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[Cultural Shock (Or When Anime Meets Cartoon) - Idiotopia Skit]

Knowing the history of Alex's humble beginnings makes seeing what he makes today seem all the more incredible to watch.

Seriously, from seeing the crude drawings in the very start of MFN. Then later that rough, but still very impressive bunny girl demo in 2014. I couldn't imagine you would be later drawing ANIME FILM TIER frames mostly by yourself. That stuff takes an OFFENSIVE amount of time to draw. While it's easy to just look at the cat girl (not dismissing her, she's drawn to downright professional quality), the backgrounds are ridiculously detailed, well drawn and animated. They're not static either, there's significant After Effects work at play here, particles, warping, and all of it seamlessly blended with traditional 2D animation.

Finally seeing it voice acted by a professional Japanese actress just helps sell the idea all the more.

Though, one thing. I may not be a comedian or much of a writer, but I do have one suggestion. Please, please for the love of your deity of choice, !!!INCLUDE SUBTITLES!!!. Half the jokes fly by because of the funny voices or get lost in the mixing/accents/action.

Mini rant over. Godspeed, hope Idiotopia takes off, at least in the West. Much fortune to you and your team.

-Ark

AlexCrish responds:

Thank you for an amazing overview!
You are not the first one to request the subtitles, but one of very few to speak out loud the problems unfortunately. I used to include subtitles everywhere on YouTube and then somehow forgot to do so in the last years wondering why my videos began to underperform ._.

[Rebooting the Madness 2]

It's not as solid as the first, but pretty good on its own right. It does close up the holes in the first one by having a mini prequel as the intro, althout it flows a bit awkwardly into the second part.

The second part is decent, some new agent types are introduced here and there. There are some cameos from the past episode. Its just as well animated as the first, and the designs are pretty sweet.Though althroughout, this feels like a scene in a larger video and is noticeably rushed out the door with missing scenes, sounds, repetitive music and lacking direction (As in, it doesn't seem to go anywhere). Though, the part I most enjoyed was the exploration of the facility and how the protagonist uses his limited abilities to navigate and fight.

As per the last one, the art style is fantastic.

[Rebooting The Madness]

I always find it impressive the amount of mini stories flowing into one another as the main one progresses. Makes it so the whole world feels far more dynamic.
Also does introduce quite the interesting look to the Madness series by adding new colours to the palette like in the form of the coloured glasses, the monsters and several other details, almost none of which are superfluous. The backgrounds likewise are spartan but every bit of detail introduced is typically used in some shape or form.

It does a risky thing by having each of the glasses have a different ability, but they are (mostly) well presented so the action flows better with appropriate stakes.

Overall, its one heck of an animation.

[Madness Whitehank Zero: The Mulligan]

Basically 40 minutes of White Hank kicking arse. Pretty well animated with some great sprites, sound effects and nice music selection. Although, most of it has very little tension due to the amount of sheer amount of plot armor and powers the protagonist has (and gains new ones as need be), the only time I had any measure of tension was at the half way mark at the miniboss battle. But even that is weakened by the fact that there doesn't seem to be a way the protag can die. (shot? no problem. stabbed? just fine. Eviscerated by 10 swords? You even tryin' lol!?)

I don't know about you, but I would rather imagine fight scenes involve at least a semblance of either side being able to win. Steamrolls get boring after a while.

As for plot, its sparse and mixed in every so often, I didn't really get any of it until I read some summaries.

So yeah, enjoyable, but maybe focus the creative vision a bit more.

kokkare responds:

ummm i play fnf

[Madness Combat - Teleport Interference]

A banner to serve as an example of not only what madness combat in 3D should be inspired by. But high octane 3D action scenes in general as well.

Brilliant in every sense of the word!

[Madness Implacability]

Can't stop watching cause its so good! THIS MUST HAVE A SEQUEL!!! Also, i'm curious about where the music producers keep their licenses :/