Score: 7

"remove the voiceover"

submission: Saint - Chapter 2

date: June 20, 2006

Would have been much cooler if you let the subtitles do the talking. Music was great and would have been better without the cheesy voiceover ruining it.

Score: 8

"Not a fan of crews, so this submission is gold."

submission: Strawberry Cock

date: June 6, 2006

I may have had a small hand in un-blamming this submission, as I merely posed a hypothetical question while browsing the obituaries. You see, I'm working on the new obituary layout for the redesign, and I noticed that this entry had quite a few positive reviews (more so than the usual blammed submission), and wondered if it was because it lampooned the Clock Crew a little.

It made the NG staff giggle enough to warrant bringing it back to life, I guess.

While it won't make the Clock Crew collection page or anything, it's probably worth keeping around.

Also, IMHO, it's animated just as well as most of the Clock Crew submissions anyway, so rock on Grayson Bot.

Score: 6

""Falling" animation is too slow"

submission: BLOX

date: June 5, 2006

Nice, simple theme. Fun to play and mildly addicting. I only wish the blocks didn't tak so long to fall, or I might have been willing to play for a lot more levels.

Score: 6

"Subtitles need work."

submission: Cool things to do

date: May 31, 2006

Once again, a great example of an otherwise great animation marred by sub-par subtitles. Most noticable was the "Holly Molly" instead of "Holy Moly" -- and unless it's some weird Spanish translation I'm unaware of, the end should read "Fin", no?

Score: 8

"Really funny jokes save this one."

submission: Lim & Richi: Boundaries

date: May 18, 2006

The animation wasn't anything spectacular on its own, but when put together with the audio and self-referential humor it was truly entertaining.

Only thing I would recommend in the future would be to pay more attention to the subtitles. It was one of the focal points of the animation, but you seemed to get sloppy with punctuation and spelling. I'm pickier than most, but with the text changing point size between sentences and aligning weird I think it could also be a turn-off to other people as well.

Score: 0

"If this was satire, it was pretty awful."

submission: Milosevic - a Tribute

date: April 10, 2006

I don't think this was even intended as a satirical short, just some sick kid's idea of a joke. Either way, it wasn't funny or done properly.