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[cell phone]

There are some questionable stylistic choices here, in my opinion, the unchanging background or the blue character being uncoloured at the end, things of that nature. That said, I do really like the art here. This is definitely proof that Flash animation can be used to create "fine art" in a sense. Nice piece overall. Good work! Hope to see more. :)

[Pol & Pot]

That was excellent, honestly. Really didn't see that coming, and the end was so well delivered. Great work!

[Childhood trauma]

Glorious, truly. Great work, love the animation style.

[Channel intro]

Not bad, I think the introduction is all good and such, and I'm sure your ideas for animations will come out well! What I would say you should improve on is mostly visual delivery, just paying attention to fine details. For example, the part with the "weird things" bucket, as the character falls in they are not filled in with color (even white would work) so the line for the bucket can be seen through the character as if the character was transparent, which is a little strange. I also think some more work put into the backgrounds could go a long way! You could keep it mostly black and white if you want, but just doodling some little scenery behind your character would just make the whole animation more visually appealing.
As far as your audio goes, I think you should make sure to apply some mastering to the audio track to ensure you don't have any clipping if at any point you choose to get loud (which is something you did here). You would want to use a limiter for that and ensure that the audio never crosses over the 0 dB threshold. An EQ would also make sure that the audio sounds full the whole way through.
Overall, good work, and I hope to see more of your work in the future! Good luck :)

LittleBigChaos responds:

It's my fist time I'm still learning and I have a lot of problem while saving file :C
But thank you for your advice ;3
And yes I would love to colour it but I have animate only for 6 days ._.

[Pilot - Wrinkles and Fun]

This is pretty good! I really enjoy the animation style (I find the walk cycles quite funny), and the humour is pretty good. The sad bit and the end there was a nice touch. Also the backgrounds all look very good. I'd say the biggest thing that could use work here would be the audio quality. Some times the voices are a little hard to understand due to the volume mixing with the music, and perhaps the recording quality. Otherwise, well done! I enjoyed it.

[Pmation: "Fire Straits"]

Truly wonderful! I love the style, the characters, the sounds, the voice acting, and I especially love the over-the-top character animation, it's perfect. Really reminds me a lot of Spongebob in the way the characters move and act, which is great! One of the best animations I've seen in a while, you deserve these stars, great work!

[The Chernobyl Cigarette Anthem]

Another awesome submission. Really love the background work in this one, and the puppets look fantastic as always. The video effects turned out great in this one, and I think particularly the colour keying was really well done this time around. And of course, the song is A+. Great work, I love it. :)

[Careless Episode 1]

This is pretty cute! While I do like the simplistic style you were going for, i would like to see this be at least a little bit more fleshed out. I think some more work in the character design would be nice. Backgrounds are a really big thing for me, and you don't really have any of that going on here. Anything is better than nothing, just some splashes of colour, or if you wanted to keep it black and white maybe just some little details to give it more of a setting. You definitely could have spent some more time on certain drawings; for example, the table doesn't look all that great. Also, for the animation style, I do like the sort of wobbly effect you achieve by having two different drawings of the characters alternating between each other, but I think it should be a little bit less extreme to make it easier to look at, and maybe include a few more different drawings and frames so it doesn't look quite so jumpy but does still create that effect. Finally, I think you could put a bit more work into sound effects, even if it's just simply using more sounds.
Like I said, I can definitely appreciate the style you were going for, so I put my vote this high out of principal, but I really do think it could be carried out a bit better. If you have any questions, feel free to message me. I'm looking forward to seeing more from you!

Demetrios responds:

Thank you for the time to type this out! I enjoyed making this animation and it seems we as viewers loved watching it! haha!

As for color, sounds and other great additions, I have a plan to bring them into the following episodes; with each and every episode it should slightly increase in quality. Stay tuned!

Thank you. :)

-Demetrios

[Rabbit Travel - Nut]

Nice, I love this. The characters look excellent, and are animated very skillfully. The backgrounds look awesome, and the sound effects are put to good use. Really nice work overall. Personally i'd just like to see it be a bit longer, that's all. :)

VolFMaple responds:

Thank you!
It takes a lot of time to make even that short cartoon.
I'll try to make longer cartoons in future)

[14 year old first fighting animation]

Pretty cool overall. My favourite part of this was probably the time travelling aspect, although a little bit more variation in the scene following it would have eliminated a bit of the confusion I felt there. I mean, I figured that the red would do something different after having done that but after seeing them do the same things (in other words, after watching the same clips over again) for a while I started to wonder if that was what was really happening. I think the animation is style is mostly good, but could be smoothed out a bit more. I like the background design for the most part, although I would have added a little bit more variation in the sky colour, maybe by using a colour gradient so that it would be a bit more interesting. I do like the way you drew the clouds though.
I think the biggest thing here is the character design and animation could be improved a bit, particularly the action poses. In it's current state it is kind of like watching two ragdolls fight. The way they stand and also lie on the ground just looks a bit... unnatural, I suppose. It's lacking that sense of action you feel when you see, say for example, a DBZ character flying with their arms and legs bent a bit, flexing as if they were about to fight (because, well, they are). I hope that makes sense.
Nice work overall, keep working on it and I think you could easily make something deserving of more stars. If you have any questions, feel free to message me. Looking forward to seeing more. :)