Fro's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Mario Invaded pt.2]

Hmmm

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Just as good as the first one if not a bit better. Smooth animations and again you had some more advanced stuff rather than the normal sprites that you see from noobs. (Again like me lol)

~ Story/Content ~

I loved how in the beginning you backtracked just a little bit so we could see the other side of a story. That really makes the flash interesting so we can understand why things happened the way they did and really makes it look like you know what your doing when creating a script.

It seems like there is more behind this then just the random invasion and that perhaps some evil character is trying to get rid of all the good sprite characters so it can take over the world or something of that sort. You set it up good so I'll have to watch the next one to find out.

~ Audio ~

Pretty much the same thing I said last time. The sound effects were well timed and the music went well with the animation. Voices might be interesting to try, but I just couldn't see them working in this type of flash.

~ Overall ~

Keep it up you are doing a great job. Perhaps work on the file size a bit though. This one was shorter than the last one, but had a larger file size. Have you been optimizing your audio?

~ Review Request Club ~

sleeeeep responds:

Yes in the third episode i hope to give more of the story and et up questions to be answerd. Good review, thanks

[Super Mario Invaded]

Pretty cool!

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Of course it was made with sprites so I can't really comment too much graphic wise, but the animation was great. A couple of times the movie lagged, but I think that was more fault on my computer than it was your flash. Really good animation and good use of zooms/pans. A lot of more complex animations that you don't see in the simple sprite animations. (Such as mine) So good job all around.

~ Story/Content ~

I personally love sprites so whenever you make one you can request it in the RRC and I'll review it for sure. :) I love that it's not just a random sprite movie and it has a lot of story in it. It seems that you set it up for a lot of action and even more story in future episodes because there will be a need to explain what's going on. A great first episode and it ended in a good spot that makes people want to watch the next one.

~ Audio ~

Obviously you wouldn't need voice actors. It could be interesting to try, but I think the bubble text worked just fine in this case. Words stayed up long enough that we could read. The sound effects were very well synced and the music that you used went well with the animation.

~ Overall ~

A very good submission and I'm actually excited to watch the next one. (Which I will be doing here in a little bit) Hopefully it doesn't let down. :) Keep up the good work.

~ Review Request Club ~

sleeeeep responds:

I agree with no voice actors since it takes away from the 8 bit characters. NES never really had voice actors and thats this kinda feel i want... the NES days

thanks for this review

[Spread His Wings]

Oh god that terrible noise! :(

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Decent all around. The artwork wasn't anything amazing, but it's good and I always kind of liked your style. Simple, but yet effective all around.

~ Story/Content ~

The joke was kind of funny. Not like LOL funny, but more like a heh funny. Good for a short laugh, but nothing too great. Thank you so much for putting the little sign in the middle of the flash which then took us to the turtle being on top of the tree. I was really hoping that you weren't going to make us sit through the whole thing. :P

~ Audio ~

I finally get to hear sonofkirk's voice. :3 Let's see here.

Omg... what the... OMG.. I'm going to be sick. *Throws up*

What kind of foul beast did you allow to do the voice acting? I hope that wasn't sonofkirk because now I won't be able to talk to him without throwing up all over the place. :(

Ha, I actually had heard his voice before. :P I actually trained him so perhaps I should be added as a sponsor to this flash. ;)

On a more serious note now the voice acting was alright. Speak up though sonofkirk. Make your voice clear. Other than that not too bad. The sound of the turtle falling was odd though. I didn't like it so much and I think that could have been done better.

The music that you picked went well with the animation. I wouldn't mind seeing it turned down a little bit and having some sound of the waves or some wind blowing like you would expect to hear next to water like that.

~ Overall ~

A decent short flash. Nothing too great (especially that voice), but not bad at all. Keep up the good work.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks for the review. I would definitely add you as sponsor, but there's a little problem: I don't want to :P

[:The Mole:]

Not bad.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The animation and graphics were decent all around. Couldn't see too many problems with them if any. Not the best, but obviously not bad in any manner.

~ Story/Content ~

The story itself was kind of humorous and the submission was a little entertaining. Like you said yourself, nothing amazing or really funny, but not bad. A good idea for a flash all around. It may have gotten a little boring, but I have an explanation of why I think that in the next section of my review.

~ Audio ~

Voice actor please. :P This got kind of boring to read all the time. It wasn't a lot of reading, but it would have sounded so much better with a voice actor in it. I think that would really help make this enjoyable.

