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Review for "Kirby's Kalamity 1.1"

First and formost you should get that button working in the beginning. I think it just needs:

on (release)
play

The preloader seems to be just an animation of a loading bar-- it'd be better to use an actual preloader. If you don't know how to make one yet, Newgrounds offers a free preloader.

The graphics are pretty good, but the audience needs to see more animation. The frame-by-frame you did have in there was nice. Make sure the words are easily read, some of the text colors were hard to see against the background. My suggestion: use bubbles or boxes to place the text into.

The SFX and music fit well with the movie keeping it true to a Kirby theme.

The story needs to be more interesting to a Newgrounds audience. But over all it was a decent job.

Keep working.

-T0MMY

Review for Marcus Peblo!!!!!

There truly was something magical about this movie. There was very little story to it, but I could follow it as though it were part of something much bigger. I see there's more episodes, so I will make sure to watch every last one of them.

The graphics were very pleasing most of the time. Some of the animation was really pleasing, though I wish there were less tweening and more frame-by-frame.

Not funny, not violent, not very interactive... all of which has no bearing on a good movie.

Overall, I really enjoyed watching this short.

-T0MMY

Death to the Fast Food Industry

The graphic elements and animation were decent. However the topic and message this movie was conveying was good and well executed. On top of that I very much agree with the message: People are eating too much fast food.

People think eating that junk makes them happy. When they get older they'll realize just how bad off they are. There's a difference between growing old and growing unhealthy.

One problem, which is trivial, but I thought I'd bring it up none-the-less. Fat contains 9 kalories per gram opposed to carbohydrates and proteins which are 4 per gram. By my calculations if the character consumed 67g of fat then he should have had a total of 603 kalories instead of 1549.
Hee hee hee.

-T0MMY

Maurizio responds:

Tommy, lemme just say...I am inpressed. Not only have you left a respectable review, but you are the only one who actually noticed the mistake I made with the carbs/kalories. It'd be nice if there were more intelligent people on this site like you...it just feels good that I know I can get a review without someone saying 'Fuck' ; )

Review for Vacuum cleaner depression

I enjoyed the abstract artwork, but felt that there was symbolism that wasn't exploited (or exploited weakly).

The animation was rather timid, but some of the artwork was nice for Flash (eg the hand).

And about Blackmage69: don't bother even reading his review, he knows nothing about art if he thinks all movies need to be funny.

Overall this was a good movie, thanks for bringing it to Newgrounds so those of us with taste can enjoy it. Keep working and you'll produce some very nice movies.

-T0MMY

Review for: Another Day Three

The artwork was very simple, yet the style of the characters and background was very nice.

The animation was some of the most beautiful I ever had the pleasure of viewing on Newgrounds (I'm a sucker for frame by frame animation). Although there were a few instances that was less than perfect (when the characters looked around it should have been eased a bit, and there was one walk-cycle that wasn't looped correctly)

Where this piece really shines is the story. I'm very sick of (and never appreciated) a movie revolving around one simple joke or a thin plot. Your story was deep and thought provoking. I found myself actually wondering what the characters were feeling and thinking.

Good job, thanks for bringing this to Newgrounds. I think it deserves Daily Feature, but the majority of Newgrounds generally don't like movies like this. So, I hereby dub this Pseudo Daily Feature.

-T0MMY

The-Super-Flash-Bros responds:

Woohoo! thanks a lot. There was one dodgy walk cycle. The one with Blue Rabbit creeping through the corridor am I right? Thanks for the Pseudo Daily feature! is that an official award?
Glad you liked it.

Review for My Angel

Hand drawn art is always nice to watch. However, an animated story needs a lot more than just a slide show to be captivating.
What we have here is a movie in preproduction - you're just giving us the storyboard with just little enough work to call it an animation (five frames looped).

If this is the final product I would have wanted more kinestasis to keep me entertained - the hand-drawn graphics, as nice as they were, did not cut it for the entire time.

The song was by someone else, so I really can't say much for your work on that except that it was a good choice.

