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[Ranma½ Interactive Dojo 4]

Very Ranma like

Do you trace Ranma video captures? It's just that sometimes your art is dead on (aside from the squiggliness) and sometimes it's all squished looking.

If you'd clean up the art, added more frames of animation to smooth it out, and change Akane's voice. It's kinda funny, but mostly just annoying. The other voices are great. Happosai is dead on and I might even swear that you just ripped that off the anime, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Anyway, the reason why the sound starts playing when you have stop() on the frame before is because of a stupid Flash quirk. Actionscript doesn't actually take effect until the frame AFTER it is called. This is the same reason why you cannot load a movie clip and alter its properties in the same frame. You have to wait one frame.

Solution: Try telling the movie to stop one frame earlier, or start the sound one frame later. I'd go with the latter option.

Keep up the great work!

Dekathos responds:

Well that is very disappointing that it's a glitch. I have tried your other ideas before and I'm not sure if it works because every time I watch this it plays differently. Sometimes I had trouble with sounds coming from totally different scenes all together. What I can gather since it didn't play as badly until I added more to it, and to the fact it plays differently every time I watch, the bandwidth must be the main problem. I remember when I worked on my Simpsons movie before I separated it into 4 parts the sound would come at the wrong time. There must be a trick to it because that new movie about Mtv is fucking enormous and I didn't see any problems with voice sync that I can remember.

I hope the next installment of Flash if it is a glitch, fixes this problem. That's more important then extra tools or whatever. Yes I used screen captures! I did mention it in other reviews. Quite frankly I find it aggravating that people would use this against me when they judge this work(see the review I got from the only person that gave me a 0 to know what I mean). Of course I knew it would happen! I have been around long enough to know the majority of my audience is alarmingly negative and very difficult to deal with. I have been a fan of this site when the best thing on it was Reading Rainbow cartoons and Heroes of Cybertron. Things that were awesome then are no longer on the top 50 because of this 'holier then thou additude' about simple work. Since when did this site become a experts only crowd!? Yes I appreciate your review after all your one of the few who read my author's comment and offered help. I really apreciate it. Yes except for 'SHREK' that is my voice.

I didn't want to go into detail on how I worked on this because it would take to long. BUT so many want to know (gee I wonder why). Definetly why I need a website. So again I'll write a short summary of what I did. I was originally copying the cartoon straight from the tv then I scanned and traced it. Very bad idea. I did some free hand and tracing as well. By the time I was done with the third movie I was pretty much burnt out. Thank God I decided to use screen captures it comes out much better and if I didn't I would have never finished this. Please don't be offended by my comments but being overly critical can really bring good author's morale down or at least the ones with potential. Not me but I'm not everybody. I will try my best to do a neater job on my next work and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Sorry you had to read this rant and thanks for the review!

[Wicked-Sticks]

I'm so jealous....

...that I won't blam it. Seriously, I don't like it when people say "It's my first movie, go easy on me." I judge all movies/games on the same criteria, whether you're new or experienced, 6 or 60 years old.

It has potential. Like others have said, spend more time on it and try for a better framerate. That shooting at the end is very annoying. The movement does have some style though and at least you took a little time to put in sound fx and music.

Supergizzz responds:

True..