The music was very well synced with the animation. Good job on doing that so well.

~ Overall ~

Good all around and a voice actor in it could have made this a lot better. Keep up the good work.

~ Review Request Club ~

blackcat2000 responds:

Yeah, these were the main problems I was hoping wouldn't be *too* crucial in submitting it like this (although obviously they were important) but for me, since I didn't quite want to deal with getting a voice actor and the such Yet, I had to decide whether to put in bad voice acting by me, or none at all =P
A counter balance to that was I also hoped there wouldn't be too much to read... Although on the other side, there's an animation going on I wanna watch, but here I am stuck, reading the subtitles. Either way, if i ever do a piece similar to this in nature, I'll definitely consider getting a proper voice actor =D
Thanks for the review!

[HolyKonni's Demo Reel 09]

Not too shabby.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Some were decent and some were alright. None of them were extremely good or amazing, but nothing bad at all. The frame by frame looked a bit odd when you did the pixels. The wavy effect that you used during that one just seemed very out of place and didn't look too great.

~Story/Content ~

A nice demo reel showcasing your work. Some weren't the best, but all of them were ones that would do pretty decent on newgrounds in my opinion. A submission with a storyline/plot with your talent may go a long ways and a series would be even better. Hopefully I see you doing some stuff like that in the future.

One thing that I didn't like about your submission was the way it ended so fast. Such an abrupt manner of stopping a flash that I wasn't ready for in any way. Try to ease into that a bit better by maybe fading out on a longer scene.

~ Audio ~

Decent background music and nothing really to critique here at all. Good job on this part of the flash.

~ Overall ~

Adding more work to this to make it longer and stopping it from ending so abruptly would help it out a lot in my opinion.

~ Review Request Club ~

HolyKonni responds:

Thanks for reviewing.

[Zimmi EP 1]

Simple and sweet.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

You had a nice simple style here. Nothing too amazing, but not bad at all. Just kind of somewhere in the middle. Very simple animations that didn't look like they took too much work, but it gave the submission a nice relaxing feeling. Interesting use of lines and colors makes this very cartoon like.

~ Story/Content ~

A random story, but I think it really makes fun of how generic story lines are nowadays. At least if you weren't trying to poke fun on generic story lines at least that's what I got from it.

"Nice sunny day, Conflict happens, Conflict resolved, conflict happens, big gap in story line, conflict thought to be resolved, conflict really is resolved, and they live happily ever after." Yeah, pretty generic, but almost in a funny way.

~ Audio ~

The voice started off strong, but then started to die out later on. That's the reason for my 9 instead of the 10. I don't know if the voice actor started to talk quieter or if the music got louder, but he started to get drowned out later in the submission. Other than that decent music and voice acting.

~ Overall ~

Except for the voice starting to die off towards the end of the submission I don't see anything wrong here. Good work, nice style, interesting approach to a generic story line, etc.. Keep up the good work.

~ Review Request Club ~

Rutger responds:

Thanks dude! Yeah, the sound is getting a bit mixed up at the end, if I'd lower the volume of the music at the end you would've had to turn up the volume a bit too much though. I wish there was a way to increase volume inside flash itself ):

[Fathers Day Tribute]

What did he throw?

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I think the drawing style/art style that you had for the person was perfectly fine. Really showed off how you feel about your father perhaps as he's pretty big in this submission meaning you might think he's the strongest dad out there. :P

The drawing of.. whatever he threw.. wasn't done very well. It was pretty sloppy in my opinion. I liked the dust that you made for the object that he threw, but what I didn't like is the ground that you used. Why would you draw everything out by yourself and then throw a sprite/premade ground into it? Same with the arm and hammer thing. I think in this case that you should have done everything by hand or by yourself.

~ Story/Content ~

A tribute that shows your father that he's better than all of the other fathers because he's stronger. Perhaps more than just this one scene would have made it better. Such as him going around showing strengths no matter where he goes or what he does.

Maybe such as him lifting up a wrecked car to save someone underneath of it, robbing a thief and giving it to charity, etc.. You could have even went further with this thing here and made it so he was throwing at the Olympics and stuff and that he threw much farther than any other father. Maybe then you could have made the object that he threw into a discus or something? (Of course they don't count bouncing/sliding in the Olympics.

Something that I really didn't like or think looked good was the air/wind that you had going by. Just didn't seem very fitting to me and it looked odd. Just a blur effect would have done it I think.

