T0MMY's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Another Day Four]

Review for "Another Day Four"

Another Day Four was a beautiful story that uses the music as its dialogue. Its style of animation is exquisite. One of my favorite series in the portal.
I love the style of graphics you have that contrasts with the mood. Usually we see colorful rabbits and think comedy, but this definitely breaks the mold.
The frame-by-frame animation is impressive, I love it. I always appreciate work the artists put into their movies.
I never got word back from you guys if you'd be interested in working on the Newground Jam. Kind of ironic that was submitted the same day this movie was submitted.
Anyway, keep this series alive. Newgrounds is in desperate need for art like this.

-T0MMY

The-Super-Flash-Bros responds:

Thanks for the review! I was wondering if one from you would turn up!
how have you been contacting us? email me at
[e-mail]

I'm glad you're still a big fan!
Dim

[Spirited Away - Solitude]

Review for "Spirited Away - Solitude"

I have never seen the animated movie this is based on, but watching this tribute compels me to hunt it down and see what it is like.
The graphics in this were very well done, the background especially was very nice. I don't know if you created it yourself or imported it, but it fit nicely (I'm hoping you painted it yourself). The character was very well done, but the style is based on someone else's work.

The story was short, but very conveying and I enjoyed it. It was really speaking without words, I understood the character's loneliness and solitude due to his existence of whatever he may be.

The animation was nicely done, though limited. Still, it was smooth and had a sense of true movement, you obviously know what you're doing.

Overall, a very nice and short story. (I raised the score to 3.79)

-T0MMY

Maurizio responds:

Why thank you.
I guess I should really edit the end credit into saying all artwork done by me - minus the painting. *shrug* well, it's version 0.8, meaning it's not the complete version..so more like version 0.7, heh

[Blob #1]

Review for "Blob #1"

I believe you when you say you cannot draw, but I love the blobs-- they're very cute... I want to squash them and hurt them in so many cute ways. I'm glad you didn't stay with the stickman drawings as originally intended.

The sound was so appropriate and you animated to it so well. It was so catchy, very nice choice in music... did you make it? If you made it I'd give you a 10 in sound easily.

As far as animation style... there was some nice movement in there, like in the beginning when the first blobs pop out: good use of stretch & squash. Other than that there is really a limitation on movement, being comprised mainly of some motion tweening.

I really liked the giant blob... good job with comminicating his size. I think there's something to do with the story that when the big blob disappeared all the other blobs ceased to exist, although I don't know why the big blob disappeared nor the connection between all of them.

The obvlivious looks on the blobs faces make them so silly. I loved it.

You know, I never saw a Newgrounds movie funnier than this one for some reason. A score of 4 is really high from me in humor. Overall, very good job even though you have such limitations as an artist.

-T0MMY

[FF6 Quest part 3]

Review for "FF6 Quest Part 3"

There really wasn't much this movie wanted to offer to the viewer. Just some tweening of sprites to a rather vague story.

It wasn't terrible, but it looked like you needed to spend a lot more time with it. Make a complete story-- work out a conflict and a conclusion to the episode, otherwise it's just not going to be interesting.

You picked out some nice music, but, like the sprites, you didn't really do anything to make it. It also did not fit well with the story, it was the kind of music that needed to go with a very dramatic scene... and although you may feel that your movie was dramatic, I don't.

Keep working and you'll improve a lot more.

-T0MMY

[Kirby's Kalamity 1.1]

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

[Marcus Peblo!!!!!]

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

[Grimace is Dead]

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' ; )

[Vacuum cleaner depression]

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