IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mini-Japan Island Resort]

Like it!

Its eccentric, its kinda funny and it looks and sounds OK.

I didn't know you were a Clock. Maybe you can help me with the Clock pages on wikiG, or even the Clock wikia.

[The Bomb Squad Christmas]

This could be a whole new Flash Crew- the BS

Taz Bomb, Bob Bomb, GaryGrenade bomb, Strawberry Bomb, Pineapple Bomb, Blastmas Day submissions, I see it all!

The sound isn't great, but you can hear it and its funny. The voices are GREAT. and the poem is good too.

This deserves more recognition.

NinjaWabbit responds:

haha thanx!
Yeah i plan on making more and the quality will be far more improved now that i have my animations being outputted into .swf's rather than movie type files then being converted into .swf's.
Also preloaders will be eventually added as well.
I found out what my problem was with projects not saving so that now worx too.
I wish i had those animations, i made, saved as projects because then i could have outputted them as .swf's (which would have atleast made the artwork better, and down the road i could have redid the audio on good equipment) and then they would really shine. All it would have took was a computer restart or mess up and then i would've lost any of the animations that I've made.
But sadly there's no way to fix them up other than a total do over whilst trying to stick to the regular awesomeness that made them shine.
Trial & Error all the way....
I'm all about quality and substance.
Thanx for the compliments & more animations are in the worx....

[pterodactyl]

Yeah

I quite liked it- 3/5. Its plain, with no background etc, but it tells a little story, the characters look good and are well animated, the sounds and music are good enough and its cute.
I don't like the way the characters wobble all the time. Background please- more please!

["EXTINCT"]

Its very good

Obviousiy, the animation, art etc is in the top bracket for NG. It has a clear message of warning against our treatment of wild creatures, so the flash has entertainment and purpose. You wrap us up into the quiet story of a wild kitten's everyday life, then jump us into the sad reality of our treatment of wild animals.

There are, however, details of improvement. As has been said, more variety in expression for the kitten would be good. Studying the movement of butterflies a little more- their bodies don't go down as the wings go up quite like that and they have a destintive zigzag/random element to their flight paths to avoid predetors, which is part of what subtly identifies them as butterflies. I felt that a few scenes were a little slow/drawn out- tho I know that is very difficult and a matter of personal taste.
Finally, it is a shame in a work of such effort and quality that the only text isn't better english.

I note that others have queried the conection between making animals into pets and making them extinct. Although the pet trade- killing mothers to get their babies etc. DOES risk extinction, this movie does not make that connection clear. Some kind of More Info button, taking the viewer to a couple of lines of well-written sentances (in 2 languages?) explaining your thoughts and links to one or two most relevent sites would make this movie SO much more significant. If you wish to work on this movie, please PM me and I will discuss it with you in detail and support you- its worth it.

Front Page, please!!!!!

manuelberja responds:

thanks! :)

will send you PM!

[my first animation.]

very limited

This is very samey, it has nothing new about it and I am sure it is NOT made by Stigthomas only, I am sure the art is mostly made by others and sprite-animated by you. I have nothing against sprites, but be honest if that is the case.

Very few animations without sound pass judgment. Explore what does and doesn't get through judgment here.
With work, your existing skill could produce good stuff with sound, music, a proper story with personality and and, a Stop/replay and proper credits in the movie.
Continue working.

stigthomas responds:

i will become better but i didnt steal any of this stuff. i made all by myself

[Sony]

Hard to hear

but you did your best and I got the idea, on the second viewing. See if you can improve it- make it clearer. In your keeness to make the characters interupt each other, they blur together, especially since the voices are, not surprisingly, similar. It would have been clearer if you had put in a background, giving some idea of a context for "Kids Talk"

[Space Nazis In Space]

soso-

might have been quite good/funny if I could hear the words. Otherwise, it is an entertaining collection of images/bit of story.

CorpseGrinderClock responds:

You should turn up your speakers!

[The One True King]

Ah, yes. I Like it!

It has a decent little story, consistant with the Lore of Clocks. It has nice images, including a good one of P-bot. I like the choice of music, adding "adventure". Its kinda funny, in the proper clocky way and I LIKE the way Orange rolls along!

CorpseGrinderClock responds:

Why thank you, what a nice review I'm sorry I didn't see it sooner!