~ Audio ~

The sound effects that you used for this submission sounded really good and I didn't have any problems with them at all. I do think though you could have had the sound of people cheering and a victory sound at the end when we got his total distance on the throw.

~ Overall ~

I think the biggest thing that could have improved was the time that you took on this. You said it was a one day thing, but if you would have started way before you could have added much more content to the submission. Not bad overall though. Keep on working.

~ Review Request Club ~

naronic responds:

he was punching a target

I wanted to finish this in a day and I really didn't think the ground or the air mattered that much :P
just a short tribute to my dad

thanks for the review
(review request club ROCKS!)

[The SuperHero Collab]

Not bad at all!

I'm surprised that this didn't win some sort of Daily award. It was done rather well in my opinion.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Some were great and some weren't the best, but I don't think you had any bad graphics here at all. For the most part everyone had pretty good animating skills and styles.

~ Story/Content ~

Some just didn't seem to fit with the whole theme and shouldn't have really been in there in my opinion. You kind of went with the theme of humor so the normal ones or the ones that weren't really funny should have been used in another submission or submitted by themselves.

I liked when the scenes were fast paced and just non stop humor. Batman falling off the building, flame on, etc.. Some dragged on a bit too long, but some of the longer ones also were pretty funny too.

~ Audio ~

Voice acting was beautiful in this submission. Music was well done and well synced. Couldn't think of much to critique on here as you did a very good job!

~ Overall ~

A good decent collab. Some submissions didn't fit the theme in my opinion. Worth a watch by all means though.

~ Review Request Club ~

Makeshift responds:

Thanks for the review.
I like getting ones that take me more than a couple seconds to read.

[Billy Mays: A Tribute]

Needs some simple things done to it.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I know you probably didn't have time to create something great as the death wasn't something we knew ahead of time, but there are still some simple things that you could have done without the fancy animations that everyone is talking about.

Picture quality was alright and the transitions between pictures was also alright. Nothing too bad visually.

~ Story/Content ~

Jumping on the tribute bandwagon I see. :P

Well it's basically just like the other tributes that were done without any animation.

The Bio that you used could have been much better. I think it would have been better if you put it in your own words, made it shorter, and made the text bigger/easier to read for the viewers.

I think what could have really made this better was instead of just the simple transition in between the photos that you could have used some nice quotes. For example fade the picture to black, use some nice white font to have a quote that represents death, mourning, or even a quote that Billy Mays had used himself. Fade back to the next picture, etc..

I also may think that you used a couple too many pictures. This started to drag on after awhile and got a little boring.

~ Audio ~

I think a cool thing would have been for you to add voice over for the Bio itself. That and if you were to include quotes like I suggested then you could read them out or get a voice actor to do it for you.

The music you choice for the submission was good in itself, but wasn't very tribute like. I'm thinking something a little bit sadder would have worked or if you wanted to go more comical using something from Charles Angels or Michael Jackson. :P

~ Overall ~

I myself am a fan of nonflash/non animated projects on newgrounds as long as they are done well. I think there was a lot of things that you could have done to make this submission better. Hopefully some of my ideas were good.

~ Review Request Club ~

Frenzy responds:

Thanks!

~ Z

[Planet Nuke]

Not bad, needs some work, but pretty good!

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I would say that this is really the only downfall of the submission if you could even call it a downfall. The graphics were pretty good all around, but seemed like it needed a little bit more detail. Not too bad though. The animation was kind of crude. It got the job done, but I think the score would be much better if the animation was a tad bit smoother.

~ Story/Content ~

I liked how this made people think it was going to start off as some sort of war movie or some sort of sad movie, but you turned it around into something happy. Perhaps I should have realized that by your icon, but I'll admit that I didn't see it coming at all. So your submission wasn't predictable in any sense and was pretty original.

I think that you should have animated the sun a bit more. So it seemed more alive instead of just basically the background. Making it seem like it was on fire, etc.. The length of the submission was a tad short too. I think it could have been about 30 seconds longer or so.

~ Audio ~

Pretty good sound effects and choice of music all around. I think what was missing though was some more summer sounds. I think the sounds of birds chirping really would have made this feel even happier then it already was.

~ Overall ~

I think I suggested a couple of cool things to add to it and if the animation was a bit smoother I think this would be much better. An all around nice submission though. Keep up the good work.

~ Review Request Club ~

urban-wolf100 responds:

cool, thanks fro
i'll be sure to add thoes in when i have the time