TheDevilMyself's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Belong to everyone]

Illustration is the word...

You really seem like you should be illustrating for childrens books. That's what i thought this was going to be at first, actually, was a slideshow of illustrations for a childrens book or something that you (or someone else, at that point i didn't know for sure) did. Why WAS there little to no animation at the beginning of it? The crumbs thing was a bit confusing because of it i believe, and i didn't really get the impression of the sharing bit of the piece, except in the still where the fly(?) is waving his finger...

Great illustrations, decent animation... just a few fine tunings left i think!

=D=

[Sublimes]

Very artistic

Lacking in alot of movement, you should try some Frame by Frame animation to add a little more to your movie. Other than that, you need to increase the clickable area on your buttons. How? Just double click on teh button, click on the third frame to the right on the button's timeline, insert a new keyframe and draw wherever you want the person to be able to click. It's so annoying to try and click on the very lines that makes up the button.... so very annoying...

Nice creepy stuff - reminds me of my own artwork! Good job!

=D=

Glass-Radio responds:

it's intentional

[LL - The Transformation.]

Better

Pretty good animation - a little short, and lacking extra sound effects, making the whole thing sound a little... quiet... like watching a movie on mute while listening to the radio...

And that last bit... are you trying to kill epileptics?? I think the flashing colors were a little much, but myeh. The song ruled.

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[The Disease part 2]

Please Try Harder

The visual stylings were great and I liked what sounds you used, but there were so many things that just pissed me off that i can't bring myself to save this.

First, you have to right click and 'play' TWICE before you get to the menu. Fix it before you resubmit.

Second, the first flash had so many problems i stopped watching the entire thing, which makes me think that maybe you need a 'back' button so you can exit the current scene and go back to the menu if the viewer feels that it just sucks.

The first scene (the one with the red hill and the gray clouds at the start begins well, and the creepy old music begins (made creepy by the art mind you) and then it just stops, for no reason, in the middle of everything (halfway through the paper blowing in the wind bit)

Then you see the 'zombie' (which you find out is just that a second or two too late) for about a half second before the zombie is replaced by a screen of white.

Finally there's a guy who 'run's across the screen screaming. He's going so slow i can't really call it running... so lets call it... slowly sliding? Yes, that's fine. So the guy's sliding slowly across the screen, and yells for a split second and continues across the screen in silence. This is where i had had enough and closed the window.

Fix this thing, this beast, this monster before you send it to the world! Why would you show off an imperfect thing??

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Co-Labs responds:

look mate, before you sart having a fit about this have n you not considered that it is because you do not have flash player 8. I accpet that this may be a genuine mistake but i don't think it is too nice telling peole their creations suck before checking that you have no faults of your own first.

[The Gardener's face]

Mmmm bloody spider guts

Very weird flash ... definately think it was not dark enough sometimes for what was going on, y'know... maybe a couple of close ups on the 'gardner' when he's putting the mask on? or the mask itself?

Anyways, i think the most important thing is that you need to use less tweening and start doing some frame by frame for the animation sequences. particularly the flower opening... that ended up just looking cheesy with tweening, and the spider getting crushed (same effect)

The art is really good, so i don't see any reason why you shouldn't push the limit and go all out with FBF when you can't make the tweening look REAL.

Good stuff - i'm going to check out your others now!

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[Crebe Episode One]

Sonic 2: Return of the Jedi(?)

Ok, it was a bit better than your average sprite animation except for one small thing:

FPS

Make your FPS higher, because nobody wants to watch teleporting sprites. We all know it's the easiest form of animation in the world (except if you made sprites from stick figures... but then i guess at least they'd be your own creations) So we expect more out of a sprite based movie.

The text in the jungle part goes a little too fast in the middle. Slow it down a bit. Speed up the rest though, and try doing a couple of zooms and different camera shots - more effects! Otherwise those first two sequences get a bit tedious (especially the send one)

Overall i think it's obvious that you've got some potential with this, so keep at it!

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PS - i like what you did with the lightsabers - looked like it actually belonged there! Congrats!

Skeik responds:

im soirry dude, i think the preloader doesnt work. The fps is 24, so they should be looking nice. Rewatch it and let iut load a while.

[The Robot: part I]

Alf... again?

Wheres the cat? Why is Alf named Clarence??? What spaceship!?

Intrigueing enough to merit not being blammed - looking forward to the next episode!

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