IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[This Town Ep1 (New)]

kinda weird!

Very good art, sound, story etc.

The animation is not the greatest and the lip sync is relatively crude, but its entertaining and strangly blue.

I found it hard to hear some of what they said, especially near the beginning, but I got the hang of it as we went along. I was a bit shocked at the apparent dark ending and dissappointed at what appeared to be an NG cop-out ending, until the story suddenly moved on. I don't quite understand that bit, I suppose it was some kind of dream/nightmare fantasy thing, tho who was dreaming it was not clear to me.

I sense that you enjoyed making this and I will catch some more episodes.

rbinturong responds:

thanks for the comments. it was the ninja's fantasy. it zoomed into her eyes. she's the bodyguard of the big boss, and all she thinks about is killing basically.
yeah, the lip sync is kinda weird. we use toon boom and the lip sync could do with some improvements.
please do check out the other episodes. thanks again.

[gray wolf fire:the team]

Hmm

There is quite a lot in this movie, but it is really hard to follow and needs sorting out. I almost want to bl@ it just to encourage you to make it the best you can.
It has a number of the basics:
action, sound, music, backgrounds, animation. It even has a couple of plan view camera angles-

It seems a shame to have all this work that almost completely fails. I don't want to be a downer on someone who has put quite a lot into this, but...

Are we supposed to know who these people are? If not, why not introduce them in such a way that we might care about the characters?

You really need to put in more sound sooner. The odd little sounds are poor. The attempt to get by without words doesn't work here, IMO and I am not sufficiently impressed by standard anime routines to enjoy the waving hair and angular faces.

You really need to have a STOP at the end and credits in the movie. Stop/replay is NOT difficult to do, its just a couple of lines of actionscript, really.

The visuals could be so easily improved with a bit of background. Try adding another layer here and there and, for example a little gradient shading the sky from darker to lighter towards the horizon. Take a look at the my art tut for some simple ideas and instructions to improve your flash- this could be SO much better.

Please do work on this, it has much potential.

[Anaitis]

Good

Good music, good art/animation.
Interesting images, sweeping views, fun little cameos of the Crew.

Doesn't make much sense in itself and its hard to relate what I see to the description that you have given.

If the imagery is all as good as this and there is real storyline, then I would like to see the whole thing, although 31 minutes sounds very long for a Flash.
I hope it involves some close-ups and real exploration of the potential to animate Clocks in interesting ways, along with some real personality so that we can conect with the characters- the best Clock movies all do so.

[Foamy: Hurricane Special]

technically...

..its not an animation, so usually I would strictly zero it, as I would B. However, it has a purpose and it has a lot of words- which are quite hard work to put in, so with some reluctance, I vote a protect on it, but I still think it should have some kind of pictures/animation/links etc. No doubt illwillpress wanted to get something out there quickly, but he has had plenty of time since to put a bit more into it.

I'm not sure if I actually accept the criticism of reporters in sutdios. I don't see why they should be a target any more than the rest of the billions of people on Earth who weren't helping, but I do sympathise with Jonathan's frustration.

[Sharing Trash (short)]

not too bad

Doesn't really do much, but it looks Ok. sound not great. Not sure what the point is supposed to be.

don't like the white line at the bottom. it common, I know, but it is visually distracting, so please make sure the image goes right to the edge.

[Pandora's fridge]

Sorry...

I just couldn't understand it. I 2/5 it cos its sort of interesting and quite long, with some interesting bits and pieces in it, but no, I don't know whats going on. Some of it is too dark to see; some flashes by too quick and some is probably refering to things I don't know about. I Hope others get more out of it than I do.

straberrykiler6789 responds:

there are a few references to some of my earlier

[Giraffe]

Its good

Nice giraffe. Interesting things going on in the background. OK music, fits the cheerful tone of the images.

Could have just a little more movement on the giraffe, such a little movement of the tail

Fairly predictable ending for Newgrounds, but it is the kind of thing they like here and it was well done, especially the widening of the eyes just before...

I suppose your group is a kind of Crew, so welcome to Newgrounds from the Dragons & Spirits!

[the Murder Paradox]

Very good

:)Good sound, animation, music, art etc.

:)Good story, well expressed.
:) The sounc sync seems OK, if it is out I didn't notice.

The scene around the 'murder' is difficult to see as it is all dark
The english is good but not perfect- Its pronounced catastroPHE and the words
"tend to cope with" implies that people succeed in coping with it, whereas I am sure you mean "have to cope with"

On a philosophical note, I don't see the evidence that such things as paranoia are a new thing. IMO some people have always had these feelings and the "These Days" is an illusion.

NuclearTeddies responds:

Thanks for the compliments :)

Glad the syncing problems don't show up too much, but we ourselves do notice it though. Luckily we know what I (Vadinci) did wrong, and Positron will upload a better version soon.

We also know our English isn't perfect (In the first text part I wrote "usefull" with two L's) but we are still young and have loads of time left to master the language.

[Choose ur starter already]

OK wha?

I didn't really understand that, but then I don't really know Pokemon.

:) It looked and sounded fine with good animation and lip sync.

:( If you had wanted a more universal appeal, you could have an introduction that would explain what the different choices were about and what a "starter" was.

[weebl and bob: pie]

crude and simple

Not much to it. animation plain and simple. Music basic and not particularly relevent or inspiring. Voices OK, but nothing special. Plot/humour dull and pointless.
Only the faint voice of Bob going "oh" was faintly funny.

The characters are just simple adaptions of Weebles. Barely makes it through my Judgment.
whereas Badger is addictive, this is a complete disappointment to me.