Fro's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bloody Refreshment]

Pretty cool.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The drawings and animation was done fairly well. There is small room for improvement, but I think it looks pretty good all around.

~ Story/Content ~

Personally I thought it jumped around a lot. I almost had a hard time figuring out what was going on. I like it when submissions are slowed down a bit though. The cat message was completely random. :P

I like what you did here though. Ninja's = cool and zombies = awesome. So why not put them together right? What could be better than that?

If you are thinking about going on with this series here are a few ideas for you.
The zombies and ninja zombie join forces and wreak havoc on the world creating a huge zombie army.

The ninja is able to control his zombie instincts and becomes a even more dangerous foe whether it be for good or evil. For good he goes to find the creator of the zombie to stop the source. Along the way he finds armies of zombies and has to be the hero. For evil he takes over the world. :P

Before the virus fully infects the ninja he fights his way to a cure. He then goes to find the creator of the zombie to stop the source. Along the way he finds armies of zombies and has to be the hero.

~ Audio ~

The sound effects were done nicely and the voice acting was decent. The best voice acting was for the zombie though. The other voices had a little room for improvement.

~ Overall ~

Ninjas + zombies = awesome.

CLiff0Rd responds:

Cheers for the review, and the handy hints.
This was actually done as a final assignment for the Introduction to flash. I obviously expanded a lot more than I needed to.

Most of the sound effects were taken from my previous creation, Buzz & Franky, which is also posted up. Just let it be known, there's a year gap between the two, without any further study or practice.

If I do continue on with the series, I have many story lines prepared. However, I wouldn't start the series unless I had a few fans of the first.

Cheers for it all, and yes,
Ninjas + Zombies = Awesome.
Might put in a pirate to keep those fans happy too.. Who knows?

CLiff0Rd

[Airin]

Not bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

All I can really say about this submission is that the great animation and graphics really boosted it's score and rating. It's really the only great thing about the submission. You can draw pretty good and the animation was smooth.

I wouldn't have mind seeing it do a couple of different things though. It took the same amount of steps, stopped, looked up, etc.. The same every time as it looped. I think perhaps having it walk a different distance, move differently, etc.. every time would make it a bit more interesting. Perhaps about three variants so by the time it repeats again it's not so boring seeing the same thing over and over.

~ Story/Content ~

Hm, I guess it was sort of relaxing. Perhaps it's not something I enjoy relaxing to. :P Perhaps you could have drawn out about 5 or so different backgrounds and gave people the choice of which background they wanted to choose.

Perhaps a dirty sewer, the park at night time, inside of a house, etc.. Some basic things like that. I think you could do a pretty good job since it looks like you can draw pretty good.

~ Audio ~

Not a bad song at all. Not really any room for improvements here since there wouldn't be any reason for a voice or sound effects.

~ Overall ~

Not bad. I wouldn't mind seeing the choice of other options as backgrounds.

Chroust responds:

Thank you, that isn´t bad idea. I try make my work better with different backgrounds,

[Creeping with Kenny]

Not bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

This submission had decent artwork all around. The quality was what I'm getting used to seeing from Newgrounds submissions with scores around the halfway mark. The animation that you had itself was done well and seemed to be smooth.

The only thing that I can recommend here is to take your time and work on your drawing skills just a little bit.

~ Story/Content ~

A short/weird idea for a flash submission, but it does sound like something Kenny would be doing. The last tip where you were suppose to make sure the person was actually asleep made me laugh a little bit. Other than that it wasn't overly funny or humorous.

Perhaps a few more skits would have made this submission a little bit better.

~ Audio ~

The music that was used fit well as it was from an old South Park episode. The voice actually sounded pretty good, but remember Kenny doesn't talk normal when his hood is on. :P

~ Overall ~

I think the humor needs to be worked on a little bit, a few more skits or scenes could be added, and mainly the artwork should be worked on.

[LL - TMNT]

Lol, nice.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I love the animated loading screen. Great quality artwork and smooth animation.

The flash itself also had great artwork. The only complaint that I had was that there really wasn't any animation to speak of. I think you should of included animation that represented them breathing or the little icon that is commonly used to show which one is talking at least. Simple stuff like that would have been enough to greatly improve the score of the submission. Perhaps color for the characters would have made it look a little better too.

~ Story/Content ~

I was wondering where this was going. It may have seemed a bit boring, but I think that was mainly because of the lack of animation and not so much the lack of content. It had a nice funny twist at the very end of the submission. Enough to make me laugh a little bit. You did a good job with the long drawn out zoom at the end to add to the humor.

~ Audio ~

I like that there was a mute button on the menu, but I didn't like that you couldn't start playing the music again after you muted it. It would be nice if the mute button worked both ways.

I really didn't like the audio that you used in the submission. The song sounded ok, but there was too much time between where it looped. I think you needed to make it so it was a consistent loop with no space in between or picked another song that was already like that.

~ Overall ~

Needed a few basic things, but good art work and humor.

[The Diver {mini}]

Not too bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

This was really the biggest downfall of the whole submission. I can see the basic simple drawings working. They could have been more detailed, but I think they were fine enough for what you were doing. The thing that I think would really help would be doing what I like to call in between animations. Such as the divers legs/arms moving in a swimming motion instead of the diver just being tweened across the stage.

You could go even farther and make it so the fish/sharks fins swam or had some bubbles coming up like they were breathing.

~ Story/Content ~

I can't comment too much here as it was for a school project and it looked like it was mainly for practice, etc.. Perhaps you could have had the diver go and find some treasure and then get attacked. I don't know exactly what you were suppose to do or anything though.

~ Audio ~

Not bad music all around. There wasn't much room for sound effects or anything of that nature so the audio was about as good as you could make it.

~ Overall ~

Work on your in between animations and I hope you did well/will do well on your school project!

[Oradovencha]

Not too good.

Doesn't look like you wanted to make it that good on purpose, but meh. I have my three review quota to fill and your submission was on the way.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

No animation to speak of. I can live with that if you can make it work, but it didn't seem you got it working for you with just the simple pictures. It also seemed like you didn't do the pictures yourself as they looked like things you found off of the internet.

To make something like this work I would recommend making your own pictures, adding simple animations or at least transitions between pictures to allow it to run smoothly, and adding color to the pictures so they are easier on the eyes.

~ Story/Content ~

The story was so boring that I don't even remember what it was all about now. Doesn't seem fitting for the newgrounds audience and doesn't seem like it would be interesting to too many people at all.

I think it needs to be a bit longer and you could add a next/back button so people could read/view at their own pace since some people read faster/slower than other people.

~ Audio ~

The audio was terrible. Very staticy and hard on the ears. Not only does it need to be turned down a bit, but you need to find some music without the static.

~ Overall ~

Seems like it was just a spam submission, but either way it needs a lot of improvement to be anything worth a view in my opinion.