IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[::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.

:)

[a peggey for clockmas...]

very messy

Its does tell some kind of story. It might help if I had any idea what a peggey was, tho I doubt it. I did give it a replay to see if it made any more sense, but not really. I can be pretty light on things that are funny, but this is too scribbley and doesn't make much sense to me.
You need to put in some backgrounds and make it clearer. Take out the bits that are half rubbed out and have a proper end with credits

MelleE responds:

ummmm k

[Dad Xmas]

Good idea

Not every well done. English so poor it is hard to understand. Good choice of weird christmas music to match weird christmas story.

GabrielBarsch responds:

I think to make a halloween story

[Benny G - The Evil TB 1]

Dull and undaventurous

The art looks good enough and gives hopes of more than this sub delivers. The voices were hesitant and needed redoing when errors crept in.

I know that lip sync is hard work and most of us avoid it if possible, but having this much close up faces with no lip movement was dissappointing.

Overall, this sub didn't say or do anything inspiring at all. The good art potential was wasted.

[Stop running, Stickman!]

Quality

Smooth, good sound and sync. Neat. I like the mirror effect

OctoFlash responds:

thanx ice!

[The Inquisitorial Charge]

Not much happened really

The description sounded interesting, but what I thought was introduction turned out to be the whole thing. The style has potential but I cannot see the the interest or entertianment value of this submission

[Lethal Lens]

Yeah! Very good

"What the..." nice ending!

Well lit, unlike so many. Lots of detail and characters. liked the the mix of styles, real +slomo.