MistyE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FrogMan the Series Episode 4]

I see an improvement in the animation, most notably the use of shading and shadowing. Or maybe that was always there, I just didn't pay attention. I see the characters are more mobile, as well.

I also enjoyed the humor in here, I already enjoyed it much more in the first two minutes than i enjoy lots of flashes.

The racecar exploding in the beginning kinda reminds me of that one Simpsons episode. :) Also, I'd suggest more background noises during the race, with no background noises, the race track feels practically empty.

Also, in Flash, you may already know this, but I suggest motion tweening for the race cars.

A minor problem I had with this is that I felt more time needed to be devoted to setting up the plot - it all happened kinda fast.

I actually kinda enjoyed this one. 4/5

artistunknown responds:

Yeah, the animation and art quality did improve a lot. Shading was not present in previous episodes, this episode was the first one professionally done (using my sound studio and pro mics for recording, plus it was entirely made in flash, and in HD too) so I decided to go a little special on the art, but some things still look a little bad, cause I'm still trying to define my style. A lot of the scenery in ep five is better (plus I actually start using filters, so there's some visual effects). Yeah, mobile characters was always a problem, not sure how well I've improved since then... probably not by much.
I enjoy my humor too, heh. Not sure how much time went into writing this one, but since it only has one plot, yeah... But the jokes were worth it.
Hmm, which episode is that? I haven't seen a lot of them, so I wouldn't know, but yeah, I thought it would be funny to have a car explode, and since that character isn't important, yeah.
Yeah, background noise would be nice, can't remember if I have that much more in ep five, but there's definitely a lot more stuff happening in the background, I'll make note of it when my editor is handling sound fx.
Yeah, I don't use tweens to often, I like doing everything myself, heh. Plus, since these also go on youtube, I can't really have movie clips, and tweens, I've tried it before, and from what I've seen, it doesn't work in video format.
Well, this was building up for a while, but yeah, it did kinda happen fast, plus there wasn't really a subplot, I think that that would have helped this episode a lot, but yeah, couldn't think of one at the time.
Well, I'm glad you enjoyed this one. Hopefully episode five will be up within the week, that one will be better.
Thanks for the review.

[SuperMarioBloopers alpha]

This is review is kinda long, you don't need to read all of it. at the very least, PLEASE read the last part/last paragraph.

As somebody who has been animating for three years now and has a lot of experience, I feel that I need to say something. I realize that you are probably 12, hence the "2000" in your username and that you went from Scratch to Flash.

first off, congratulations on converting. Scratch is an awful program, and Flash doesn't have the technical limitations or crappy community of Scratch.

Let's start then. The humor was bad. In fact, the humor of almost every Mario movie out there is bad. Okay, i see Mario does not even walk properly. It's not hard to make him walk properly. Google Mario sprites and just copy and paste sprites, that would look better.

back to the humor. okay so i THINK mario gets his head stuck in the logo? i might be wrong but you animated it so poorly, i can't tell at all. if that was the intention, slapstick humor is awful. really, it is. an over 9000 joke would've been better, tbh.

he goes back to where he used to be randomly... and then gets his head stuck, i think, again. yeah you don't to write "what!?" on the screen, i am sure the audience probably had that reaction by watching this poorly-done animation.

YOU PROBABLY DID NOT READ ALL OF THAT, AND THAT IS OKAY. What I am about to say is more important than anything I wrote there: I have seen SO MANY people who are about your age try to say how old they are to get higher scores. Don't do this. Either two things are going to happen: a bunch of people will give you high ratings and go "OMG YOU ARE SO GOOD FOR YOUR AGE!!!!" the other option is somebody would think you're arrogant. even if they DO shower you in praises, criticisms are always better because they help you IMPROVE.

I hope this helped and i am not trying to be mean, but only to help.

[HS School Project]

I would consider revising this. As a school project, this doesn't even have any functionality. Whenever I click on something, nothing happens. I can see where you used the "Over state" and "Stop at frame" but where is the "Go to"?

If you ever decide to fix this, I suggest to put up a working version on Newgrounds, where you might get higher scores.

[DJ BJ - Jungle Job (SMD)]

For a project that was aiming for a music video that was supposed to made in 1-2 hours and crappy, I must say that it was pretty well done.

