At 5/10/09 04:39 AM, Luxury-Yacht wrote:
I applaud rtil in submitting Rina-Chan and the Brawl Boys along with the rest of the collab.
How the fuck would rtil be able to go around taking the piss out of Kirbopher and Rina-Chan, calling them whores for popularity at the expense of their own integrity, and then choose to forsake his comrades in brawl funnies hilarity by abandoning their flash and their united message by submitting his piece as a stand-alone so he could reap the popularity and benefits himself? By putting his work in the pile, his flash is more powerful, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
That's a valid point, though one i don't agree with. By putting it in the rest of the collab, to me that loses it's impact as a decent piece of solid animation in it's own right, something rtil could put in a portfolio for his work. It doesn't even fit the tone of the rest of the flash either, it just seems out of place.
In all honesty i don't think he should have put this much effort in it. It's part of a larger piece of animation and thus will never be recognised as a brilliant animation in it's own right. To me, while it shows he's united in his message about Brawl Taunts, he's turned what could be called a solid piece of animation to a shiny gem in a stinking pile of whiny crap.
I love Brawl Funnies. I love how caustic and biting it is, I love the timing, I love the attitude, I love how so many people hate it and dismiss it as shitty animation or jealousy or whatever and then leave reviews exposing themselves as the jackasses they are. Sure, a lot of the parts aren't top quality, but that makes it more endearing. Kirbopher acknowledges that he doesn't put all his effort into animating Brawl Taunts. Why the fuck should the people taking shots at him be expected to go above and beyond consistently?
I find it a hypocritical statement and that knocks points off to me. It's not so much that it's crudely draw, it's that it's purposefully drawn like that, and the voice acting and jokes are purposefully trying to be thick to show how crude the Brawl Taunts ones are, but it just ends up looking like a bunch of whinging to me.
I honestly found both disks (dicks) of Brawl funnies to be consistently and honestly funnier than any of the installments of Brawl Taunts. Brawl Taunts should never have had a second installment, and yet it gets absurdly high scores and attention. As of tonight, More Brawl Taunts has a 4.35 or so. Waterlollies has a 4.37. There is not a motherfucking chance in hell that Brawl Taunts 2 deserves to be within 0.02 points of Waterlollies, not by a fucking longshot, and it's obvious that the people giving Brawl Taunts such obscene scores are legions of tasteless fanboys who get their rocks off on regurgitated video game-based blandness or people who have no gauge of what makes a flash deserving of recognition and due respect.
Know your market bud. Videogame parodies will always be insanely popular on a website where the primary audience is young teenage males. Because the biggest audience for video games is still young teenage males. Whilst many decent original animations will score highly overall, anything videogame related will score highly because that's what the audience knows.
Perhaps the portal should be split up into catagorys? Top 100's for different genres (Original animations, Videogame parodies, Games, etc)
Bravo, Brawl Funnies. Bravo.
At 5/10/09 04:46 AM, Maximus wrote:
I Thought Brawl Funnies was good. It's not always about the animation, it's about the humor.
But yeah, many good animators do spam on NG. But have good animations at the same time.
Fawx, Zekey, Rtil the list goes on.
Zekey is a brilliant example. I loved Squaresville but i'll probably never see anything else that decent by him unless it gets an award or frontpaged due to the immense about of spammy crap he's put out that i'd just not willing to wade through to find a possible gem.
