Decky's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[UMoN- Pandas]

O' okay, well I'll start with what I was confronted with once I had pressed the play button. A highly pixelated image of what I'm guessing is a bush with some calligraphy just placed on the top. You really can't get away with using such low quality images.

The panda itself was not a great illustration. Low res and with a stick of bamboo which I'm guessing was meant to be going from his hand into his mouth appears to be stuck to the back of his hand, more time should have gone into this, especially as the vast majority of the animation was a still image. Just a complete lack aesthetic.

Spend more time in the pre-production planning stage in the future and please, please, please, if you are thinking of making a simple, almost still image animation, make that image perfect. No more low res thanks, you're better then that.

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bamboo behind hand.

ForNoReason responds:

Thanks for the review!

[Adventure of a man - 2]

A much more amusing short then the first and it feels more drawn out and well written too, the duck pooping scene is especially funny/horrific. The duckling eating the ass worm also a nice little gross touch. Maybe I'm reading too much dark into this but I kinda hope not.

It has to be said that I'm drawn to wanting to see more in this series so that shows good writing, especially when you don't use any dialog.

I'd maybe consider working more on your backgrounds. I feel that more time could be going into them but with 8-bit it can be hard. The only real advice I can give, the rest was good.

Keep it up and I hope to see more of this series soon.

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Pepeto responds:

Thank you for the review, I appreciate it!

[Previously On The Walking]

I've never watched the show so I can't really grade this for how humorous it was as I might be missing some parody in it. I would have liked to have had a few more scenes and have them cutting between each other quicker.

The animation is good, especially as you have stated that this was your first attempt at animation. I'd say the next move for you would be to improve your drawing. Look more towards little details in your characters, the two guys hitting what I guess was a zombie on the floor where the best animation because there was a lot of details.

It'll all get better after a bit more practice. Think about the script first and then get to the animation and take your time. It's a great start man.

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[BLANK2.swf]

I really did enjoy this flash especially the level of macabre humour involved, although I do have some thoughts about how it could have been improved. For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse. Also you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are but I did get two different endings for one short, for some reason.

On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far and you don't get compliments as big as that easy. If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score.

I'd like to see more creepy shorts from you in the future, keep it up.

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Surn responds:

"For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse."

Already noted in Author Comments.

"you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are ..."

If you're still curious, try reading the first review for this cartoon by Handsome Tyler.

"On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far ..."

Well, I'm glad you like it. If you liked this then I'd recommend "aufeis".
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/612292

" If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score. "

I was going for a minimalist, enigmatic approach, but I'll admit: it kind of sabotaged the final product. I'll note that in the author comments.

Thanks for reviewing.

[Meatball Baby]

A simple yet funny short, one of those ideas that for me was a "why didn't I think of that?" moment. The writing can't be faulted but the animation at times was slow and seemed to drag on a bit, for example when the meatballs start to go into the babies mouth, that could have done with being a second or so shorter. All these little cuts here and there would have made it more snappy and in my opinion funnier.

I would also have liked to see more time gone into detailed drawings. The baby was ok (although it looked very pale and almost like some kind of sick dead baby joke in bits), the dad on the other hand has an arm coming out of where it shouldn't.

I do like this movie but if just a little more time had done into it I'm sure it could have been much better because you started with a great idea.

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Pepeto responds:

Thanks for your great review! I'm glad you liked the story and I can see now what you meant with the dragging, it's one of those things you are blind to when you're making something and see only when some time has passed.