MistyE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Morrigan Aensland Dances]

There's tons of room for improvement.

The art was drawn very well, I can't think of any flaws in the art aspect. In the animation aspect, however, I can't say this succeeded here. The fact this was comprised entirely of motion tweens really let this down.

I'm not saying not to motion tween, but if you rely on it too much, it gives out a broken and disoriented vibe. If you're looking to animate a dance, then by all means, frame-by-frame animation would definitely suit this better.

The problem here is the lack of easing. There's no noticeable tween easing in this loop; if you did put easing, then apparently you need to put more. I think the best way to give an example of this was when her feet hit the ground - the entire dance makes it look like she's floating rather than interacting with the environment. Frame-by-frame animation or easing could easily fix a minor flaw like this.

Also when watching this repeatedly I can't help but notice that the tweens between her arm and shoulder don't even fit. You can easily see this by reviewing it frame-by-frame.

I am not leaving these reviews to be mean, but only to help.

2/5 for potential.

[Call It What You Want-KT]

Animation/Graphics:

I enjoy flashes of the typography esque. They're always pleasing to the eye to watch and the mixture of graphics with text works well. The different fonts used were interesting. Everything looked absolutely great.

Concept:

It's a typography flash, 'nuff said.

Sound:

In typography flashes, sound always plays an important role and in this particular flash here you chose a good song.

Overall:

Awesome. This has too low of a score. I hope you get/got an A+ for this.

scoonie-1 responds:

thank you and yes, I did get an A

[True Friendship]

Well, the animation here was superb. Everything was animated so well and fluent and the art style was very appealing. Something I liked about this was how some of the characters weren't exact traces of the actual ones like certain other movies, but rather your own art style. Though Twilight Sparkle has gained some weight! Very good choice of color and well-done shading.

The movie corresponded well with the soundtrack and the soundtrack was very nice as well. The story, while not to the extent that I cried, was touching and storyboarded in a good manner.

It's sad to see something as great as this rated low merely because they hate Friendship is Magic, a great movie indeed and an honor to be 3rd place in the same day you got 2nd.

5/5

Piggybank12 responds:

Thank you for leaving a review as well, I do appreciate you taking the time to do this!

I've been getting quite a few comments and reviews on the art style: a good number of people like it, a lot more people like it but noticed how fat Twilight seems to be here, and a few people don't like it. I'll have to try to decide what to keep in my art and what to try to remove, and try to get some sort of balance as a result. I originally intended to go with a more accurate art style to the show, but ended up scrapping that due to time constraints. Plus, like you said, I thought just drawing it by hand and animating it my own personal way did more to make it stand out from other MLP animations, yet still be accurate to the show.

Don't worry, when I finished this and watched it I didn't cry either. Although I assume that's because I've been working on it for so long that I've grown numb to it, but that's just me, haha.

It is a shame about the down voting, but I expected that from Newgrounds. However, despite the MLP content in this I thought the story and the animation itself did enough to help this stand on it's own against the backlash, which apparently was the case. It's about judging it by it's merit, and not because OH CRAP PONIES 0/5.

And I noticed I ended up stealing away your 2nd place spot: sorry about that! Although I will admit, I am pretty happy about even earning an award here on NG in the first place. I did not expect that at all. :D

[Sociology and You]

Some decent voice acting. All of the humor is funny in its simplicity, especially since the characters merely speak gibberish.

The animation is also simplistic but it's appealing to look at and it works.

It's a bit short but then again it's just an extra credit flash animation so that's fine, I guess.

3/5