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[20 Years of Badger]

Genius. This is one of the best things I've ever seen.

P.S I want the music from this! So interesting the variations.

[NWAR: Looking Glass]

This is one of the best things I've seen in a while

[Cosmic Commandos Ep: 2]

Really great stuff. Enjoyable in terms of visuals, plot, and little Easter eggs -- there are so many great small touches, like the cloning machine reading "REKT" when they add the virus, and how the sound effects and music coincide.

There are a few gaps in context that confused me, like why the cloning facility had so little security considering how critical it was, or why they wait until a bunch of guys die before they grab new ones -- maybe I just lack some background here.

Anyway, fantastic job.

icheban responds:

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback OneWhoListens! I'm no where near a professional at script writing (actually I'm a complete noob) so questions like this are very helpful in terms of making future episodes more clear.

The idea is that there are many facilities like the one you saw attacked. Security is present (in terms of the firewall seen on the computer as well as the alarm warning of something going on. It was also night time so I guess lighter patrols make sense there. If I had the time I would have added a more complex approach to infiltrating the station but that would have also added weeks to the animation.

Either way, I appreciate you watching and hope that I could eventually turn this into something unique in it's own right.

[A Boast Brawl]

That Elf chick was a bitch anyway. Good ending.

[An Absolute Fact]

Good quality animation and nice story progression.
Animation was smooth sometimes, and choppy others -- intentional?
-1 for propaganda.

[Military Men: Seize The Snow Mountain Castle]

Unique and original humor? ✓
Engaging plot? ✓
Enjoyable, quirky, quality graphics? ✓
Good music and sound? ✓
All of the above brought all together into a nice overall package? ✓

I enjoyed this animation oh so much.

[Potion Shop]

My feelings on this are complex. On one front, I was immediately captivated by the drawing, the animation, the scoring, the use of silence, and the way you brought this all together -- it was beautiful.

The plotline was also obviously well conceived, carefully constructed. But you lost me before long. The dragon's approach was menacing. Villagers or no villagers, that bad boy was coming for destruction. Yet before long he was changed to the victim. Why set us up that way? The villagers could be wrong, but why set us up to the heroin's side just to switch over to empathy for the dragon? I quickly found myself confused. Perhaps there are good dragons, but you seemed to already tell us this was not such a dragon.

Perhaps that is why I found myself only half-involved afterwords. I remained on the edge of my seat waiting for something to change -- when does the dragon prove to be tricking them? when does something go wrong? -- only to find the contiguity of the promised plotline upheld from thence forth.

In awe of your creative talents, I remain nonetheless confused. The emotions, the passions, the goals of each character changed -- including those of minor characters -- so rapidly and via such rapid actions that the story broke down. It could not captivate as thoroughly as its visuals promised. And that, in itself, was a shame, for I was engrossed from the very start by the beauty and surprisingly evocative nature of your composition.

Such are my thoughts. Perhaps I pontificate for nothing, but here it stands.

You have such obviously great talent. Stay true!

[The Machine]

Awwww now I want to see what pop and cola do!

ChazDude responds:

The cola is actually cocaine.

*shhh*

[Spring Snow Walk]

Interesting! And good quality!
If only he'd had a private mailbox.

[The Laffodil]

The start and end were a little bit too long for the actual content of the cartoon, but this was a great idea, and I'd love to see more. I actually laughed when the second laffodil started scurrying away.