Fro's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[TaL: The Snowball Effect]

I can't let this go by with only 2 reviews...

Like always anything that you create just seems to be a masterpiece. I wish I could be half as good as you are with animation. Hell if I was a quarter as good as you were then I'd still be a popular artist on this website. Oh well, I just don't have the god given ability that you have to draw and animate.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Not bad.. not bad for a Sayre kid that is. :P

Ha, amazing like always. Very smooth all around and you do a great job of paying attention to details such as facial features. Great job drawing and animating all around.

~ Story/Content ~

Ha, a nice little joke within the submission with the whole snow thing. I got a good laugh at the kid getting so excited to go shovel snow. Then the fires of hell came down and added humor to the submission.

The tape recording at the end was a nice joke. A bit predictable, but nonetheless a decent joke.

~ Audio ~

Pretty good voice acting and pretty good sound effects. Also a good choice of music. Good job all around here. You couldn't use me for a guest voice actor sometime could you? :P

~ Overall ~

Like always keep up the good work. You're great at it.

Pixmintro responds:

Your review wasn't bad... For a Canton kid. XP Thanks though, I'm surprised I was able to get it done, just 12 hours before, half the movie was still incomplete! You wanna do a voice, really?

[OLD MOBS EP3]

I think you perfected it.

Number 1 was my favorite and this one is my second favorite so far.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

This looks much cleaner than last time. I really don't think you can improve too much more than you already have, but keep working and I'm sure you'll get a tad bit better even though there isn't much room for improvement.

~ Story ~

I rather see a submission like this that has a completely random and funny story, but still follows a story. You really don't see a series with quality this high that follows a story anymore.

I really love this series and I'm going to keep watching, voting, and reviewing as long as your making them. I liked how you introduced more characters, which just adds to the possibilities of what you can do with the story.

~ Audio ~

I think the voices were much clearer in this one and that the music and sound effects were really good. The lip syncing looked to be off in a couple of spots, but nothing too major. Something to perfect in the next episode.

~ Overall ~

I really enjoy this series a lot. One of my favorite series on newgrounds to be honest. I'm sure you will have your own page someday with all of these submissions.

Like always PM me when you come out with a new one.

~ Review Request Club ~

tacobuttfish responds:

Hey, thanks for the review and for being straight-forward and informative. I'm glad you really are enjoying our series! We'll continue to improve and we'll let you know when Episode 4 is up here on Newgrounds, thanks for voting and for the good score!

-Taco Buttfish.

[2nd Annual Tank Awards]

Great job.

I have a question for the submission itself. How do you embed a video into a flash submission and have the audio not get all off track? I've looked into it and it says to upload your video to a server or something like that, but I still don't understand... and do I have to pay for this server stuff? If you read this an author response explaining this to me would be greatly appreciated.

The submission itself was awesome. The special effects were great. How exactly did you create them?

Tom was funny as hell in these. Hopefully he does go to the Silent Hill meetup like he said he was going to because I want to meet the man. The faces, really cheesy acting, etc.. Everything about the humor of the submission was awesome.

The part at the end where he kept coming back and saying something different was awesome. That had me laughing so hard. It's actually a strategy that I used before in a movie that I made because it can really add a lot of humor to a movie.

Other than that this was awesome. I added it to my favorites. Good job to everyone who worked on this and congrats to everyone that won awards this year.

Also, lmao at the reviews that give this submission a 0 because the submission that they wanted to win didn't actually win.

MindChamber responds:

Flash 10 converts the video into an FLV, same thing youtube does, once its in that format you can embed it into the stage.

Thanks for the kind review.

[Numa Numa Dance]

I have to review it.

I have to review this because I submit live action films to newgrounds every now and then. Every time someone says, "PUT THIS ON YOUTUBE" I just link this submission in my author comments and tell them to go to hell. Ha, this was so long ago, but it was such a big hit for some reason. Man how did you get this out there so well? Oh well, why in the world am I asking now? It's not like you will respond to this stuff. It's been a long time now.

I can't really go into detail with animation and content with this one because there really isn't any of those things. :P

The dance itself is priceless though. The way that it starts off really slow and then you pick up with it has to make anyone with a sense of humor laugh. Just the faces you make while singing along with it are awesome.

