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[Steadfast Stanley]

YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS!!! Zombie apocalypse have been done over and over eith humans in focus(The Waling Dead) but I don't remember seeing a dog, let alone a corgi, have the spotlight.

Great style for the subject matter too even if it sort of fell a litlle during moments of the car alarm. Otherwise, beautiful work.

[Medical Maladies]

Is the medic sane enough to test them to begin with? I mean, if he's to diagnosis himself clear/clean, doesn't that make him bias and therefore liable to poor patient treatment?

By the way, FUCKING A+ on the humour and animation.(combined results)

[Rooftop Allure]

Not gonna lie or sugar coat it but, it's not that great looking for a 3D animation... then again, for a first time, not bad at all so take it for what it's worth. I think that polishing it a little more wouldn't have hurted but you still made a pretty good job nonetheless.

[Los Dias Sin Dias]

Wow... So beautiful and yet very eloquent. Not an easy thing to accomplish when doing a black and white silent animation like this. Stunningly good looking I might add.

J'adore le message.

[Hard & Soft]

Smart and funny jokes at the same time? I must've been living under a rock because I was laughing the entire time xD

[Indivisible: Self Reflection]

This take on how martial arts are taught today is pretty accurate I find. That last scene with the two of them doing the same pose after tweaking a few subtle differences speaks more than the rest of the video for me since I've been a karateka for a number of years now. And although I don't really recognize any of the techniques used, I find it very beautiful to watch them fight in such synchronicity, blocking and attacking at the same time.

Given the time frame, the level of polish and aesthetics, the choice of silent interpretation is more than adequate since one is more likely than not to be one's own worse critic and that visual representation speaks volumes in how we always try to get better when doing something. I personnally would have taken a male character as the thinker and a female counterpart that tests the techniques the former has learned. But that's just me though, I think it would have challenged the status quo of women being weaker than men but this is just as beautiful either way. Now, if only that grass in the leg wasn't there at the beginning, or even in the shot, I'd say that it only needed a better quality recording to do it justice enough.

[You Frickin Fricks!]

I remember laughing at the poor kid's rant. He worked himself up so much over a single game. Granted, he loves it but still... Was there really a need to reach such decibels? I personnaly think not and yet, I love how you make it look like pedo bear's fault that another sonic game is bad. It could be theorized that he really is, I just don't want to bother xP

Still, I love it though. Just not ok with the syncing of pedobear's arm movement with sound but mieh, whatever. XD

[Spiderman in the Kawaii W]

If I recall correctly, pokemon originates from China and since its the opening skit, I think it fits in well... =P

The rest is just hilarious and entertaining to watch. LOVE IT!!!

[Shinobi Noir Trailer]

Not gonna lie, great stuff. The problems I have though arethese.... First, the male voice is not at all appropriate as it is much louder than the girl's and somewhat distorted at times. Also, if she used her small katana(forgot the name of it) as a zip line, wouldn't she need to hook it down somewhere and somehow first? Which would mean she couldn't be using it for the rest of the video... And that brings me to my next argument, the landing. For the sake of argument, let's say she used a real zip line to get inside the building, she shouldn't waste time retrieving it if she wants to reach her target before it escapes, hence the walking hallway simply doesn't make sense to me at all if she's an assassin. Every time I see an invasion scenario in anime, the invaders are always running in guns blazing, not walking along like it's a stroll in the park.

Lastly, if you didn't get atleast a mention for your project, then those machinima folks are stupid.

Don't take what I said personnaly, I'm no proffessional and I'm not out to shut down new ideas(not a naruto fan btw) like making a modern ninja assassin video like this. I actually find it refreshing and new and fun to watch(despite its almost crippling problems), I give you double thumbs up for it! =D

P.S. I don't know why but I kept hearing the blade theme song in my head from the start of the fighting to the end. xD Am I deranged for thinking that it fits in better than a naruto OP?

Kel-chan responds:

the harpoon katana is retractable- she can shoot it into walls and pull out the blade piton. It doesn't make sense in real life but neither does batman's grapple gun but it functions the same way.

machinima published this on their page and it had a crappy response because it was pretty crappy honestly.

I had about a week to make this for the deadline whereas other people had year. I didn't know about the film festival until the contacted me 2 weeks before.

But this - like most everything are just concept vids, Depending on the response I see what people like and flesh things out more.