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[The Ultimate Showdown]

Another Great Toon, From a Great Musician/Animator

great job with this, personally i like ebaums world dot com better but this still get's the five. No subliminal messages i see *cough* *cough*. Great job hope to see even more of these in the future

[The Bubble Hitman]

Like zaxterian said..

it ran very slowly, if you're going to make something like this make it VERY fast paced to keep the attention on the screen and not from the little (x) in the corner

Smoke-Tower responds:

ahah ok then mate... like i said... i made this awhile back when i 1st started to make them bubble guys but i just sent this to see what the NG viewers have to say about it...

-Justin

[Lazlo "Saves" Christmas]

I have a quick Question

once you were done modeling, how do u import the animation into the flash stage? do u just export each frame as a gif and import it? if any other way could u tell me =p thanx

Very good movie Your friends and relatives will definetly love it

[Blockhead: Episode 5]

U dropped the bar...

ok 4 turned otu great, i mean swell but, ur quality of jokes and even the praphics dropped in this 1, u jsut traced bitmap like bloody crazy, and it just doens't look good with the rest of the style.

If you maintaned ur quality of humor i would not have docked u any points but i didn't even smile, good try

The-Swain responds:

Did I trace bitmaps? All the backgrounds are the same as old episodes (the outside of the house from Ep.3, the houses across the street seen through the windows of Ep.2) except for the ones I did anew in flash.

I advise that you watch the episodes for themselves, not so much in comparison of one another. Each one has something different to offer - it is too bad if you did not like it, because I try to make them genuine in and of themselves. But you can't win 'em all, right? Hope the next big release treats you right :D I promise it's going to be great for Blockhead fans and newcomers alike.

Thanks for the review though! Even a 7 makes me think that you like the series, if not this episode. I'm thinking you'll like the year's conclusion to Blockhead/

[FLY (5 Shades of Green)]

pretty good btw...

wat cell shader did you use, is there one built in to maya? if there is i haven't found it

orb responds:

There is in Maya 7, but I made this in Maya 6 (actually, back then might've even been 5). I just contstructed it myself. It's really not that hard with a little knowledge of shading networks. Make a ramp shader, and under color, set the input value to brightness. Set the Interpolation from linear to none, and put about 4 colors in, from black at the very left end, to a few shades of the color, to white or a bright color at the right end. optionally omit the whole white and black parts. Adding an edge is a little more complex, but not that hard if you know what you're doing. Make another ramp shader, change the color's input value to facing angle, and make the color all black. Just one black. Then go down to transparency and make it so that the transparency is all the way at white when you're facing it, and black when it's facing almost 90 degrees from the camera, this will create the black edge only at edges from a certain angle, like a drawn edge (although I didn't use that in this particular movie, it works well). Then, use a layered shader to put the outline on top of the cel shader.

[Idiot Ninjas 2]

i don't know....

i never found humor and animations like this, i didn't chuckle or even really break a smile. the fight scene was poorly animated and it just was kinda... boring

[Mr Shibby 7 Mini Shows 2]

to insert_pie (and the animator)

first off don't take notice of insert pie he hasn't given anything over a 3 in the first 3 pages of his reviews i read, they're all abusive. Those were great shorts not that funny but excelent fluidity

[Full Metal Sonic]

i love full metal!!!!!!

glad to see another fan, nice work... one question why did u do this and what on earth could inspire you to change the characters to the into of a tv show lol