only the leaves are moving. IS THIS MOVIE ABOUT LEAVES MOURNING OVER A LOST FRIEND? no. So have the sad guy a little more animated (see above paragraph).

lastly, the visuals. If this guy is in mourning, then why isn't he wearing black. And why is it that everything in this cartoon is spikey!? It's no wonder the girl died, she probably got a realy deep cut from those close she was wearing (by the way, while are all the girls in your flash cartoons dressed like cavemen).

This animation is like raw cookie dough. it taste good but it's poisen and needs some work for it to be acceptable.

[Retarded Animal Babies 4]

over rated

your 3rd movie was pure geniuss, sadly, this one was just an assorted collection of mostly desturbing, rarely funny shorts scattered throughout 999 channels. I did enjoy the ring parrody, but most of this cartoon was just riding on the success of the last 3 movies.

[LOZ: Link's Bout]

I give a big E for effort

Props for taking on a project such as this, and for completing it in overall acceptable quality. There were no real flaws, however I REALY REALY feel that links sword use should have had more time worked on it. The Link in wind waker is the only decent swordsman in the series. You didn't do a spin attack, a windmill attack, or ever a parry (dodge) move- which doesn't fit, because that finish move link used on gannon follows a parry move.

When I see the Hero of winds, I expect slicing and dicing. anything less makes me cry, "WOE IS ME, I WILL NEVER ENJOY THE CARNAGE OF A BOY HIS SWORD AND A TOTAL LACK OF RESPECT FOR MOBLIN LIFE." Never the less, I will not fall prey to such a foul weakness, and overlook the hard work put into this animation... but deep down inside I am sad nonethe less.

[Zelda Heroic Rage 3]

aw no random Explosions

I gotta say, I realy liked this one. excellent use of most of the zelda weapons. and the "kick tingles ass" option was a great way to start the game.

have you considered making a movie with the gannon in wind waker? with the twin swords and the old sword in the eye

[DBZ in a Nutshell 2]

Sweet

out of all the people who have, or will have, animated that audio. yours will reign supreme,
mainly because of that live action picture of people in those costumes.

[Mario Babies 4]

yet another great mario babies

Fun fact: did you know that in the final zone in sonic CD there is a laser that shrinks sonic, allowing you to play as the continue icon (which was featured in this cartoon)

tenchi5000 responds:

I never knew that. Kool

[Alien Report Part II]

This episode reminded me of the brothers tiki

I still think the issue of where he is living could be adressed. also what he is eating and how he is getting this could probably be brought into the light. I say "could" because there are many places this story can go, and many directions taken. there's also plenty of room to develope the little grey dudes charactor.

[Video Game Bloopers 2]

This deserves underdog of the week

there was something about this movie that I liked.

[Sonic X Chaotic Battle]

That was a sonic cartoon wasn't it

the one problem I had with this otherwise great flash was the music. I imagine it would be better if the music was all by wave master. example: the first song that was played could have been replaced with the BGM from zone 8 in sonic 2 or the deathegg zone from sonic3 and knuckles. it would also have been nice to here the doomsday zone music in the game.