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=

[Perception Shorts #2]

Why is it the best animations...

Why is it the best animations always have the crappiest buttons? I noticed that you actually used a clickable area for the replay button, so i guess you just forgot to do one for the play button... ah well.

The animation itself was good - the art was pretty cool. I liked the colors, and the newsprint. The sound wasn't that great, really. The voices were pretty bland - need to throw them through some distortion of some sort, eh? And the music was repetitive and dull instead of weird and eerie like i'm sure it was intended to be (and did come off as, for about the first 30 seconds)

Pretty good stuff, lovely art, like to see more when you develop your flash skills! Stylish & Presentable

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[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 Family Trip]

Congratulations! You got a TEN!

I don't often give out tens, but your short was most deserving. The molding of 3D with FBF and tweening was VERY effective. The only part that didn't go together too well was the hubcaps on the car... the stark contrast between a 2D body & wheels and the 3D hubcaps was a little much.

Then there were a few 'pop's that didn't line up too well, but then again, the frame rate could be to blame for that, and who really wants to increase the FPS to 50 or so just to get the timing on some dialogue perfect? Too much work...

A couple of small suggestions:

First, i think the people in the car should be bobbing back and forth in their oh so dancing ways, and maybe they should look at each other once in a while.

Second, i think the truck hitting the car should be delayed a couple seconds, and that moment-after-the-crash silence should have like a bird squak or something hehe... yeah, just right...

Well, that's about that! i'm glad i stopped by!

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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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[Simple in flash (sucks)]

Where's your tutorial at?

Bugs? I'm afraid i don't know what you mean by bugs. You see, to have bugs, you must first have CONTENT, and i found none of this. The menu page is fine. The circle runs around and you can click on the links. The "simple preloader" category yields a black screen with a square button on the bottom left that returns you to the menu.

Now that we're back at the menu, lets click another button! How about "simple buttons" (how ironic). Now we are faced with another black page, this one sporting a wide array of, you guessed it (!), buttons! You can click on them, but they do nothing, except, of course, the square button in the bottom left, which takes you (again) back to the main screen.

The last category has the same results as the first.

If the content is there and it's just not loading, try using a 'simple preloader', like the one provided by newgrounds. It's easy to find, so there'll be no question about 'where it's at'. Might want to turn the music down a little too - don't forget, tutorials are about learning information, not about listening to music. (thinking about that you might want to add a mute button as well)

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Kevalot-Darkstorm responds:

uhh... hey.. I do have a loader page... well atleast your honest it wasnt the best... ;_;

[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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