Ivaron's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[1 - The Story of Khale]

Wow... great!

An Elftown, a Griffion, a Dragon, a Phoenix..

Seems like this is going to be a series with a lot of mythology references.

It all looked really cool. Khale himself was a bit weirdly shaped, but I suppose that's your style. This is really a great job.. I could watch this twenty times and not get bored. Well done!
I can't wait to see the first real episode :)

[All NG Fads Die!!! 5!!!]

YES!!

IT IS HERE!!!!!

Okay, time for me to quit writing in all caps. BUT IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!

*cough*

I loved it. There was less blood and gore in it as there was in the one's Logo did, but - I don't really miss it. The animation better than expected, and the graphics are just amazing in every. single. part. 10/10.

The style - well, it was AFD. 10/10.

Sound - hmm, well I'm not a big fan of the bands you used, except for Limp Bizkit. However - it just fits with AFD. So that should count for something. I also really enjoyed the editing in the music in your part, Radioactive. So, while I usually enjoy different music, I think this was perfect. 10/10.

The violence, well like I said it's not as bloody as the other AFD, but that doesn't mean it's not as violent! It was way more violent actually, especially when taking Helbereth's part and the Castlecrashers one into consideration. It was violence in style, that's what it is. 100/10.

Interactivity get's a 10 as well. The menu looked great, and it wasn't really missing anything. A scene selection wasn't there, but I didn't miss it one bit. I don't think it was needed, I like to watch it all in one piece anyway.

The humor - well that was good too. The Weebl and Bob, DoVG, Johnny Rocketfingers, Sprites, and SOAP parts were hilarious. So again a 10/10.

Overal: 1.00000000000/10. Sadly I can only vote 10 and can't hack :(

Oh and uhm,

IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*cough* ;)

Radioactive24 responds:

;D

- Radioactive24

[Real Life Ghost Footage]

And your grandfathers' birthday is on Halloween?

Right well, that's obviously fake, but still it's cool for Halloween. The ghost was pretty hard to see, luckily you said where it was walking or else I'd probably have missed it.
Good sound quality, btw.

[Cthoolou]

Himself.

He needs to prove it to himself :)

Anyway, great animation! That is indeed a very good question - how can God be certain he's God?

Very funny too! You definatly posess my sence of humor, an expansive (and somewhat unique) vocabulary, and an undoubtably high IQ.
Keep at it, I love this stuff!

[Pencils episode 2]

Good idea, not so good execution =)

I liked it. It was a good idea, but the execution of that idea wasn't all that great. Still, it was good enough for me to enjoy it.
Anyway, here's some pointers I think you'll be interested in reading:

I see you have trouble with the music going on when the flash has stopped. Here's the solution: in flash, select the keyframe that holds the music. Then go to properties (below the stage), open it up. Then at the dropdown menu for "Sync:" select "stream". You may need to close the library/color mixer/etc window to be able to see the "sync" dropdown menu on properties, as it is a bit to the right.

When 'streamed', the music will be layed out over the frames that hold it. That means that when your movie ends, the music will stop. And also when you pause the movie the music will stop. And if you synch something to the movie (like lip-synching / talking), it will end up the same way on the internet like you view it on your computer. This is because on the internet, the movie is constantly loaded, and for slower movies some frames are skipped. When on 'event', like you have it now, the music isn't layed out over the frames but instead one big 'event', so while the frames get skipped, the music just plays normally. And then it gets 'out of synch'. When you set the music to 'stream', that doesn't happen because every frame skipped is a piece of music skipped (but it's in such small portions that you won't notice it, except for it not going 'out of synch').
The music will also take up less filesize when set to 'stream'.

So while the 'event' setting is okay for explosions and stuff that happens quickly, for music, voices, and long sound effects you'll need to set it to stream.

Okay, now on with the review: I too think you need to make it all longer, and use more FPF instead of just tweaning. It just looks better. Really good animators use 36 or higher. It may take some more work, but it will look much better, and it will hide the little mistakes in the drawings because it all changes too fast for the viewer to notice them. That is, if you FPF instead of tweaning ;)

Oh, and try to put more effort in the drawings themselves. Stick figures are okay if done well. Most of this looked good, but some of it looked like it didn't fit with the well-drawn stuff. It's as if you put more effort into the hands, than you put into the figures.
I know, that all takes more work, but it's worth it though; you'll definatly see the difference in the score for your movie.

The flash did seem to lack some substance.. At the start it looked like the two 'hands' were battling each other trough their drawings, but then the one hand drew a truck to kill his own dragon. That kinda threw me on a loop. Didn't seem to fit with the rest of the story.

With the truck, all you had to have the dragon was 'fuck', then the truck falls, doesn't hit him, he's like 'phew', then the truck sloooowly start wobbling in the dragons direction, with a 'creaking' sound (try flashkit [dot] com for sounds), dragon says 'oh shit' *BANG*. I think that would have been better, as the dialogue now is a bit weird, like THESLIGHTDISCOMFORT said.

Oh, and here's what you also need to do at the end: create a keyframe at the end that holds a screen in which you will put a replay button. Then select the keyframe, go to 'actions - frame', and add a "stop" action. Then add a button symbol and give it a 'playfromframe' action. This is all explained in 'OMFG: A Flash Tutorial', which you can find on NG. Use the search function ;)

If you really want to end up like Adam Philips (Brackenwood) and James Farr (Xombie), then put more effort into it. And practice! It may seem boring to take alot of time on your flash, but it's the only way =)

nijnemans responds:

ty you

my savior

[Jerries Actoin Thiler]

omg lolrofrul

i tink u m4d r8te gud job lol
diz is da funs
i lik how it stoppeds talkIgn @ @ ponti. Det wuz funz.

Ect..

Yeh, I liked it.

[Madness Antipathy]

Well..

That's the first time the main character doesn't die :p

[Pulp Fiction Interactive]

Good

Nicely done, I liked how you said "starring" and then my name came up.

BUT, Pulp Fiction is an old (but awesome) movie, so why are doing this? Is it a school project or something?

Anyways, I caught something you must have missed: at the credits, the button symbol for "drawings".
I assume you had originally called that "drawings/animations", then had to move it to the right where "animations" didn't fit on screen anymore so you changed it to just "drawings".

Well, I don't think alot of people will notice this (I did accidently), but you apparently left the "on hit" part of the "drawings" button to "drawings/animations", so when you click it that comes up.

Woo, long explanation for something that simple ^^

(ps: sound is 4 because I don't like either of those songs)

metallica41 responds:

Yes, this is a project at school for multimedia. I found out about the drawings/animation bug after i got to school today, i'll fix it when I get home. Thanks for the review. Glad you liked it.