IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[Middle Nowhere-Trial 1.54]

Its funny and interesting, to a point

The pace is too slow for my taste tho. You wait too long for the next funny thing to happen. Its suffers from the same as the other one you did, where it looks too pompous for what it is.

It has some nice little effects, like the logo, crackling into view. It needs a fair bit of editing to make the best of some good material.

[5 Busy Shapes]

I believe the appropriate expression is...

... Yay!

Its fun, its good quality, its a bit weird. The block changes colour? The end is good.

[Metropolis Circuit]

Excellant production quality- disappointing story

Very high quality art and animation, smooth stuff with good music. The VA is clear enough, but there's not much to it and it sounds rather studio, rather than open air, for such an otherwise high quality production.

However, there's not that much to it all really, considering all the notes and stuff, which made me expect more story etc. For example, your Authors Notes say "two of the main characters"- there are no others. All this description of personality and background turns out to be just a fairly short skate race though a standard futuristic city.

Also, I personally don't much care for anime. the whole idea of doing animation art to rules with zigzag hair and turned up noses seems unimaginative to me.

[Madness: The Night Show]

Well done in finding something original...

...that was still very much on the subject of Madness.

Good sound, voices etc.

DrClay responds:

wasnt it suppost to be on the subject of Madness?