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[Madness T E T R I S ' D]

Improvement

Much better than some of your older stuff. It had a pretty good storyline, some nice stuff, but I have two little suggestions...
For the most part, the animation was alright, it got slightly choppy at points (mainly when the 1337 was repairing the machine). His hand came to an abrupt stop, next time I would suggest you try "easing" where you make something slow down before it stops.
The other thing I didn't like was that he didn't use his hands much while jumping around. He just sorta bounced off of things.

Just improve on those things and you should be set, Happy MD09

Crazymonkey154 responds:

Thanks man. Glad you could see how I have improved =D. Day of the Madness was also badass.

[A Christian Bale Short 4]

Probably the best out of the quad-something

I liked it. I didn't actually laugh out loud or roll on the floor but it was still kinda funny. The broken shotgun was a nice touch and the ghosts didn't look half bad, but they could have used more ghostly characteristics. Maybe more on the pale side, maybe without pupils in their eyes or less darker ones, i dunno.
But yes,

YeOldeApple responds:

I enjoy reviews by people who are Famous.

Make's me feel Tingly.

[MDKA]

Stop voting up your own movies.

Just don't do it.

Crazymonkey154 responds:

what gives you the idea that I actually WAS doing that?

[Madness- Ultimate Drive 2]

Well, it's a little bit....

Ok what you don't want to do, is animate like the person right below me. Animating like him as in the collisions are too slow and cause too much devastation, the entire movie looks like it is in slow motion, and the characters are insanely stiff. It looks better than what he makes, much better, but you just need to work out some of these kinks. More speed in places, a more free body, and less awkward movements.
But yeah they were alright. Oh one last thing, be sure to take people's advice, you don't want to end up like the person below me who hasn't improved in two years because he can't take criticism.
Good luck.

Rockyusa responds:

Ok. Thanks for the tips (although i have no need for them right now).
I already know about 7 and how you hate him.
Anyways, i am getting better already. This is NOTHING compared to what i can do. So thanks for the tips anyways!

[RIP Billly Mays]

He died before his time

Way too soon.. Poor guy, he sure did have a lot of good things to sell.

SupahHank responds:

I know man. I just wish I knew how he died.

[Madness425 Owns 2]

Let's break every rule on your list of guidlines!

Well first off, your little list of review qualifications pretty much leaves no room for criticism. So you're pretty much telling us that you would like to hide from constructive criticism, which also means you want to hide from becoming a better animator. Also, you should go look up the definition of "criticism" maybe then you'll realize how silly you look telling the reviewers to take criticism. Also, I'm pretty sure that if you knew all of this stuff you claim to have addressed in the author commentary, this movie would have actually been good.
Alright listen up, when someone tells you something like "Oh that scene made no sense, the animation is choppy, try to animate the feet more lifelike" that is not saying "You fucking suck go die god damnit I hate you". It's telling you how to improve your flash, if you want to get better at animating the easy way, then pay attention to the negative reviews more often the the positive ones. Coming from the heart, I can say that anyone who gives a review above 5 on this movie is a complete idiot. Those people are pretty much telling you that what you're doing is good and to keep doing it. Which ultimately boosts your ego and leads you to learning how bad of an animator you are the hard way, the way I did, involving a huge emo depression and a bunch of shit that would be easier just to not have gone through. So if you don't want to improve the easy way, then stop reading here and good luck in the future when you get even more negative reviews like this and you react like a 4 year old throwing a tantrum.

So first and foremost, I see that this is yet another random violence movie. It starts off in a random ass place where an un-named protagonist is faced with a bunch of unoriginal guards. Very bland already. The main character is terrible, no originality at all, it took absolutely no imagination to make him. It didn't even look like you tried, everything is the same. On a rare occasion, a movie with no plot whatsoever can be accepted, that occasion would be that the movie has entirely different characters, weapons, and backgrounds.
Alright on with the movie, the animation is choppy and really bad, at points it just looks like a 3 year old grabbed the mouse and placed random sprites across the screen, absolutely no thought put into it. The characters were walking statues firing guns, no definition of kickback whatsoever. The character was always leaned back in that exact same position, making me think that the body was converted all into one symbol and slid across the screen. Think about it this way, when you walk around, do you stay in the exact same uncomfortable leaned back state? I didn't think so. Also give the head a bit of a bounce on the walk cycles.
Ok moving on, I don't know what is up with this, but there are times when the character randomly teleports from one background to the other. That has to be one of the laziest things I have ever seen. You couldn't even animate the character SLIDING like a statue across the rest of the screen. That is really sad right there. Another common error among Madness movies, despite gunfire being heard in previous rooms, the guards are still completely oblivious to it, and just sorta stand there. Speaking of the guards, they just fucking stand there and die, you'd think they would at least try to live. Come on, your character (I use the word "your" very loosely) is fucking invincible, he just walks in and kills people with so fucking thought at all.
So more poorly animated killing occurs, then the movie just ends out of no where. Yeah, good going. I don't see how a movie of this exact proportion could have possibly taken more than a couple hours to make. Maybe you should try to spend a long time on a movie, adding loads of detail and smooth animation, drawing your own backgrounds and original characters, and thinking up a unique plot rather than just shitting out the exact same thing we saw not too long ago with animation barely improved at all from the last one.

Sifter1337 responds:

Holy shit all of this was spam? I'm definitely not reading this!

[Madness Oviation 1]

You need to learn how to take fucking criticism.

Seriously, shut the fuck up with all this "OH THE REASON ITS SLOW IS BECAUSE YOUR COMPUTER IS SLOW" or "YOU HAVE NO IMAGINATION". Look dude, bitch, whine and complain that people don't like your movie all you want, but if you really want to get better at animating, then quit with all of the damned excuses. People write reviews to help you, not to make your life a living hell and torment you. When someone says "I didn't like this movie because *insert fully constructive reason here*" it doesn't mean "You suck go fucking die".
Now that I've gotten that out, now for the real review.
The movie just starts out of no where, no intro, nothing to explain the plot at all. It just starts out with some guy climbing from a trap door. There are a lot of extremely awkward positions that you have the main character in, ones that would be pretty uncomfortable and impossible for an actual human being. It looks like he's trapped inside an original box. The only animation is the character sliding across the screen, there is some feet movement but that's about it. Have him run through some halls then an extremely unexpected choppy ending. There was like, no thought at all put into the ending. It looks like a three year old got ahold of the computer and randomly placed Madness sprites everywhere.
That is really it, the movie its self was only 10 seconds. My suggestion, study Madness movies, good ones at least. Just watch them and focus on how the author animates the movement. Overall this looks like it was made in like 5 minutes. Spend some time on an animation. Don't just shit out a movie every few days, because in truth, no one really wants to see this. This is what gives good Madness animators a bad name. This is what basically ruins Madness. If you still want people to criticize your movies, upload them to a swf hosting website and link to it on your userpage.
And remember, stop taking criticism like the biggest damn insult.

Sparkslasher responds:

Ok.

[Metamorphosis (clay)]

Alright

Not too bad, It's actually pretty smooth. One thing I'd suggest is working beyond the random morphing, and working on an actual story.
I'm really just wondering how the light source stayed the same, the light was clearly coming from outside, but this had to have taken hours..

ATOMICCLOUD responds:

Not too long :D

Glad to see some Madness animators taking note of my clay work. On the topic of plot, i will get round to something in the not-too-distant future.

Until then, thanks for the review, and good luck with "Day of the Madness".