IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[StickDeath Test]

Not too bad

+got sort of story
+got some good graphic effects
+got music
+OK animation
+Linear sky is better than blue

-story doesn't make sense. Presumably if one had heard of the reference it might help- what is this creature. An intro in the movie would help a lot
-its just stick men- if you can animate Ok and do things like linear then why not make people?
-Linear sky is upside down, the sky goes lighter towards the horizon.
Put in sounds, its so much better than just music, especially for those of us that dont like that kind of music (that track is overused anyway)

Keep at it its got potential
If this really is a test, then it belongs in alphas.
Best Wishes,
Ice

[Exploding Fungus (silent)]

So! the great Bezman has...

a skeleton in his cupboard!? (albeit one with a score of just over 4, which goes to prove how artificial NG scores can be!)

I cant compete with the last reviewer for technical skill in reviewing so I won't try.

+ its vaguely funny
+ it has some a punch line, therefore purpose, which makes it better than quite a few NG subs

-it looks crap, with no background, meaningless colours, no shading
-very few movies get through without sound- even just an explosion would be a considerable improvement.
-animation very crude.

You must have some powerful friends or something, I don't see any clocks or B's in it. How did you get this through judgement?

I wonder how you would have reviewed it if it came from someone you didn't know? I ask myself that of my own work sometimes and it pushes me to do better.
Best Wishes,
Ice

Bezman responds:

Thanks for the review!

Bear in mind that this was 2001. Kong had been at #1 for a few months straight. Nothing else could reach the score of 4.00. There were far fewer submissions and 'spam groups' weren't around. Everyone had a far greater chance of getting accepted into the portal.

When the famous B was submitted, my understanding is that passed of its own merit - people just found the shock of finding that letter and nothing else amusing.

Likewise, some folk just found this made them chuckle. Check one of the first reviews for proof.

For the record, it passed at maybe 2.5ish. Above 2 anyway. I voted it up afterwards myself - something I wouldn't do now - and did so until it reached 3.7. A fan took it upon themselves to upvote all my stuff recently. I didn't ask them to.

In a way, my LLL account was an attempt to have a fresh slate, free of upvoting and whatnot.

Stay funky!

[Tea Time:The Kopitiam Way]

Some excellant art!

The car, look of the kopitiam from the outside, the look of the tea with the light on it, the pouring. Yes, Excellant- up with the best.

Roof tiles were good but could be better. Faces plain and not up to the same standard.

Animation good- some good angles. Excellant dog panting!

The little story was nothing special, but it was a pleasant change. I note its all your own sound and music too, well done!

Submit more- I want to see more of your work!

[Ludwig: the beginning]

Yes but no

the 3d effect is impressive compared to the usual flash we see here, but what you've actually created seems pointless.
I am no expert but I assume this is not Flash but some other program, in which case, may I suggest you look for a more appropriate site.
We expect story/point
background. I imagine that this takes quite a bit of work to programme and I don't want to be unkind, but generally I come here to be entertained or educated and this does neither for me.
If this character were doing something more interesting on perhaps quite and ordinary but relevent background I would rate it much better.

[Periodi City]

I eat cheese & jam- its cool!

Dragons & Spirits like weird food combinations and we support eduFlash, so its OK with me!

Periodicity fascinates me and you made a good effort. so much so I gave you a resonably good score, but you know its a mess.
the blue blocks of small letters are very hard to read, increase the contrast.
You need to tell everyone who the characters are at the end.

PJEskoria responds:

Ah! thanks!!! Good to know someone understands this is meant to be a type of eduflash! i thought of giving a more specific bio of each character at the end, but my due date was eating me up.

[Creepy Pilgrim Guy]

Lip Sync

The lip sync is wrong- He is say hella instead of hello. th O should be a smaller mouth.

Otherwise its ok if a bit pointless.

[Tribute to Saddam]

Thank you very much for this

Very rare to see the alternaive perspective.

I was aware of some Saddams educational reputation, but the rest, including the award I did not know.

The world ought to take note of the fact that he still has a lot of supporters in Iraq, so he must have done something right for many thousands of people.

I would not put all the blame on Bush- some must go on Blair too and the ministers etc who didn't stand up against Bush and Blair.
If they had spent 1/10th on the peace that they spent on the war it would all be different.
As a flash its nothing special, its not much more than a slide show, but it is smooth enough, the english is OK and it definately deserves to stay to show that we are prepared to listen to this kind of thing.
I am not sure how to interprete your comment/photo of the Kurd graves, it seemed at odds witht he rest of the movie

[-Wii-]

Very good little thing

Makes the Wii look good. Nice images. Good sound

Jimtopia responds:

Oh, cool, thx.

[Rush 2 ++]

I liked it!

Much better than Rush.

I do like random to a point, but this one was definately more developed. There was enough to see to get into and the little touches of sound matching action were good.

I recognise the girl from Hoy te Amo in there!