EKublai's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shadows]

Really nice minimalist art direction. It evokes a very clear mood. It's a simple story, but it's effective.

I'll keep an eye on you.

Cr1sisEntertainment responds:

Thank you very much. Considering this was my first animation, i decided a minimalistic approach would be the easiest to do. Since I have plenty enough experience with Photoshop, I decided for more detailed backgrounds. I felt it all fit nicely after testing it out in concept.

[Freshest Goofs: Tarantino]

There is no point to making an animation if it's not animated.

[lospuñosdelamagia 11]

Sigue intentándolo.

Necesita un micrófono mejor.

Obtener mejor dibujando en general, que le ayudará con la animación.

luz100ful responds:

Gracias! ya me han dicho eso y tambien eso de la animacion lo que pasa es que con los recursos que tengo con asosiados de flash no pude resistirme a hacer una animacion hasta hago una serie en youtube.com lo que pasa esque no tenia microfono y este es el mejor que pude miar y comprar

[Meet FR-05T]

Learn to optimize.

Why is this 4.1 megabytes?

Regarding the animation, keep working on it.

serge1290 responds:

Thanks for your condesned feedback but what do you mean specifically by optimize? I'm new to Flash and this was for class so I hope to learn from it and make better stuff in the future.

[Nath and his Paper-Round]

How was this 10 mb?

CityOG responds:

not to sure

[The Breaking Bad Show!]

This was great. I didn't even know it was submitted recently, I was just looking for something Breaking Bad related.

If you do another, I recommend doing something with Gale... poor poor gale, never had a chance.

Or you could do something with Saul Goodman. I always imagined Saul to be like Stan from the Monkey Island videogames.

ZenithQuinn responds:

I thought it might get a bit more feedback than this! I'd love to do more. Thanks!

[Joe Finds Money]

Great animation

The Good: Character animation was top notch.

The Bad: The big problem is in the writing, pacing, and presentation.

I am not familiar with your comic strip, but I feel like this was probably just a drawn out twin of one of them. The joke seemed to be trying to build up to some grand joke in the end, when what you really meant for us to find funny was the wordy speech the hamster gave and the big deal he was making. That might work for a comic strip, but you can only get so far with a contained situation like that. If you do, then the actual script has to be funny, as in the protagonist needs to make the jokes happen and not just overreact.

This goes hand in hand with pacing. You need to get a little smarter in terms of what get's said and how fast it needs to be said. Because your voices don't have a hook quality (i.e why Salad Fingers can talk so slowly yet remain so popular) you need to speed up the delivery and pick less wordy sentences (I'm referring to the script outside the purposefully wordy bit) Having white hamster say "Hey joe" twice, having brown hamster say "I've done it" twice and so slowly breaks any chance for momentum.

Lastly, this is not a single panel comic strip, and so we as an audience of animation expect more variation in the world you set your flash in. What you have here is a single, simple, background, which when compared to the effort you put into the character animation, seems half-assed. An animation needs to take you places. Close-ups and spinning clouds will only take you so far.

WaldFlieger responds:

Thank you for the extremely well thought out review. I feel like you've hit the nail on the head, as far as my strengths and weaknesses. I am definitely a "comics" guy trying to move into the world of animation, and so I've noticed a lot of my instincts as far as pacing goes do not translate very well to the animated medium. I definitely put the most time into the character animation in this video out of everything. My next video I'm working on will have no dialogue, which I'm hoping will force me to better familiarize myself with pure cinematic timing. Thanks again!

[The Pigpen]

I knew from the moment I saw this

this was going to be movie of the year.

I'm looking forward to see where you end up. Aim high bro.

[Gone Too Far Too]

I love that song

I remember an Acapella group came to my school and sang that song. I wonder if id was Rockapedia.

[TAKTIQ]

hmmm

It a little more. Like an actual movie to go with it. All the flashy stuff you do in preparation for an animation is all talk. We the viewers of newgrounds aren't here to praise every second you dish out. Give us an actual flash to work with, not something that tries to build anticipation for something that doesn't even exist and very well may not.

maizemore responds:

well i understand this builds false anticipation and im soory for that.

- and idk if im the only person on newgrounds who does this, but i love to watch every second of animation as long as its well done, it dosent have to have a good story soundtrack or anything, those are all different arts.

the mood the music would set is the vision of the artist complementing his work with a set emotion or feeling

as the story is another work of art within itself, only brought to life by the animation that follows.

i enjoy every one of these things when watching an animation, and i would rate it based on how well composed the entire peice of work is.

but my main reason for coming to newgrounds is for the animation, to see a beautifully put together peice of work-simple or not it dosent matter.