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Firstly, hats off to your animation skill, this is honestly one of the best things I have reviewed in my time with The Review Request Club. Truly worthy of it's Daily 3rd Place and Front Page, congratulations for that also. Anyway to business.

Starting at the beginning is always best, The instant I saw the preloader I knew that this was going to be at least a better then average flash. It's always best, I feel to not skimp on a preloader and you clearly haven't with the little details like the buttons beyond a simple play button. It sets it out from 7/10 of Newground flashes. So far so good.

As I've already said I find the animation in general to be great although I would say if I was nit picking, looking for something to improve, I would have spent more time on the frame by frame drawing, especially around the characters hand movements, they could just be a tad smoother with the lines and at one point in the animation, where the character is having veg conveyer belted into his mouth there is a little line across his neck. Just little things like that. Really small things. Maybe spend a little more time watching what you think is the finished product and really looking at every detail. Honestly there is nothing else I would say to improve.

It's a great animated music video, the song and the animation are both funny. You should be proud of it. Keep this stuff coming.

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Yusuf responds:

Yeah with the conveyor belt part, I think something happened with it because the moving part of the guy's head is on a mask layer, and it screwed up. Thanks, I'll take these into consideration :)

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!

"My word!" My first reaction to this animation. I wasn't expecting it to be a decent 3D piece and although I have to say that it's very hard to use My Way in any capacity nowadays without it screaming clique, loud and proud this has so much of an air of originality that I can't help but think you might have just gotten away with it. Very clever.

The things that jump out to me as needing improvement would have possibly been adding a couple more details here and there but I guess this ties in with the graphic style of many Sonic games so it would have been risky making the graphics "better". Other then this tiny possible criticism there really is nothing I can think that you could have improved. Maybe the song covered by a voice actor that could do a good Robotnik impression.

Great work mate, keep it up.

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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!

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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I'm new to this series so found the story a little hard to grasp but that's my fault and obviously I won't mark down for that. I'll review as best as I can.

The animation was smooth for the best part although it would be good to increase the time spent on some facial animation. When the screen stays on one character for a while it can seem visually boring because of this. Maybe the odd background joke or something going on to break up the amount of still image.

Background music or more use of music won't have hurt either. I really hate complete silence and at some points you had a good few seconds of it.

It had a couple of good gags but dragged for the most part. A good skill in animation was shown though, maybe it's just not a series for me or I just don't get it. I don't know.

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MistyE responds:

Thank you for the in-depth review. I appreciate your feedback. I'm going to be implementing a wider variety of shots and camera angles in the future. All of the episodes after this one have background music, and I'm doing my best to make sure episode 46 does not drag.

Not a bad little flash, as a bit of a stoner myself I'm instantly drawn in haha. There were a few things that I noted could have been improved on though, the lip syncing needed more varieties in mouth shade as currently it seems a little off and like more practice is needed with that. Also I found it a little difficult to understand what was being said at some points, I think it was the accents.

The good points were the TV frame that were put around the edge and the static effects, a nice touch. The writing wasn't bad either.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Thank you buddy! I'll try don't f*ck up next time.

Not a bad, funny short though there are a couple of problems that I can see of, for example the bigger monkey's blinks sound more like a coconut hitting the ground then the coconut that whacks him on the head. Also the movement of the smaller monkey seems to simple, I would have liked to see you spend more time animating his arms and legs instead of having him bounce across the floor, the mario sound effect for this also seemed cringe worthy and over used.

I liked the writing of this flash, I think as far as comedy shorts go it did it's job vthough more work needed doing, I personally would have taken this as a kind of advance animatic and spent another week or so improving it in any way I could. I strongly suggest you do that for your next one and we may be talking about some seriously good flashes.

It says in the description "Voices of all me" do you mean you did the monkey voices? if so that is very impressive.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Yep, I did the monkey voices :)
Thanks for review.
I know that the work isn't good enough.
Short period of time is a little limited me.
+ I'm a bit lazy :D In the new flash I'll try to accommodate all of the previous shortcomings

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.

I'm not a biggest fan of memes and this is probably one of the worst ones. The idea is a little stale but I won't take this into account for this review and instead compare it to the other Harlem Shuffle (thingy) flashes I've seen.

The animation itself isn't bad at all, although I couldn't help but notice that you could see right through the cockroach that walked in at the beginning and I would have prefered it if you had taken the time to make them have a more varied dance moves in the middle. I think it would have benifited from a different gag ending then the vomiting rainbow as well, maybe a giant, Monty Python style foot comes down and crashes them.

I really like the static effect that was put over the top of the flash but think that it became slightly too grainy when it zoomed in. All in all it was a great little flash but maybe go for a more original concept next time instead of going down the meme track.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Thank you!
Great review!

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Decky Doughty @Decky

Age 32, Male

Graphic Designer

University of Chester

Northwich, England

Joined on 1/31/10

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