IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[improoved situation]

OK

+art v good
+animation v good
+sound OK
a bit funny

not much to it

You might make the sun & sky go redder as it goes down.

[Pie in a Bottle]

its was crap but good!

You KNOW what I mean.
basic art, no background
basic animation
dodgy sound
didn't make much sense...
but it had RANDOM and humour, so I protected it.

Pie, Human Head... weird. Yeah, I protected it
another pie please.

[Office Spider: Episode 1]

Yeah, its funny.

+OK graphics (shame about the stick legs, it wouln't have taken much more time to have drawn trousers etc- you only draw them once. spider looks great though.
+OK animation. Nothing ambitious but its everything you need
+Sound and timing good
+funny, somehow chillingly believeable in a sense- it reminds me of humouring real people like that who one is affraid of.

do more- do the series.
Do the women in the office and the person who brings round the tea and the cleaners, the window cleaner, visitors to the office, the phone rings and Pete answers it. The boss wants to tell Pete he's fired, Pete wants a raise, somekind of engineer- maybe a phone engineer or computer bod or something comes. A boss from a rival company comes to visit/complain, a creditor comes to complain, a wife/husband/child comes to visit. Office Party, Christmas Party- seasonal stuff, pigeons on the balcony, office suicidal on the balcony, time to go home, working late, deadlines theres SO much you can do!

[Alarm Clock of Darkness]

Good stuff

Its one of our basic fears/feelings.

I particularly liked the voice of death and the view from inside the clock, which reminds me of terminator.

some very nice art and pretty good animmation too.

I wouldn't change it!
Best Wishes,
Ice

[Utopia 2: the prequel]

Beautiful graphics

So much better than Utopia its frustrating. The story will go from this to that.

The sound is good and the music is very well chosen.

the art is wonderful and the animation is very good. Possibly Radial is a little overused, try a little more conventional shading in the mix, I know it takes more memory though.

I would like to see a better image of him breaking free, I feel seeing only the top of him was a cop-out.

I think it would be better with a rattling sound when he tries to break free.

I don't like your funny hit areas on the play button on this and Utopia.
I dont quite get the book thing. If he picked it up when he was in the little cave and reads it at the beginning of Utopia, why does he not have it when he leaves the old mans home?

You will have to sort out the names- if its a prequel you can't call it Utopia 2. its either Utopia 0 or its Utopia 1 and Utopia is named Utopia 2 or you just call it Utopia Prequel!

Fifth is spelt thus.
Excellant work. your art is becoming SO top class and the animation is getting better too.
Best Wishes,
IceDragon64 of the Dragons & Spirits

Vuny responds:

Well in the old mans home is after he got crushed in Utopia 1. The old man simply repaired him. So he doesn't have that book anymore. And you're right about the radiants, I will and should stop using them. And as far as calling it a prequel, It's because I needed something to call this first part of the second movie, and sense it shows his flashback of how he got in the forest, I just made it the prequel part.

[The Advencers of billy 0B]

Not my taste, but...

...as we share virtually the same name I had to come and see your stuff and, having seen it, I had to review it!

+nice art
+good sound
+OK tiny story, s'pose, not my thing.

IceDragonkin responds:

Thanx, its been forever since i looked to see if anyone reviewed it but im glad you did. I've PMed you with some things and hope to hear back from you. And as for the retarded joke thing. It's just one of my many faces of humor. I'm currently working on animating snippets from songs many by the artists The Used. But this is just to waste time. I really want to make something action packed and worthy of the front page. so if you have some ideas or sound creating/editting programs or sites to recommend im all ears. im using FLStudio but i need something to edit music too.

[Utopia]

Excellant graphics

+top art
+good animation
+OK story
+OK music

-green blobs look poor compared to robot etc. with pathetic animation on their basic movement.
-Music got boring
-action got repetative, the grabbing for the robot went on too long the same.

This is now a major movie, so please tidy up your notes to standard:
"as human as posible...retlate/relate... that/than the other.

Obviously its good stuff, but to be honest I came here from your prequal and I was dissappointed. the prequal has so much more to it. That seemed like a story, this seems like an idea/image/metaphor more or less.
You have great talent, not yet expressed to its full potential.

Vuny responds:

Well man, you have to remember, this one might not be as good because I made it long before the second one, and the whole idea/image/metaphore thing, that's basically what this flash is. This flash was suppose to mean something (have a message). The sequel/prequel just extends the story as far as plot goes, it's not suppose to have a hidden meaning like this one does.

[Well Enough Alone: Part 1]

So far so good

+Top class art
+Very good voice acting
+Very good sounds

OK animation as far as it went. Not very ambitious animation- everything done to avoid things like lip sync as much as possible, to the point that its obvious and a little annoying. faces move when we speak, so hiding the mouth was not enough to stop you from letting yourself down there.

You have set the scene well enough for something to happen, but nothing is explained yet. Now you must get together and plan a story with real characters and plot worthy of this artwork.

Full serials should have episodes long enough to explore people, places and action, with lighter and more peaceful moments to contrast with the action and drama. One needs at least glimpses of things like home life or family, background etc to remind us of what is at stake.

This has every chance of making it big time on NG. Take your time and make it the best you can. Keep the project going steadily, though- many fantastic projects never get finished here. Keep searching for the best talents available and get everything checked and alpha'd before subing parts.
Best Wishes,
IceDragon64 of the Dragons & Spirits

Kuoke responds:

Yeah, I know the whole lip syncing thing, but I think at the time I was thinking that animating it at 42 fps would just be a pain, so I doged it as much as possible (Which won't be the case in WEA:Part2).

The reason that people arn't looked into is because none of these people are even close to the main character.

Thanks for the most informative review yet, IceDragon64.

[Little Christmas Short]

Nice one!

I was just exploring your Estar Wars stuff and decided to see what else you did. I remember this. I liked it then and I like it now. Its all good, but the music makes it.