IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Slugs 2 : They're Coming]

not my scene

Some good graphics I suppose, and I like the music, the sounds are OK and I liked the gun at the camera image. however, the subject matter is just Madness with slugs.
spell Thier/They're Coming

Gorefest5 responds:

thankc i nvr wuz gud at spelin

[SkullHead 'Green Fingers']

Excellant!

Delightfully silly, lots of good art and animation. Nice details.
Professional style.

[:the Composer:]

It is, of course beautiful

So sad, though.

Nice to see that yet again despite all the hype of blood and guts on NG true beauty still gets the best score.

[Iliad Book 22, scene 7]

Good enough, again

This is obviously quite a project to take on. Although, once you have the format and the basic symbols, I suppose its not too hard to do. the tenxt at the end could do with a bit of editing, but its OK.
I like the somewhat humourous graphics, they lighten the whole thing. Glad to see the walls of Troy today. I like the idea of showing it with the Classical background like a picture on a greek pot!

bsmylie responds:

Most of the Books have been done in different styles. I couldn't spend 8 years using the same set of symbols or characters. Although, I must admit, I have almost used up all the warrior types available to the public from Greek pottery painting collections online. I changed the format a lot of times. I guess I did 500 x 450 for Book 22 because I was too exhausted to change the default format.

[TANKMEN 2]

Its very good!

Tankmen 2 yay! Carrying on excellantly.

Funny, great art, great animation, great sound, BTTF refs, everything!

Needs cigarette smoke. Really does.

[Ilaid Book 22, scene 6]

This was better than 5

Because although the male voice for Hector was good I couldn't hear it.

bsmylie responds:

Susan did all the voice. She manipulated the files for the male parts in that scene, by slowing them down in SoundForge. I may have goofed it up a bit with timing because; he is dying with a spear stuck into his neck which didn't cut the vocal cords or flood his throat with gurgling blood. My presumption about "the place which brings quickest death" is that it is the jugular. I find it hard to imagine a heavy spear through Hektor's neck severing the jugular which would still allow him to speak his last words but; that's the way the text comes down to us.

[Iliad Book 22, scene 5]

OK but

The voice of Hector is too difficult to hear. I really couldn't understand it. Once I read the text at the end I went back and could make it out. the voice is good enough, its just not loud enough. Otherwise the thing is OK. I like such things as the transformation in it. I think it would be better if the city walls were in the background.

bsmylie responds:

I guess it isn't that obvious but, all the action is taking place on a Greek pot. The top and bottom decorations are what are called "registers" on which the action painted on a pot takes place. Pottery is about the only narrative visual art we have from Greece. Some pots are like early animations, as the pot was turned in the viewer's hands, a narrative takes place; or, at least, aspects are reviled. It was sort of like the "cartoon" stories embedded in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts which inspired Greek pottery painters. The only figures that were developed enough to use and animate come from the Classical Greek era maybe 500 - 325 B.C. (Homer lived (if he actually existed) around 800 - 900 B.C)).

At the time the Greeks laid siege to Troy; the Greeks didn't decorate their pottery with figures; it was a pottery era called "proto-geometric" with lines scratched into it. At around Homer's time stick figures were being painted on pots with the bottom registers performing as the ground. Like in Egyptian art there was no background.

The relative volume of the music to the narration... my mistake, I guess. All I can say is turn your speaker or headset volume higher... it might be your equipment too.

[Potato Boy]

Fancy graphic effects

spelling mistake at the end - though instead of thought

[Who's Clock Is It Anyway?]

odd little thing

Not sure I entirely understood it. Was it supposed to be funny? Was there supposed to be some sense in HD identfying the pale image of SBC as Sprite?

Don't know how the voice works, but you said 'Wo' instead of 'who.'

It seemed harmless enought, tho, so I passed it anyway.
Best Wishes to all clocks
Ice

[Merry Christmas Tom Fulp]

Its good but...

don't skip school!

Its funny, it has character. its a bit weird. I like it.