The cutouts of images put onto the backgrounds suited the style, as well

Psi43 responds:

Haha, yeah I always seem to be good at animating something alright quickly, I was just never good at taking a long time to make something amazing. Perhaps that means I can't do amazing animations.

Either way, thanks a lot. Also, at first I was aiming for a completely different style (I will send you a PM with the first animation draft I was going for), where I was drawing the animals instead of having them cut out, but DJ BJ told me to do it differently ;).

[Robot Love episode 1]

Not as bad as I thought it would be.

There were some minor flaws, such as how everything was drawn with the line tool, and how choppy the frame-by-frame animation was, but other than that, it was very well done.

The partial black-and-white animation style you chose for this movie is very fitting, and the actual art is pretty cute. The actual animation, disregarding how choppy it was, could use some better easing and whatnot, but everything else was great.

The music fit the mood very well.

A bit lacking in terms of story, and a bit abrupt for the ending, so only 3.5/5. Good luck on any future endeavors!

[Worm vs Bird]

The animation and overall visual presentation of this movie could use some work. A problem I had here was that the background was blurred the entire time. Usually backgrounds are only blurred when you are supposed to focus on the characters.

While the focus was on the characters, it wasn't used accordingly considering how short it was, and the background could have very well played a very crucial part in the visual presentation of something as short as this.

I am not fond of the humor. The humor is like something that a little child will find funny. Bird goes after Worm. Worm shouts random cuss words. Bird eats Worm. Of course, I guess this will appeal to some people, but I personally think it's childish.

The animation was somewhat simple, but I guess it's a style so

2/5

[Whistle Walk]

I'll be honest here.

This part was created for the Creative Idea Collab, right? The whole point of the collab is to be creative. This was not creative. Aside from the awful idea of using a random word generator to supposedly suggest a theme for the animation your collab members are supposed to make, this was bad.

Let me guess. You got whistle, walking and man as your words? Or something close to that? I could've probably come up with a way better animation than that. If you tell me the words you got, I'll probably give it a shot.

That humor... God. None of your videos are funny. They are poor attempts at trying to be funny. So a whistle is walking for a long time? Oh yeah, a man questions him. And the whistle says... hey HEY get this... the whistle says... "I just like walking for a long time. I'm used to it."

That was not funny. the people who found this funny obviously don't have any idea what they are laughing at.

Next time you laugh at something...
think about why it is funny

yeah that's it.

[AVAD - References and Ego]

I kind of agree with SoapyCola.

I understand this is supposed to serve as a satire of voice actors with over-inflated egos and/or a public service announcement to not do this as a voice actor, but it was overall poorly done. I read your tl;dr author's comments in hopes of understanding this piece better, so here is my review.

While the animation was good except for what I think was an intentional anime-like mouth loop, it did not compensate for the poor satire. This could've been waaay shorter and funnier, and still get to the point.

The character that is supposed to represent what you're satirizing is too exaggerated. This feels like a rant on something that has happened to you, disguised as a poorly-written critique. The pacing felt fairly dragged out, too.

The animation was pretty good, so 2/5

[Little Hero]

Wow. Just wow.

I love the style here. The backgrounds, the rhythm, everything. Just masterfully done, especially the animation. You just gained a new fan.

SwedishPlumTrees responds:

Sir, I'm flattered. haha. Thank you very much for the kind words :D

[Nightmare]

I understand what you were going for with this flash. The only problem is, it didn't work very well because of the way you executed it. This could work very well as a storyboard or an animatic, and the only complaints I have for this one is the way in which you chose to execute it.

For instance, it wasn't clear what that first shot you drew was. When he was sleeping, you could've had a dark background and have it fade to black for effect and to give off a "nightmarish" vibe. You should've extended the part with him falling, that's one of the most important shots in something like this.

Him falling could've been done better. When you fall, you start off kinda slow and get faster and faster; you accelerate. Also, instead of showing him open his eyes, you should've timed it so at the right time, it just cut to his eyes, and then show "FIN" for a short period of time.

Just some suggestions. 3/5

dkparadox responds:

Thank you for this response, I should go back and work more on this. Kinda get it finished. Idk i felt good about it until I hit the submit button. Thanks again.