dirtshake's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wild Cat]

Great artwork, more animation

This movie was pretty good despite the bad English. I enjoyed it very much. You definitely have what it takes to make great movies.

Your artwork was great, it really was. The style, coloring, and shading looked great. Every shot was detailed a bit and it was overall very pretty to look at.

However this took away from the animation quality. All you did was tween stuff. Though it didn't look bad because of the great artwork, some simple frame by frame animation could have made this movie even better to watch. Practice that and you'll be on your way to making some really good stuff.

Overall this was a great movie. Keep up the great work.

brysew responds:

Well, at next time I shall try not too often to use Tweens ;-) ! How I did it in my "Morine vs Monstre" movie.

[kan kan]

Not bad, but fix some things

You have a great start for someone who's new to flash.

Your animation was pretty good. Surprisingly you were better at frame by frame than tweening so I would say keep up the fbf. Your fbf was pretty smooth and looked convincing. YOur tweens however, especially when the main character was conducting, were not too good. Work more on drawing the parts of the arm in a way to look convincing instead of just using ovals or something. I would say keep up the fbf.

Another thing that stood out was how the background image or colors or whatever would not cover the whole stage in flash. There was some white areas off to the sides which took away from the flash as a whole. It is easy to fix this, only a matter of making sure the background image covers the whole stage. If your going to move the background during the animation it's best to make a large image that covers way more than the stage. PM me if you need some help with this.

Overall it was a good movie though. Keep up the practice and you'll make some quality flashes here.

aliimran responds:

OMG , its true...but its weird, i already preview this flash before submitting it to newgrounds in flash 8, and no empty line were seen!!

but when i preview it here it has one!!!

hmm, but for now....thank you for your comment advice sir, ill go recheck it again!!

[//Necropolis Prelude]

Love the new style

Love the new sytle bro, realling do. Can't wait to see what you can do with it.

Same flawless artwork as usual. And are we gonna actually have a story this time??? I like what I see so far. Keep it up man.

JazLyte responds:

Thanks bruddah, and don't be tryin to digitally hoe me bout the story lol.

[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.

[Madness Spy]

I don't like clones...but

This was alright. Not great, but not terrible. I'll pass it, but you have a lot to work on.

First - Animation needs to be faster. Right now it's too slow to hold the attention of people. Work on pacing.

Second - Audio. Something more than gun shots. Use background music and voices. I know madness doesn't use voices, but don't try to be a complete clone. Add some voices.

Other than that, this isn't too terrible. Just work on those things and you might have a good movie for madness day.

Ratcaller responds:

Hm...I could pump up FPS, but im not sure about the voices :/ Thanks for help :)

[Samus vs Meta knight:ssbb]

Could have been better

This could have been better, but don't get me wrong. You hae potential.
The most noticable thing was the slowness and choppyness of the movie. Things should be much MUCh smoother in a finished product. I watched it both on low and high quality as well, and there was no difference.

Other than that, just practice your animation a bit more to make more interesting fight scenes.

Good luck on your future movies.

dec-1310 responds:

I suppose i should put the movie's fps to 30 again.......

[The Anger of Animation 2]

Newgrounds wins again

Pretty good movie. The animation was very smooth and I liked the ending how you killed him by blamming him.
Original ending to an unorginal plot.

Pretty good stuff.

KobraEditing responds:

Thank you for the review...I am glad you enjoyed my work

[The Lost Gift Trailer]

PUT THE MOVIE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Seriously, you have some kick ass talent. I don't care how big or long the movie is, put it on NG NOW!!!!
Your art and animation skills are over the top good. Everything is smooth, detailed, crisp, clean, anad GORGEOUS!!! It honestly reminds me of a Disney film, like Mulan or something, and that is a good thing.
From the trailer I couldn't tell if most of this was tweened animation or frame by frame, but either way, it looked good. Pleae, if the movie is even half this good, put it up here.

If your worried about the file size, email one of the admins your file. Im sure they'll put it up no sweat. I think they've done it before.
Or just break it up into chunks to keep it under the file limit. But with the quality of animation you have here, I say keep it one movie and try to get one of the admins to put it up.

Oh, and kickass song by the way. I love it. Listen to it everyday.

Keramazotti responds:

Thanks alot man.

[Rock, Paper, Skizzorz]

Pretty Good...

It wasn't bad. A nice little animation. The artwork, though simple, was clean and nice. I liked the plot, gave me a chuckle. Over all I enjoyed the movie, but I found a few things to improve on to make your next movies even better.

Lip syncing. It wasn't bad, but didn't sync up right at some points. Seemed like you tried to get in a different mouth for every frame and/or syllable. Just clean it up a bit, maybe change the size of the mouths. But that's easily fixable with more practice and patience. Im not the best at lip syncing either myself.

Sound was good. Characters had distinct voices. The mic cracked a bit, but I can't even fix that. The only thing I could say was make AQ's voice even more distinguished. Right now it sounds like the same person just going lower. It works, but MORE of it could make the character better and more alive.

Even with these, I liked the movie. I passed it. 3/5
Make some more.

helxliankid responds:

Thanks for the criticism. I'll be sure to work on these points for future cartoons.