naronic's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[SPRITE YOU!!!]

good but overcomplicating something easy

When I saw this tutorial at first I thought it was going to be on GETTING sprites
I'm glad it wasn't but I also wasn't expecting this

Your method of making sprites takes up a lot of time and is painfully unnecessary when you could just acquire the pixel tool for flash or draw them yourself and render them in photoshop

No one has the time or patience to waste camera film taking 20 something pictures of themselves doing strange poses in front of a 20x20 block colored sheet, and then lasso tool them all up in photoshop just to make a short 1.5 second animation

It was a good informative tutorial but there are hundreds of better methods to doing this than what your proposing

[Jerry: The End]

good series sub-par ending

lets chop this up

Animation-
the usual classic joint FBF. Interesting scene playout's
no complaining

Sound-
high quality sounds
great voice acting but that's to be expected nowadays

There was about 150 better ways to end you series than this.
Throughout the whole flash you only seemed to highlight on one minor episode in the series. Sure I got some cheap lulz and OMG THAT'S MEANZ!! but not really anything to keep my eye on the screen or to meet my minimal expectations.
Just a continuation of an episode

Don't let this stop you
Keep working! Your work is still really good

[Pixel Shrooms]

meh

it's fine pixel animation but there is nothing about your flashes that lasts or makes me think
no lasting quality to any of them
just a loop with some poorly picked out word choices

[The Lost Lake]

It was good, just making that clear.

Plot- 10/10
The so greatly portrayed vision of death and flashbacks actually brought a tear to my eye. I also consider it a breath of fresh air in this parody pit
It was creative and I'm sure it took a lot of effort.

Animation- 6/10
To me, the line art seemed way to thick (almost like over 4 stroke thickness for the closeups) and needed a bit of cleaning up.

At times the movements of the characters were a bit unusual looking and wobbly. Try creating a skeleton layer b4 just drawing

The FBF and tweening was pretty balanced out for the situations
nothing to complain about there
Just work on your line art and FBF

[Making A Piranha Plant]

woh

just amazing
you are the sculpur god

[Super Mario bros Z ep.8 (old series)]

greatly improved- not just a sprite video anymore

I'll attempt to break this down

ANIMATION: 8/10
I don't know if you've been around this site for awhile but sprite movies with DBZ crossovers have seriously lost momentum since 07, but I'm not going to dwell on that

The "3D" animations were way to simple and premature, no textures no shading just rendered object getting tweened and rotated

The graphics for the settings were more dynamic and offered a lot more creativity fighting wise
kudos for that

You've exited your days of tweenhood and entered the FBF kingdom with these vectors.
The characters arn't stiff movie clips anymore

FIGHTING: 6/10
LOTS and LOTS of action but still too DBZish
you're still tweening movie clips and ripping dragon-ball sounds of Google as far as I'm concerned
the only thing that sets it apart from the other episodes is the adrenaline macho-rotating backgrounds that make the scenes more 3D now

STORYLINE: 4/10
Is it just me or is the storyline becoming less and less interesting
Sure the pissy Shadow hangover left me wondering what was going to happen but the storyline seems to be slowly derailing, like you're just trying to keep your series alive.
Mecha Sonic wasn't anywhere in the flash and Mecha Mario (or whatever ep 8 cliffhanger was suppose to be) didn't show up either.
Some parts just didn't flow with the movie and the cliffhanger with the black koopa didn't interest me at all, sorry

over all I think this flash took a lot of effort and determination and It sets itself apart from the previous episodes in interesting ways

[Mario and Luigi TLoMS P2]

nothing special, just another wannabe

1 for the animation (effort)
none for the originality

concept done over and over and over again ever since Alvin became famous

CozDogga responds:

listen
this is only my second animation and i only used the energy beam as a good way for Mario to get hurt, i would see the fighting style of future episodes to be more elemental and swordplay styled
thanks for the review though

[Failed Mugging]

didn't think it through did you?

i guess this made me laugh for about 5 seconds so you get 5 points

[Puzzle Shoes]

not good, just WTF

I guess this required at least a bit of effort hince the 2 points
think your shit through before just randomly making a movie as I had no earthly idea what this was about or what you were trying to portray half the time

I'm pretty sure this isn't going to stay on the front page for long