IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Message for the KK]

A bit of a surprise, this...

From the general content of most of your submissions, I kinda thought you just slapped some stuff together and put in some noisy music most times, although I do protect the occasional UU.

It therefore surprises me that you seem to care about your intro this much. The text was well written- hypocrite is spelt thus, but apart from the that it was good english, which is not common here.
The music was quite interesting and pleasant.

I wouldn't say it was actually that interesting or entertaining overall, I guess it wasn't meant to be. Its a shame, though, cos if you made it more entertaining it would have a better chance of getting through.
I don't mean to be bitchy, I would like to see you stretch your skills a bit.
Best Wishes,
Ice

UziUnion responds:

Yeah, i'm a bit tired, i just needed to get the message out.

;)

[Wind-Up Toy]

good

I thought it was going to be very bad at first glance, but it developed. I think it would be better without the sublim flashes. Either make them slightly longer so one cna just make them out or remove them.

thornebush5 responds:

You're not supposed to be able to read them. Thanks for the review though.

[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.

[Tom saves the portal!]

It wasnt great but its good enough

Its quite funny and it tells quite a bit of story for an Ock movie. I didn't understand all the words, but the worst bit is the sound got way out of sync in parts, as you know. I often fight with sound sync in flash. It is the worst part of all my movies except IHR.
I have been told that you need to put the sounds into a movie clip to make the sync go right in streamed sound, but I have't got it to work yet. The answers are probably in the BBS, there are references to this kind of thing in the sound section of AS main. If you get it to work properly and master sound please let me know, you will earn the gratitude of the D & S as we are all struggling with sync problems.
Best Wishes to all Clocks
IceDragon64 of the Dragons & Spirits

Mechanus responds:

Thanks. I'll check the BBS. I'm glad you liked it.

[Estar Wars Batle]

Getting better

As I predicted in Chap 0 the scores would go up as we saw more of the story. I did not understand all of it, such as what the hero has in his hand, which is supposed to be so funny. It looks like a nappy. What does the girl throw at the bad guy and why? Sorry, maybe i am just stupid.

yes you do have a few problems with the english but its not so bad. Did you mean to spell the title that way? or did you mean Star Wars Battle?

Closipcom responds:

It's ok, we are trying to be better... But we have a lot of Work for the university and simple do what we can can do...

And the tittle is just for parody but we know write star Wars Battle :P.

Tnks for your comment.

[The Friendly Robot]

OK but not great

I didnt really understand it. I couldnt hear what the red creature/person was saying. It didn't make much sense.

However the art was good, unlike so many flash here so I passed it.

superjer responds:

The red creature is supposed to be "Devil Doll" from a popular shockwave cartoon from a long time ago. I wanted to kill him. It doesn't matter what he was saying. :P

[Sherbert the Cat V-day]

Good stuff

Sherbert stuff is going well. I feel you are on the edge of great things with this. Nice sound, art and animation. I wouldn't change it.

Jonimator responds:

Thanks for the review! Glad you like it!