Viper90's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Brotherhood]

Great stuff

I liked this.
-Pros: The animation wasn't too bad. You're introducing something that's pretty rare around here (the Star Wars collection has NOTHING on Mandalorians). As soon as I saw the preloaded start menu, I knew this had to be good.
-Cons: I'm not sure if that rtnario selection was appropriate for the battle scene. It seemed to me like it 'contradicted' the primal intro music. Your flag waving wasn't the most believable I've seen, but you still made a great effort! Your firing pistols weren't very believable either. I don't think lasers make the same popping sound as a pistol, seeing as they're not firing a solid object. The planet somehow changed colors from a barren yellowed wasteland on the surface to a lush green planet as you zoom out.
-Suggestions: Possibly seek out a more suitable music selection for the battle scene. Maybe it's just me, but something like that fast paced drum beat you hear in the SW Bounty Hunter trailer would've been better in my opinion. Work on your pistols please! Mandalorians didn't fire silver boxes with holes in the front. Were you trying to represent the Ripper or something? Find some better sound effects...those pistol shots were painful. Make sure you keep up with your continuity. I didn't like seeing that planet change colors.
*Overall this was a great starting flash. There weren't too many problems. I'm glad someone chose to do something over the forgotten Mandalorians.

Cronicle responds:

Thanks. Yea ill definably try and work on my sounds and music. Ill keep this in mind for my next flash.

[Canine Tales- Dearest]

Great animation

This animation was really good.
-Pros: The animation was fairly fluid. I loved your nighttime and rain effects.
-Cons: There weren't many bad things at all in the animation itself, I'm glad we can have some experienced animators submit to NG (instead of spammers) for once. I can't say I really understood what this was about though.
-Suggestions: Did you produce the music for this? If you didn't, you really need to credit your audio artist. Whether you do it in the flash, or provide a link under the author and file info, it's nice to see credit where credit is due. Also, remember to give us some background info under your author comments. Most people will have no idea who your characters are, so it would be nice know more about them. I don't want to have to go look you up on Deviant Art just to find out about them.
*Thanks for joining NG! Welcome to the club; don't feed the trolls, blam the spammers, and you'll be fine.

xAshleymx responds:

Thanks. I mainly joined newgrounds as a link for people who knows about my DA account. I will be spicing it up hopefully with more info so people won't get confused. Thanks for your review. ^^

[LARRY episode 1]

Twas okay

It was interesting.
-Pros: You're an excellent animator, I liked the lighting effects you had in the beginning. Your lip syncing was alright too. It was a fairly compact file, considering the quality and length of the animation.
-Cons: Some of the humor was a little too dry for my taste. I didn't really find any of it funny. Your humor may have been intentionally random, but the comedic segments didn't fit together. Having him be slammed into the wall may have been part of plot development (to make him seem more undeserving of his title) but it didn't make sense. The part where he kissed his fathers head didn't fit into the plot at all and essentially ruined whatever respect or coolness this guy was supposed to have. These are contradictions to the fact you portray him as a badass by beating up that guy on the street. What do you want him to be?
-Suggestions: If you really want this guy to be cool, stop making him look like a pussy with sexual frustration. You could go far with this guy...maybe so far as to try and replace Pico! In fact, the icon reminded me of a new age Pico. I was expecting something along the lines of this guy being an unexpected bad boy like Pico was, but I was kind of disappointed.
*You're an excellent animator, and you have a good sound producer, but your ideas are lacking in some areas. Maybe I'm just picky, but some people may thinking the same things.

Jazza responds:

hey man. you present a good point. to be honest though, as dry or unagreeable as the humor may be to you i'm not about to change it as i seem to have hit the mark with the NG audience, and it's my humor! thats something i cant really change. try getting robin williams to do something slower paced, he just wouldnt. anyhow, larry's obviously a little messed up, and his character will develop, but i enjoy catching my audience off guard and will continue to do so with anything i make. thanks for your suggestions though. i appreciate the comments made :)

[Suck or Blow?]

Good for a laugh

It was okay humor wise, and excellent effect wise.
-Pros: Excellent lighting and shadow effects! It was definitely creepy, and therefore a good tribute to Halloween. It really was funny.
-Cons: Your sound could stand to be a lot louder, I had to crank my speakers up just to hear the voice portions.
-Suggestions: You really could have gone farther with the joke. For instance, after he talks to himself, he could have been like "Oh well"...*looks around*...*squeak, squeak, squeak* You know what I'm saying? Also, I can't tell if he's just too tired to care or is simply okay with the fact this freaky doll appeared out of nowhere laying on him. It was kind of a contradiction to the joke when he seemed glad the doll was there instead of freaked out. It'd be nice if he'd act at least a little surprised and not just stare at it like he's high. I think there needed to be just a little 'more' to the joke.
*After watching this a few times, I realized just how funny that doll's face is! I believe that was the punchline? Leaving us to wonder what he's going to do with the doll just didn't click with me. You shouldn't leave us hanging like that!

Gate-keeper-girl responds:

Well, I could go further with it, but the thing is, I have to show this to a lot of people, and the effect of the joke can't be appretiated when there is sexual content. Its up to the viewer to decide what happens next, I can't be there to fill in everything.

The real question is; is the doll really a doll, because it looks frighteningly similar (in a plastic way) to the vampire girl.

And he just woke up.

The ORIGINAL joke was lost in the lighting. You can barely see the way his eyebrow raises, implying what he's going to do, but now its kind of left in the dust unless you have an extremely bright screen.

Oh well.

