blarg1's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The VG Wars Ep:1]

Enough with the sprite movies

I enjoyed hearing the old Squaresoft Music - I'd love to know where to get my hands on that....

However, I am heartily tired of sprite animations... can't anyone create their own art and storyline?

One more thing... if English is your first language, then hang your head in shame. I haven't seen such bad English since Zero Wing was released in the U.S...

Samuraikyo responds:

Well i'm glad you mentioned that. Real art huh well Ever since i've been working with sprites....i learned all the techniques that the artist use....so now i'm gonna work on real animations. I've been studying art in school for the last 2 years...and i think i'll try real animations. Oh and sprite use in an art if you make the sprites yourself (hints the name Custom Sprites)

[Black Belt VS Black Mage]

Nice work- but why bother with sprites?

The rest of the art was so good, I wondered why you bothered using those annoying sprite traces....

[Sidney the Pirate II]

bleh

this has some problems:

- the joke is lame
- the "punch line" is displayed for such a short time that it's hard to see what the joke is supposed to be
- the art is so poor in that last bit that it's hard to see that the joke is that the pirate "hacked" the computer with his sabre
- not enough time allowed to read text on screen
- screen font is not very readable at that size - choose a simpler font, or make th etext larger

Wowbagger responds:

Clearly, you are just too stupid to read at adult speed. Imbecile.

[MarioBros Unholy Alliance]

Sprite Movies make me want to hurt people.

I hate sprite movies - especially those that use Super Mario sprites. I wonder why there are so many? Is this an especially easy sprite set to get, or what?

This sprite movie was well put together, but I simply didn't have the energy to watch the thing.

Here's an idea people: make up your own stories and characters, and draw your own art.

[The matrix revisited]

Sheesh

If I see one more badly animated stick figure moving in slow motion to indicate "bullet time" I'll go mental.

From now on, I automatically blam anything that contains a) stick figures or b) the Matrix sound track.

This has both.

Blam.

[Hungarian Phrasebook]

Now what's all this, then?

I love Monty Python sketches, and yet this movie purls and retches -

I do not like animated clocks. I do not like them in a box. I would not like them with a fox.

How vile to lift this sacred scene; this precious jewel of telecine...

and mangle it with dreary art. In doing this, you break my heart.

This film is but a lowly turd, and you can take me at my word...

That he who cannot coin his jest is natures meanest little pest.

rangi responds:

A winner is you.

No really.

[Starlight Odyssey 3Dmovie]

beautiful work

Nice work - it's often hard to get a decent file size working in 3D, but you did.

The only problem with the bit-map effects you used toward the end of the vignette, is that in compressing for the web, you ended up with a lot of artifacts - there isn't much you can do about that without ending up with a huge file. I would be interested to see what this looks like without the compression.

I also agree with the reviewers who commented on the soundtrack - it was far from ideal. I think this would be a good applicatoin for some original music. You might want to try playing with SoundForge's Acid product - it's a great tool for quickly building original soundtracks. Some sound effects would have added texture to the animaiton as well.

You can buy excellent sound loop libraries for a very reasonable cost at http://freeloops.co.uk. (They also have a limited library of free loops.) Look for the UFO Sound Loops library.

genesys responds:

hey - thx for your comment! i'll check out the site . . .
if you want to watch the movie without the artefacts:
http://neo.cycovery.com/starlightodyssey6.html

[Chrono Trigger Trailer]

Lazy

If you want to animate, you'll have to draw more pictures.

looping the same nasty tween for 9/10th of your animation, (character's mouth twitching and nothing else), was wierd and pointless.

Mystic-Skye responds:

lol lol lol lol!~

[INFINITY SNAIL: DBB]

very cute

I realy enjoyed the fact that you created your own sound effects and theme music using mouth noises.

The audio could do with a bit of polishing, but I can fully understand how frustrating it can be to try to get good live audio if you don't have a lot of money to spend on a microphone.

The doodle art approach was cute too.