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[Vergil's Motivated. Will Bloop survive?]

This was awesome! I can't believe it only got 5th place! I know nothing about Vergil. I at least know about "Devil May Cry". It's great to see this spectacular animation. Yes, I know what the Bloop is.

It was in fact disproven. This was still fantastic, what with all the reactions and everything. It continually makes jokes for five minutes. The "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" thing is way more outdated than anything else. Is there a "Devil May Cry" section here?

Bobert-Rob responds:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's a Devil May Cry section or playlist or whatever. It's an older series, but it certainly has its place on NG. I only ever played the 2nd one myself (often lauded as the worst), but a fan donated money and requested I do something with the Vergil character, so I figured why not? It was fun enough. I'm glad it's getting any kind of recognition, it's really difficult to get anyone on NG to really pay attention to my work.

Oh, and yeah, Bloop's fake as fuck. But that's part of why I use him. I can do whatever stupid shit I want with the character and it doesn't matter.

[Pocket Kim]

Was she directly talking to me, the audience? Anyway, I'm too tired to do that. Whatever, this is still fine. I just wish it was, you guessed it, longer. The animation is still pretty good. She doesn't need a nose.

She looks so small. It looks like she's on a desk. Like, she got shrunk down or something. The shading's pretty good. I appreciate small details like that.

do-ubt responds:

I appreciate your comments.

It might be directed at you; feel free to interpret it as you like. But if you ask me... it's talking to Scott, haha.

This was just an experiment; I'll bring longer proposals soon.

[Zwic - animated short film v1]

Congratulations on your graduation! I love this animation! It seemed like it was taking a darker turn. I mean, everyone would be drowning! They seem to be doing just fine. It doesn't seem like weather that would make any sense.

Then again, it's still wonderfully creative. I thought it was a dream or metaphor at first with how everything was suddenly underwater. It was in fact real. I don't know what "Zwic" means. What a great way to cool off.

SALCUL responds:

Zwic is the name of the city (and it comes from (Ze Water Is Coming) and it looks Croatian)
thx for your message♥

[ZIP-LOCK]

I liked this, but I just didn't think it was great. It was mostly because it was too short. It would have worked better as like a gif. Well, it probably needed sound. It was fine as something quite short. I loved the title.

It was indeed experimental. I can like those. This just didn't amount to all that much. This reminds me of some other stuff you did. The spikes are a nice touch.

jumpbreak96 responds:

zipy is boring ... just presentation ; there will be Stuff with way More production in some months (january?) with zippy; thanks

[Coffeezilla - Animatic]

This was a great capture of the film! I was thinking this might be part of a re-animated collab. It seems like everything is nowadays. It's just a great cartoon in itself. I do indeed remember this. I don't drink coffee.

You can tell he's young. I love how realistic this movie was. They manage to capture the spirit of a kid this age so well. With a movie about a giant robot, that's hard to do. I do recall the '50s setting.

GoldennJoy responds:

Yes! This movie is a classic. I love the way it was set in the late 50's and how they managed the topics around those years. It's kind of refreshing watching this movie nowadays, especially the way they wrote Hogarth as a curious kid with a good heart and intentions.

Thank you for your words. :)

[The Looter - Episode 2: The Looter Makes An Elderly Delivery]

As an earlier episode, this isn't as good. It was still fun to see how some of the story started. I don't know where the "elderly" comes from. They were right! His head really does look like a toothpick! The designs are always funny.

I just missed the puppetry. I didn't recognize any stop motion in this. The animation has improved. It's interesting to note you escalated in running time with each submission. This was still fun.

TheFroginator responds:

yeah probably my least favorite of the bunch. I completed this one in under 2 months and it shows hahah

[El Dorado Reanimated - Scene 165]

That was quite good. I liked how you showed the original scene side by side. Wait, why would you need to show that part at the beginning? I mean, it was still interesting. It seems like you guys could just submit each part and not the whole thing. This is still nice.

I'm not a fan of this movie. I appreciate how loyal you are to the original movie. I do understand people like it. Again, I'm more into "The Emperor's New Groove". It's just funnier.

violxiv responds:

It's just a nice reference to have so people can compare the original to the reanimated. It's not in the final product.

[The Looter - Episode 1: The Looter Almost Gets Killed]

It's interesting to see how the animation has improved. I mean, it was in fact already great with the puppetry. I just wish there was more detail with the actual animation. Of course I got what I wanted! Being the first episode, I knew this would be shorter. I thought it would be more of an origin story.

I mean, Drake just came out of nowhere. I really liked the animation and puppetry interaction. This didn't have that much of a story. It still worked very well. The other installments are better.

TheFroginator responds:

Hehaha thank you for the feedback! Yeah this was actually more a of a proof of concept. Maybe try to view it more as a pilot! Perhaps one day I'll get around to animating the origin story, I can assure you there is a proper one!

[A KING NO MORE (Conceptual)]

Dang, I noticed there were 35 seconds of logos! I've never seen them go on so long! Oh no, now I'm turning into "CinemaSins"! Anyway, this was a great cartoon. It could be a full cartoon in itself. We have a lot of short ones winning Daily Feature.

I don't know what language this is. It certainly looks nice. I already feel sorry for this guy. At least he didn't die. Hey, that rhymes!

mohdfikree responds:

Thank you! Also, I apologize for the 30+ second intro—won't happen again, I promise. This is just a concept, but I'm hopeful that the full animated feature will be more captivating, especially with the lore I've crafted for it.

As for the language, it's a completely new language I've developed for this project, both for this conceptual piece and the upcoming full-length animated feature.

[Bagle]

This was pretty good. I don't recall these characters eating souls. Well, they've been in every scenario already. I appreciate this gorgeous animation of course. 5 second movies are longer than this! At least they're technically nine seconds long.

I do like bagels. What about Foamy? Well, he's just not as entertaining as these characters. I appreciate how there's still original ideas. You spelled "bagle" wrong in the tag!

GlitchArtTV responds:

Sometimes i think you don't undertand the joke.