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[Awesome Tribute]

At first, I thought this was going to be something that's already done before.

I mean, when it came to all the "Awesome" tributes that were released around 2007-2008, they all did the same thing and just mimicked Ego's style of humor, fast talking, overuse of the word "fuck". However, this is one of the much better tributes to Ego that I have ever seen. The animation is pretty good, and the detailed drawings at some scenes were done well. Not only that, you went for your own style rather than imitate Ego's. The shading also seemed reminiscent to that of Ego's a bit as well.

I also, liked the voice acting, too.

[STARBARIANS - Episode 1]

Awesome as always, dude. I can see why this took so long. Your animation just looks so beautiful and the backgrounds looks so well painted, too.

I can't wait to see more from this show.

[Superman vs Goku]

I swear, even though RicePirate is in every animation now, his Goku voice is fucking awesome. The Superman voice was not bad either.

I'm not gonna bother with the whole, "Who would win?" debate as that's been done to death.

I like the fighting scenes as the as it was so well animated. You did great with the movements of the arms and the way the bodies moves everything else.

I also like how subtle you made the long transformation scenes with that loading screen. Also, having Superman just criticize Goku's forms was pretty funny. I also liked Goku's comments on Super Saiyan 4 as it was funny.

Loved it. Keep it up.

[Dragon Ball Multiverse 1]

OK, so as far as I can tell, this is based off the DBZ webcomic that I've seen fanart of but have not bothered to read until now.

The story is an interesting concept but for guys like me, a bit of a headache to keep up with. The whole different universe thing really annoys me because it can get really confusing.

As for the flash itself, as good as the animation was, it probably needed a bit more because it felt like some scenes were traced over and had animation added to it like the VGCats comics that were being uploaded here. I even noticed a few errors here and there like when you see the shot of Goten and Trunks talking to the aliens, the hands looked messed up a bit. Which is why tracing doesn't do much good, especially when you add more to it. I mean, there was an old Kingdom Hearts manga animation adaptation that did the same thing and everything looked so poorly animated. Which is why when a comic should be adapted to animation, I think trying to animate panels should be done the same way most manga to anime adaptations do it, from what I noticed. Try having more than just characters standing there. I think adding a little more than what actual comic suggests is a great idea.

As for the music, sure it was remixed but it was fitting. But, I don't think you'll have your animation taken down for copyright laws and such mainly because your not using it for profit. Plus, many DBZ animations from 2003 and later have done it and they're still on the site up until now. So, I don't think you'll get in trouble.

Anyway, this was good for a nostalgia trip (seeing that I haven't seen much of DBZ in a while) and I noticed some improvement. Keep it up and good luck with finding voice actors.

bocodamondo responds:

much appricate for your critic!

here some replies:
"Try having more than just characters standing there. I think adding a little more than what actual comic suggests is a great idea." the thing you try to point out here is called "Filler". and filler is hated. episode 2 have more action on it. not like this one only standings around (even i didn like that myself).

about audio. yeah. maybe its ok to do it here in NG. but what about Youtube? YT is copyright claims in person!

i guess i will add voice actors into EP2.when i found some X_x

[Route 1]

Pretty good.

I've seen my fair share of well-animated Pokemon shorts on this site that ranges from the situations and areas in the games to the battles that took us a while because of difficulty or the amount of trainers we had to face. But either way, this was well animated in terms of the pokemon's movements and the way the camera changes. Though I just hated the irate shorts guy for several reasons. He was an overall annoying guy, which I guess was the intention of this because he acts like it.

I also thought the way his eye looked could have been a bit more psychopathic, too. Not just in the eyes, but in mouth too.

I also think some shading could have been used for the background or characters.

Other than that, I loved this.

[Twilight Meets a Brony]

Pretty funny.

I laughed at, "Your middle name is San Dusky".

I love the show and all but I can understand your intolerance for the fanbase.

But I feel like this has been done before alot. I mean, every show be it this or any other cartoon has a terrible side to their fanbase.

As a bit of criticism, I think you might want to work on your crazy expressions a bit. It would be a little funnier if her expressions didn't just limit to the eyes. The whole tweening did look a bit lazy on Twilight, too. But you did say you were practicing so I won't let it bother me much.

Also for music, you should try not to use the Ren and Stimpy BGM too much. I mean, it's been done alot. If anything try making some music yourself or use BGM from another cartoon. I mean alot of people use Ren and Stimpy all the time. It honestly gets old anyway. Also, the song used didn't really fit all that much.

But other than that, it was good.

[Double Dragon DragonsTale]

The voice acting is so and so. It is amusing at some parts like the black guy. But some other voices are annoying at times.

Love the way the rotoscoping was done. I'm not too big of a fan of this style of animation, but here I loved it. It was stylized well and the bodies looked right and everything. Though it didn't really go too well with the faces. I mean, it looked weird to see the characters moving realistically and having silly expressions and whatnot.

As for the jokes I did find some funny and others dragged on a bit too long. I think you do that too often with some jokes. It wears out the humor a bit. But others I thought it was pretty funny. Nice work.

[Miss Kitty Sees You]

Lovely singing voice and the whole thing was animated well. I also like the shading, too. The only thing that I have a gripe on is the background. It looks a little rushed.

First time seeing anything involving furries.

Keep it up.

[The Mustache]

Holy Shit!! That was awesome!!

Love the animation, the music was well done and the joke was totally unexpected.

I love his flipout when he shaves off half his mustache.

[Brofox Assault]

That was pretty funny and had loads of energy to it.

While I can see loads of similarities to the older awesome cartoons, it does manage to be original by adding some lines that Egoraptor had never said yet.

Also the voices were pretty good, but I thought that Fox sounded a little too much like Metal Gear Awesome's version of Snake (hence why many people compared this to Ego's stuff).

But I loved it nonetheless. Nice work man.