-GKG

[Why dogs smell butts]

Good start

It was pretty good.
-Pros: It told a story, you put genuine effort into this, and it had some element of humor in it.
-Cons: Not the greatest animation. The last part had the character glitching up and down as he was stationary and began moving toward the other dog. The music couldn't be taken seriously. It didn't' sound like club music to me, but I believe you were going for a 'carefree' theme there. The depressing music at the end really took away whatever humor was trying to be conveyed here.
-Suggestions: Fix your 'jumpy' dog at the end. Get some mouth animation on that dog who made the exclamation at the end. Also consider using more appropriate music next time.
*It was good for a beginner. I'm glad to see a new animator on NG.

SyWatDroom responds:

Thank you for the suggestions, really good advice, maybe the next one will go better, practice makes perfect

[aowsum]

Neat

This was neat.
-Pros: It was pretty. The music syncing was right on. There were numerous effects! You actually spent time on this. (I'm surprised what makes it through the portal nowadays)
-Cons: There wasn't any point to this. It was just...pretty and nothing else. I appreciate the effort and all, but was all this practice meant just for the portal?
-Suggestions: Give us something juicy and creative! That only pertains to this submission though. I know you have to be planning/working on other stuff, so I won't get too far into that.
*As a beginning animator, I can appreciate stuff like this. How many layers and tweens did ya use on this thing? I'm not surprised it took you two weeks to make it. You did this in only 229 frames too. You must have had a tween going every other frame... Well, as you can see the NG community has become like a third world country. They're easily impressed. We're starved of good flash submissions, and it's up to people like you to give us something good! I hope this one is a reflection of the quality of your future submissions.

holyforks responds:

Be amazed my friend, by the number zero! There is absolutely zero tween everything is fbf. Wouldn't be much of a practice to get back into shape if I just tweened half of the movie would it?

[WolfsBane Trailer (Final)]

Well done

I liked it overall.
-Pros: You say this is an original character? That's definitely a plus. You had wonderful eye detail as well. Every time I see a flash drawn like this, I'm amazed at the level of detail and time it obviously took to make. Did you draw every frame on this? Going frame by frame, it looks like you did.
-Cons: Like you mentioned, you have some movement issues. I don't like how the character looped in the crawl portion. I didn't like seeing the character roll suddenly in the beginning chase sequence either. I don't really see how that factors in the chase and the movie moves so quickly that it really takes away from the quality of the work. I wasn't quite sure what the thing was that passed the screen after the hawk flew away. The feather was a little too wide to be to scale, but I see what you were trying to do there. It would've been nice to have a replay button on here too, though I realize it's not finished.
-Suggestions: Fix those movement issues! I know it may be a pain in the butt to do, but once you fix them, people will like it a lot more. Consider limiting her crawl sequence to two loops. With two, the looping will be less noticeable. Also consider scaling that feather down. Other people might also be confused as to what it is. Make sure to remember a replay button on your finished one.
*I look forward to seeing what kind of surprises you have in store, as well as what other characters you have.

WolfsBaneSeries responds:

The background revolving was drawn by me along with all movements but some backgrounds stayed the same and yes. no gifs or anything no buttons. all frame done.

I know the grass want the best but it wa normally and supposed to be a fun little animation but it turned into a hunting scene. Sorry it was a feather from the hawks wings. The feather was zooming in. And soory i'm not good at rodents like rabbits and mice. Yeah i will add a start and end button once i finish the main animation.

[DB - Anti-Tank Squad]

Lol

I kinda laughed at this.
-Pros: It was sorta funny. A lot of time obviously went into this. You don't see a lot of stop motion anymore, so it was rare too. That cotton scene must have taken some work!
-Cons: Was this REALLY a 'flash?' I guess if you're a traditional animator, you can really appreciate this, but modern times dictate you actually use the software in flash to create an animation without the help of a camera.
-Suggestions: Please try to make a flash cartoon. I know stop motion is difficult to master, so you may want to try your hand at animating (if you haven't already). Get a replay button on this. I couldn't tell if I was supposed to laugh at this or take it seriously. You could even go so far as to make this into a comedic work. Hey, you might want to change the locale of your scenes too. Small green men in a large freaky redwhiteblack grassed world with a feathered white sky was neat and all, but an outdoors scene would probably be more suitable (if you can handle people ogling you).
*I liked it other than that. I am looking forward to see what other creative things you can come up with.

GreenScales responds:

ehh i have tried doing animiations. the problem is my style is totaly awful. as in i carnt. i am aware it might not quite count as a flash, but i have been doing stop start motion things like this for around four years. the rest of my stuff can be found on my devart page.

as for not seeing stop motion anymore...w ell thats the way it goes innit.

[MK Mishaps Gold]

I loved this

I had never seen one of your parodies before this, but I think I'll go ahead and watch the rest!
-Pros: REALLY FUNNY. I never got into MK (cuz I sucked at it), but I still was able to enjoy this. You used a few samples of my favorite things in here too; like that clip from Goldmember and the System of a Down songs. The overall parodies in here were spot on as well. You also gave credit where credit was d
-Cons: There's not much to be said in the way of improvement. You nailed the jokes, and the animation was excellent.
*I did have a question though. Where were those JL sprites from? Were those from a game? I don't remember seeing a JL game like that. Anyways, I loved this and hope you'll parody something else classic someday. (if anything nowadays can become a classic)

VicHD responds:

The DC sprites are fanmade M.U.G.E.N. Sprites. They're quite a rare find to be honest.
I posted a link highlighted in yellow during the credits, check it out while you can.