I definitely like the idea and smoke's poses. Watching Raiden in pain and explode was priceless. Good use of the sprites man.

The obvious: shadow priests move way too fast, the whole animation is kind of fast.

Things I would fix:
The lightning in the portal seems to be on a non-smooth loop.

What I personally didn't like:
The effects you used to make Smoke turn into smoke... it was like brown or something.


I agree, not your best, but you can only get better with more practice (but don't sacrifice your summer). I don't blame if you lack motivation... DC Univerise ruined it for me too man. I've never been so far from MK before. I'm glad flan art is still around or else I'd be gone.

100x better than any of my animations. If I didn't share an office with somebody else I would be making my fakes and what not but I seriously can't work on my MUGEN or my fakes like I had planned... it sucks.

He used the Blue Portal BG from the Genesis version of MKII. You should have used my Blue Portal that I made.

Hmm. This is better than I could probably do..

I liked all the sprite animation... the Smoke effect for when he disappears is lame... The bg animation isn't too hot.

But like I said, better than I could do.

Meh.

Lol, have a feeling this was probably for me not giving you the explosion frames that you asked for. Oh well.

I like the idea, in fact, I started working on pretty much the exact same idea about 2 n a half years ago and gave up halfway through.

Animation is clunky as hell. The shadow priests? Two frames - really?
Smoke effect was odd. Didn't look at all like smoke. It would have also been much nicer to actually see the smoke enter Rayden.

The struggling was nice though I think the inflating at the end was just unnecessary. Would've been much snappier if he blew up straight after the nice use of falling sprites from pit 2.

The explosion needs much work tbh. I know you asked me for it as an animation and again, sorry I've not been able to get it for ya, but I still think you could have put together much better. With ImageReady's tweening commands and layers this should have been no problem at all.

Lifebars and text all inaccurate, but I like Smoke's re-apprearance sprite and the added touch of the returning to Outworld text just like the ol' blue portal used to. I sense the texts and background and lifebars were meant to mimic the genesis mk2 but with arcade sprites you would've been better off uprgrading the rest as well.

6/10

That was...not so good, we all know you can do better. If you can't animate the BG smoothly, just don't animate it at all, few people will care. The explosion actually looked pretty good, it just went way too slow.

Hmmm 4/10

Like I sad previously, you should have used my Blue Portal BG.

XTREEMIST: Thanks. Couple of problems I always have when making animations, are the speed and the resolution; I never know for sure how fast or how slow the animation will turn out depending on what kind of computer I’m using. That also involves how dark or light it will show up as; every monitor resolution looks different.

This animation was nothing of the ordinary, just an idea I wanted to get off my chest for a while. I’m going to be attending summer school so that will surely give me computer access in College to make and brainstorm new animations. The idea of MK vs. DCU still freakin’ blows, but in a way it didn’t necessarily ruin my motivation, bro. It’s more of a reminder of why Ed Boon and co. sucks and how artists such as myself can muster any worthwhile idea than what they can ever come out with.

That sucks you’re on that predicament. I hope somehow someway, you can pull something off. Anything you pull off is killer shit. Try writing things down a piece of paper so you will not forget as soon as you get access to continue with your shit. That’s what I be doing. It makes a difference, trust me.

Maggo: I had a feeling you were going to show me a cheap Portal pallet swapped to blue. I’m also overwhelmed by the irony seeing as when I asked you if you could rip some Smoke puffs for me, you didn’t bother responding back. Now you’re making an effort to "help me?" Thanks anyways.

TimsMK: I must be hiding behind my monitor since I did not include your name in that statement. Anyways, I’m not the type of person that be holding grudges especially over the Internet so whatever.

MKRocket: Animations are not all that hard to make. I’m sure you can pull something off., one day, .

the_shirt_ninja: I just think the BG would’ve looked boring if it wasn’t animated.

Thanks for all the honest criticism.

Awesome ! Simply Awesome !

Well that's kinda harsh.

Oh my goodness! Tis smoke!

The bouncing shadow priests are just priceless.
Everything wrong with this thing has already been pointed out, so I won't bother making a whole post, and just say I think it's laughably bad which is a shame, Unbeatable, you're a veteran you should know better.
Bouncing shadow priests.
Bouncing shadow priests.