blarg1's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fairy Sorrow]

very nice work

I was just wondering - did you use ToonBoom or a similar tool in the scenes where you were playing with perspective?

[Shadows of Cyberia]

I would have liked to have been able to see this

I found the agressive black on black colour scheme a little difficult to see against the black background. It took me several moments to find the pale black "PLAY" button on the black stage, and when I could finally play the movie back, I found it hard to see the black character whenever he was standing in front of the black background.

In fact, this whole animation was so unrelievedly black, all I can say for certain that I saw was a rainstorm, and a set of black headphones.

[A Tribute to Livecorpse]

Not sure I see the point of this...

Let me see if I understand this correctly: A young man stabbed another man on the street, then killed a police officer. After doing this he felt sorry for himself, sent a Dear John letter to his uncle,and killed himself.

What are you celebrating or commemorating here?

It is always sad when a young person does something self-destructive, but I don't imagine that the family of the police officer he killed are feeling particularily maudlin just now.

SoulShadower responds:

The young man was a flash animator on this site. He stabbed his neighbor in self-defense, shot a cop who was after him, then killed himself.

[PunchOut 2 Intro]

Nice work for a sprite movie

That was an interesting film. You managed to hold my attention for most of it even though you were animating 8-bit sprites at many times their original size.

I really liked thecinematic approach you took with your film.

However, I found that the grammar was extremely poor - so much so that the dialogue was sometimes difficult to understand.

I realize that English may not be your first language; but if you wish to release animations in English and want to make them accessible to people, your grammar has to be correct and the dialogue has to be readable.

Perhaps you could get a friend to help you with the writing.

AngelnX responds:

SO what r u saying??? r u saying that since my last name is an Aztec name, you think that english is my second language?? u think spanish is my first language?? English happends to be my first language cause i was born here in the states. If anything, im bad in spanish! I just happend to be bad in school, but good at graphic design...something i dont think u are. brother, u have offended me! Virtually everyone EXCEPT YOU can read my dialog. i have no problem at all...oh fuckin pisses me off! ok u know what, fuck you! (sorry for the temper folks)

[Edge - Part 3]

Original work that obviously involved some effort

Therre are so many lazy submissions here, that it's a nice change to see a piece that has obvioulsy been conscientously worked on.

Confuzzled responds:

thank you, problem is as i have to make the toon better each time it takes longer meaning ppl have to wait longer -_-' sorry to all but Edge part 4 WILL be a while BUT its going to b called 'Worlds Colide'

[Savage studies]

so what?

Neither intersting, nor perfectly courteous to Poland...

Why did you bother?

[TeH oPpOsItEs]

Not Bad

I found the pacing and humour a bit slow, and over-dleiberate. The gags were telegraphed so far in advance that there was no surprise value.

There are precedents for deliberate pacing - John Kricfalusi comes to mind, but I believe that you could still make your delivery a little more snappy.

[Super Utensil 3000]

Cute, but not worth top place

It must have been a slow day on Newgrounds. This was likely made over a weekend.

gel responds:

Nope! It was made in one day, from 11pm to 7am. And yes, it was a pretty slow day.

Tell me, what IS worth top place? Do you see another movie submitted today to which you would have said "Now THAT deserves the top place!" Someone has to place first every day, today it was me.

[CletustheFetus SoulPlane]

Manages to offend without entertaining

Yes, it was offensive. Unfortunately, this animation failed to be entertaining or even interesting.

The art was okay. Why don't you team up with a writer and let him/her conceive the charaters, situation, and dialogue?

[40 secs sadness]

Bad animation

the 2-frame loop animating th ewindblows hair was so apalling it was funny. The part frame-by frame, part tweened gulls were horrid.

You simply didn't put enough work into this. If you want to animate, you have to draw more frames. You animated a 40 second short with enough frames of art to support 2-3 seconds. No shit.