Monkeys with goggles, baby.
Age 37, Male
Flash Animator
UK
Joined on 1/13/04
Though you have a point (responding to incognitus's post), the employers will like it but thats it. Everyone else who watches the new showreel will just see what's mostly the old showreel and not care for it.
So you just have to not mind the score i suppose, as long as the employers see it. I'd say wait a long while before releasing a new one and provide more of your latest work, with less, (but still some) of your past work too.
That's what I get for holding off releasing the previous reel until recently.
Stewgrounds!
What JordanD said. Newgrounders don't like it because it's a showreel; it doesn't seem impressive to see parts of movies you've already put online with mediocre video quality compared to most regular Flash submissions. To me, the score makes sense. I personally wouldn't expect even a Daily 5th if I were to make a showreel... of course, I haven't made anything impressive like you have.
That video quality thing's a real bitch. I think 'Tales of Beardyman' would've probably had a better shot at notability if I knew how to export FLVs better.
Like Jonbro said, jordanD has a point about Incognitus making a point about people not liking it.
I'd say its a shame but it isn't.Dont expect anything like this becoming the 1 flash toon on newgrounds unless every other skilled animator died.Which will happen in 7 years maybe.
Incognitus
"Man, Newgrounds seems to be treating the showreel harshly. Why exactly, I dunno."
It's mostly footage from the last few reels you've submitted here. When you have a "2010" demo reel it should be comprised of work from that year solely. It looks better to have yearly reels that actually focus on said year to show improvement and the growing range of projects you've tackled. Simple as that. When you have cut-and-paste footage of the same stuff we've seen it's not going to be highly praised.
Wonchop
A lot of people here don't seem to get the idea of showreels. The idea is to present your overall best pieces of animation so that potential employers may like it. The date is more a reference of how up to date the showreel is as opposed to what year the entire content was made.