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[Galaxy Girl]

Pleasant music choice with fun colors for the Galaxy Girl, I know it wasn't supposed to make me laugh, but how happy the person in the hoodie is at the end made me laugh at how excited he was.

[Solace: In Mind]

Like most of your work this is extremely impressive, but you "cheated" too much. The holds go on for too long. Someone else mentioned the walk keys that don't have any break downs which is understandable when saving time but still noticeable due to how long they last.

Regardless of the shortcuts, you tell a lot of story in these 3 minutes. Simple stuff like the character with the peg leg in the background really seals the deal (The eevee is pushin it lol) and the choice of music is really nice for the setting you chose.

[SKRIMBO - Pilot]

Neat. Enjoyed him slapping the icecream ass.

[Pokémon Legends: Arceus Cinematic Trailer]

Neat! I like the clouds.
edit: and the snorunts walking! Footprints?

[General BBS Sketch Collab Shitpost 2021]

It's things like this that make me happy to still be on NG, thanks everyone who contributed to this masterpiece!

[Monster Lab (Finale) - Exorcism of Chris Kyle]

Hey Hunter, just wanted to say, thanks for finishing it out. Way back at episode one I was down on your story because you clearly didn't know how to write an episodic series and were making quite a few mistakes. I recall leaving a shitty review on one of them pointing to this and getting a backhanded response from you and wrote you off as someone who wouldn't ever see the problems in their work and would never improve as a writer. As time went on things progressed and a story started forming through everything but it still took some time to get there and in the end you managed to cross the finish line with it.

Fast forward to today where I saw your hiatus announcement video where you showed you were aware of the faults that the story had and the pandering you had to constantly do to appease the algorithm. You're doing well for yourself now so it really doesn't effect you too much to leave the animation "game" on youtube either way, but it was refreshing for someone to reflect on their work after earlier ignoring the issues. You could have just walked away with the cash and patted yourself on the back for making a series and never mentioned any of the problems at all. Serious respect.

If you ever do take up the mantel of director again I look forward to seeing how you move foward!

[Walk cycle with a hint of JOJO]

Hey neato stuff. The feet need more frames. It looks like they they're flipping back and fourth.

[Episode 0 - Ennui: the Show]

This is alright. Liked the guy getting pushed over. Wish he didn't catch himself. Also Chromatic aberration.

[Animal Crossing TV Series Fan Teaser]

Smooth as hell. Music is really loud.

[Disobey Cabaret]

Reviewing this is rough.

I enjoy the music a ton as it sounds close to the Jack Strauber off the wall Danny Elfman sound and the colors you choose are great, the use of red, blues and yellow works well together with the monochromatic black and white designs and all the little characters are wonderful and the expressions and character is wonderful. Stylistically it is a little cliche here and there (black ink covering character ) but the presentation makes it work and it fits with the music.

Here's where it falls short for me: The animation is too limited and makes the whole presentation feel stiff and janky and not in a way that feels good. Stop motion is really time consuming so I understand cutting some movement corners and I enjoyed shots like the shaking legs, but it feels like the amount of "cheats" in making the armature's movement come from physically moving it instead of frame by frame animation with stop motion cheapens the experience in conjunction to the slightly animated parts. The best animated parts are the monochromatic scenes at 0:26 but even that has similar timing problems to other parts like the tongue coming out 01:49. Everything is too fast and happens in an instant.

This videos style and presentation alone can make this a 5 out of 5 but the animation in execution holds it back from getting there. I'm giving this a soft 4 as opposed to a hard 4.5 because an obvious amount of care and love went into this project but I desperately wish this had better animation to go with it