MistyE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[D4ilytoon # 347]

Stag's part was the best

[Zelda: Flying Fairy]

Well-animated
Good voice acting and humor

[FrogMan the Series Episode 5]

Good

This is good

artistunknown responds:

That's all you have to say? Wow, then I know this episode is going to do very well, and the next one even better.

[2001: A Space QM]

GOOD:

-appropriate use of gradients
-decent drawings (or circles)

BAD:

-you basically showed us a bunch of really, really long tweens. barely anything happened. it's literally 3 extremely long tweens.
-not enough happened to be called a parody. i know you gave me the .fla so i could test these points, and everything up to the 75-second mark is 3 long tweens with fading text

TheRealNat23 responds:

About the BAD: I made it similar to the original, that's why. But thanks for reviewing anyway!

[LL - Dance Party]

~~~good~~~

It's beautiful in its simplicity. Good use of gradients - appropriately used and the flashing wasn't seizure-inducing. Character art was also pretty decent, and the music was fitting.

~~~bad~~~

Though I think you could have chosen a better dance party song, the song you chose got repetitive after a while.

~~~overall~~~

A short, decent loop.

[Hatception]

C00l

[Food Joke # 1: Im"Pasta"!]

Never has such a brilliant satire graced this entire website. Not once in history has any flash boasted this sort of cultural achievement, well-balanced parody, or groundbreaking art. If you were to analyze this flash, you'd find nothing to analyze.

That's right, folks. You'd find a blank screen. If one were to glance at this blank screen, they'd say it doesn't load. It doesn't need to load, it already fully loaded! The 1,003 kb not loading is a representation of unfulfilled potential, an issue that plagues modern flash animator society today.

The blank screen is basically a metaphor in the most fundamental of terms, subtly representing the minds of the type of demographic these artists with the unfulfilled potential attempt to cater to. Of course, you might say that this was an honest mistake.

But I can see past this clever disguise. I remember when you told me that the joke in this flash was one really bad joke in which "impasta" should be fake macaroni. You title this submission as "Food Joke #1" as if this is supposed to be a series of poor jokes.

The blandness of the joke, and the sheer, laughable mindset that such a joke could make it as an individual submission provides a vague idea of what your outlook on your demographic audience is. Not necessarily, your viewpoint but the viewpoints of many popular animators who've already dug themselves a grave with their video game parodies and such.

People expect more and more of the same thing, and that's what your series concept represents. A series of more jokes just like the original "Impasta" joke. Your plea for your viewers to vote fairly represents the average flash animator, trying to find his or her way into a world populated of statwhores.

Stating that it took two weeks to make an animation less than a minute was an obvious satire of the average author accidentally giving away crucial credentials that could overall affect their score, which is a callback to the "please vote fairly" part of the description.

The subtitles that are supposed to assist in letting the viewer know what they're saying? It's an incorrect translation for the audience, as you attempt to jade them with your clever blank screens that are masquerading as brilliant satires.

And your responses to people's reviews are always, always the best treat of this whole ordeal. People point out the flaws and you needlessly apologize, while not fixing anything at all! This represents the average flash animator who wants a problem fixed, is sorry that the problem was there, but does not have any motivation to actually fix it!

This was a brilliant work of art. I applaud you, nat29!

TheRealNat23 responds:

Really? Nice!

[Lazing on a Sunday]

I'm not sure this can even fit into the category of a spoof, since a spoof convolutes the basic aspects of the thing being spoofed, or at least places them in foreign scenarios. This is more of a fan-made music video if anything.

You basically reviewed your own flash. This was lazy. It was a bunch of characters you didn't make being slowly tweened to a Queen song (a great one at that).

The good ol' "Show, don't tell" rule applies here, since the song was so outright obvious that even if you were the most unoriginal guy, you'd know exactly what to animate. Speech bubbles with lyrics are possibly the laziest things I've seen in a flash animation.

Good luck on your future endeavors.

[Four Seasons]

The animation and graphics were superb. The camera movements were perfect, spot-on and the rain effect was breathtaking. The effects and animation present in this movie tops anything I have ever even dreamed of doing.

The cloud's filters were overdone. Way too blurry. If it was less blurry, it would've been much more plausible.

The snowflake effect was masterfully done. Perfectly timed so it looks believable. Perfectly tweaked and stretched so it looks believable.

Amazing graphics. Pure amazing. You're really talented - this had better graphics than 99.9% of what's submitted now.

Congratulations on making such a great flash. 5/5

[rtil's trad animation '06]

Now that's some wonderful traditional animation you've done here, rtil. Every one of these is completely mindful of the twelve principals of animation; you've brought to life the characters and environments you've drawn.

All masterful animations. All of them. A lively collection - the only flaw would be the repetitive menu music. Other than that, flawless!