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[DBZ- Goku Turns Evil Ep 2]

My review is huge, but it is usefull

Tactical, with another of yours attempt to make a DBZ movie with jump ultimate/super stars sprites (don't you think of doing something else?) I have some things to say.
First of all, the ground of the forest is bad placed, the characters stand a little under it, in a strange looking area.
Watch out for the details, in the last episode the sky was dark (remember?), but in this one the battle happens in pure day light.
The characters are stopped in a lot of times; you should put more movement to them to give to the viewer the idea that they realy are alive all the time, and that they aren't just images (putting theirs anime sounds has this intension, you know).
Stop to zoom the sprites! When you use zoom it becames clear to the viewer that he is seeing just a bunch of pixels, and this has the same effect as the last problem mentioned.
You know the beam struggle? You didn't change the beams in the entire part, and this fact had, again, the bad result said before (my explanation: when a energy wave is is on the way to the target, it makes friction with the air and have a different shape on the front; but when it is in a clash for example, there's no air blocking the movement of the wave, so, it gets a different shape)
Regulate the sounds, there were some parts that they were too low to hear (like the voices) or too loud come in hand (like when goku talks when SSJ, which was a very annoying sound).
And seriusly man, that orange SSJ goku was a baaaaad custom.
It may seems that I hate sprites according to this review until now, but in fact I love sprites! Actualy, I'm planning to make flashs with them. But as there's a whole fucking lot quantity of bad sprite movies, and yours idea of a fight is not original, I think only a excelent job would be acceptable (an example is the Alvin Earthworm's use for Mario and Sonic sprites in SMBZ). That's why I think you should make at least 1 different flash, to not be knowed for something that everyone does (at least on youtube...), and why my criticism covered this huge review.
I hope this helps you.

OLD293 responds:

Hmm, nice review...

The forest thing is noted, I'll try to get them out of their as soon as possible. I actually did tint the stage a bit, but it might not of been as tinted as the last one in the last episode. I'll admit, the characters being stopped is a part of me being lazy...but I just didn't think that you would continuously keep moving like that when you are stationary. I'll fix it in the next episode.

Lots of people zoom in on their sprites, it it's already noted that what you are looking at is just pixelated art anyway. I don't think it would change anything but I've taken note. The beam struggle bit you are explaining, thats way too much science and stuff for me (even if it's basic). I'm not professional and I can't get it down to that much detail, I have my limits.

I was already thinking about doing heavy sound editing for the next episode, which is why it won't be out for a good little while. As for my originality, DBZ is more original than SMBZ, regardless of the popularity and action in it. I'm not copying anyone, I'm just doing what I like and giving people what they want (some anyway). Which would be a sprite fight for me and a storyline for the audience.

I'm no good at storylines which is why I hate doing stuff like this. I won't be able to heavily tie in a story, and I don't like taking up other people's ideas.

and actually, if I'm still spriting after this series, I'm going to mess around with Bleach JUS sprites. There doesn't seem to be many bleach sprite animations on here and I think I'm more talented with those than these.

It won't be anything serious though, just miniature storylines with action-packed sprite fighting. If people don't like it then I guess I'll just stop sprite animating and get on with my life, there are better things to do than to try to please people who don't want to be pleased with your works.

Thx for the review

[War, Snow and Fire]

Different and with style

The animation style was cool and fitted well with the music in all moments. even if it has some simple drawings, they make this flash unique. also, had a good story.
Now for some criticism: the first time that fire apeared, it was in a white colour, but all the other times it was red; I mean, nothing against it but I think a uniform set of colours for this would be better. in the part the man tries to make the dragon spit fire, the "example" he puts on fire isn't on fire anymore when you look at it from behind him. I think these mistakes are too little to care much about (that's the reason I didn't consider them when I gave the 10) and I'm just beeing perfectionist, but it helps the autor to improve (am I right?), soooooo...
anyway, good job