Score: 7

"Oh deer"

by: Lidov

date: December 16, 2005

Well, it was a pretty good movie actually, I would have even rated it 8. but the end ruined the whole clip, it did! The graphics were fine, nothing special or so, could be improved a lot, but it was fine. The black and white you used wasn't perfectly used, because you used to many dark shades of black, and less of the lighter, which is often used in a plane. Also, the shades were way too dark and had the lines to seperate them from the surrounding, which doesn't exists in reality. The planes weren't also pretty well animated when you look at them from above, so as the background, but it was fine in general. the style was also pretty good, however, the end ruined it completely. I don't really understand why you chose to animate this song with war planes though, there could be one hundred and two better ways to animate this song. Also, the black and white could have been very good if it was used properly in the animation. The song was very good, I would have given you 10 for it, but you didn't finish it till the end, so I took off points. Seriously, what were you thinking with the end of this movie? I demend you fix this immediately, or at least apologize, or something...Anyway, it was a pretty good movie, I assume, good job.
>Lidov<

Score: 7

"You Have Potential!"

by: CrimsonGear

date: December 15, 2005

You can draw, so that's a definite plus. You can animate to some extent, which is another plus. However, there are a lot of things wrong with this video.
>>First, I would like to mention, like just about everybody else who has reviewed this, that propeller-driven planes require the propeller to *turn* when they're flying. ;) But that's just a technicality.
>>Second, never in the history of man have there been so many bombers in one place. I mean, think about it. Bombers are slow, and easier to shoot down than some planes, and having them packed up there makes it a LOT easier to hit one - like shooting fish in a barrel, no? Also, this seemed to have a WWII basis, but I'm not even sure if that many bombers were even built during that time.
>>Third, that was an extremely anticlimactic explosion at the end. Sure, it had its humor, but it wasn't that funny, since there's a plethora of videos that end like that on Newgrounds. Not to be blunt, but be more original next time! :)

And DON'T say, "Oh, but this was my first Flash video, I'm still learning!" Such a lazy excuse. You can get away with that on animation and art, but not on content.

Somebody mentioned earlier that it would have looked nicer, during the part where the bombers were flying over the city, if you had put a 20% or 30% alpha white layer over the ground. You said you were new to Flash, and didn't know what they were talking about, so I'll let you in on it, unless you've already learned through experimentation. Alpha refers to a color's level of transparency. This can be changed by opening the Color Mixer toolbar. See the "Alpha" setting beneath the "R," "G," and "B" settings? It's set at 100% by default, which means that it is opaque. (This is all based off of Flash MX, by the way, not Flash 8!) The lower the alpha percentage, the higher the level of transparency. So, what the earlier reviewer meant was that you should have made another layer between the planes and the ground and put a white box over the entire screen, and then set the transparency (alpha setting) to 20 or 30 percent, to give the illusion of distance. I hope that helps in future submissions!

Speaking of which, I think you're only going to get better. You have potential, I'll give you that much! I look forward to your next submission!

Score: 5

"not bad"

by: KWAS71KCK

date: December 15, 2005

it was an alright animation. not my style of animation to watch, but it was definitely worth checking out. the graphics were cool and you put a pretty good effort into this one.

Score: 4

"..."

by: S-K

date: December 15, 2005

I knew something was fishy as soon as the single frame of animation with the 'you can't read this' came up... way to piss all over your own work... which is also the only funny thing about this...

Score: 4

"Yes I can read that."

by: omdsmr

date: December 14, 2005

And I think the ones who can are not 'n00bs', so I suggest something like "People who can't read this are n00bs." or something to that effect.
Make something serious next time and I'll give you a better rating.

later,
omdsmr

To the ones that take this song as mindless hippie dribble, I pity you.