The story, on the other hand, was there... lurking in the background making me wonder why I wasn't watching that instead of a loop. Maybe you didn't have time to complete it, maybe this was a class project and you had a deadline, maybe this is actually how you wanted it to turn out. Even so, there was some parts of the background story that made little sense. Why is he walking around with that girl if he can fly? Where is he going, where did he come from, why did those people want the girl? Because she had wings? It was just symbolic of being tempted by evil and redemption - fair enough.

Although I don't generally rate Interactivity, you could have at least put in a preloader. I have a slow connection and I couldn't even rewind it and stop it until it was done loading.

And I really don't think a movie should need violence and humor, so the low scores in those categories mean about as much as the Interactivity.

Overall - good artwork... finish it.

-T0MMY

Review for Sonne

The movie for Sonne features some of the best work by a member of the Clock Crew - a club notorious for bringing low-effort movies to Newgrounds (I'm not biased agains their movies, I've just seen way too many bad ones). But once in a while some of their movies shines above the rest - this is one of the few that does, unfortunately its shine of glory isn't as bright as a lot of other movies here.

Sonne features only the most rudimentary of character animations: motion tweens. There is no incredible display of movement here, just simple keyframes that has Flash do all the work.

Even though animation and movement is only part of what makes a good movie good, the artwork is almost as abysmal. Aside from the clocks, which are designed by other members, the guards look like gingerbread men cut out with cookie cutters an otaku would own. On top of this I was wondering if the characters were being shot by paintball guns or if those little red dots were actually supposed to be bloody bullet holes. The backgrounds were by far the most impressive artwork - being very stylistic... or maybe just laziness.

But effort put into graphic design and movment of said graphics is still only a small part of a story...

Now, if I knew nothing about the Clock Crew I would have thought this was one weird foreign movie some angry German guy made when he got his hands on Flash. I would admire the symbolism used in spend long days trying to figure out the motif behind fruit and clocks... Germany is famous for clocks... maybe that has something to do with it... Instead I know that all the author did was immitate the Rammstein video, with the "clever" twist of sticking in some clock characters.

The best part of this music video was the music. There's something I really enjoy about Rammstein's work. Unfortunately, I can't rate you based on someone else's work.

I don't know why this movie has captivated such a large audience, but it really didn't amuse me much. Still, one of the better clock movies I've seen, not the best, but I'd have a decent outlook on their work if more were like this movie.

-T0MMY

I <3 Frame-By-Frame

It's always nice to see hand drawn, FBF animation.
The sounds needed some engineering, they sounded too cut. The phrases barely made any sense making the story moot.
But it's got a nice style, even though it's just two stickmen (that's the only reason why I rated graphics low - could have been an easy 10 if it were anything but lines for graphics).

-T0MMY

Good Art, Leaves Much to be Desired

The character designs were well done, although the characters' eyes really irritate me. It was kind of disappointing to see such intricate design get little recognition as far as movement/animation, but that's how it goes usually. I'd have liked to see varied technique in animation style rather than just tweens.
The voice acting was generally decent, which translates to very good compared to most voice acting. The audio was overall crisp sounding.
I think the biggest downfall of this, and it's only a matter of opinion so as to be taken lightly, is that I didn't much care for the tired Austin Powers-esque humor. But, for one reason or another, I thought this movie was better than the rest of your other works.

-T0MMY

No Summary

You should work on quality more than quantity, a shorter, but better looking movie would have been better. Focus on making it look nicer.
The sounds were really bad, that was really annoying. The voices were fuzzed and seemed too loud. Try working with sound engineering a little more to fix that. Although I did enjoy the Earthbound music in there.
The artwork looked really messed up. Work on style a little more and a cleaner look. Try using the pencil tool.

-T0MMY

RogerregoRRoger responds:

Messed up?Hmmm, don`t know where everone is talking about, but i guess i take a look.I do use the pencil.
Guess i have to follow everyone`s example and just draw every character once and reuse them a zillion times instead of drawing them over and over again.

I make things.
Been a longtime collaborator with authors here on Newgrounds, most notbably Piconjo, SickDeathFiend, and GreatAnimatorOnizuka.

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