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Shitty English roads and Driving stories From England

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First, good job. You've got a relatable voice and a common story with a few injections of humor or witicism along the way. The audio is clean and clear, so it doesn't detract from the rest of your work (and you'd be surprised how many actually manage to get that wrong)... lolz...

Okay, you've even pointed out that you want to "smooth" your animation a bit. So (just incase you hadn't thought about it) I have a suggestion or two along those lines to help (at least I hope it helps)... Take your time in the actual animating portion and build loops. These repetitive events will help you produce content quicker, since you can save them with a neutral background on your PC and use them over and over again in later episodes... This builds a library of basic functions (talking, yelling, walking, waving hands and screaming) that you might want to use more than just one episode... As for talking (at least in the beginning) you can stick to opening and closing the character's mouth repeatedly and as long as it's relatively fluid and sync's with the voice) you're good enough no one will complain (too much)... Don't forget to label loops helpfully for yourself BTW, you might really want a particularly animated version of yourself spewing obscenities and either have to settle for the kind of grumpy one originally muttering, or rebuild the whole thing...
Okay, that's a bit to digest, and with time you'll continue to grow and get better...
As for my road stories? God... If I were to tell them, it would sound like America's roads were a battleground without a single redeemable feature to the lot...
Once, I was headed down hill when a (you Brit's call them Lories?) truck came steaming around the curve and jack-knifed in front of me. Right behind me, a second had failed at cresting the hill and was similarly filling the entire road on his way down! Luckily along with snow and ice (and the treachery of zero traction) comes the advantage of slick roads and lacking traction, so I shoved the little Datsun I was driving into four-wheeled-drive mode and performed a weird combination of spinning out through the ditchline and then climbing the shear stony mountainside beyond that to avoid getting pancaked. The two (we call them 'semi's' here in the States) lories managed to utterly destroy their trailers in a 'shit-storm' of margerine and 'no-yolks' egg... er... whatever that stuff was. Once clear of the worst of the shrapnel, I slid back down the mountainside into a conveniently placed parking lot and decided to have a cigarette break before calling in late to work...
Not my worst experience on the road... But one of the top ten most spectacular... And for some grace (up to you as to where) both truck drivers were relatively unscathed in the incident. Shaken, maybe even a little stirred as well, but relatively unscathed...
Anyways, I hope you got something useful (and please use it)... out of all that...
Don't forget to breathe, relax, and keep on keeping on...

COAEM responds:

First off Thank you for the feed back thats really good and i cant say how much i appreciate it, ive recently got a new software so i have made slight improvements to the smoothness of my newest video, ill post it here soon. I need to get the hang of it so hopefully ill be onto something with this software.

secondly Fuuuuuuuck that im glad you are alright mate! cheers for sharing

Yep, that about sums up driving! I think you'd have something pretty awesome here if you put a bit more effort into the animation used to complement your epic British accent :D

My personal best driving story is when I stopped for a red light, but the idiot in the left lane blew past me and hit a guy who was making a left turn. He barely clipped the turning car's front end, but he was going so fast that his car rolled about six times before ending up in a ditch on the other side of the intersection. To make the situation even better, some people who had witnessed the accident abandoned their cars, doors open with keys still in them, to go run over and see if the guy was okay, causing other people to try to drive around their cars by using the oncoming traffic lanes. The guy who had gotten hit making the turn panicked and stopped on the far side of the intersection; didn't bother to pull off the road or get out of his car and see if the guy was okay but rather just sat there blocking traffic.

COAEM responds:

Fucking....hell thats a story and thank you for watching and enjoying it ive got more over on my youtube channel aswell. Yeah I'm definitely looking into away of smoothing out my pictures at the moment

not gonna lie this was hilarious

COAEM responds:

Thanks mate! I appreciate it and i do have more over on my youtube channel but I may slowly upload them to here too but youtube is where im more active, thanks again

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