Reviews for Mega-Hurtz

[Unaltor]

Ok, normally I write standard reviews, but I would like to make this one also aimed at @psy0000.
I agree with him on the first point, you didn't tell us why the Robot was angry. Although most will generally accept the cliche "the robot goes evil" it is still a cliche, and it detracts from any form of characterization.

I actually liked the Trololo music. Well, I liked it juxtaposed to the dubstep. Beside each other it created a real difference between the toy and the monster. Showing change. Although, without a reason why the robot was angry it wasn't as powerful as it could have been.

Who cares about weather or not the robot could hear the screams. The screams were to add texture and power to the robot and his destruction. People were being attacked in those buildings, suffering and dying. It showed the viewer that there were real conciseness to the robots actions. I quite liked the screaming.

He is right that we have no reason as to why the robot was mad. But the ending was a little ominous. The only problem was, the robot only had power when it was big, so why should we fear it as a toy. Lighting never strikes the same place twice.

It doesn't matter that the boy was unharmed. This isn't some ultrarealistic movie. This is a cartoon. One doesn't need to follow the laws of physics. A toy robot was turned huge by lighting and attacked a city, and then was struck by lighting again which made it shrink. If someone's problems with that cartoon are that the robot wouldn't be able to hear the screaming and that the boy should have been harmed. That person is an idiot.

It was not bad. If it was supposed to be bad, than you failed at making it bad. I say good job. Maybe next time add some audio (other than SFX and screams) and maybe some character development.

kobbler responds:

Hey, first of all thanks for the review, we are more than happy to hear any and all constructive criticism and feedback.

Regarding the robots motives, we had originally planned to have some extra scenes showing the kid being very rough with the toy and smashing it against walls and such, but sadly time didn't allow us to do this (all of the animation was done in 2 days with very, very little sleep.) This is apparent in most aspects of the film.

Normally all of the editing would be done in after effects and premiere, but because we had to submit a .swf we had to do it all in flash, which I don't like doing one bit, we are looking forward to new video feature going public so we can edit everything properly and export a video file to upload.

Me and Patonion will be starting another animation together very soon, it will be uploaded under his name this time so keep an eye out for it. We wont be working to such a tight time frame so we can include a lot more actual animation and better story and characters.

Cheers,

kobbler.

[crazymadzombie]

was good but the songs that were not dubsept i found annoying while i liked the animation it could be better but i agree with elricmasnko we dont need to know why the robot was pissed all that maters is we know that it was pissed and killed some people but one thing confused me when the robot first fly's up the sound effect is one of you guys saying wusssh witch i thought was funny but then i saw that was the only silly voice sound effect mad by the robot and so that confused me anyway good flash and good luck with contest

[Jeromia]

It is a pretty good flash animation in my opinion. Although there's something most people don't get is the stuff that's posted up on NG doesn't just take several seconds (other then spam obvious)... Animations, even the worst of them (EXCLUDING spams >:P ) still takes hours to make and the most epic of NG stuff can take up to a YEAR.

And considering, the graphics here are smooth. There's nothing wrong with that. The sounds are primitive, BUT THAT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING. Primitiveness can make a flash even more entertaining to watch and in fact, in some cases, it's actually a rather ingenious film technique (in this case, 'ingenious' would be a slight exaggeration -__- )

I have no dislike for the music. The first one was a rather overused theme (it's everywhere by everyone XD HA HA! I think I'm funny don't I! >:P) but the idea of using dubstep in the rampaging scene was a nice move. It fits well so well done.

As KAOSKING pointed out, the plot was rather simple:
1. Toy robot transforms to Killer robot
2. Killer Robot rampages
3. Killer Robot goes back to Toy robot
And simple again, does not mean awful (more like 'different' if you want to be pesimistic :P). Being simple can be ingenious in some cases, and in this case, it is.

So bravo!

[sutercut]

LOL.

[lyucs]

It was interesting.
More interesting, though, was... was that the TROLOLO song? hoho