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[Taj's Helpful Wisdom]

Conker could have saved himself the trip to Taj's place and gotten similar levels of demotivation and depression if he just woke up in the morning and checked gaming news on his phone, in the naive hopes it would be about cool new games, instead of increasingly-absurd studio layoffs from both misguided and otherwise-wildly-successful AAA game publishers.

[Kingdom Farts]

This obvious "Old-school Disney was racist" joke kind of takes on a new meaning now that Disney just killed off its DEI initiatives to appease the Trump administration. Never have I had such mixed feelings about the end of a corporate decision that gave us Frozen, Strange World, and whatever the heck they turned Star Wars into now--but also much better stuff like Zootopia and The Princess and the Frog.

[MY GREATEST CREATION]

That ending hit like a truck as a fellow independent 3D artist who destroys his eyeballs and spine just to make a (hopefully) high-quality shitpost.

[Are you into fitness?]

I like how the other two co-workers are just weird, simple blob guys while the guy with the one hair strand sticking out is much more detailed and rendered.

[John's Glasses]

Great caricatures of Paul, John, and Conan O'Brien!

[Metroid... i think]

Ridley's shit-eating grin during the majority of this animation is the best part.

[First Date]

Just once I want to you to draw your female characters as grotesque as you drew the guy here.

Also, the punchline here had me in stitches, but if I had one small critique, it was sort of unclear that the guy was in excruciating pain because he somehow transferred the girl's menstrual pains to himself. Watching him suffer was funny regardless, and of course the ending was twice as funny once I finally realized he was in menstrual pain about 10-15 seconds into his agony, but still, perhaps the punchline could have been a mite clearer for us dunderheads.

[Reaching for the officer's service weapon]

Unfortunately for him, the entire city police force was homophobic.

[Hagniss Shorts - Void]

First, to get the constructive feedback out of the way--hope I don't hurt your feelings TOO much:
It was clear you were perhaps way in over your head with this animation. There were snippets of genuine animation, particularly near the beginning, that got my hopes up that you would somehow do the impossible and make a full, polished animation that was almost 4 minutes long, all by your lonesome. Of course, that didn't happen and it became more and more of a storyboard animatic as the animation went on. Personally, in my experience, that's the only way to learn to avoid "scope-creep" in personal animation projects, the hard way of making an overwhelming project, first. It seems in the description that you learned your lesson for a future Hagniss animation. but perhaps if you still feel to limited by making tiny <1-minute animations like I still tend to do, other options that may make 3+-minute animations more feasible may include doing cut-out animation with automatic tweens (I love old-fashioned frame-by-frame animation, but in my experience that is only feasible if I work full-time on the animation without a "day job" or other adult responsibilities getting in the way); or simplifying the character designs and shading for animation--the less lines you have to draw each frame, the better!

With that out of the way, despite my feedback, it is quite easy to see why this won daily 4th Place--your Rayman/Neverhood-esque character designs and facial expressions, as usual, are the best in the business and ensure each scene is very lively-looking, even if they are not technically "animated." You picked some great voice actors for each of the three characters, particularly Zyra Bisquera as Hagniss herself! Overall, this seems like a good way to introduce new fans into giving the "Hagniss the Barbarian" comic a chance!

[Trudy Loves Photoshop]

If this is how she reacts to Photoshop's poor optimization, imagine how much worse she would react to using GIMP.