EKublai's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ajin: The Bodies]

Pretty fun.

The dialogue was suuuuuper mumblecore, but you don't see a lot of that in animation so I found it pretty surprising and amusing.

noiserover responds:

Thanks!

[The Baby Goat Warrior]

Love it! Really glad to see you coming strong off the end of the manwhore series. The song is great and the end was perfect.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks!

[Nerds Afloat: Episode 1]

I'm not getting any sound. Sorry.

ianvart responds:

It's only been happening to a small group of viewers, and its fine for others. Refer to the description, but if all else fails, please let us know. Thank you

[Fiery Christmas]

Any animator would benefit enormously from taking Adam's course, and for any aspiring effects animator, it should be mandatory.

Also it's cheap :D

Great work, as usual. I was wondering about that 3D wall turn at the end? Was that Toon Boom? Or was it even 3D? Can never tell.

chluaid responds:

cheers man! Yeah Toon Boom has 3D and that Christmas card simulation was basically just flipping the layers over in 3D.

[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.

[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!