So props to you for this submission and I should have reviewed this back in 2004 when I joined newgrounds. Thanks for having a submission that I can link to when dumbasses tell me to put my videos on youtube.

[Madness Aggregation]

Alright Krinkels.

It finally took me awhile to review this even though I was around the 8th person to view it. (I say around because I don't know how many people clicked the watch button before I did)

What I won't do in this review is give you a low score because I liked pass submissions more. To me that is just about retarded to do, but hey we do all have our own opinions.

Hopefully you do read this, but if not I understand how busy you are in life. I'd like to mention that I'm a coleader in the Madness Combat Fan Club here on newgrounds and that you should go check the club out sometime.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I'm not going to lie I thought it ran rather slow. I even let this play on the lowest quality there was when I noticed that it was slow and it was still kind of slow.

Other than that great quality like always man. The smoothness of your animations is just about amazing. I can't even imagine the time and effort it would take to make things run as smoothly as you do.

I do think you could work on the quality of the icon a little bit. Other than that and the slow speed of the flash I say it's about as close as perfect that you can get with Madness. Oh wait it is. :P

~ Story/Content ~

I really don't follow the story as much as other people do, but I liked this one a lot. The length of the submission was great and it just seemed more realistic than some of the other ones. Don't get me wrong because there isn't anything wrong with random stuff, but this one seemed pretty straight forward.

This one included much more story than the other ones did and sometimes you need a submission like that to put everything together. Of course you set it up for another great episode. It seems like you'll never stop making these. When you do the club won't have too much to talk about anymore.

~ Audio ~

The amount of time and effort put into timing everything with the audio must also be crazy. Sound effects and music was awesome. Nothing to critique here at all.

~ Overall ~

You deserve nothing less than a 10/10 here. Coming from a big fan don't rush any future projects. Take your time and don't worry about the PM's from people asking when the next one is coming out.

Can't wait for the next one. I'll be reviewing you again whenever that next one might be.

[Roffle Water Plox]

I give you props.

This is the example of a spam submission that fools users of newgrounds into voting 5 for it. How can I tell? Well let's see here.

Fake name - Check
Making it seem like a big series - Check
Fake description - Check

Yeah, so props for you being smarter than the rest of newgrounds. I'm pretty sure you didn't have to mass vote it because of those things listed above also.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I've seen a lot worse in a spam submission. At least here you do have what looks to be like a tweened movie clip if I'm not wrong. Hell even though graphics are a tad bit better than most spam submissions. I give you props on that even though what you did have wouldn't have taken more than 5 to 10 minutes. At least we aren't looking at a single frame spam submission that passed.

~ Story/Content ~

SPAM CAN STILL BE DECENT. Yes it can. Make it crappy like you did, but try to at least add some content behind it. Perhaps actually follow some of the stuff in your description and have things attacking him while he runs away. Adding some length instead of just the same loop over and over would make it much better even in terms of spam. Adding some sort of humor wouldn't hurt even though I do admit that character that you drew was kind of humorous.

~ Audio ~

OMG. Ha, that was so annoying. Make sure if that was something from the audio portal to credit it. I hope to god that wasn't though because it was enough to make somebodies ears bleed. Great choice for a submission like this, but some kind of weird voices or a scream seems to be more fitting.

~ Overall ~

Good job on fooling a bigger part of the newgrounds population, but just a bit more effort please. Not too many will complain about spam submission with effort in them. So work on the content a little and perhaps your future submission will earn a 2 or better on a vote from me. If you don't want to improve then it will continue to get my 0 on votes.

HenryEYES responds:

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[Stoneage Collection]

Not bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The Good Points - Mouth animations seemed to be very good and you had decent backgrounds/drawings in the submission.

Things to Improve On - This is one place where the submission could be improved on. It had very simple animation. You had mostly the mouth and hands moving. If you were to come back and every redo this (which you probably won't :p) I would suggest making the animation a little more complex. Adding things like walking scenes and/or eye movements and other movements more smooth.

The drawings themselves could have also been worked on a little bit. They weren't bad, but they still have room to improve on.

~ Story/Content ~

The Good Points - This contained decent humor. The only real laugh that I got out of it was the scene where he hit himself in the head with the club, enjoyed it, and hit himself again. I think I enjoyed that the most because I would expect to see people doing dumb things like that even today.

