blarg1's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[EgoCity Chap III]

Actually, I kind of liked it

Yes, the writing was dense, strange, and hard to follow, but the animation was fantastic and the pacing was excellent.

I liked this animation.

[Lambi part 3]

Beautiful work - but fix the soundtrack!

Your art and naimation is beautiful, but again, the soundtrack really, desperately needs work, as it is really detracting ffrom the experience.

The soundloops you have embedded are nasty - they contain trailoing silences so they never loop correctly.

The best spproach would be to create your animation without sound, then record a "score" of all the emotional peaks and change points for the music, by writing down the time in seconds shown on the timeline in Flash at each point.

Then use a sound like Acid Music or Sound Forge to create a soundtrack for the whole thing... this way you can stitch together the sounds and make the transitions smooth.

Finally, import this new soundtrack and tweak the naimation to make sure th emusic fits exactly, then publish your movie with the music in streaming mode, to enfore synchronization.

Yes, the filesize would be larger this way than by using separate loops, but the result would be more effective. Effective compression and streaming would still make the file size manageable, even with a 10 minute score.

Failing this, at least PLEASE trip your loops so they don't hiccough all the time.
Failing

Lambi responds:

Thanks for actually giving me a few possible solutions to my problem, everyone (including myself in my comment) just states that the sounds not right, but dont offer much help

[First Things First]

The trouble with collaborations...

actually, there are two problems with collaborations:

1) first of all, a reviewer has no choice but to average the sum-total of his or her experience, so the good artists suffer because of their lazier counterparts.

2) the second problem, is that I find that in virtually every case, these "collaborations" aren't really collaborations at all' they are simply collections of stuff that get thrown together.

You would end up with a much more cohesive and impressive product if a storyboard, standards, and sketches were all worked out in advance, and everyone worked together on the same thing, instead of everyone doing their own thing and pulling in different directions.

just a thought...

zonzo responds:

We made it for fun, we didn't even know if we were going to submit it, but I see your point on serious collabs.

[today is a day]

Uh, you get full points under O for "Odd"

Succeeds in disturbing without entertaining.

[nuku nuku : my immortal]

a good beginning

However, there still are too few frames to give a real fluid sense of movement. Frame by frame animatoin, you will find, is a bitch; because you have to draw an awful lot of pictures.

If you watch a lot of cartoons on TV,you will start to see the tricks they use to avoid as many redraws as possible, [cycles, pans, cutaways, walk cycles that don't show the legs - that sort of thing].

the art was cute, but the music didn't do too much for it.

[Im Gay]

The song was cute

But unfortunately, the animation didn't do much, and was obviously entirely made of recycled clips from The Whistler. They just didn't work in this context.

[7½ Random Irks Of Art]

Elegant, and unique, but needs repair

There were a lot of glitches in your menu system. It is imperative that you fix those, or your submission will suffer.

On the whole, however, I enjoyed this submission. It was unique and imaginative - and kinda cute.

[The Whistler.]

This doesn't have much to say...

...and neither do I. I am dumbfounded - gobsmacked by a brain-dead animation.

wallpaperman responds:

if you wanna watch intelligent movies go to school einstein

[the safety dance]

Hmm.

Rotascoping is good for certain things, but it was over-applied here. It is a notoriously inneficient way of creating art, and as you saw here, it can result in absolutely crazy file sizes.

[Magnus BG Concept Draft]

Missing a little something....

You really have to use your imagination with this one - since there is only a space where the art should be.

I'm afraid this is way beyond simply "unfinished". It is barely begun. However I would be interested in seeing this again once you complete it.