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[METH ORCS - INFLATES YOU BIG AND ROUND]

This is the first time I've ever seen this depicted in a way that didn't immediately make me want to vomit. Also the song at the end was A+ amusing as always.

[Claw Machine Shortfilm]

Can always count on spanish animation to be quality and weird as fuck, I love it.

SnowyPunk responds:

Hahaha thank you !

[Geno: The Star Road Warrior]

Animation wise I really liked this, though you definitely played up the edgy badassery side more than the usual vibe of SMRPG. Which is totally fine, the fight scenes ended up really cool regardless. A little controversial maybe but I don't think the song fit, it wasn't just the forest theme which I appreciate, because that would be kinda boring when we have a million of those whenever Geno is brought up, but the emo vibe and AMV style presentation came off a little silly at times. Also couldn't stop staring at Geno's legs, does he not have clothes on the bottom on his in game model? really stood out for some reason.

Also, the scene with Geno Whirl was probably my favorite part of the whole thing. Great animation there and fit the edgy take just fine, that was always my favorite ability to use. The last bit with the Smash Bros invite kind of takes away from the greater picture though. You spend a bunch of time making him badass, then compare the need for that with the need for a for fun Nintendo tournament. Those invites are being handed out for that, not subspace emissary or world of light. Everything else about it was great though.

BERALAI responds:

Completely fair points

The song was challenging to write since it makes a nod to the forest theme in the guitar run while trying to be something different. My influences were definitely on the nose too. The lyrics directly reflect disappointment of fans but also hope in seeing him brought back. Companies have refused to let him exist in future games even while the demand had been there. Perhaps its all the sakuga I've watched corrupting my art hahaha
The lad doesn't have pants. It was odd animating that portion so the boots were made a little longer to ease it up. Still odd 🤔


I think at the end I could have done better to iterate the point. A lot of fans like myself have been really upset in the past about his Smash deconfirmation. It was really upsetting. But there needed to be a proper send off for Geno fans. The end was a send off to the character saying "Although he may not be in smash, he's cool with allowing others to be instead ie Sora"
(I love geno whirl too haha)
Thanks for the watch and your critiques! 🤟

[I'll Be Blown For Christmas]

That was super cute and wholesome.
Merry Christmas Diives <3

[GHOSTBLEED: The Bio Horror (ゴーストブリード)]

Damn this is way better than anything I was expecting from you. Fuck Starbarians or established series, this is an incredible original production with great use of mixed media and visuals. Perfectly captures old survival horror games down to the dialogue which I find most people get wrong. Loved the live action outfits and those opening lines from Krieghauzer. Really sold the Albert Wesker vibes.

How long did it take you all to put this together? was it originally planned for Halloween and delayed? What was your main inspirations for the visuals and character dialogue? Also as always happy to see more stuff from you Harry, this more than anything else.

[Blunder x Blunder]

Rofl the fucking Hisoka floating along with the bungee gum balloon
Loved all the high quality animation in this one, fantastic.

[SEED]

That took a turn didn't it?
Very surreal and interesting to watch. Visually weird and satisfying to see an alien upside down world and mystery substance. The coiling through the house with the rooms made to support it was very cool. I found the ending a little odd, but I guess it makes sense. I saw the bird perch and hole to live in as if maybe the bird was a regular companion and part of his ritual. But instead it seems the bird house is just there to lure unsuspecting birds for food? I did like how the bird was essentially made of ink and splattered when he flapped his wings, and just a bunch of bones underneath. I think as a longer animation there could have been more after the reveal of what's inside the little planet. But obviously animation takes a long time and this was likely a huge amount of work.

Also now seeing this is a part 3, so I'll have to watch the others, great job and great animation.

InsektAnim responds:

Hey! Thanks for liking it :) sad to tell you that there are no other parts. Before I finished thisboroject, iposted what I have done in seperate episodes. But nowthat everything is finished i posted this as one little movie. Sorry for the confusion.
But if u liked this, i have lots of other short little stories that will scratch the same itch if you have one. Check my YT channel for more :)

[Space Leaf]

That's some solid animation, where was he keeping all that goo?

[Spooky Month - Tender treats]

I really wasn't expecting a spooky month this year after how amazing the last one was with all the collaboration, great animation and awesome backgrounds. AND YET HERE WE ARE AGAIN, AND ITS JUST AS GOOD!

I feel fucking spoiled. I love this series and I'm happy it hasn't gotten old being a year apart. Started off as a silly ass joke, continued from there, and now there's an actual underlying plot of some kind and established characters. So incredibly cool.

Gotta say I really liked the villain this time around and all the sound design with his footsteps and movement. Also his expressions, very imposing, very creepy but also funny. I think my favorite scenes were in the meat locker, and the haunted house with the vampire guy doing the cape mirror trick and the bathroom stall looking like the inside of a Walmart. Humor and drama was really on point.

Thanks a lot to everyone who worked on this, and Pelo for providing YET ANOTHER 11/10 Spooky Month.

[Darkstalkers REANIMATED]

There's a face I haven't seen in awhile. This looks amazing, it must have taken a long time to animate so smoothly. I really missed out on the Darkstalkers series. It has such amazing character design, but I never really grew up with it to get the same nostalgia others have. It's hard for me to pick up a fighting game and play through it unless there's a really good single player mode, which all modern fighters besides Blazblue seem to lack.

Anyway, you did amazing. Going right in my favorites

MichaFrario responds:

Thanks! I didn't grow up with this, first played DS in the mid 2010's Older fighting games like Soul calibur 2 had nice single player modes