IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[: L Gets Mad :]

Not too bad

In fact , for a first time its got quite a bit of potential.
the art was good enough and the style was OK.
However, not much gets through without sound, the animation was adequate but not inspiring and the whole thing makes not much sense if one has not heard of the show.

I would support this if it at least had sound. If you need help PM me. You have potential.
Best Wishes
Ice

Kero-the-boy-killer responds:

Yea, sound does indeed make it have more quality. But thank you for advice ^^

[Time in a Bottle]

wow!

Very good! I am not crazily into FBF swirly things, but this is the best of its kind I have ever seen, so YES.

I was so impressed with the sentiment and the trouble you had gone to that I confess to feeling a momentary pang of irrational jealousy toward the lucky boyfriend!

Its that good.
I will send this to my favourite girl now!

Its all good. timing art, sound quality, everything

I trust you got the biggest hugs on Earth for this. If not chuck him, we love you!

Gate-keeper-girl responds:

He gave me a swift handshake, and an approving nod.

[The Mystic with Stealth!!]

Funny

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

[Movin']

Good looking

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.

[sticktown disaster]

Ive seen worse

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.

[::battle of grim island::]

Very good

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.

[stickman born]

Again, you have some ability,

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.

[Teddies Seasons Greeting]

not bad

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!

[merry stickmas]

Not bad

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.

:)