This is true. Timing is hard.

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woah a flashing red arrow look at that shit

So you're saying that c&h is bad source material for timing? Why would you base your animations on someone else's idea in the first place? And even so, if you have wonderful timing in your cartoon (say it was a music video), what would be the point IF the drawings were horrible? Would it not make a difference if you worked on your art, instead of focusing entirely on timing? Also, when you fail at timing, what does it suck? Does it suck the time away that you wasted making the castoon? If so, wouldn't it be a paradox, since you were already focusing entirely on timing?!

i wear my dad's dirty socks
i wear my dad's dirty socks

People live in Wyoming?

Now now, let's not be a negative nancy.

You're right.

Mormon central.

you speak the truth sir, but I'm not sure the big red arrow is called for.

To be fair, the arrow disappears now and then. If you watch closely.

this is the only time ive seen a gif in a newspost

its a terrible thing envy

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Napalm, son, is lots of fun,
Dropped in a bomb or shot from a gun,
It gets the gooks when on the run,
Napalm sticks to kids.

oh dohoho a flashing red arrow
this shows me the object in question

The big red arrow is so commanding. o.o.... Must... Resist........ Oh, it dissappeared. :3

I like it, though that doesn't mean I can't see where your opinion is coming from.

that blinking arrow reminds me of the Eat at Joes neon signs of vintage cartoons.

A-A-A-Animation....it's...a-a-all...i n the timing....a-a-and in....the spacing...

Who cares if timing is wrong, as long as the overall product is great? It just fits the style. No need to bitch around here.

I dont get it?......on the other hand big red arrow is big...and red

Would it be wrong to say that this big arrow is making me feel uneasy? Keep that thing away from me.

HE BURND HIS HED AND THE DOCTOR LAFFED OMG SOOOOO FUNNY XD

things that bother you
never bother me.

Comedy in general relies on timing

^^Captain Obvious contribution

There was this one time, I went to the doctor!

I CAN RELATE = UNDENIABLE COMIC GOLD

Yeah, I thought that rule was comedy.

When are you gonna submit something new rtil? Working on anything?

rtil if I could pick one object to describe you it would be a big flashing red arrow

That cartoon made me sad :(

You fail at leaving a link, thanks alot n***a now I have to go looking for it.

cyanide and penis ?!? xD

EVERYTHING POPULAR IS WRONG

The timing of your error is wrong.

I guess this means that I'm not the only person who thought that animation sucked.

I agree with your statements, completely.

So instead of writing a review about it you use a front page post to tell everybody how you feel about it?? Of course writing a review is not something you know how to do, so instead of clicking a button and writing a couple of sentences on how to improve to the author himself (would have taken 20 seconds) you show the world what a fucking sad useless tomato you are (probably took you 20 minutes to make the gif).

You are preaching the truth! Now guide us to victory oh Great One!

lol you little dipshit,
you're just sucking tba cock,

el oh el

so randum

exdee

that flash ruled

When you fail at sucking, it times.

Hinderances can also be a bad source material.

Yeh timing is everything but I dont see anything wrong with doctor's visit.

Notice the flock (sheep) of negative reviews on said animation after this news post.

Also this was posted at 4:20 a.m. EDT. xD <3 :P

Duh huh?

I dunno... I think any episode of the Simpsons from the past 5 (...or 10?) years is much MUCH more painful in regards to timing.

Cyanide is getting all the rewards because everyone sucks their dick over the comics they jizz out. So even these unfunny comics will be boosted to the top leaving the good cartoons unwatched.

BTW, that red ball flash sucked penis

<3 :*

Bad source material or not, trying to take a comic strip and turn it into an animation in the first place is fucking stupid. They share almost no parallels outside the fact that they are drawn.

There's no saving that joke
I'd like to see anyone try and make it funny

god rtil you're such a little bitch

fairly harsh , I've seen the flash , wheres the timing error ?? I've not seen any

ZOMG you didnt!

Personally, I think listening to Ben Folds' "There's Always Someone Cooler Than You" makes this all better.

People that make crap like doctor's visit are comfortable with the status quo in fact despite how random they appear.

There work is actually pretty boring and bland.

However people like somebody for example while basically draws the same way.

People like somebody makes better movies because they try new things in fact his work ups in the experimental section.

His sense of humor is real so that makes his work truely funny but oddly enough people like somebody have to actually work for popularity.

While Explosm is happy with doing the bare minimum because he just knows that his fanboys are gonna suck up to him anyways.

ALL YOUR WEAPONS ARE FORFEIT TO ME!!!

big bucket of sucket

thats not bad timing.
answering outlaw star trivia 10 minutes late. now thats bad timing.
wait. telling a joke about the backalleys irc trivia weeks later. Now thats bad timing.
wait.
cr0m. now thats bad...

My poster better have that big flashing arrow on it or I'll be pissed.

Glue the Gif on the back or something.

Indeed. Timing needs love and attention.

But I guess you can't blame them, these guys make webcomics every day, animating is a different way of thinking. I give them credit for trying.

im just curious why you chose to pick on this one. like, of all the shitty, unfunny, talentless flashes that make front page and become wicked popular, what makes this one uniquely bad?

Big arrow is big!!! xD

OH RTIL, YOU'VE DU'N INSULTAED MY CHOICE OF MUSIC
OVER THE INTERNET

NOW I FEEL INADEQUATE

MY OPINION>YOUR'S
EXPECT A POORLY CONTRIVED PM EXPANDING ON THIS CONCEPT

Hey, I won a Wacom this week from that Gish guy, that's pretty cool!

and I think you meant "comedy" not "animation"

I dont see ur point, only cuz there arent 2 arrows pointing at the horribly timed flash :P

haaaaaaaa
i think i get it....
its cuz the swine flu shit right?
lolz i r slow :P

Dude! Watch out! You may cut someone with all that edge you're tossing around!

well at least it was animated in in a professional way instead of the crap you normally see on here

like really show me one cartoon that is of equally mixing and production. i'm sure there are some, but what about one in this comic based short style.

explosm's stickmen are a head, stomach, twig arms and twig legs apparently that edition of a stomach somehow boosts the stickmen to amazing graphics level.

I don't consider that shit to be stickmen if you gonna add a stomach to your stickmen.

Than why even draw stickmen at all?

you should change your blurb:

"I have to be original. I must. Everyone is unoriginal and cheap."

Agreed.

this is all very true

That freakin arrow is amazing!
Crap i think i pissed myself...
Please don't tell daddy he'll beat me with the microwave again

what I want to know is how the hell enough people voted 5 on that piece of crap for it to get a score like that

this site is a fucking fanboy fest I swear to god

Well timing isn't everything, it's half of the animation. The other half is the content. And only if the content and timing are in good sync, the animation is good.
And i think many people underestimate the importance of that.

wow look at that random crazy guy WOWIE hes so random and crazy

Please don't touch my David Copperfield

I'm going to lose sleep over this post. Because it was intended to be serious. You insulted something I enjoy so I will have to whine to you. :)

Fucking love that song.

Do you want me to not like it rtil

Agreed. That is something I need to work on.