Fro's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Father & Son In: Trip]

You are on the right path. ;)

Comments before actual review - Wow, two flashes reviewed in a row from me that have a lot of potential. These are the type of flashes that I really enjoy reviewing. :D They are so much better than reviewing the absolutely terrible flashes and the very good flashes.

Animation/Graphics - The main reason that you lost points from me. It was very rough and very unorganized. If you just worked on the animation part of your submission and worked on it until it was up to par then you would of probably received an 8 or 9 out of me on my review. Just clean somethings up and work on the smoothness of your animation. I'm sure this will come with time though. :)

Story - I liked the story line actually. This didn't really happen to you did it? lol, I hope not. I laughed very hard when the animal popped out of the bushes with the guys screaming back and forth with the animal and the kid swearing up a storm. Great humor and a fun flash to watch is what gave you the most points from me on my review.

Audio - Decent for the most part, but I would like to recommend laying off the mic just a little bit. Even when things are suppose to be loud back away from the mic a little bit so we don't get those extremely loud voices that we got. Other than that pretty decent voice acting.

Overall - It needs a lot of work in the terms of animation, but if you work on it than I'm sure this would be a great submission. Keep working hard.

C52

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CSanimations responds:

Thanks. I feel my graphics could be, and are, being improved in my stuff. As for the animation, I feel that yes, it could be improved a lot, and that I learnt a lot from it.
You see, I'm still working out how to improve - creativly & technically.
I know I should, but it's a slow process of thinking. For me, anyway.
As for the story, I'm glad you liked it, it wasn't really orginised, I just kept on adding more & more stuff to it. :)
I'm suprised you thought the audio was ok - I didn't like it that much, but thanks.
:)
Great review, I'll take it in mind.

[Sentry- 1]

Needs some work. ;)

Comments before actual review - II will do you a favor and recommend this for the Halloween collection and I would also like to say that this is a pretty good start, but it needs a lot of work.

Animation/Graphics - Very simple and very rough. I guess I will say it that it's not very good, but it does have a lot of potential. Just cleaning up the animation and making things smoother. I really do think if you work on your animating skills that this could be a really good flash. Since it's only your 2nd flash animation I'm going to assume that you haven't been working with flash the longest of time and I'm sure that you will get better at animating as you get more experienced.

Story - A decent story, but it just seemed like it was missing a lot. It was kind of hard to follow because it jumped from thing to thing and was missing out on a lot of the in between animations. That's what makes good flashes great and great flashes amazing. If you fill in these small things and work a little bit on the length of the submission then you could have an award winning flash here on newgrounds. ;)

Audio - Decent audio, but I would like to say that the volume wasn't always good. Most of the time the sound effects were too loud compared to the voices and vice versa as most of the time the voices were too quiet compared to the sound effects. Just something small that might be worked on.

Overall - This has a lot of potential. I thought about giving it a 5, but thought about how you will probably get better as you get more experienced and gave you an extra point. Keep working hard and keep requesting your stuff at the RRC so I can see how you improve.

C52

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SCUD14 responds:

Thanks.

It's not that I haven't had flash a long time, it's just that it takes me a lot of commitment to bother making anything past ten frames long.

My first time working with volumes within flash, so that'd be why that sucks haha.

[{PS} Crazy Laws: Maryland]

Interesting.

Sorry for the short review, but I tend to give flashes like this a little bit more of a short review instead of the longer reviews I tend to give. You had a lot of very interesting information in this flash and a lot of things that I wouldn't really believe. They really are crazy laws. The layout was decent, but it could of been just a bit better. I'm going to have to go through the series, but have you gotten PA yet? That's where I live and I want to see what some of the crazy laws are for my state.

C52

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DPlato responds:

thank you.

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 8]

Pretty good.

Animation/Graphics - Very simple drawings and animation. Nothing too new or exciting here. Colors and everything was fine. I think the animation was very clean and smooth and so were the drawings, but at the same time like I said kind of plain and boring.

Story - Sadly I don't understand a lot of it because I don't understand flash whatsoever and I have never heard of Koolmoves or Koolmovies or whatever it was. Is this program simple to use? I think flash is hard as hell so if if this is any easier to use then I wouldn't mind giving it a try. You had a nice amount of humor in it though for how short the submission was.

Audio - Good background music and sound effects in this flash. You also had some good voice actors here. I can't think of anything else to say about the audio section of this flash.

Overall - A decent flash with a decent amount of humor. A bit short, but not too short to make it bad.

C52

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Jimtopia responds:

Thanks for the review I'll try to make my graphics a bit more interesting for the next one.

[[SG] TFAS Preview]

*Starts slow clap.*

Animation/Graphics - Very very good man. I was impressed by all of the drawings and the animation that you had throughout the entire submission. It was very smooth, the colors were good, the pictures were good, the background was good, etc.. Nothing really to criticize here.

Story - Isn't the Shades Gang a spam group? I guess I was mistaken because this isn't anywhere close to being spam and now that I look at some of your other stuff it's all pretty good. And it's only a preview so I can't wait to see the entirety of this. Some simple humor was put in and a lot of action for a preview. Really good man.

Audio - Not everyones favorite song, but I don't mind it. Also, it went very well with the theme of the movie. Good job all around here with your choice of audio.

Overall - A very good preview and I can't wait to see the final version of it.

C52

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AxeShades responds:

Well the Shades Gang is a crew. We TRY not to spam... though of course some of us who are less talented at flash appaer to be posting spam. I like the gang just because now we've been around for a year and we're still doin our thing. Not nearly as popular as the other groups, but we have a pretty good group where everybody has known everybody from the beginning.

This video illustrates some of the journey we have been through; which will be more elaborated on in the final version hopefully :)

Thanks for the review, Corky.

