Crusty-Wiwuh's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kill Fest 2]

Didn't run properly

It kept pausing and slowing down. I think you way overused filter effects, which ate the fuck out of my system resources, but it seemed to slow down massively at seemingly random places. Sorry if it's just my machine fucking up.

The animation was ok but I'm sick to death of these types of movies. Nothing to scream about.

rune-god responds:

Na its not your computer it did it on mine 2 =/

[Fight of Death V1.1]

Sub-Mediocre

I looked at some of your other submissions- it looks like you are actually serious about this animating business, so I figured I'd try giving you a helpful review:

You seem to have a half-decent grasp of movement, what's mainly holding you back is your drawing (I know you know) and concept of cinematic.

I think what you would benefit from the most would be studying "good" content (I mean like top 50 stuff) and trying to pick out common techniques, comparing it to your own work. Do the reverse by blam/protecting to figure out what not to do. A great skill is being able to judge your own work as if it were someone else's.

Do the same for your drawing style; perhaps have a browse around deviantArt or look at some popular web-comics. Trying to copy other people's drawings is a good way of developing your style (this is just for practice; don't steal).

You seem to have trouble differentiating what you actually see, and what you remember or think you see; you are drawing symbols rather than objects. Do some life drawings. This will help immensely even if you're trying to develop a cartoon style, as cartoons are merely a simplified or adapted reality, rather than something entirely separate.

Also, when you're thinking up what to animate, try to imagine it like it was a Hollywood movie; hopefully this will give you ideas for the cinematic composition. This is a case of thinking past the mere actions that you want to animate, to how you want them to be seen, or how best to display them. Then you need to start thinking about drawing all this together to create style, atmosphere, mood etc.

And that's about all I can be bothered to write. Take it one step at a time and practice a fuckload. Hope some of this was at least mildly helpful...

xelander responds:

Thank you, it was verry helpful.

[The Kisame Machine]

Horrible

Nothing about this flash is good. I'd give you some tips but I think you'd be better off just never animating again.

xelander responds:

Dude, i paid money for flash, GTFO

[Magicians Force Promotion]

I had to vote 0 on this

For several reasons:
1. It's a trailer. This belongs in the alphas section.
2. It had no actual animation
3. The drawings were... simple at best

I look forward to seeing an actual episode; the story sounds fun, but I'm sceptical you'll be able to pull off anything watchable judging by this.

PowerMeep responds:

yeah...We were going for a kind of "Wall painting" feel; like you're uncovering some hidden story from long ago. I assure you that the actual episodes contain more than stick figures on a wall. there is also more color, personality, and animation in the actual episodes. oh, and this was originally designed to be the opener for each individual episode for the first series, but for file size and overall conveniency reasons, here it is. Episode 1 comes out on Monday, so plant your feet and throw me another criticism!

[Argh! CS4!]

Yeah it did suck

Terrible drawing, unimpressive animation, annoying voice, not funny.

wimwim responds:

It's only my first animation that I've published...gimme a break!

[RUC trailer]

Bad

I would classify this as "a pointless 'demo' or 'preview' without any redeeming qualities". (check the rules of submitting...)

You could use this as the intro to the actual feature, but nothing actually happens in this other than a few brief scenes of tweened madness characters and no backgrounds. It really doesn't look like you tried very hard with this at all.

TRIGGERHPY responds:

there was no tweening, all fbf. and there werent even any layers. just 1.

[Big Green Balls]

You are truly terrible at drawing

Also it wasn't funny.

Insanimation responds:

okey-dokey..your opinion

[Arsenality Rpg Trailer.]

Perhaps for the alphas section

I'm pretty sure trailers are against the rules.

Regardless, I have low hopes for your RPG. The movie kinda well made but I would have rather not watched it at all really.

Akitta responds:

Then don't torture yourself with it...I'm not going to force anyone to play it, and by far I'm the only on working on it...once I get more persons...well...who knows...