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[Asaroki 05- Diagnosis]

Recommendation

Very cool.

You got some good stuff going there, but I thought I'd give you a little suggestion.
I noticed that the proportions of your characters seemed to change a lot. Not just a little, but a whole lot. And I'm not talking about when you switch to chibi mode.

at the beginning, the guy and the girl have relatively properly proportioned bodies, but then when you switch to that view from the side when they're talking to one another, their heads are a bit too big for their bodies--particularly the girl... her head becomes massive.

So I'd recommend a very quick and easy exercise when you're drawing these characters. Start your drawing with a background layer of stickmen. Just something simple where you can check first that the proportions are relatively correct, before you go ahead and draw out the whole thing.

It will even help making the drawing process a lot easier, and when you're done, you can just delete the stickman layer and it's out of your way.

It's just that having bodies constantly change proportions drastically can really detract from the experience of watching it. And if you can get good at that, then already you should find your cartoons looking more and more like a real anime!

you can use the stickmen for stuff like your raven too. It's really easy to draw a stickbird flying, and when you watch the animation of the stickbird, you'll know really quickly whether you're happy with how it looks or not, and be able to make easy changes. Then you just fill it out and draw over it, and you'll be amazed with the results!

Anyway, that's my recommendation. But all in all, it was pretty good!

[Pico Epsilon]

Hilarious

I love how you made it all serious and dramatic, and yet you packed in a bunch of little silent gems of hilarity.

I especially liked how the uberrobot had no problem with pico's power level being just barely under 9000, but as soon as it was "over nine thouuusaaaaaaaaaaaaaand", he lost it!

:D

[Charlie the Unicorn 3]

Great!

I'm so impressed with the songs you keep coming up with!

You've definitely grown a lot in animation abilities and just the way you put together the whole thing. I enjoyed it, though it wasn't quite as funny as the first two, which made me cry from laughing.

[Girlchan in Paradise Ep1]

High Score!

It... it's like EVERY anime show I've seen all wrapped into one!

Dude.. so very very funny, I loved it! And of course amazingly animated. I loved how you put in the parts where you're frustrated in having to say the really long names of people and techniques.

"THAT bloodline?"
I think that says it all for every fighting anime in existence. Bravo.

[Gorilla Warfare]

heh heh heh

Spilling DK in there was perfect. It was unexpected and happened at just the right time.

[EW: Matt Sucks]

best intro so far

And the line that made it all worthwhile:
"I'm a... vampire! Num num num num num num"

[GunChest Episode 03_01]

MUCH BETTER

In the previous episodes, I agreed with everybody else, that the animation was superb but the voice acting and timing was way off the mark.

I'm really liking what you did now. I say, keep it in your native language, no reason to do the voices in english. Besides, you provided subtitles. I think that the voice acting here is finally of the caliber this show deserves!

I like to watch a show as it was intended to be, and I'm really liking this now, good job!!!!

[Power Star 4.5]

Single tear. X`D

When they were slapping each other and then zipped/teleported across to the other side of that hole, I laughed so hard I.... I think I cried a little.

That's some good parody.

[Wacky Pod Races]

Hmmm

When I started watching I thought, "wow, that's a really neat crossover idea, I like it!" and the animation was pretty good too... but I have to say, it just absolutely bored me to tears. I forced myself to watch the whole thing to see if something really good was coming up, but it just didn't do it for me.

Granted, the original Wacky Races cartoons never excited me all that much, but I still enjoyed them to some degree. I really wish I knew what to tell you in suggestions for how to make this better, but all I can think of is that the whole thing just seemed to drag. I think the voices really pulled it down, there was not enough expression and enthusiasm. It sounded like whoever did the voices was pretty bored about it all too... I dunno... you've got a good thing going for concepts and animation though, so keep it up!

StuffAnimation responds:

The animation fits in with the original Wacky Races cartoon. We could have made it a lot more modern, but then it wouldn't have felt like a Wacky Races cartoon. We sort of locked ourselves into that.

It's fair enough that you didn't like it, obviously not everyone will. But hopefully you'll like our next effort. It'll be completely different.

[Biosock]

Meh.

Agreed. Generic and uninteresting.
I stopped just after the part with Charlie the Unicorn. You do realise you can't JUST siphon off of other people's work, you actually have to do something with it. Saying "candy mountain" again and again isn't funny.