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[Late For a meeting at the Ministry]

This is really good! Love the character design. I'm not an animator (I'd like to be) so while I was scrutinizing, trying to find something to possibly point out, the only thing I could notice is that as the tie flicks up it looks to me like it lingers a little too long before flicking back down, but again, I'm not an animator so I don't really know what I'm talking about...but I watch A LOT of cartoons (that counts for something, right?).
Keep it up! (the animating, not the tie ;-P)

UltimateB responds:

Thanks man! I'm going to try and get more animation up.

[Motion Portrait: Orient]

This is absolutely beautiful. Looks like something from Double Dragon: Neon. I love it.

Spot Tankman anyone? :-)

deathink responds:

Thanks a lot. I never played Neon, but DD was one of my favorite games growing up.

[How to Pokémon GO]

Nice voice acting and well animated...but (for me at least) the only thing worse than Pokemon GO mania are all the f**kin' parodies. Sorry, I'm about to go on a bit of a rant here (none of which I mean to direct specifically at you).

We get it, Pokemon GO is a thing people are going batsh!t over. Whoopy doo. How many weeks has it been now? And animators/artists out there are still fishing for likes with it?!? I'd much rather see something original any day of the week than to come home and find the very thing I can't avoid seeing everywhere (going to work, at work, leaving work) is now crawling all over the last social media outlet I haven't cut off like a gangrenous limb because it is the last place I can still find creative people doing great things.
These parodies are so formulaic. Minecraft/FNAF/Undertale/PokemonGO. Some game blows up, and everybody jumps on the bandwagon to milk it for all it's worth and well and truly after it's turned to dust. But the worst part is, the majority on offer are completely lacking in sincerity. It's not about making a clever and funny observation about these games, it's entirely about the uploader exploiting someone else's IP to cultivate as many followers as they can with as minimal of creative input as possible.
The only thing lazier than parodies are memes. >.<

Phew. Okay, I'm getting off the soapbox now. Again I wasn't directing any that bile specifically at you. This has been building up for some time now. Your work is really good, in fact your original work is fantastic. It was just the content of this video that had me saying "That's it! I've had enough!" At the end of the day, regardless of what I think, if you wanna make a parody, you go ahead and make a parody. At least yours are actually well done. :-)

Oponok responds:

Thanks for the kind words!

The interesting thing about this project is the actress who voiced Hilda asked me if I could make the parody, since she was hosting a short screening for game developers/actors/filmmakers, so I took it as a challenge. I love working with her, and since she just wrapped work on a new Netflix series coming out in the fall and a big Hollywood feature due Christmas next year, I want to work with her on as many projects as possible before our creative endeavors become a bit more divided from each other.

The other challenge for this that interested me is that, because of the short turnaround time, I decided to mess around with anime techniques involving limited animation. That was fun, and I learned a bit from it.

My parodies, and really any script I write and actually finish, always start with one bit that I think really works. In this case, it was the "de pokes is in yo' phone" gag. When I came up with that, I thought, "Okay, this deserves to see the light of day." If I don't think I can come up with a funny script for a parody, then I don't bother, and I've passed on many projects and ideas in favor of something else I have something to say about.

[Airalin - Attract (comic dub)]

Nice deliveries guys. I like it ;-)

AwkwardCynic responds:

Thank you for the compliment. We have one more on standby that will be posted tomorrow. hope you come back for more! Make sure you go check out the Artist, Rakkuguy on DeviantArt

[NWAR: Parental Advisory]

Fantastic. NWAR is fast becoming my favourite thing about Newgrounds these days. Can't wait for what comes next.

danmarkowitz responds:

Thanks a lot! It's been awesome to see it get so much love on Newgrounds. And seeing Nwar make cameos in a couple other videos and drawings has been a thrill!

[Seagull Boy]

Meh. It might have been funnier to have had Seagull Boy foil the robber with some ludicrous Seagull-related abilities like pooping on his getaway car, or stealing chips from a passerby and throwing them at the robber (where I'm from, seagulls are notorious for stealing chips from people at the beach). I checked out your other videos and get that this is your kind of humour, but it's not for me. Animation was really nice, I just think that "blunt reality humour" (is that the right name for your style?) has been done to death on the net. And it kind of feels like an easy way out of making longer videos. I understand making animation is a long process, but judging from the quality of this and your other videos, it looks like you could be doing better storytelling wise.

Bassetfilms responds:

Yeah, killing the character is easy way out a lot of the time, I do feel bad about doing it so often. And I was a bit worried this specific joke was too common, but I felt I set it up well enough that it still payed off.
I'm gonna try to do some longer stuff.

Thanks for the review.