Sminky animation fad

Sky King wrote: »

Do you do anything creative yourself or just pick holes in other people's output?

I've been making Flash long before Sminky made it big. The whole "accent" thing isn't enough to make an animation good. A ****ing mouse saying that's right isn't funny. The Cock a doodle doo one is just a bunch of heavy chav talk and is downright unwatchable.
I also want to point out Sminky's attempted censorship of my video(s) criticizing him. Not so much of a good guy, now is he? One I got back up, the other is still down because some jackass flagged it as "bullying, threatening, or harrasment". None of which it was. Because he couldn't handle some guy on the internet criticizing him.
For he record, I DO live in Cork. I get the concept. It just so happens that IT'S NOT FUNNY. So I also have to endure knackers quoting Sminky constantly, but that's a different story.

reginald wrote: »

Its a simple minded humour, for simple people imo, not in the least bit funny. Slapstick at its worst. Aimed at country people with very sheltered lives

Slapstick is physical comedy. Sminky shorts is verbal comedy. What was that about being simple?

MikeyS9607 wrote: »

Turtle falls into a water. Goat hits tree. Very basic ****. Doesn't make it any better.

You're just jealous that he's being signed and you've done f*ck all.
Though you could make funny some clips with your hysterical voice

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

You're just jealous that he's being signed and you've done f*ck all.
Though you could make funny some clips with your hysterical voice

There are better, more successful animators to be jealous of. Like Lauren Faust, Egoraptor, Adam Phillips.
Why would I be jealous of Sminky being owned and controlled by someone else, while I can make whatever I please.
With that logic, you should be jealous of ME. For the little I DO make off animation is more than you do (for animation).

I don't like them myself, I think the Cork accent and bogger slang jokes are done to death. It's the running theme throughout his shorts but people are lapping it up and he seems to have landed on his feet with that agency and job offers.

Not too shabby from just uploading very short clips, me thinks. Well done to him.

podgemonster wrote: »

I think we found the source here. You've probably been at this a while with little or no success wheras people have identified and through social media popularised the Sminky Shorts. Its not to everyone taste but its popular, look at Mrs. Browns Boys or Kilinascully, I don't like them but someone does. You need to just accept this.

Best of luck with in your video making hobby, maybe one day you'll make it big like Sminky but begruding him his success and scouffing at his animation and content won't do you much good.

I have more fans than Sminky has on Newgrounds, over 100,000 views on NG and YouTube combined. €50 worth of ad revenue in one year. That's good enough for me. I don't animate for fame. I would have made that video whether or not I animate. It can't change the fact that it's not well made.

I have criticized much less successful Flash before.

No one dares touch the censorship Sminky has pulled. I give constructive criticism, this guy takes diwn the video. Someone else screencaps and actually infringes copyright of the shorts, they get to stay.

Scioch wrote: »

Mondo is that you ??

Who or what is Mondo?

Mikey I can't find your video. Could you link? What is your constructive criticism? Your posts here don't read as constructive at all.

The videos are funny because they poke fun at Irish culture. Sure they are exaggerated but that's called artistic licence. The accents are really well done and the scenarios are funny because they are fairly true to life e.g. two auld wans lamenting the loss of a good soul is fairly similar to the scenario where the two mice lament the loss of their friend. Two auld wans shaking their heads and imploring their son to slow down in the car lest he do damage is like the Tommy video. Except the scenarios Sminky created are funnier because they play on these everyday Irish situations by wildly exaggerating them and casting cute animated animals in the roles of the Irish people.

I find them hilarious to be honest. A nice amusing look at Irish society in the same vein as Father Ted.

Davidius wrote: »

Do you live in Ireland? Surely you've interacted with enough people to get some grip on 'bogger' accents. It seems like it'd take an artificial degree of social isolation to be that genuinely inexperienced.

Dafuk is this crap?
I can't make out most of what is being said either.
I just haven't a good ear for accents.
I remember being in a taxi in Cork once and was completely baffled as to what the taxi driver said the entire trip.
Same in Kerry.
Strong accents like that just sound like gibberish to me.

MikeyS9607 wrote: »

I've been making Flash long before Sminky made it big. The whole "accent" thing isn't enough to make an animation good.

That's a matter of opinion though. I find accents hilarious at times.

I like Sminky shorts in small doses, they're not all brilliant but some bring a smile to my face, it's not just a play on the accents but the characters that do talk like that.

Shryke wrote: »

If I critique your review then i'm lowering myself to pretty insults. Right.
Nothing personal, but straight up called him a pussy before you even got rolling. Right.
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That was an annotation added later AFTER the video was reinstated by Google.

I don't think there is freedom of speech on YouTube. Some licencing agreement or something. Terms and conditions and all that.
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Licensing? You need a LICENCE TO ALLOW FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Excuse me while I facepalm. Also, research: http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines clearly says they ENCOURAGE FREE SPEECH and allow defense of unpopular opinion.

16 kind of makes sense, no offence. It seems a bit like overkill to make 2 videos if you don't mind me saying.

The second video wasn't about Sminky. It was about stupid comments.

Adyx wrote: »

But why make the review video at all? It took you a whole hour to make a video just because of one internet stranger's youtube videos. Why even react to it when it's easier to ignore? And then you made another video responding to people criticizing your video. :eek: I honestly can't comprehend why you'd go to the effort. I really, really, really fcuking hate X-Factor et al, but instead of acting butthurt reviewing it on Youtube, I ignore it. That way everyone, especially me, is happy.

It's not effort. It's as simple as recording my voice, downloading clips and images, and putting them together by dragging and dropping.

Anyhoo, I've made reviews of bad things for years. I'm not even the first! Bad games, mostly but I sometimes review good stuff too. I wanted to take my reviews in a new direction with movies and animations too, so why not start big? If I wasn't gonna go for Sminky, I would have gone for another animator.