InsertFunnyUserName's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[CoolJaw: O.S. I-V]

3/5

I love the storyline. You managed to go the "start the story with a strange dream" rout without making it cliche, which is awesome.

You did have some perspective issues in a few of the drawings. In the 'street with one house' slide, the street and the house have a different perspective. There are similar problems in the slide where he's standing in front of the house. This is always a risky angle to try to draw. The foreshortening on the person is too extreme in relation to that of the house. Also, the person's center of gravity is off. He looks like he's about to fall over. On the next slide where it just shows the door with the '101' placard, the perspective in funky as well. I don't know a good way to explain the problem well, so I'll just say that the left side of the placard should be parallel with the right side of the door, and adjust the perspective from there.

I was never a fan of the slideshow style. I think it takes away from the flash. I recommend making it a full animation for part two.

[Review Request Club]

Celx-Requin responds:

Hello,

I wanted to stick to the comic book format, and the whole perspective being out of place was done on purpose, to hint that the character was dreaming.

I probably am going to keep with this format, but I'll try to innovate a bit in the coming "chapters". I do hope you'll catch the next one though!

Thanks,
- Celx

[The Future Wasn't There]

I liked it.

I like the overall plot and I think that the storyline flowed well. I think it was a good decision to not go farther than when he stepped inside the time machine because otherwise, it would have had a cliche feeling that would have taken away from it.

I like the colorful linework of the characters. It was a unique touch.

The only thing I feel takes points away is that though I liked the music and I think that the music really fit what was happening, there was no transition between the individual music pieces which made it a bit awkward to listen to, particularly being that there was no dialog. I think that fading the clips in and out would add to this.

4/5

spanio responds:

Thanks for watching! I tried a little fade in/fade out stuff, but it didn't sound quite right.. so I only kept in it in a few places.

[An odd movie]

Okay.

Well, your animation is smooth, so you get points for that.

It leaves a lot to be desired, though.

First is, add a preloader. Always add a preloader. If you don't know how to make one yourself, there's a whole bunch of them here on ng for you to use if you click the 'downloads' link under the header. There's also a number of preloader tutorials in the flash tutorials section.

Second, add sound. Sound makes everything more interesting. If you don't have it, your flash will seem a hell of a lot more boring than if you had sound.

Third, it was extremely short. Too short. Spend a while adding on parts to your flash, though I know the longing to submit your first flash. I did the same thing with my first submission.

There's potential here, though. Keep working on it.

2/5

(You're going to get a higher score on this today than you would any other day of the year because it's clock day. Most people won't even watch your flash. Bad day to submit it if you want feedback and a fair score.)

mrsico responds:

Ok, I did add a preloader buuuut it was in AS2 and I was doing a AS3 progect.
I didn't add sound because I wanted to get it in NOW.XD
I'll edit it so it's longer later.
Thank you for your awesome review.

[License to Combo]

Very well done :D

I've never really been a fan of stick flashes, but this one was really well animated and well executed.

You got the physics of the characters' motions spot on. I particularly liked the slow motion matrix-esque parts, like where the guy jumped off the wall, et al. I can tell you put a lot of work into those movements.

I got scared at first when I saw that you started out with just a white background, but then you added some more interesting backgrounds and set ups, so you definitely get points for that.

You also really set the mood with the music.

The only problem was the problem that I have with most stick flashes. There was no real story line to carry the flash along. It was just different little fight scenes. However, the way that you varied the actions that the characters made mostly compensated for that, but it's still something I suggest you consider in the future.

Overall, very nice. :D

[breaking the habit FBF]

Not great.

The animation was okay, particularly for you first fbf flash. Some of them could use some work; some of them were okay. I like that little bit at the beginning where the head broke in two.

I think for something like this, however, you need to up the frame rate so it isn't so choppy. Also, onion skin is your best friend.

The biggest problem with this flash is that the flash was way too random for how long it was. Breaking the Habit is what, a three or four minute song? That's a lot of space to fill and it gets really boring if the fill is completely random. It would have been much better had you incorporated some some of logical storyline to go along with the song. Alternatively, you could have only animated part of the song with the randomness.

Heh, my fbf wasn't any better. It was probably worse.

[Gives You Hell]

Pretty good.

I really loved what you did with this flash. I loved all the different ways you played with the words and all that jazz.

I just wish that you'd done the whole song because it just seemed too short.

4/5

pacdude responds:

Thanks for your review! I thought that in this style, maybe the whole song would have been too boring, but in the future, I'll figure out different ways to spice things up. Thanks for your review!

[air holes]

Hahah, what?

That was definitely an odd little thing.
I don't have many complaints. The animation wasn't amazing, but I don't think it needed to be.

It's randomness delivered well, so well done on that.
4/5

[Reckoner]

Wow.

This is definitely one of the most unique flashes I've ever seen on here.

It's hard to have real-life images and put them into a convincing and non-youtube like way, but you managed to pull it off. It kind of reminded me of a collage at points.

Nice animation, nice symbolism, nice job :D

Favorited and 5/5

RedHotPoker responds:

Awwwwwwww shucks *blush*

Your too kind :) And ye as i was making it i kept thinking of it as a kind of collage.

[Random Kingdom]

Pretty funny

Pretty well done and pretty funny.

Not much to say about it, really. I liked the Arnold Schwarzenegger part.

The graphics are somewhat tweentasic, but it's not too noticeable.

4/5

KobraEditing responds:

thanks for the review

[I Found A Dollar!]

Nice.

Very original, I must say, and I giggled.

You could have made the walking sequences better, but it's pretty good, nonetheless.

NibzAU responds:

hehe thanks but no im not an animator i just wanted to tell people i found a dollar :)