Classic and simple. And I agree.
Reviews for "Thumb Whores"
Compared to most of the...em... "movies" on newgrounds, this wasn't very bad. the animation was a bit akward at times, like when he walked at a angle down a 2D sidewalk, but other than that, there's a lot of potential here! good luck in the future!
Some parts of the animation reminded me of edds work, iI think it was just facial reactions. The music in the start, I think I heard it before in Oney or Pyschipebbles videos, but overall i liked this. Kinda gont confused about it though.
I've noticed a problem with your audio, it easily goes off track with the video. By means of right clicking for the drop down menu, rewinding to the beginning and playing the file again, I was able to isolate the fact that you have your audio set to event mode because the audio started again while already playing. It needs to be set to stream mode so that it moves at the same framerate as the video and not at it's own framerate. This will prevent it from going out of synchronization and overlapping itself entirely and without question. Having it in event mode prevents the music from stopping regardless of where I am in the timeline, including the preloading screen.
By process of elimination, I can determine that setting it to event mode was motivated by one of two things:
A; you weren't aware of the play settings and just let Flash select it for you by default.
B; you intentionally set it to event mode because you stumbled upon the fact that having it in stream mode sounded like shit and made the conscious decision to set to event mode so that it doesn't sound like garbled, digitized ass.
If B is correct, which I presume it is, then the reason why the stream option sounds like shit is because the audio doesn't naturally run with the content on the timeline, that is to say that the audio and the FLA file run at different frame rates and the audio is being forced into compensating that frame rate gap by compromising the audio quality to do so. Simply put, it won't start sounding good until you close that gap yourself by adjusting the FLA file's frame rate to match the audio's frame rate, because then the audio is no longer the one compensating for the gap, you are.
You could also use the reversed method of somehow creating a copy of the audio file with a matching frame rate to your FLA file, but how one would go about doing that is not within my current scope of knowledge I'm afraid.
I appreciate the fact that you animate frame by frame and created, you know, actual animation, but I've noticed from the redraw regions that you're using the paint brush tool and it's clearly apparent that it's prohibiting your abilities. You see, Flash doesn't treat the brush tool as an actual outline, it treats it as a color, so you cant just use the selection tool to delete one line and create a new one, you're burdening yourself with the task of having to erase it by other, tedious and far less clean means such as the eraser tool before you can recreate the outlining and even then I can still see the parts you erased in the latter frames of some of the animatics. I've also noticed that this SWF file lacks color, probably because the paint brush tool caused breaks between outlines that prevented you from filling them in with the paint bucket tool. Although this can happen with any type of outlining, where it's most common place is with the paint brush tool because the nature of it's dynamic doesn't allow for it to grab onto other outlines and because of it's murky nature the actual source of the break is the most difficult to isolate and fix.
If you're a mouse user, I'd recommend the line tool, you can create smooth outlining with it by means of using the curve option with the selection tool to bend the outlining to achieve the curved outlining. Furthermore, the line tool will give you greater control over the content you're creating. Additionally, if you really want that fat outlining that you get with the paint brush tool, you can do that too with the line tool by creating another set of outlines outside the initial outlines and fill the gap with the paint bucket tool. If you're a Wacom tablet user, I'd suggest the pencil tool with either the curve option or the ink option activated, not the straightening option, it'll make boxes out of your outlines.
Before you say anything about any given lacking quality in my Flash movies, most notably Evil Dead Ejaculation, the fact that the characters all have jagged outlining is not a fault of the line tool, that's the default setting that I chose intentionally as a stylistic choice.
I agree with this completely. The people who do this are clowns, but so are the people who actually give them thumbs up. Who would even fucking feed them the thumbs up?