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[A Fable II Experience 2]

Evolution of a comedy

I was glad to see a second Fable II experience, since I enjoyed the first one so much. And it was gladness well rewarded. The sequel is faster, funnier and overal a better animation.

The animation style fits the subject matter well; it's cartoony visuals and interesting character designs worked really well.

The quality of the animation too was fluent and kept a feeling of professionalism throughout the piece. I have one complaint in that when the dude at the end is tossed through the window, there isn't an effect of smashing glass, more of a magical appearing hole in the window . Though this is just me nitpicking.

The quality of the voice acting was one issue that I had against the previous, particularly John who sounded like he was having trouble reading his script. However thankfully this didn't impair my experience this time. The speed of the voices is very noticeable, delivering punchlines at a rapid pace before we can react to the zinger proceeding it. It also makes the occasion embarrassing silence have that much more of an effect.

The hero character (forgot his name already) has lost none of it's appeal; the guy oozes a combination of idiocy, heroism and smugness, which gives the character a fresh characterisation and sense of a new face to the already impressive collection of newgrounds characters. John has grown as a character from the previous animation. Before I felt like he was more of a normal guy, who occasionally got his own back on the hero for picking on him. Now he comes across as more of an asshole, and more of a representation of the randomers who occasionally join in as a co-op partner and this sort of game; the sort of burk who comes in and fucks everything up.

Overal a massive improvement. Anticipating the Fable III experience.
And for the sake of argument, you suck, this is stupid. It's nothing like Fable II and Fable II is out already you idiot, LOL ROFLCOPTER
Plus John looks like vault boy. Nothing wrong with that, just saying.

WhiteLightning responds:

Thank you very much for the in-depth, awesome review. I think I'll post this to my Facebook page :)

[Dude, Check My Car!]

Sucks to be you now buddy

Well executed bro. Funny and with perfect timing.
The animation works well too, and the sound comes out smooth.

Hard to fault this. Great job.

[Zelda: A boring day]

Pretty cool

Popular franchises like Zelda are rip...sorry "Parodied" all the time by fans without original idea's. So to find a gen in the fanboy filth pile is always satifying.

Firstly I love it when the style is done faithfully, especially in a solo movie like this. Wouldn't necessarily fly in a collab, but it works well here.
The quality of the animation too is well done. It moves fluently and really shines out in amongst the afore mentioned dirt pile.

The sound is taken from the game, which adds a new depth to the faithfulness of the movie. Much better than you attempting what you think he should sound like, but then again the movie dosen't need voice acting to deliver it's punchline (pardon the pun).

This leads me to the content. The joke was well executed and funny. Not LOL funny but I could appreciate the joke.

I love when a film ticks all my boxes, and this one did. What really sold me was the animation itself. It really shows when more effort is put in, and this really did.
You can appreciate animation a lot more when it is a parody and not your own jokes with over used character designs.

ScottFalco responds:

Haha yeah the fact that so many get submitted, and the length of my flash was why I was hesitant to upload here

And thank you, I tried to capture Wind Waker's style, and actually looked at a ton of screenshots from the game in order to draw Windfall, its also animated at 30fps

And yeah, for something like this, voice acting wouldnt of worked

The joke was mostly just supposed to be unexpected, and give people a bit of a chuckle,
as mentioned, this was mostly for practice, and so a huge LOL moment was not the point

and thank you, I love when people appreciate the animation and the time put into it

[Madness :: Smoking Kills]

Shaping awesomely

I'm glad that you refered to this as a prototype. Be awesome to see what evolves from this.

[Press Start: Chores 2]

S'alright

First press start I've seen, and to be honest not too impressive.

The animation was my main concern with this. It was very rigid and lacked any real sort of movement. The main problem was probably keeping the body upright, and only moving certain body parts at a time.
The character design also left something to be desired. While I did like the designs, the edges seemed very straight and somewhat disproportionate.

The writing was pretty good though. Some funny jokes in there that kept me detracted from the areas of the animation that I disliked.
Voice acting was pretty good. Clear audio and the voices matched the characters, both in tone and pace.
Finally the background worked very well. Worked well with what was one screen. I also liked the choice of music, which really fit the scene well, and didn't drown out the audio.

In the end, a funny video which suffered at the hands of poor animation.

[A Fable II Experience]

Most awesomeness

Really enjoyed this.

First I'd like to compliment the writing. Personally I love this type of odd humour, though I imagine other's would not. Individualism and all that.
The voice acting was great too; clear and concise. I especially enjoyed the main characters lines, which really defined his character as an arrogant and weird wannabe hero. However the character of Jon's line were very slow speaking, like he was doing an impression of the other character. A bad impression.

The animation was very well done. Smooth frame rate makes all the difference to me.
The art style was great too. Gave the characters a very cartoony feel to them.
The backgrounds were well done also, maintaining that cartoony feel.

In short, great presentation, though a lackluster performance from the supporting character Jon.