dirtshake's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fantastic Dance Party]

Not Bad

You have a lot going for you skill wise. Your story was not original, but funny. Gave me a few chuckles. You also have great voice acting and facial expressions. Those were the best. Basically your movie was fun to watch and listen to.

But there is also a lot you need to work on. Your art and animation for one. I love that you tired to put in some frame by frame, and from what I could tell your not bad. Just smooth it out mroe, practice making it look better, and you'll be good with your next movie. The art worked, but was really simple. I love the facial expressions, but work on more complicated art, such as drawing actual bodies instead of sticks.
You also need heavy work on your lip syncing. It's not that hard, and it makes the movie look so much better when characters are not just randomly moving their mouths.

Overall a nice movie. Just practice up on a few things and you'll make a better one.

3/5
6/10

[Starbattles Part1]

Funny

I don't have any problems with your audio, it's what made this animation funny.

My problems lie with your animation. your art was great, keep it up. Your animation wasn't too shabby either, but it was all tweens and way too simple. This isn't bad, but makes for watching the same tyeps of movements over and over again. Some varaition would have been nice, especially some frame by frame variation. But at least you know how to tween and make it look good.

Overall a great movie. Funny and not too shabby artwork. Just work on your animation.

Peace

[H&A - Blokes at the Shops]

Funny audio

Funny movie. I laughed a lot near the end where they were talking about dolphins. That was where the humor shined.

My only complaint with this movie is too much reliance on the audio. Your art is great. I love the style and it works great with the audio. Your animation skill isn't too bad either, so put more of it into your movies. There was enough now to keep my attention(though the audio accomplished this alone), but more of it would make the watching experience more visually pleasing just as well as...um...listening..pleasing...sure.
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Oherwise great movie. Loved the humor. Just add more animation to your next movie next time you make something like this.

[World War 3]

Nice

The song is what stands out here. The art and animation are nothing special, though not bad, but the song is what makes this animation fun. It has a nice melody to it, not a bad vocalist singing it(which I assume was you), and told a, while cliche', not too bad of a funny story.

Good job. Just work on your art and animation before you submit your next movie and you'll be great.

[All for the Love of Troy]

Good and bad

You have a lot going for you but you also have a lot to improve on.
Story aside, since I hate anything associated with High School Musical, the animation wasn't bad. It was mainly tweens, but you know how to tween and make it look good. The fight scene in particular was good.

The gripe I have with tweening though is that it's too simple. You had a lot of great tweens, but what would have made it cooler is if you put some frame by frame in your movie. It takes longer, but you can make much better stuff. Overall there is more freedom with it.

Something you need to work on big time is pacing. Throughout the movie, save for the fight, there were many unnecisary and long awkward pauses where a character would make a very long facial expression or just stare into the abyss. The audio looping made this even more noticable and made those parts feel extra long.

Aside from these things, this was a good movie. Work on pacing and some frame by frame and your next movie will be better than this.

Good job and good luck.

LordHayden responds:

There is some FBF in this, but I try to avoid using it because I have a mouse.

[Iron Man?]

Ha Ha

This made me laugh. Nice movie. Though I disagree about the movie being like your friend said it would be. That aside, this was funny.

I liked your drawings. You could use a lot more animation in your movie. Keep that in mind for your next one.
The menu at the end was great too.

[Mission: School]

Wasn't bad...

Your movie has a lot of good things about it and a lot of things that need to be worked on. It's not bad at all, but needs some work.

Lets start off with the good.
I liked the story. Cliche, but nothing terrible. I like the characters too, who had good voice actors. This aspect of the movie had nothing wrong with it.

Now we can move on to some things you need to practice.

The most obvious thing would be artwork. Right now it's too simple. Simple can work, but still it's simple. Clean it up a bit. You can still have the same style, but clean up using the brush tool a bit. Make them more definable, not just a pallette swap on the same general body. All the characters except the evil principle and the D-named guy looked alike in basic form. Nothing wrong with this, but just clean it up and make them more distingushiable(sp???)

Next animation. Very little of it. Tweens and that's it. Lip syncing was just moving the mouth up and down. More animation to keep us interested. That just takes practice.

I hope Im not being too harsh, because I do think you've got the skill to make a sweet movie, and not too shabby of a story to work with. Just keep practicing and you'll get something out there.

Good luck.

[Ode To Scruffy]

Great

This was pretty damn funny and good.
The artwork was beautiful. Good use of color and effects and it had a very clean look to it. I liked it.
The only part of this animation I didn't like was the fact that there wasn't much animation in it. A few tweens here and there, but nothing special.
But overall this was a very good movie. Keep up the good work.