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[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

[SPACETIME THE TRAILER]

Looking forward to competing with this and all the other space shows people are making these days! Please work on this as a show!

[False Memory]

Very divided on this, the animation and art are spectacular and they almost do the right amount of corner cutting to be close to what they need, but it's writing is based off of FLCL which means it's gonna be whacky off the wall stuff so it's hard to watch that stuff. Also seeing some comments about this not being Extra Terribles's work is concerning, don't know what's going on there.
Edit:Thanks for clarification guys! Hope the project goes well

ExtraTerrible responds:

Hey Ozone,

This is an official collaboration between ET and FlintSugar, they actually oversaw the casted and approval of the VO cast and since they are based in China gave us their blessing to upload here for wider audience reach.

You can even watch the original and give the FS crew a follow in the description.

Thanks!

[Astromon! (TV SPOTS)]

While this ad spot is enjoyable it seems to have nothing to do with the log line. I'm curious so I'm gonna hit the suspicious link, but as for right now I'm not sure what the show is about.
Edit: Alrighty I'm filled in now. Good luck fellas! Seems like a mismash of a ton of crazy shit but it'll be cool if you can pull it off!

DannyGoodShirt responds:

You're absolutely right, this has nothing to do with the logline. Honestly these bits were just for fun.

[The Sheriff Bean Kickstarter FAIL video!]

Bro we can upload live action stuff to Newgeounds? Woah! Might as well quit working on Knight force and focus on my acting chops

[American Penis]

Congratz on daily first for doing nothing, where's the Eva Collab?

[Hair Scare Food Court (PARAPPA 2 FAN ANIMATION)]

Who did all of this? It's pretty good!

[Monster Lab - The Tooth Fairy (Episode 2)]

Hire a writer, the animation was fine.

[Chutney Island Adventures EP 7]

Damn dude what a shot!

[HIISI SENGEN]

Thank you.