Ivaron's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pardus: Rise And Fall]

GREAT!

Everything is perfect. The animation just needs a little bit work though, what with the tweens at some points (personally, I prefer FBF movieclips for better precision). The art is, however, really really good, and the audio.. You worried about compressing it too much for nothing, because it's just great.

The only real complainst are these:
- It's really long, and at some points it just seems like you streched it. Sometimes you had 3 sentences where you could have just told it with one, to explain what I mean by "stretching it".
- The infiltrating Human used the Keldan's hand to open the doors. However, the Keldan is dead, and wouldn't have sufficient body warmth to be detected correctly by the machine. It's nitpicking, I know, but I just happened to notice.
- The fighting seemed a little off. Maybe you put in too many frames, it seemed a bit slow.

Cool story, I'd love to see more!

zealeous responds:

Thanks for the rev ^^ I might say one thing: the keldon were not dead, only unconscious!I will do more, but sadly it took me a milenium to finish this one!

[_time_]

Great!

I was expecting something very different, seeing as I immediatly checked out your author's name as soon as I saw the name of the Flash. You surprised me though, and told us something that only few of the more regular Newgrounds visitors know.

It made me curious though, what's the point of this movie if you are a clock? Are you going to quit being a clock, or are you trying to change the Clock Crew back to what it once was? Are you trying to educate your fellow Clocks of the use of persons as well as just simple drawings, and actual voices instead of Speaknoia, Microsoft Sam or whatever else they use? Just curious.

As for the Flash, there were few things that I didn't like about it. The graphics were good, although simple to create. The style was great, and the music certainly fitted in with it. The voice wasn't perfect, but only because of the few 'spits' in s and t, but the tone was great and it's just a minor annoyance. There was no violence, interactivity or humor in it so those are 0's :)
(is there ever going to be an n/a function for it...?)

Cheers!

AlbinoClock responds:

A bunch of us made Anti-Clock movies to submit on the same day. It got a hilarious response.

The audio is an exaggeration of my perspective on the CC. Though I do think that the better artwork brought us a number of people who don't really belong in the CC, it's not bad enough for me to dislike the it, and the increase in quality is worth the change.

We have a larger community, so it's inevitable that it won't be completely what we might wish it would be. That doesn't mean it's time to give up, it means we have to keep pushing forward, and try to exhibit the qualities of a clock, in our movies and actions.

Thanks for the thoughtful review. :)

[lamedontbother]

I liked it!

Well if you want feedback:

- It would help if you said what the project was about, and specifically, what it's for (graphic education?) and if you explained what kinda style you were going for, so we'd know what to look for.

- The part where the picture is replaced by black background, white stars and green outlines, I loved that part, but maybe it would look cooler if you'd have traced the windows as well. Depends on if that would get too crude and chaotic though. Just a thought. I mean, the way it is now, with it all being pretty clear-cut and clean is nice, so if anything, don't have it become all 'messy'.

- For the rest, it's really cool, and the music suits it quite perfect. The part where the green outlines switch back to picture was the part I liked best :).

I wish I could help you better, but aside from these comments that's about it. It's already pretty much perfect. I hope to see more. Are you gonna upload the final version here? :)

Funny-Frisch responds:

thanks for the comments! i'll be putting a preloader on the final version, and yes, it's a graphic design project (not an ad project as some people thought). tracing all the windows would take time i don't have and you're right, may look too busy. for sure i'll upload the final version here. :) thanks!

[Megaman Short -part 2-]

Haha, that's great dude!

It felt a bit like "decline". That's how well drawn it was, and you also used alot of the same style and humor. I loved it.

Eric-S responds:

Thanks! :)

I like the SFB too, thank for the compliment!

[Wonderful Reality]

I thought it was actually quite funny

I have just one thing to say though: when she gets runover by a car, stop the happy happy music right there and add in some kind of "zzzzzzzzzzzzzp" sound (indicating a sudden change).
Then wait a few seconds with just silence, and then put in the music again. Use a playfromframe; () to skip forward the music back to the part it previously stopped at. Then in comes the picture with a happy-song again.

That's how I would have done it ;). Great job though, and yeh, I got the intention.

Nicro responds:

Hell yeah ! That s what I wanted to do(more or less), the problem was I dont know anything about flash scripting ^_^. Even now after you said "how" to do it, I wouldn t be able to transcribe it in my .fla >.> ....

[Jabu's Jitsu Lesson #2]

Nice bro

Hehe, this looks like the same kinds of jokes that I make about my friends. Plus it's welldrawn (though the body-outlines seemed lousily copy+pasted, what up with that?) and funny. A bit wacky though, but wacky can be good.

SonicNY responds:

LOL, yeah this guy is really like that too. He swears he is Japanese. Thanks man, I tried to do better than last time. That copy paste thing you were talking about was a minor F Up I rushed it so it can be out on Xmas. sorry about that but thanks for the reveiw :)

[Video Gamerz -Episode 1-]

Gratz: you made it trough :)

Nice, although really really random.

Yay! I'm the saviour ;)

Bah.. I like the blam video better :O

One thing to watch out for: in the beginning of the vid, some of the voices were a little soft, as if the voice actors weren't close enough to the mics. For the rest, I loved it.. Great ending, btw.

ScottFalco responds:

Well we did the voices in parts...
It was like 2 months later when we did the rest... and in the beginning I had a crappy mic.
That's why ;P

[Going Down to Newgrounds]

Hmm .. I would have voted 4..

But there was one thing here that REALLY ticked me off. And that's reviewers that don't give an opinion to why they don't like it. So to balance the score for all those idiots, I voted 5.

Now, the submission.. I had heard the song before, and yeh I thought it was awesome too :). The animation is really well done, and more importantly perfectly fluent. My only complaint would be that you used the same things for the second time a sentence comes by.. Try to make a second way of showing the same thing, that would be funny.

Anyways, good job.

stoners-lunchbox responds:

Yeah, i know :(

Matter of fact i received so many complaints on that part that i decided to modify the second chorus to make it less "mainstream".

Anyway, thanks for the help!

[Blockhead: Episode 5]

Hmmm..

It´s weird. I don´t know what to think about these. Your graphics, style, sound, everything is perfect .. It just ... lacks a good story. I dunno. The idea is funny. But .. it doesn´t give me laughter :(
I think the whole story stuff is just a tad too 'plain'. A bit predictable.. Dunno. I love your animations, I just don't find them funny. I can't really explain it :(

Well, anyway.. Keep up the good work, man. Hope to see more of you, cuz it ís good stuff.

PS: I think I kinda understand what the last reviewer ment. He ment it's "too much of the good stuff", which makes all the episodes the same, which means it's not surprising anymore, which means you're "losing your touch". I don't fully agree, but that's probably what he ment.

The-Swain responds:

Ah, yes. I took it as meaning I was out of touch with who Blockhead is. If I am out of touch with what it is people find funny, then that's different.

Haha, I almost spelled "funny" as "foney" (not "phoney"). What a riot!

Well, thanks for the review anyway. This is the first episode of Blockhead based on the 'new' character that has been developing in the flash cartoons. Ep.1-4 were written around the old character I once created.

BUT

Worry not. Blockhead: The Feature will be better than all of them combined, multiplied by 10, and detonated in a Hollywood explosion.