Score: 6

"Funny"

submission: The Mystic with Stealth!!

date: January 13, 2008

Could be SO much better with the right, period adventure music- credited.

Score: 6

"Good looking"

submission: Movin'

date: January 11, 2008

But not a lot of sense or anything.
Smooth animation such as it is, but not much movement.
Nice sounding music, went well enough with the tone of the animation.

Score: 6

"Nice neat little game"

submission: Ninja Practice

date: January 9, 2008

Looks good, very simple. Like your fish game. The art is professional in style and makes an otherwise simple game look good

Score: 6

"OK, neat"

submission: Fish Eat Fish

date: January 9, 2008

It looks good and works OK. Needs some sound. Nice minigame

Score: 3

"Ive seen worse"

submission: sticktown disaster

date: January 2, 2008

There are a few of these things around and this one is rather too flawed. The camera shaked compared to the sticks. The actors "layer" conflicts with the sticks. moving in front and behind them in an unrealistic way. I would only approve of exceptional movies without sound and this isn't one of them.
Movement would be good.

Score: 8

"Very good"

submission: ::battle of grim island::

date: December 30, 2007

Very good art, animation, sound, VA, interactivity- everything.

I am particularly impressed with the selection of subtitles and the art detail.
-cracks in the walls, shading, shadow, blinking, that sort of thing

There are details that could be improved, but its all there in a good story so far.

Since you have chosen to go for realism rather than cartoony style, I will give you a detailed review including the subtleties that someone at this very high level might use:

The title is not very exciting and the name Grim Island is not too hot. I can't picture anywhere the US would have fought the Germans with an english name. It would look better in capitals anyway.

Generally, the animation is very good, but it could still step up in realism to the highest level. For example, the soldiers marching have a good walk movement- better than anything I can do- but don't move up and down enough, so they look like they are doing the MJ Moonwalk.
Some of the angles seem a bit off- its subtle and its difficult, but the direction people seem to be looking, for example and the angle of flight of the aeroplane. The eyeline of the sniper doesn't look right. If he is looking down the 'scope the pupil needs to shift closer to the centre- and one or two other angles I can't quite put my finger on.

The action somehow doesn't seem as realistic as it might at some points- I suggest that the sniper would have been guided and escorted to the point where he shoots and he would have rested the gun for the critical shot. Generally, the movement in a battle zone is more crouching and keeping down than is suggested through most of this.

I think the scene with the man dragging himself along was put in rather gratuitously- it is not realistic. If you lose the bottom half of your body you cannot drag yourself quite energetically along, the blood will pour out in a few seconds and you lose consciousness. It spoilt the realism of the otherwise good scene.

I am not too sure about the order of the scenes. The way you have it, it looks rather as if the captive is shot, then the US march in and attack and shoot, whilst the prisoner and interrogator are in suspended animation for a few hours.

I hope the sequal will make sense of the final statement. It sounds as if he is saying that the enemy is all around the US troops but the enemy won't escape.

This is all very subtle stuff; this is a very good movie and it will do very well. I look forward to the next instalment.

Score: 3

"Again, you have some ability,"

submission: stickman born

date: December 28, 2007

but there is not much to this. Newgrounds is full of little introductions, tasters, pilots, tests, whatever and Tom tells us NOT to submit them here. Don't get a bad reputation, take your time now and make something complete and to the best of your ability.
As I say in my Art Tut its better to do your writing in TEXT, rather than handwritten, its just so much easier to write, to edit and to read. Don't worry about writing in french, but it would be better if you provided subtitles in english as well.

Score: 5

"not bad"

submission: Teddies Seasons Greeting

date: December 27, 2007

quality material. Please, please finish it with ears.

The intro thing is funny but too long, especially when used with a short short that is shorter!

Score: 4

"Not bad"

submission: merry stickmas

date: December 26, 2007

Go and learn the SIMPLE actionscript for a replay button. I can't belive you have got this far without it!
Put this into the button you have made:

on(release){
gotoAndPlay(1):
}

PM me if you have any problems

I like the bit where he shoots off to les cadeux so fast he leaves the bobble on the hat behind. Nice touch.

:)

Score: 4

"borderline"

submission: Christmas for my Friends

date: December 25, 2007

Not much to it and pretty basic, but its Christmas and its a harmless little thing, its not much but I sense the fun in it; I put myself in your shoes, doing a little thing for your friends and I say- why not?
It kinda made me smile and think of doing much the same for my friends the Dragons & Spirits.
Best Wishes,
Ice