[In my mind]

Very good.

Animation/Graphics - The animation and graphics weren't always so good in the entire animation, but I think that was the style that you were going for when you made this flash. The overall quality of the animation and graphics were pretty good though. I like how your animation ran smoothly and was timed with the audio in the background, which is something that I will probably express again in the audio section of my review.

Story - A nice random dream like flash here that really shows how random and wild dreams can be sometimes. The menu was pretty cool and original. Maybe it should of been centered a bit more, but overall the story and content of the flash was pretty good. It could of been just a bit longer in my opinion.

Audio - A good choice of audio just because it went so well with the animation at hand. Right from the beginning to the end the animation matched up very well with the audio. That must have taken a lot of work and timing to do.

Overall - A nice short flash, which was done pretty well overall. I think this was deserving of an award. Maybe it would have won on a different day and the day that you submitted it there were several other flashes that were very good at the same time.

C52

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Lochie responds:

Animation/Graphics - The style I was going for was to try and interperate my different styles in one, from graphical to childish.
Thank you for your comments on my fluint animation. :D

Story - My dreams are too random and weird, I might make more of animations like these. If I centered the menu it would have looked a bit out of place because of the straight down linage type of thingy, but I guess I could have moved it closer to the middle just a tad.
The music was too short to keep animating, I was suprised the song finished then because I planned to have of made the guy wake up from his dream sweating and such, but there wasn't enough room.

Audio - I am very persise with timing and such, so it doesn't take me long to sync music with animation, I might submit one of my short music synced animation (It's just black and white squares pretty much) one day. Maybe..

Overall - When I submitted it, the other good animations were submitted STRAIGHT after mine. I was so annoyed. But it doesn't matter. :P

Thanks for the great review my friend. :D

[MD08: Cliffs of Dover]

Decent flash submission.

Animation/Graphics - Good animation and graphics here. You can't usually complain about drawings or anything else like that on Madness flashes since they are pretty much all the same. The animation was good and smooth. I really couldn't find anything wrong with it at all. Maybe have him moving around stage more could of made it a bit better, but with that it may have been a bit more challenging due to the fact that it would be more animation, plus the spotlight would have to follow him around.

Story - A nice nonviolent flash, which is common on Madness Day very often. I'm happy that you had the little intersection after awhile in the song because that's a pretty lengthy song and we would of probably got bored, but I just don't know if that's what I would of done for the break up. I don't know exactly would of worked good there, but I just think that maybe trying something else there would make it a bit better. A couple of things that could of made it a bit better could be to add the drummer and some of the other band along with the guitarist. Again, that would make the flash more difficult to make since it would add more animation, but it's something to think about.

Audio - Great audio. I'm a sucker for anything that was played on a guitar and anything that's fast or heavy. That may be because a couple of my friends are good at guitar and one of my roommates played GH3 all year last year. (He has dropped out >.<) The only thing I think you could of added was maybe the sound of a crowd cheering him or something like that.

Overall - A nice flash and a good change of pace of regular Madness submissions, but could of been a bit better with a couple of things.

C52

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UnrealCanine responds:

Thank you for a detailed and analyical review

[Happy Birthday Corky!]

Amazing.

You've really captured the feeling that Corky52 should bring to people. That feeling is a big powerful cock that puts people in fear of their life. >.< Thanks for the happy birthday flash man. I really liked it. :D

C52

SgtDK responds:

Everyone must fear the almighty cock

[Corky52's Birthday Collab]

Omg awesome.

Animation/Graphics - This was the best animated movie I think I have ever seen on newgrounds. I mean I don't see how this couldn't be in the top 50 let alone the top 10 in flash submissions. :D Yoshi, yours was awesome, top work right there. MinusNick, you're just about the same with Yoshi. Amazing job. Let's not forget about FamilyGuy05! You three are going to be top animators someday. ;)

Story - MY BIRTHDAY HOW IS IT NOT A 10/10 AND A 5/5? That was friggin sweet. The pre-loader to starts was amazing. I love the picture that you used to fap... I mean the picture that you used on the pre-loader was an awesome choice. I remember taking that picture about a year or two ago. Yoshi, I love how you used the Pacman theme because I was talking to you about how I got bored in class and started to draw pacman stuff. :D MinusNick yours was really awesome also. Ha, again the pictures that you guys used were really funny. FamilyGuy05 added an important part also. What's a birthday flash without a happy birthday song to go along with it?

Audio - You all used great audio selections in your work and it all went along very well with the animation. :)

Overall - Thanks a lot to everyone who made this for me. I made sure I added it to my favorites and all of the authors to my favorites. This is the first gift that I have gotten today and it's much appreciated. Also, to everyone else. I'm 20 today.

C52

Sispri responds:

:D Glad you liked it, man. 'Twas for you.

[With My Mind's Madness]

That was awesome. Fucking sweet.

Animation/Graphics - Amazing even though a lot of it was incomplete and very rough. I still thought the animation and graphics was a lot better then most of the other stuff that was submitted on Madness Day. I actually kind of liked the sketchy effect that there was, but I would also like to see the final version of it and compare the two.

Story - I think this is an appropriate question to ask why exactly did your flash auto-spawn popups? Someone posted it in the abusive review thread and I explained to them that you were staff on newgrounds and the popups that it spawned weren't really anything too worry about and that they shouldn't mark this to put it under admin. review. Now on to the flash, that was epic. That was such a powerful animation and I really got into the flash. That was awesome man.

Audio - A great selection of audio here and good sound effects. There really isn't much more to say about the audio selection of your submission.

Overall - Even though it was rough it was still an epic flash and really awesome to watch. Deserves a 10/10 and a 5/5.

C52

MindChamber responds:

the popup was an error, sorry about that.

its fixed now.