RSQViper's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Capture The Flag: Ep 2]

Cool Story and Animation

Well, you have an interesting story and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The graphics were very original and you had a lot of detail in both characters and things in the background. Adding little ideas like the water bird in the library was extremely unique and brought life to the story.

That effect you made with the sun while climbing was actually somewhat stunning. It was a great way to introduce the main story and title credits.

Your camera work was pretty good, but it had moments where it seemed to skip or jump a little bit, but that's most likely Flash limitations rather than any shortcoming on your part. Although if you don't use an internal camera it would benefit you (although it seems you do).

I guess my only real criticisms would come with the occasional odd lull between lines. At times I felt the conversations should move quicker. Also your leg animations were odd as it was pretty obvious it was all tweens, but as an artist I totally understand time constraints and tweeing plain and simple saves time so you can make a story.

Also, using shadows with characters (even simple ones) can add depth. As it is, it kinda' looks like they're floating at times and when he knocked on the tree I seriously didn't know why his hand was up until I watched it the second time.

Congratulations on your Daily Feature! You also placed quite well in the weekly awards (10th place) which is quite good for your first Daily Feature. Keep up this series and it wouldn't surprise me if you nailed down a weekly award at some point.

Aeonstars responds:

Thanks for watching! I'm glad you appreciate the detail I put into every scene. Since you pointed it out, can you tell me how many birds you see in the flash? The drinking bird is one ;). Also, the two scenes where Evan is seen as a silhouette, can you tell me what is happening to him? Evan climbing is one of them obviously and I'm glad it captivated you. I will take your criticism under advisement too! My leg animations could definitely be better, you're right. For the times when the characters skip or jump, unfortunately, that was flash and there's nothing I could do about it ><. Anyway, thanks for writing a big review!

["Unblamable" The Movie]

Great

Nice action, but your Play button didn't work. I had to right click and Play.

Kottbullar responds:

K, fixed... Glad you managed it to watch it anyway!

[The Waterloo: Pilot]

Just OK

Well, for 1 scene it wasn't too bad, but it wasn't all that entertaining either.

Way too much breathing into the mic. Not the intentional hissing sound, but the puffs after speaking. Move the mic away when recording.

Also, it really wasn't very funny and your idea of what a pilot is, is incorrect. A pilot actually is a whole episode. This is more like a Preview episode.

In any case, I think if the whole episode follows what you've done here it will only do ok on NG as it isn't brining anything too spectacular or funny to the table.

But, since it seems you're pretty new to animating it should still be a solid 1st series for you to practice with and have some fun with and improve as you go.

NorthAmericaProduct responds:

thanks, and i know a pilot is a first episode, i just didn't really know how to word it

[The Fruit Bowl]

Banana's a Sick Fucker

Hey, this was your first good lip sync movie.

It was an odd story that ended in a funny way.

Had some good site gags in this one, too.

Caulk.

boinky33 responds:

Cock.

[The Three Stooges Remix]

What...

Dude, what did I just watch?

It was off the wall weird, but definitely had me laughing.

The gray tones must've been difficult to work with, though.

And your lip sync back then was... ewwww.....

boinky33 responds:

FUCK YOU!

[A Grain Of Sand]

HORRIBLE

I mean, you can't even animate a walk cycle on a stick figure? Come on...

And everything was for the most part very small and you STILL shape tweened the morphings. What a disgrace. You should at least not be lazy and, oh I don't know... actually DRAW the morphs? What a concept.

The sound was horrid. You don't know how to edit at all, No fading, just on/off sound.

This Flash was abysmal. I can't believe I watched the whole thing.

Next time animate something worth watching.

The-Yokai responds:

Ah, now, do you really believe that, or are you just royally pissed at me for writing a scorching review of your movie? I'm guessing you're just biased against me and all of my work simply because I found your movie disgusting. Don't bother reviewing if you're just trying to get back at me.
Now, if you actually do think it sucks, that's fair enough. It's your opinion. But as I believe I explained in the comments, if you bothered to read them, much of this movie was made quite a long time ago, back when I was still somewhat of a noob at Flash. So you are correct. Many elements of the movie could have been better. The sound I don't think requires fading effects in most cases, but if there was one thing you think was really horrible, feel free to PM me and perhaps I'll fix it. Also, if I had wanted to animate the morphings, I would have. However, I thought the shape tweening was a good effect for what I was intending it to look like. Finally, the reason everything was so small was to hint at the ending. So you're free to think what you like about this movie, but don't give it a zero because you're mad at me. It's irrational and slightly immature.

[Blockhead: Episode 1]

I Never Reviewed This???

Well, I sure meant to.

Anyway, the first Blockhead is a movie I saw while it was still UJ. I laughed at it then and I laugh again today. It's definitely funny and looking at it I can see the huge change from then to now, but there was something about the total innocence and obscurity of Blockhead in the earliest days that I really love. Not that I still don't, of course, but the first movie of any author come with no expectations so you get it at its purest form.

I also want you to know that THIS toon is the cartoon that got me to get Flash MX and try out Flash animation. I saw Blockhead: Episode 1 and I was inspired to do something my own.

I can only hope someday I can get a series together and be half as successful as you have been.

~RSQ

The-Swain responds:

You saw it and said "if this can make it, than anything I do will be gold." Don't even deny it :D I did the same thing. It's an awesome cycle. Some day someone's gonna look at your flash and think the same thing, and get popular. It's as close to being a parent as some of us will ever get, haha.

Blockhead isn't successful because I stumbled onto the secret formula that got people to like it. Read the first 20 reviews that came before i released episode 2. It was an amusing little concept that I just kept listening to my critics about until I got it right. That's all it is :D

[BlownOutOfProportion:Ep2]

This Was Great

Well, you deserve a MUCH higher review score than you have!

Sure the graphics and animation weren't great, but I can see you definitely have your own style. Maybe bumping up your frames per second would help out a bit.

In any case, the story was absolutely great. A lot of the jokes were really funny and you kept using different sex jokes which were also really well-used.

Great job! 5/5!

JunkYardAnimations responds:

im really glad u enjoyed it, thanks buddy

[[2007] REBOOT 9]

Wow, Very Cool and Strange

Very interesting movie.

The graphics were interesting. It was definitely a change to see a Mario movie in this type of theme.

You had a lot going on in the movie, stuff was always moving. The use of music videos was sometimes odd. Almost like they shouldn't have been there, but it's also something you don't see much, so it was also pretty cool.

One thing to work on is your lip syncing. It's really bad. I know making things lip sync is boring, but when done well it really makes a difference. Also, at times I could see you were using two black parts top and bottom as the scene would creep past the top and I could see a sliver of it (but I guess that's your border problem?).

And 18 minutes long. Wow. Very nice job.

JMartin97 responds:

Yeah that's the problem... I know it's a little rough but it got to the point where I would publish stuff and the sound would mess up... and the more content I added, the more that happened... so it was either submit now or break it down into pieces, and that would ruin the build-up I think. Next episode i'm going to work on syncing better !

[Pink To Be Square]

Simple, but funny.

I liked the animation. Really smooth. It was also funny at the end. You had a good look on his face and he really had a mess made out of himself.

Nice job.

Metalcan responds:

Thanks a lot, glad you liked it!