IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sign of the Chrysanthemum]

yes but...

Why upload it now then?

Why dump this on us now, when it is almost completely incomprehensible?

It has good material- images, such as the first images with the crysanth in hand etc., then the opening eyes. Good art, good animation but pointless until backed by proper sounds or some way of explaining what is going on.

Come back with the update soon; I look forward to it, but I don't appreciate this being submitted unfinished.

[Cottontail]

nearly all good

Suitable music matching a traditional 50's cartoon style. Good art and animation and a funny little story.

The one thing that spoilt it for me was the blank screen after the Easter message where one would expect to see credits.

[Anti-bully]

Looks OK

+Good images and text- Important message, worth saying.

-No sound, with suitable sound/music I would rate this much higher- I usually bl@m soundless movies.

-Some spelling mistakes, such as Bullyig at the beginning and Envey at the end
-Needs credits and stop/replay

You have ability, use the forums and the tutorial collection to improve.

[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.

[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!