Score: 10

"Very Nice"

submission: Evolution (Cell Stage)

date: July 11, 2008

Extremely well animated. Props

Score: 10

"Stunned"

submission: |~SpeedAnim:BattleCool~|

date: July 10, 2008

I've watched a few of your videos after you were named king of the portal. i can see why your king. great work

Score: 10

"One Complaint"

submission: Tactical Assassin 2

date: May 19, 2008

This took your freaking forever to put up. MAKE MORE!!!!

The option to customize weaponry was a great but somewhat unnecessary change. Overall, great game, as usual. KEEP IT UP

Score: 10

"Impressive"

submission: {B.A.B.} Obsidian Horror

date: August 16, 2009

I'm a member of the marching band where I attend school, and this is probably comparable to something we would march to (though i doubt we would have the capacity to have a marching choir and marching orchestra, but you get the drift). Very well put together, and the percussion effects and ensemble at the beginning add a great opener for the piece.

Score: 8

"Sweet Brass"

submission: Big Things/Small packages

date: February 18, 2008

I agree with what has been said earlier about this piece, and for once the repetition in this song helps you. Now a few general comments before I go in depth about the pros and cons of this song.

The brass effects and higlights really help you. The string movements provide a dricing feel that help you to get the feel that I hope you were looking for.

Next, We'll go in depth on what the anatomy of the song feels like to me.

00:01, the introduction of this theme helps to establish a feel of light triump. It feels like it wants to move, and the insistent rhythym helps you to get some sense of travel.

00:15, we see an entry of a brass theme and a violin effect that helps to bring a sense of sweeping grandeur. I get the feel that a horseman is riding towards a cliff, and all of a sudden the camera goes overhead and we see that grand canyon. It has a sence of revealing what is going on and revels a sense of awe.

00;28: Violin take over helps here. Breaks this low brass concept that has dominated the piece so far. This helps to bring a sense of alleviation and brings about a key change if i hear correctly, or atleast a tonicization of a different key. This helps to bring about some change in the texture.

00:43: Brass takes melody and you further develop. This chorale effect and layering work that you did here is amazing. I like how we have the violin in the background continutally pushing and making things move. The brass chorale helps to further accentuate this sense of grandeur, and that really helps your feel for a nice pbouncy movement.

00:55: New counter melody is introduced. This counter melody is something that you might want to further harmonize with the main melody as to give a sense of building, before you fade off again. Using that metaphor of the horsemen, I invision a small encounter with short people, which culminates into a grand celebration. After this celebration, the horsemen leaves once more.

:01:04: Trumpet fanfare and melody comes back. This gives a climaz to the piece, seeing as it is the only time you use trumpet in this entire piece. It is a grewat accentuation, and it a nice little add on. I would reccomend that you use more trumpet, as it is a very strong and noticiable instrument. If you want to give anything more flair, always either add timpani or trumpet.

Overall, I'm docking you two points simply because I don't think this song is a great work of art. While admittedly it is nice and jolly, and I can understand why people like it, I simply don't like a melody sticking around in the low brass for an entire song. While it feels like Copland, It doesn't have quite the melodious aspect of Copland. Think of a good melody that you can truly develop and variate and you'll get a higher score.

Score: 7

"Not my style but..."

submission: ~The Girl From Memory Planet~

date: February 18, 2008

I'm a Jazz/Classical/Rock kinda guy so I don't generally venture into this genre. However I have to admit that you did a pretty good job with this song. The chords get repetitive after the first minute or so. Try modulating into a major key just to give it some twist. Or atleast twist it into a different key. The same synths, drums and piano can get nauseating.

Also, the vocalist is very, VERY hard to hear. Try and amplify that more so it covers the background. I feel that if you had the voice be a primary part of the song, I would have given you a higher score. Work on your balances so that you can actually here the girl's voice. That is after all, the one doing the story telling.