Score: 9

"Didn't love it"

submission: the Last of the Dashkin

date: December 10, 2009

I know you've been wanting to fully explain the origins of Bitey for a long time, but it almost seemed like you rushed into this. Something about having a narrator just felt like lazy story telling. Maybe not so much in explaining his origins, but explaining how he feels about his situation, emotions and all that. You always managed to convey how all the characters are feeling so, so well through actions alone, and I dunno. Bitey looking at other animals being with their kin, I think him wanting for more of his kind was conveyed well enough without someone explaining it for us.

I felt like you'd been too influenced by the people who complain that there's no story, and instead have relied on less original methods of telling a story as a result. I feel it's negatively affected this short. I also don't see why you waited to gave yourself such a short deadline for the cartoon where you actually start to go deeper into the story. It's impressive as hell that you actually made something of this calibur, but it does show in parts. I realise I might be making myself look stupid, because I genuinely have no clue how long it took for you to make Waterlollies or Littlefoot, but I assume they take months (I remember there being a massive wait for Water Lollies).

Even the graphics at parts were distractingly "flash" looking sometimes, e.g putting really obvious inner shadows, colouring entire creatures with gradients, young Bitey's head's colouring etc. It didn't look as good as Waterlollies or The Yu Yu in terms of colouring, but the animation was still just as incredible.

Lot totally in love with Lemonee Wee's design. Not so much the design itself, cos it's pretty damn cool, but it seems so drastically new that I feel you should just make it a different character, e.g, she definitely no longer suits the name "Lemonee Wee" in my opinion. She seems too serious for such a comedic name, unless this is intended.

Things I loved: the shot of the planet from space, the gorgeous globe tree setting and a lot of the scenery in general, the fact that we've seen that Brackenwood can experience other seasons, those gorgeously animated scenes of Bitey running across landscapes. Young Bitey is also pretty adorable, and I felt sad when it showed the new little foot. Nicely explained Bitey's possible contempt for Big Foots (Big Feet?).

It's also made me extremely excited for the feature film, because it DID make it feel like there's a lot more that we haven't really thought about yet. The feeling of depth this short gave with the combined elements of subtle story telling with your previous shorts would be the best thing ever.

All in all, still better than almost everything else here, which is why it gets a 9, but I think it's a step down from previous efforts. But a step down from "almost absolutely perfect" isn't anything to be annoyed about.

Score: 0

"meh"

submission: Kevski - Challenge One

date: September 22, 2009

If you're going to make little challenges like this, at least put them all in one swf so that it isn't practically on the verge of being a spam submission.

Score: 10

"Probably the single funniest thing I've seen"

submission: Waiting for the Bus!

date: September 15, 2009

on this website, that is. The "cries like a little bitch" on the newspaper, the whole set up for the thing (I was thinking myself how he managed to keep up with this bus at the start), and basically everything. Perfection.

And then the bus blows up at the end and I had to favourite it. I just couldn't not after that.

Score: 10

"Great!"

submission: Alien Warpage

date: January 10, 2009

Being an alien myself, this is great!