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Tips and tricks

Audio should not be a problem. Learn to adjust volumes in flash or simply edit the files outside of flash to normalize the volumes. Also, having the music turn down during dialogue helps a ton.

Visually, there's plenty that can be done, but i think the easiest way to make this look better is backgrounds. Take some time on creating an environment for your characters and the payoff is amazing! Now, be careful not to stray outside of the artistic style you're using here - i.e. don't stop using the hard edges and thin lines, but more things in the background and you'll find this looks a whole lot better.

Take some classes (online tuts even) on perspective and all that. I think your production is quite all right, you just need a little help on the look and sound of it!

D

Aaaand i'm BACK

Ah, the scourge of the... vast... expanse... of the.... entirety... of... newgrounds. I guess.

No, but really it was quite entertaining (as was part 1) - the storyline flowed well and I did so like the part at the very very end where i get to look at stills of the text, because I did not, in fact, "catch" all of that. Gotta say, though, there needs to be a button at the last still to return you to the end menu.

If you're not already on profit sharing, you need to be - it's under account settings. Check it out.

I saw your post saying your a bit busy for this... I'm a bit not busy to do nothing... would be interested in doing a short collab or something. Send me a message if you're down. Otherwise, keep up the good work!

Oh, bad stuff, yeah... fleshing out certain animation characteristics... it's never too late to get better at integrating tweens with frame by frame. Just a thought.

TDM

Another great installment

Hooray for ikkle and toad! I think you should have kept the deleted scene in, imo. Otherwise, just wanted to let you know you're still doing quite well haha...

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Kamize responds:

Hooray! I'm glad you like the series. But I have to disagree with you about the deleted scene. It totally broke up the rythm of the animation and was out of place. I think it was more amusing as a link in the back personally. So I kind of did keep it didn't I, I kept it as a deleted scene.

Thanks much!

ATKINS

haha Navi's FAT~

reaaaaaaaaaaal fat. Fat fucking faerie. haha. gave me all sorts of ideas for 'fat navi' link toons - probably never do them - ah well.

thanks for a laugh.

D!

Pretty decent

I don't think the scanning worked so well for parts that weren't to be included in the background. Also you should outline with darker lines and crop the objects all the way up to them so they don't have the bordering white crop junk

First thing i noticed was his walk sequence was a bit rough. The transition between your last and first frame is nonexistant. You should copy the first frame and paste it just after your intended last frame and use the skinning to help determine what you need to do to make the character get back to where he started. Then you can just delete the copied first frame and there you go.

Sounds more complicated than it really is and is very worth it in the end.

Really, i liked it. It was quaint - almost dreamy. i liked how it had no sound effects but just a floating theme.

At some parts though you lacked background of any sort and that should be fixed... adn that break from the staircase... you should have drawn the two objects separately so it doesn't look like it gets cut out from the staircase.

Anyways... there's my two cents. Good work - nice to see people experimenting!

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MorrowDays responds:

Thanks for all the tips, they're definitely going to help later on.

The walk sequence was like that because it was more of a jump sequence that I made at the beginning of the film so that it'd line up when he was jumping from stone to stone. Now I might redo the walk sequence for the rest of the animation, but when I was making this version of the film, I was under a deadline for a division of the "sprockets" international film fest, called jump cuts, which is a sort of minifilm fest for students. This was my entry for the grades 7-9 category (I'm in grd.7) and I had to hand it in today. like you said, it's not perfect, but it's decent, and I think it'll work just fine.

Backrounding: One idea I had last night was to have paint splatters in various points of the movie where there wasn't as much backround stuff (example: right before he gets eaten by the fish) which I think would add to the experimental aspect of it, so if I do a re-sub, I'll add that, as well as the darkened outlines of some of the scanned art.

So, again, thanks for all of the comments, I'll keep them in mind. Glad you liked the music and the quaintness!

Huh?

Ok, i'm confused - he failed to avenge his father but he's still alive? And they'll meet again? I can just picture two critically injured ninjas in rehab crossing paths and beating each other to death with canes.... maybe i'll do a spoof haha

Anyways... you really need to check your grammar there, buddy, before you send this out - and also with the coloring - put a layer below your little ninja fellow and create a box that's the color of... elton john. like, bright pink. That way you can see where the holes in your coloring are - you can't tell me you didn't see them on the zoom, c'mon!

Anyways....

I've used Adobe After Effects for video editing and i'm not too sure if it has onion skinning capabilities, which is really what you're looking for in a program to be used for animation. It's the only thing that sets it apart. I'm pretty sure Adobe ImageReady has OS w/ it, which as far as i know comes standard with Photoshop.

Other than that, i just use flash.

Good movie - except the parts i mentioned. Keep truckin'.

D!

Trendy ;-)

Hahaha fun stuff - I love ska but never really dug RBF. Ah well. Who sings your credit music?

MetalDart responds:

Having a Wonderful Time- Tiny Tim

You bastard.

I woke up with your song in my head.

Again.

Guess i'll give you another 5

haha.

D!

Wonchop responds:

Whee

Suggestion

You should check out a movie called "This Quiet Earth"

About the same thing - really good i thought.

D!

Great thought

As with the review before me, i agree that the beginning was excellent but the last part was ... not so.

For me it probably would have been bearable if only your sounds had lined up with the images in the philosophical discussion.

Again, great idea - but you should have gone with the style of the first bit for the discussion and recorded real voices instead of relying on the CC stereotypical bs or at least went and edited the voices with Audacity or something.

Good idea, i even voted to save it, but work on the execution.

Thanks for making an effort to stray from the typical boundaries of your comrades.

D!

AlbinoClock responds:

Several people suggested recorded voices, but it was more fun to just copy Republic into speakonia without correcting any of my typos. The purpose of the movie is to demonstrate

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