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Age/Gender: 23, Male
Location: England
Job: CG Graduate
I am Simon McClure. This is my old Clock Crew movie account. I use this to post movies I wish to share, however doesn't display my best of artistic skill. For my newest work, please click "mrSimon NG account" above.
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Whistle Status: Normal
Exp. Points: 90 / 100
Exp. Rank #: 204,904
Voting Pow.: 3.39 votes
BBS Posts: 7 (0 per day)
Flash Reviews: 13
Music Reviews: 0
Trophies: 13
Stickers: 0
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13 Reviews | 6 w/ Responses
I have been voting zero since its release, and have managed to decrease the movies score by 0.06. I intend to continue until this movies below 3.
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Great job Star Syndicate! :O
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Thats cool. mrSimon, I didn't mean to single your work out.
I would have happily showcased your movie if there wasn't for this dumb 2 meg limit on movies that get certain scores.
Plus theres this daily2oon shortage going on.
I'm glad you know all sides of the story.
since were all square.
Interested in taking part in the Power ranger daily2oon or any other of the themed daily2oons?
I'll try not to single pepole out again but i have to be tottally sure about it before going over 2 megs.
-PowerRangerYELLOW
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..except yoyo's. Seriously, why did you pick him? He should die and burn already.
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You suck at being anyone
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"This deserves my longest review, seriously."
Seeing this on the front page, I thought I'd extend my original review (As 'mrSimon'). There is seriously nothing special about this toon. As a brit, I know a many good things that would be a lot better to poke fun at rather than the fact we're foreign and this please thing? I seriously dont get that. You're illustrating a simple language barrier and developing that as a joke, and if thats the case it would have worked a lot better if it was 'The americains guide to foreigners'. It would have highlighted the fact americans love themselves a lot more effectivly than this toon did.
The style of presentation and 'comical timing' of this toon is nothing differnt from any other high performing "sit-com" style toon you get on Newgrounds (For instance, Legendary frog and Illwillpress's submissions). There is nothing special about the graphics either. Sure, you can do the whole 'head swap symbol' deal, thats great, thats excellent, but a little more movement would have been better. On an upside though, kudos for background motion in the main scene. It was'nt a lot, but its a lot more than we get in other submissions.
I agree with the score this submission currently has, as you have got great potential in the technical area, however your humour is seriously lacking. You need to spend some time and research into common UK (or any countrys) traits and such if you're going to get a topical comedy right. However I dont see why on earth this deserves front page at all. There have been a lot of high performing flashes recently, the worst of which are 10 times better than this. You must have gotten lucky as Tom came to London.
So the bottom line was, this was crap, but you might not be. Spend more time into your next submission, script-wise.
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In a response to an earlier review, heres how to fix the music from sounding crap when exporting as streaming audio.
When exporting your SWF, make sure streaming audio is set to MP3, 128kbs, Best quality. If the file is too big, try decreasing the bitrate (The 128kb part), until theres a good balance between quality and size.
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ahh ok ill give that a try. Thanks man.
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I particulary like the audio commentary :D
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My highlight of clockday 2004 :D
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yay! thanks for the awesome site Koala!
with a stable CCUK the Crews future is secure. <3!1 ^_^ \m/
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Some great comedy, and typical action movie conventions in this clock day release.
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I.. love... You...
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Your unique graphical style is real pritty, along with hyper excited Wade :D I loved the Dodger chase part, real unexpected and funny. I did'nt like the lazy astons at the end though :P Good work on the whole though
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Thanks! What's an aston?
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