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[Animation Test]

That's pretty cool!

[I NEED HER IN MY LIFE!]

The framerate didn't take me out of it at all- as a stylistic choice, it fit with the environment and the animation style.

What did take me out of it was the muffled and echoey audio quality. At times it was difficult to understand what they were saying, especially when it was low-energy mumbling. The acoustics of your recording environment played against you in this one. It sounded claustrophobic, which was in stark contrast with the characters being outdoors, in the open, surrounded by swamp and Ogre house.

Obviously a better quality mic is over the horizon, eventual when money can justify the purchase. In the meantime, there's a lot of steps you can do to mitigate the audio quality issues.

If you have a walk-in closet, with both ends flanked with hung clothes, that acts as a budget-friendly sound booth for when you're recording lines. Lots of folks do it. In addition, to avoid reverb from the ceiling, they'll hang a thick blanket overhead (not touching the actor or microphone) to absorb further reverb. I've also seen people thumbtack egg-cartons to their walls, tiled out, as a super-cheap soundproofing measure. But, you can buy the real deal sound-proofing foam for cheap, and then you can affix it with multiple 3M double-sided adhesive strips, or (what I recommend) liquid nails from the hardware store. The tubes that look like toothpaste are easier to apply than the caulk gun, but the caulk gun liquid nails are much more long term. While they're drying, you'll still want to affix them into position with thumbtacks so they don't try to peel off while it's still wet and setting.

Audacity is also a fine recording software, as is Reaper (trial version, you never have to pay for it), however, audio-processing isn't the issue. It was the mic-quality in tandem with environmental noise.

Other than that, the short was funny. I'm not really a feet guy, but that's just what makes it more ridiculous to me. Keep up the good work, and lemme know if you need a voice actor for one of your skits, I'd be down to help.

CRAZZCLUB responds:

Finally someone brought it up 😭
But yeah you're 100% right (obviously) Normally I believe I can edit audio pretty well, but this time around I think my mic broke (or is breaking [bad]) and the quality I got from the recording kinda discouraged me from trying to edit it any further. But thanks alot for the feedback tho! It's good to hear that from someone who knows their stuff.
Also I'm surprised how many ppl don't realize the foot things part of the joke 😂

[Mexican Power Rangers Save The Day!]

The best part about this was the theme song cover.

If the cellphone is buzzing, that means HIS phone is ringing.
The ICE gag goes on for too long; the pace was fine up until his bit. And his voice wasn't great as the monster- it breaks immersion.

I'm guessing the Green Ranger was supposed to be a gag about green cards or something, but that wasn't established very well.

A lot of missed opportunities for more jokes like Zordon, Alpha, their headquarters, instead of a thoughtless "Oh, they're all Mexican, so they must ALL be in front of a Home Depot."

Why's the Abuela there? She ain't looking for manual labor jobs. Why's La Toxica there? There's not a lot of thought put into this.

Missed opportunities with Rita Repulsa, Lord Zed, Goldar. Could've been Trump parallels. Could've been White Karen parallels to balance out the racial ribbing on Mexicans.

Like most things, the story untold is often more interesting.

The Power Rangers themselves, instead of calling out their animal-themed Zords, call out stereotypical aspects of Mexicans / Mexican Americans, but the only one that could really be passible as a limb of a combiner Super Robot is the dropped truck. It would've been cool to see the vehicular lineup of each Zord riding into battle, even if they were all stereotypes of Mexicans.

Like, an El Camino
A Lowrider
A Honda Civic
A Chevy Suburban

The two biggest ones, the F-150 and Suburban form the legs. The rest of them fill out the arms and chest.

The Chancla, Modelo, and Push Mower are more like their weapons. Y'know, instead of a Sword, Bow and Arrow, Axe, Spear, it could've been a whip, one of them could've had super pointy boots, a machete, and comedically someone just has a straight-up gun. A revolver with a bandolier like Poncho Villa.

All this to say, in my unwarrented constructive criticism looking at this in the under judgments, if you're going to go with stereotypes, do it well. The humor kinda falls flat because there's not a lot of thought behind it. The red ranger wouldn't call it an "Unnecessarily dropped F-150." That mfker worked hard for that truck AND its mods, he'd deem it very necessary. Probably emphasizing why it makes it way better than other F-150's on the road. It breaks the parody and makes it seem like this was written by the 50% of you that isn't hispanic.

Hit me up if you need a voice actor, I'd like to help if I can.

[Optimus]

This voice actor absolutely nailed that G1 Peter Cullen. Amazing job.

The gag was funny too, but I'm in awe at the voice actor.

Edit: I'm reading the other reviews, and I'm receptive to the possibility that it's because this is actually Peter Cullen in an outtake, lmfaooo

[DOOMGUY can't figure out the puzzle]

Oh dang this is like... E1M2 or E1M3 or something, right?

Great turnarounds, great Doomguy!

Lord-EYE responds:

It's e1m3 and thank you so much

[Trying to become a Voice Actor be like: P2]

As a voice actor, yeah Texas is a good bet. I know plenty of gays and trans there, you'll be fine. It's just getting crowded and expensive.

[I love u so much babe! [DANDADAN]]

The animation's fine, there's great post production quality to the whole thing, where things have a soft analog glow and feel, gradients applied to backgrounds that would've otherwise looked flat.

Didn't like the AI voice. It detracts from the whole thing.

plagedark responds:

im sorry :c

[Skullbeast 3 - Gloop eater]

Dang, look at 'em go. Eating all that Gloop.

It's a good thing you don't need lips to consume gloop.

[ITN 1: Stabbed]

"Did I scare ya"

YEAH.

Poor Five, I can't wait to see how this show develops.

BaconAwakenComix responds:

uhh thanks