MistyE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Periods Joke]

I remember your "Trolls Trolling Trolls" submission. I would say the animation in this one is an improvement, and I like the voice acting in this too.

[FMTS Opening Credits V. 3]

First of all, I'm going to address the theme song. While it's pretty simple and short, I think it fits the type of series FMTS is very well. I personally think the two lines "a lot of stuff has happened" and "all this crap has happened" are a bit too similar to each other. I think I prefer this version over the one you uploaded to the Audio Portal.

The main issue I have with the animation in this is how the animation sort of moves with the beat. It looks a bit awkward here, though it would probably look worse if he just stood there. It looked sort of alright when he's rapping but when the microphone did it in the beginning it looked a bit uncanny.

The part where he's grabbing for the microphone is pretty good in itself, the only problem is how uneven the line quality appeared to be. At some points it seemed almost squiggly. This tends to happen when I do frame-by-frame, so a lot of times I'll either re-draw it or zoom in and then smooth it out so that it's a more accurate inbetween.

A smaller subject I want to point out is that I think the colors look a little dull in this particular scene. The background is gray and the microphone is a lighter shade of gray, but it still doesn't look very good. There's a variety of ways you can go about this. The most common that I've heard is to make the focus of the shot either noticeably lighter than the background or noticeably darker than the background so that it emphasizes the shot more. You could also blur the background out, but that won't work if there's nothing in the background like in this case. This might be helpful: http://www.colorcombos.com/combolibra ry.html?page=2&search_hex=gray

I'm not a fan of the re-used frames when he's rapping. It reminds me of The Flintstones where they constantly re-use the same motions. I would personally suggest that you vary the timing so that you won't have to re-draw everything, but it still looks fresh.

The animation on the quarters looks pretty good in the beginning, though by the end instead of falling over it looks more like they're shrinking.

The wink at the end was a nice touch.

Overall, it was pretty good but it could use some improvement.

artistunknown responds:

I would hope you would prefer this version over the original one since this one has actual emotion in the rapping and an actual custom background track. Those two lines are very similar, though I look at it as basically a summary, with one of the lines close to the beginning, and the other line close to the end. But yeah, the lyrics of the theme song were never meant to be spectacular.
Trust me it does look bad without it. I was questioning whether I should have made the mic jump in the beginning, originally it didn't, but I decided to do it because of FrogMan moving to the beat. I might get rid of the mic moving.
Hopefully line quality isn't a problem any more because now I have a tablet. I spent way too much time on that slow grab, I probably won't go back and try to fix the uglyness of the lines, but I'll consider it.
I've never really been the greatest at backgrounds. I might play with the colors a bit. I tried varying the color of the backgrounds where there wasn't anything, but I guess that didn't really work. I'll try to play around with the colors in the shot of the microphone.
Yeah, re-useing frames is lazy, though I'll probably just leave it how it is since with the current song it would probably be too much of a pain to try to fix, plus again laziness and I'm trying to get the rest of episode 6 finished. I'll probably retouch the opening credits though.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time on the beginning of the quarters, but got lazy and confused by the end. I might go back and fix it, cause the fall does look pretty bad.
I was thinking about having more animation on the title, but since it's a still image, it would be a little bit of a pain especially since I don't have the original flash file for the image.
Thank you for the review, I will try to rework it a bit, and hopefully I'll have the 6th episode out soon!

[ZAHTAS:Christmas Chaos]

i love long cartoons on newgrounds; they appeal to me since it shows that the animator put a lot of effort into it and that the viewer is in for a treat.

a lot of cartoons that are made primarily with the line or pencil tool don't look good. this cartoon however, is an exception. you made the pencil tool not look like complete crap, so good job.

the lip syncing was very well done, and so was the voice acting. the microphone quality is much better than a lot of other cartoons here.

and lastly, the writing. this is some of the funniest material i've heard in a long, long time and you executed it very well here.

5/5

thepilgrim202 responds:

Thank you so much!! We are big fans of your work as well..i have written like six more episode for season one of zoltans an asshole and they are all equally original...make sure to spread the word so we can get some fans because we would like to share this with more people..remember to keep checking for the other episodes coming out and im really happy you enjoyed it

[ExplosiveCake Xmas 2012]

I don't like comparing other works to Eddsworld, but the art style in this just seems like a blatant ripoff of Eddsworld. You even pretty much ripped off Tom and Edd's hair

ToasterBrutals responds:

Eh, not really trying to rip on Eddsworld, but well atleast you gave it a chance right?

[Here Comes The Sun]

Nice remastering.

This is one of my many favorites from The Beatles.

Gerkinman responds:

Cheers mate.

[Annoying Orange Parody]

it's not as much of a parody as a music video.

do you even know what a parody is?

TheRealNat23 responds:

Something made into something funny.

[Shapeworld: Brave Hexagon]

how this resulted from the Pixar (not Disney) movie Brave is beyond me, but it's still unique in its own way.

[CFAC vs Cow (July 2012)]

chicken & cow, mrcontesty's newest lovable characters make their legendary debut in july 2012. this is only the start of one of the best series of all-time.

[Air Ferry - LoopDeLoop]

minimal animation, but stylized and good choice in sound effects.

[CFAC vs Cow (August 2012)]

mrcontesty's writing here takes the viewer on a journey with chicken & cow, as they embark on many different adventures.

we see the sorrow of the 404 page, the evilness of the chicken sandwich monster and the fun-loving attitudes of chicken & cow, mrcontesty's latest, greatest characters.