I'm going to base this review on the face that I've seen a couple of these recently and I'm not a very big fan of "slideshows," which is why the score is so low. There are not many submissions I would give a high score to when they are in slideshow form because there is no animation.

Graphics/Animation: 4
Your art is a little on the rough side. Granted I am able to see exactly what you're drawing and I could follow along with the story there are several things that you will need to improve. The backgrounds are a huge part of the story, animation, game, or anything you are creating. You really need to work on the backgrounds if you are looking to impress your viewers. I have seen too many flash or games that fail when it comes to backgrounding and it will significantly lower their score. As I said before many of the drawings are on the rough side, which makes it fairly painful on the eyes to look at. Smooth them up a little bit for a better effect. One of the most bothersome parts of this slideshow was the text on the bottom. I really had to strain my eyes to see a gray on gray background. Change the color to be a little more friendly on the eyes. One major problem I had was the some art should not have been in here. You will need to put a little bit more effort into some of these drawings. If you ARE going to make an art collab, then everything, and I mean EVERYTHING needs to be detailed. If it isn't colored than it better be one hell of a good drawing. This needs some improvement, but I think you all are very capable of doing this the right way.

Audio: 5
Can't really complain too much about the audio. I felt like I was playing The Sims while I passed through the pictures. If you want a good effect on the viewer, especially since I'm assuming this is a story you all put together, then don't give the viewer the option to click through the pictures themselves. Put them on a timer and have music that will go along with everything that is going on in the story. Voice acting isn't always needed to get your point across. I can't complain about the loop for the music either, you didn't do too bad, but I just feel that it did not go very well with the slideshow.

Story: 3
Here's where the score really takes a downfall. Half the time I wasn't even able to read what was going on. You wasted so much space in this and did not give any effort toward the story. Make the bubbles bigger and easier to read, change colors, enlarge texts. If you cannot read it as the author or if you have a hard time reading it as the author, then please...PLEASE do something to fix it. Your viewers are more important than the score you receive. There was almost no effort put into dialoguing and the story was way too linear. Just because it was extended into a bunch of different people doesn't mean it isn't linear. You all have some work to do when it comes to a collab.

Originality: 5
I have to keep this low mainly because an art collab story does not appeal as much to the Newgrounds viewers as a flash would unless it is spectacular art. There are so many things that need to be worked on to make this more original, but I have faith that they are things you all are capable of handling.

Overall: 4/10
I gave a low score here because I believe that you are all capable of delivering us something better, but you didn't. There are a couple of stand out artists who did some good work, but some of you really need to practice your detail and backgrounds. Keep in mind I did my best not to rip this flash because it was a slide show. I gave you guys the benefit of the doubt in every category. Good luck to you all in the future.

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A slide show is not a good enough thing to tribute him on a flash website such as Newgrounds, and I'm sure as a flash artist you could have made something better in a tribute to him. Here's the review:

Graphics/Animation: 1
I gave you a 1 here because it does not take as much artistic talent to make a slide show as it does to go through the frames and detail that most of the artists on Newgrounds do every day. A few pictures don't really cut it as graphics or animation. A real tribute to someone would be something like your own cartoon made to show the accomplishments he has made in his life, or even if you showed slides of Billy Mays and did a cartoon version of what was in the picture it would make it better than this. The work with the buttons was nice, though. A simple pink background with pictures isn't enough to receive a high score in this category, I'm sorry.

Audio: 5
Your score went up here because it went along with the graphics/animation score well. The slideshow was fairly monotonous, and the music fit in perfectly with it. The music for some reason did not interest me or make me feel like this was a good tribute. But you got the 5/10 because it stopped instead of continuously looping at the end and it was fairly clear the entire time. But I stand my ground that the music was not appropriate to the meaning of the flash itself.

Originality: 2
I've seen a few of these floating around and a slide show isn't really original enough for me to give a high score in this category. Everything that I mentioned about the graphics/animation would have bumped your score up a little bit here, especially if you made this more original or special as a tribute.

Overall: 2/10
I understand that you were trying to make a "tribute" which is totally different from a flash, but honestly if one of the artists on the top 50 were to make some sort of tribute to Billy Mays or Michael Jackson or anyone who has recently died it would include flash work. They would be working on it to be something spectacular instead of just a few pictures found on google. You could have done much better with this. I gave you a score that was deserved, but it doesn't reflect all of your work as a flash artist. Only this piece of work in particular. I think you're capable of doing better. Good luck.

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I'm leaving this review with this score for a reason, and it's because I don't know the true story behind this. I've heard drunk driving accident a number of times, and now through your flash I hear a different story. I'm not a heartless person at all, but when it comes to portal spammers, and then spamming the portal over one spammers death - it's tough to go along with. But I'm not here to critisize, I'm here to give you an honest review.

Graphics/Animation: 2
I probably would have given you a 3 or 4 here, but I saw a spelling error, and one thing about text flashes that really kills me is when someone doesn't do a full spellcheck. Not to mention the "flash" part of the movie was completely non-existant. If you wanted to do a real submission for your brother as a tribute then I think you should have taken this a little further. What you SHOULD HAVE done was take a collection of his older flashes and do little mini clips of them instead because spam or not, it still looks better than a story with nothing but text. The reason I didn't give you a high score was because there was one picture shown twice and the rest was text.

Audio: 6
I can't really complain here. There was a song all the way through the flash and it came through clear, which is saying a lot. There weren't any sound effects - nor was there reason for any. I guess I could say you didn't do too bad in this area of your flash.

Story: 7
Your flash actually scored well here because there WAS a story, and true or not you presented it somewhat well along with the music. It was a sad and very graphic story, but you got your point across and that's what is most important. Nice job in this category.

Originality: 0
I would give you a higher score for originality, but due to how many of these flashes I saw that day I simply can't. Like I said before I'm not heartless I'm just here to review your flash.

Overall: 2/10
I understand this was a tribute to your brother and if it is truth then I'm honestly sorry for being so harsh with this review. The only problem is that if I knew it was MY brother who died and I had talent in flash, then I would certainly be using it to make a huge, elaborate flash that people would remember forever for how detailed and amazing it was. I would work my ass off to put something in the Top 50 dedicated to him. This is why I was so harsh about your flash being a dedication. I'm sorry for your loss, and good luck.

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This song was very calming at first, and I was impressed with the opening after the initial beat. The "someday we'll..." part kicked in and I really began to enjoy the beat. Then even better halfway through the song it really picked up and the there was a good breakdown beat. Almost a piano-like sound that made this song sound awesome. Great work with this!

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The intro was a good part of the song, but when it finally started picking up the upbeat really made this song sound very professional. I could see the making it onto a real compilation of tech tracks with some of the best artists out there today. Honestly this is a really great beat all around from beginning to end. It had the perfect amount of background noise, and although I do not know as much about audio as I do for flash, I know this sounded great. Nice work!

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I like the way the song starts out, and I noticed especially how good the song sounded even with the lyrics. I haven't heard many songs on Newgrounds that had good lyrics that mixed in well with the music so this is great. I really liked the beat when it actually picked up and then cut off at the end. The loop even worked out well with the static sound at the ending. Great work, keep it up!

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