Things to Improve On - The length of the submission left much to be desired. Not everything was very funny. I thought the fart joke was extremely lame and so wasn't the whole scene with the rock hitting the woman in the face. I personally thought you were going to have him try to kick her in the crotch first like he did to the other male and see that it didn't hurt her like it did the male so he took it out on her face.

About 3 more scenes with decent humor would have made this submission much better in my opinion.

~ Audio ~

Great sound effects and good voice acting. I can't really think of anything to critique on this section of the submission. Good job here.

~ Overall ~

Just work on the graphics a bit, smoother/more complex animation, and work on the humor/content of the submission and you would have a pretty good submission here.

P.S. - I think I know some people who still act like this today. Surprisingly still talk like this too.

~ Review Request Club ~

ICYCREWPRODUCTIONS responds:

Haha, thanks for a great review :)
I'll take your words in consideration when I make new stuff!

[A Sign Of Happiness]

Ha not bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

A decent job on the animation. Looks like it was mainly a frame by frame flash. The style gives off a weird creepy feeling because everything is always moving and always squiggly. Nothing really to clean up too much here at all.

~ Story/Content ~

Dreams are always messed up like this. In our dream did you have the random Obey thing appearing? Your dreams are actually quite normal compared to mine. Not really bizarre at all.

The thing I noticed about this was that it was rather predictable. Once you started falling and the happy music started I just knew that you were going to fall to your death. Even though I saw it coming from a mile away I still laughed when he hit the ground. You know something is funny when you know it's coming and still laugh when it happens.

I didn't see the guy randomly throwing up at the end coming though.

~ Audio ~

Good job with the music all around. Sound effects and audio was well chosen and well synced with the submission.

~ Overall ~

A good job. Dreams can make really good flash submissions and I think this turned out rather well. It's worth a watch in my opinion.

~ Review Request Club ~

Markface responds:

Thanks for the review :D

[Les Luniens 2]

Not bad.

I'm sorry I couldn't translate for you. I have been really busy in life and haven't had the time to do it for you. :(

Seems like sonofkirk did a good job for you. A couple of words should have been different, but he did a pretty good job.

Also, in shiguy-master's review when he said amn, he meant to say man. He just spelled it wrong. ;)

~ Animation/Graphics ~

You have a different style of animating. Some parts are very clean and smooth while some parts are a little sloppy and rough. Making the entire thing smoother and better drawn might take longer, but I feel would make your movies much better.

~ Story/Content ~

Soo... this is number 2, but you never made a number 1? How does that work? The story was decent and the length of the submission was ok. It could have been a bit longer though.

The words that you had in the beginning before you showed the names of the astronauts moved too fast and I couldn't read them in time. I think you should slow them down a little. I think French people read faster than us Americans because sonofkirk reads pretty fast also.

~ Audio ~

Making animations of mouths and adding voices would really improve your submissions. Adding a bit more sound effects would get rid of the empty sound that your submissions seem to have to them.

~ Overall ~

Just needs some cleaning up, but I still enjoy your submissions. Sorry I don't have time to translate my review into french for you.

~ Review Request Club ~

Grimasen responds:

Hi corky52, thanks. In fact, I had done a numer 1, 3 years ago, but I lost it. Maybe 2 persons still have it, but I am not in good therms with them, so I don't ask them.

[Pixtropolis City]

Nice.

It's always great to watch a collab with these authors on them. You guys are pretty good with flash. :)

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The pixel style is really a good look. Messy of course, but that's the style that I'm talking about. Kind of gives you the really old video game type feeling. Everyone here has a different style within the pixel style, which makes it interesting to watch.

~ Story/Content ~

The scenes that I enjoyed the most were the darker scenes. The ones that were at night and were packed full of action. I could really see a flash series made mainly about a dark city and crime with this kind of style.

The Pico scene would probably have to be one of my favorites. Angel did a good job on that one. The suicide scene by Jimtopia was pretty well detailed. I wish he would have shown a little bit of the falling though.

I'm not going to sit here and comment on every scene just because I don't have enough time or room in the review space, but for the most part the scenes were packed full of action and fun to watch.

~ Audio ~

It sounded great without sound effects and was it synced up really well with the audio that you used. I was impressed with how the timing with the audio was so good in this submission. It really fit well.

~ Overall ~

A great style done by good artists with interesting scenes full of action. Worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

~ Review Request Club ~