IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[How To Use motion guides]

Good tut.

Looked good, worked well. Useful, made me feel like learning these things I don't know.

However-
-title yellow text on white looks bad
-spelling not perfect- bad on tutorials where it lowers confidence eg.
"GUILD LAYER"
and "beggining". Get someone who is good at english to go through it all and credit them "text edited by" Its not that hard for anyone and adds that touch.

you helpfully put in "Click Here if you don't know...
I think the text for that part would look better just slightly different colour on the up; also it should have a rectagualr hit area, not just the default of the buttons.

I will now go and try the Motion guide tut!
Ice

PatrickM60 responds:

Thanks for the review Ill try to fix everthing you mentioned.

[The Never Never]

Good video

+very good art
+good animation
+important message, well expressed
+got subtitles

How about a little info button at the end taking you to info about bad debt. Something fairly discreet, not a big lecture, just a few facts and maybe a source of info for people to get help or something?

kyle-christie responds:

I like that idea, its a big problem this debt thing. It happened to me and I'm through it now, but I fear for others.

[LL-A Lock Commercial!]

It OK

Standard funny little Ock thing.

probably is spelt thus.

danishcoffe responds:

oki.

[TheNightSantaWentCrazy]

Very good- finish it soon, please!

I know what you mean about the deadline. I got mine finished with a few hours to spare and my IP server went down! :( !
I am pretty strict about unfinished work on the portal but under the circumstances it was more than worth submitting it. I gave it the best score I've ever given unfinished work.
+good art
+good animation
+good interpretation of song

Although the sound quality is good enough I would still like subtitles just get all the subtleties- please.

Best Wishes,
Ice

Nutcasenightmare responds:

More people should pity the deadline-persecuted. lol.

Thanks, and WHY ON EARTH DID TOM MAKE THE DEADLINE THE 20TH INSTEAD OF THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS?!

[Santa clock's workshop]

OK

+OK art
+OK animation
+funny story

-sound is mostly rather muffled

peanutbutterclawk responds:

OK

[SBC's Wonderful Clockmas!]

Very funny!

Like most of these things, its only really funny if you know the world of Clocks and the other cybergangs. but I do and it is. We dont write where to find ee's in reviews do we?

the subts for Going Down... weren't quite right, but I guess that's not important.

Maybe take out the sulky bit in your notes. Most people say things like 'thanks for front page' and stuff not ungrateful grizzling when they have been given a score over 4/5. lol

Lots of bits and pieces of humour some nice and subtle. loved the plug joke, the tree and the soft toy and baseball bat.
Best Wishes and Happy Christmas/Clockmas to all Clocks from the Dragons & Spirits

RupeeClock responds:

The thing is that most people don't get anything about other groups, there are some things that don't make sense to anybody, and then stuff that many people can relate to, I try to make a good mix of these things in my flash so everyone can enjoy them.

Yeah, I know that the subtitles for Going Down to NG weren't correct, but there weren't any lyrics available and I've never been good at interpreting sounds.

Well actually, this isn't truly on the frontpage, this is just an automated position that I've gotten because this movie is in the Christmas 05 collections, but more publicity is always nice. :)

Anyhow, glad you liked this movie, I'm making another for this years Christmas as well, thanks for the actually helpful review!

[Junior High Shorts]

Needs work

+ Well animated sitting down
+OK voices
+OK art

-I don't understand it at all. If you want us all to vote well you need to explain things a bit to the millions of us that don't have a Wii and who don't know what a facewich is.
-speed up the sitting down bit.
-make the one guy look more different to the other.
-put in credits eg sound source, voice
I'll pass it but please sort it out.

bananas-for-sk8er responds:

thanks, yea one of my friends is random and he loves to say facewhich, so I decided to put it in. I'll try and improve it on the next one or maybe make this one better and update it in edit mode.

[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!

[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.