dirtshake's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hyenuhz!]

".Hyenas don't appear in Africa's fossil record until 14 million years ago, leading Hyenas to be used in Western African folk tales to represent unwanted urbanization of indigenous African cultures by foreign invaders on the ivory coast." - - - - - wut

Very informative. I actually learned something. Sucks for those female Hyenas though. In all seriousness though, since I can't really rate the art and animation on this thing, I'll comment on the narration, which was funny as hell. It had that nice mix of information with fast paced humor thrown in and strange, but funny, transitions. I literally laughed out loud when the above social commentary was thrown in randomly, followed by, "fuck this cat shit".

JazLyte responds:

Yeah, it was for class on an extremely harsh time budget, so the animation's HIGHLY economy lol there's no hiding that. I had to make a quick presentation on the evolutionary history of my favorite animal using my major, thought I'd leave it here and see what happens. Glad you enjoyed it my brutha :3

[Paints His Soul]

Man that was twisted. Twisted as fuck. Remind me to never to buy street art from a perverted goat-man hybrid creature with spikes growing out of his eyes (nostrils ok!) regardless of how well they're animated.

What's more twisted though...is that this fucker is still under judgement after 14 fucking hours. I'm voting again to get this passed.

JazLyte responds:

Mehhhttt <3 Twisted is a word I've been getting alot lately, cool with that :3 Yeah, NG's pretty different now. They've completely isolated the ones under judgment from the other movies, so it's a much more savage, rigorous process to get your flicks in. Probably the point, but hell, I'm just along for the rriiiiide baaaabeh regardless.

[//euNICE]

OMG OMG, OH MY FUCKING GOD

I should not have been laughing at this, but I did anyways. XD

Animation-wise it was great! The fight scene was...well...short but sweet. The impact of the wrench actually felt real with the combination of animation, vcam, and great sound effects.
The humor was funny too. Just the fact that it had you voicing over the character with some weird ass shit going on was enough to get a few laughs, especially when the damn baby came on screen.

Good shit!

JazLyte responds:

Thanks broham. You know you wanted to laugh B)

[Guy with a Tie]

Awesome!

I liked it. Random, honestly had no point to it, but still funny to watch.

The 2D animation was very smooth and good as always. The 3D work was pretty rad too. It was a little weird the first time seeing 2D mixed with 3D like that, but I think it worked and I bet it will continue to look better as you keep playing with it.

[~Play~]

WOAH

VERY nice. The art was very good and the animation was even better! The character animation was very smooth and believable and when mixed with the camera and other animation it was great. The contrast in style between the background pieces and the characters worked very well for this movie. the music even suited it well too.

My only minor complaint is about the first close up shot of the bird. It didn't look like a bird, but more like a man-bird hybrid thing. But that's just me being nitpicky.

AWESOME JOB! I can't wait to see more of your stuff in this style!

RiverJordan responds:

As i went through making this, i learned how to draw birds better and better...but they're still not very good. Bird drawings are the bane of my existence XD

[Epic Crossover: Hoeloween]

Patchman?!?!?!

Except for some choppyness in the opening walking loop, everything was awesome! I laughed out loud many times, especially when Jazz was high! And then Patchman??? WOW. Nice work guys! Can't wait for the next episode.

[The Prey - Short]

Scary

Very good art and animation! The movie looked good standing still and in motion! Awesome stuff! I liked the design of the pumpkin headed killer too. The head looked very scary and demonic in a way and the tentacle vines (if that's what they were) were a nice addition!

The mood of the animation was very scary as well. I could feel the fear of the girl, even if you showed us the monster early on in the animation. I can't wait until next year for a full episode, though since you've already revealed the monster to us, how will you make it scarier? You're good at creating a scary atmosphere, so I can't wait to see what you'll do with that in the future!

Bravo!

[Babs n' Eustace Tell 'Em]

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!!!

I laughed, I cried, I was disturbed out of my mind. They shouldn't allow you to put such disturbing material on the internet. This is serious business people.

What made you submit this?

JazLyte responds:

lol I would've been happy if you just cried. i just make spam to blow off steam while I'm working on my real shit that takes about 6+ months

[Da Jazz Method]

Not a bad demo reel

I suspect you made this to try to get clients and get into art school right? RIGHT??? That or you're very VERY bored. Either way I like the music you put with it. It gives it a very Adult Swim / Cowboy BeBop feel to it, and for some reason that really fits your style. Keep it up.

The animation itself (not the video translation) in some areas was a bit choppy or too...repetitive. You criticize DBZ a lot for having very repetitive fight scene animations and in some areas you've done exactly what they do. Animate a few frames and press repeat. It's not bad for background shots, but when you just pan the camera so we can see it 20 times it become very noticeable.

Just some food for thought.

JazLyte responds:

Yezzziiirrr, this is indeed for potential clients.

[A Night With My Beloved.]

I expected worse

I expected an intense love scene between you and PaperBat or something...I need to get my mind out of the gutter. For that you lost a point.

Still, I liked the ambiance you set up for the joke. You could have easily turned this into a real love scene for a more serious movie. So nice job on that.

Otherwise, a nice joke. Though that's not how I spent my Valentines Day... heh heh

JazLyte responds:

yes, well we all know how you and joel spent valentines day :3