Score: 6

"Okay for a tribute"

by: Haggard

date: July 12, 2009

I guess it's okay for a tribute I think. Seeing as this was submitted one day after Billy Mays death you had to come up with this pretty quickly.

You put some nice pictures in here and the music was nice, too. But the problem with tributes is that they are all pretty low in quality. They are sure a tribute and meant for the best, but I think it would be better to if flash artists would spent a bit more time to come up with something better than just a slideshow.

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Score: 5

"Not bad"

by: MultiCanimefan

date: July 11, 2009

A very simple submission and an alright tribute, albeit with no animation.

I wasn't expecting much, but that's because it was a tribute and most of them are basically the same: A slide show, some music, and a common sentiment at the beginning and end.

The audio was clear, but the choice of song wasn't the best.

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Score: 2

"Not that good"

by: JKMonkey

date: July 9, 2009

Sorry to say that I really didnt like this one for a couple of reasons. One being that it was kind of boring, it was just a collaboration of Billy Mayes pictures, some of which were not very original, I think a well thought out flash dedicated to Billy Mayes would have been much better than a dull slide show of pictures we've all seen hundreds of times.

The music in the flash was good, though for a tribute to someone who died it didnt seem to right, felt really out of place to me. A tribute should have like sad song in it to help grieve, not a rock song in it, almost seems a bit insulting to Mr. Mayes.

Better luck next time man, 1/5 from me.

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Score: 1

"Badly executed."

by: Insanimation

date: July 8, 2009

Art/Animation: 0/10
There were a few pictures that you didn't make, strung together with no originality. No marks here.

Plot/Concept: 3/10
There's nothing wrong with a tribute to Billy Mays, but I think that you should have tried to be more original, rather than a slideshow.

Music: 2/10
Considering this is a man who has just died, you could have chosen a slightly sadder song. The sound quality was decent though..

Overall: 1/10
Good intentions, but you couldn't pull it off..

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Score: 3

"Needs some simple things done to it."

by: Fro

date: July 7, 2009

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I know you probably didn't have time to create something great as the death wasn't something we knew ahead of time, but there are still some simple things that you could have done without the fancy animations that everyone is talking about.

Picture quality was alright and the transitions between pictures was also alright. Nothing too bad visually.

~ Story/Content ~

Jumping on the tribute bandwagon I see. :P

Well it's basically just like the other tributes that were done without any animation.

The Bio that you used could have been much better. I think it would have been better if you put it in your own words, made it shorter, and made the text bigger/easier to read for the viewers.

I think what could have really made this better was instead of just the simple transition in between the photos that you could have used some nice quotes. For example fade the picture to black, use some nice white font to have a quote that represents death, mourning, or even a quote that Billy Mays had used himself. Fade back to the next picture, etc..

I also may think that you used a couple too many pictures. This started to drag on after awhile and got a little boring.

~ Audio ~

I think a cool thing would have been for you to add voice over for the Bio itself. That and if you were to include quotes like I suggested then you could read them out or get a voice actor to do it for you.

The music you choice for the submission was good in itself, but wasn't very tribute like. I'm thinking something a little bit sadder would have worked or if you wanted to go more comical using something from Charles Angels or Michael Jackson. :P

~ Overall ~

I myself am a fan of nonflash/non animated projects on newgrounds as long as they are done well. I think there was a lot of things that you could have done to make this submission better. Hopefully some of my ideas were good.

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