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Go for it!

I think this is excellent work. I really appreciated the music style, which had a nice groove and fun beat. The cartoon video is a nice addition. Your characters are actually quite cute, and the whole ensemble seems credible. However, it wasn't obvious to me that the female character was actually there to parody the use of sexuality in other music videos. I just thought she was supposed to be the main centre of interest, appearing like in regular music videos (this might be partly due to the title of your video). For this, you might want to work on that aspect, if it is really important to you. But it occurs to me that, considering the excellent music style, your videos would be just as much enjoyable without green alien female tease. Oh yeah, and that short guitar player, with the hat and glasses... he needs to get dressed! Give him a black tux!

Other than that, this was a really cool video. I say go ahead with your concept, as it even has good music to back it up.

MooseMouse responds:

Thanks! I guess the "joke" with the girl alien is that although her only purpose in the band is to press the squeaker button, she still gets most of the camera time and the frontman(woman) of the band. I think the bass player probably just forgot his pants.. he seems like that type. Thanks for the detailed feedback!

Wow!

Now that's some good stuff! There's so much going on in this movie (or whatever I should call it), I don't know where to start this review! First of all, as it has already been said, even though there are (over!) fifteen short movies, you never get bored. You need a lot of imagination, and inspiration to create and animate it all—I know that for sure—and you did it. The simple graphic style is not at all at your disadvantage, because everything fits well together: it's simply a matter of integrating graphics, style and music. Well done. The animation itself was surprising: you've got good synchro with sound, and I suspect you'd be able to animate nicely objects or characters that would be much more complex (why don't you try it out?). And finally, your music is a delicious assortment of videogame pieces, most of which are from some of my favourite games of all time! You've got a sense of good games (and game music) ;)

Sincerely, I hope you don't get blammed for this. It's really nice stuff—easy to overlook, alas—but a tasty buffet in its essence. I voted 5, as much as my 7.03 votes allow me to vote. Keep it up!

sticktale responds:

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!

This is EXACLTY the stuff that I like people to see in the movies, and it's gerat encouragement, too.

Noting beats videogame remixes, right? Right. :)

This is going to have to be a yes, but no critic

Well, first off, I'm gonna vote 4. Because I used to be a fan of Rare, and because JFG was a really great game, that unfortunately never had the success it really deserved. Thanks to you for reminding me that there are people out there who enjoyed this game and who still do.

The animation was fun to look at, but I gotta say, even though there definitely was some effort put in there -and it shows- something makes this animation disappointing. I'll tell you what I think. By setting your plotline 78 years after the JFG events, you at least have to detach a little bit from the original storyline. But there is nothing much other than you new character to show that this story is different and is happening 78 years later.
Music wise, I can't really criticize for using JFG's incerdible soundtrack. But I can say that the music is a little too omnipresent in the movie. Since you already had sound effetcs and dialogues to support your storyline, you didn't need to insert music track after music track in your movie. A few silent moments would've allowed, in my opinion, for a little diversity in the flowing of the storyline.
Your animations (for example, your Sledge character's walking) have a bizarre feel, but at the same time, and as I already mentioned, it still shows that you tried and that you spent some time working on that aspect.
In the end, this animation isn't necessarily the best around, but it's far from being among the worst. Cinematographically, it left me with a "yes, but... no" feeling. But in my heart, just the fact of thinking about making a JFG tribute, and moreover the fact of actually doing it and investing over 60 hours working on it, is priceless.
Thanks for making me remember what a great game JFG was.

Bigfoot3290 responds:

Hey man, no problem. I agree with you on a lot of things. First off, yes, JFG never really did get the attention it deserved and i had a ton of fun playin that game (athough i never did find all those tribals). Secondly, i agree with you that Sledge's walking animation is a little bizzare (robotic may be a better word). It was by far, the hardest part of this flash for me. The soundtrack- heh, maybe i got carried away, but i really love the music Rare composed for the N64 title. And yes it's true, the storyline isn't far from the original, but i felt if i strayed to far from it, the movie wouldn't really feel like a tribute. Thanks for the comment :)

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