Score: 4

"I expected more."

submission: the Last of the Dashkin

date: December 18, 2009

Anyone else who had produced this kind of quality flash film would have received a substantially higher rating, but I've grown accustomed to an extremely high standard of Brackenwood flashes and, IMHO, this one seemed quickly and poorly produced by those standards.

Particularly on such a short project, I was hoping that the detail would be exceptional. My sincerest hope is that your next installment in this series will be all 'round better. Don't get me wrong, this is still well put together by normal standards, but I'm giving you this rating so that you are aware of the discrepancy between the quality this work and your previous Brackenwood films. I hope that you won't sit back on your laurels, knowing you're an accomplished fixture on NG. I want to see more and better animated bitey!

DO IT!

2/5
4/10

Score: 8

"Interesting Trip Hop Alternative experIment..."

submission: My Iiving City

date: December 18, 2009

I thought the beat was maybe a bit too compressed, but otherwise, the vocals are well mastered to not overpower the backing in the track. It's very ambient, until the scratching comes in, at which point (while the scratching was well executed) I thought I was sitting somewhere between alternative and Trip Hop, without being able to make my mind up as to which I was listening to. As an experimental track I thought this was well mastered and well executed, but I also feel like it might have benefited from a slightly more varied piano riff.

Score: 4

"Producing was good, but that's all."

submission: (KKK) - Rudolf dat red nose ho

date: December 18, 2009

You did a great job of sampling a classic tune, but it was badly sync'd with the preset synths for the first 1:20 or so, but the instrumental section matched really well with the beat you had put together. It's too bad because this had the potential to be a lot better. Also, I felt like the gradiose kick and snare that you picked were a bit too loud for the vocals you had sampled.

It's a very drunk sounding rat pack Xmas mix you have goin' on here, but hopefully you'll make improving this track your resolution for 2010.

Score: 9

"Where was this in your other tracks?"

submission: nothing_changed

date: December 9, 2009

I listened to a couple of your other tracks and you were making me think I wouldn't be able to give you a good review, but THANK YOU for proving me wrong. I hate giving out bad reviews. At least here I can say that you some really interesting beats and pads. I wasn't a huge fan of the bell synth, but that's just personal taste. All in all, this I thought was really well executed; it just needed a bit of EQ tweaking to bring the strings further into the backgrounds (consider using a stereo effect).

NJ!

4/5 9/10