Galneda's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[40k Collab Trailer]

Woot! Saw my Headshot!

Can't wait for this to be out guys! I haven't seen everyone else's contributions, and so far, it looks great!

Great work, Bomblu!

[Girlchan in Paradise Ep2]

lmao

"No Yusuke, don't do it!"
"...What, why not?"

I was laughing my ass off through just about all of it. Bravo to everyone involved! I can't wait to see what other anime cliche's will get brutalized in Episode 3.

...Giant Robots? Just sayin'....

Great job!

[XCOM Series Trailer]

Nice.

The only advice I got for you is to never stop animating; like any art, you become even better with practice...so that should clear up any doubts you have for yourself in your drawing ability.

Onto the criticism:

(Pros +, Cons -)

+The music was epic and well chosen!
(Not a con, but I would suggest finding an abundance of sound effects NOW for future projects...audio other than just the music is encouraged. Even in some music videos they'll add other sounds or voice-tracks to match what's going on in the video.)
+You have a keen attention to detail, and the character designs were proportional!
-Cheesy anime elements killed the mood in certain scenes. Generic Crew Member #5 studies his screen with the calm eye-darting of a gamer, and although he's reacting to bad news coming up on the readings, literally shivers like he just shat his pants, and spins around, maw agape like he's either shrieking like a monkey, or ready to inhale a grapefruit.

...What did he see on the screen to make him react in such a way? Obviously the audience isn't supposed to know to provide a hook, but whatever it is, with a mouth open in such a way like that, it's not like he's going "Commander! Independence Day is happening at the Church!" or not even so much as an open-closed-open, "OH SHI-" ...he just see's the screen, shakes like Michael J. Fox, and turns to apparently scream at the top of his lungs.

"AAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
"Oh for the love of- WHAT THE HELL IS IT, Generic Crew Member #5!?"
"...There's some aliens attacking on the screen...they're big, and they're probably going to beam down a couple of their troops to start cappin' civilians."
"There...wasn't that easier than just screaming at us all?"
"I get excited!"

-It's not a huge con, but I'd recommend not outlining fluids and liquids in black. Say if it's gushing blood, outline it in a darker shade of red...Light blue tears? Outline it in slightly darker or slightly lighter blue. White beam? Some hue of gray. Y'know what I mean?

-Also there was a scene in there when Captain Cowlick saved the girl, tumbling out of the way of an oncoming death beam. While the alien promptly refuses to keep shooting at them a little to the left, we see the Captain LIFT HER THE FUCK OFF OF HER like she was nothing to check to see if she's okay.

I understood what was going on...he saves her, and he wants to look her right in the eye, and check to see if she's safe. But a slight lift, where gravity still comes into play would be sufficient...He grabs her by the shoulders, does what I would liken to an upside-down pushup, and LIFTS HER parallel to him like she weighed lighter than Styrofoam.

...Hey, you asked for reviews, you got 'em. I still enjoyed the flash. And for your second ever, it's REALLY DAMN GOOD.

To gain complexity in future animations, be sure that if the buildings are shaded, shade the trees and street lights too to give it that added detail. When the scene is on the face, have the eyelids narrow and widen accordingly with face as it studies the screen...Like, seriously, just watch different people's faces and notice subtle movements in the eyebrows, eyelids, cheeks, lips, and especially head-position...if you can master realistic body movements at an early age, you'll jump so high in your animation ability, your nose would bleed.

Again, I can't stress this enough, keep doing what you do. Just keep it at a steady pace of outdoing yourself constantly...

...So this flash was better than your last one...your NEXT one should be better than this!

P4D3LL05 responds:

You can't imagine how much fun i had reading your review, especially with generic crew member #5.Literally i rolled on the floor laughing.
You cannot be more true about all the things you mentioned.
Thank you for your priceless review and i'll try to implement all the information you
gave me.

P.S. i loved the Dick Neck trailer :)

[Happy Clock Day! =3]

Welcome to Newgrounds!

It's a good start, and hopefully you can safely say that your flash submissions can ONLY get better from here! Keep up the good work, and always practice!

[The SuperHero Collab]

RedHarvest's was quite literally the best one.

There were a few skits with okay animation, but I didn't even chuckle until it got to RedHarvests...I laughed out loud with his skit.

The other one's just really fell flat in the humor department.

[Jesus - are ya happy now?]

Lol

I voted high just because I lol'd about the concept...much needed insightful explanation in the author's comments made it passable for me.

And c'mon, Newgrounds was literally raised on controversial flash submissions...this is rather tame in contrast.

-A small preloader would be a wise investment, despite it's size.
-Also, regarding size, for something this short of a loop, it shouldn't be that large in MB; Go to File/Publish Settings and fiddle with the compression a little, and always set audio to "stream" instead of "start"
-In the near future, I would invest in a better microphone. It was very fuzzy, probably a headset mic (I had the same problem XD)
-Also be careful not to puff into the microphone.

That's my review! Keep it up, and I pass-voted it for making me lol.

[WTF_Action]

BADASS!

How did you get the camera to waver like it was falling, but looking horizontally?

Everything was amazing...the only constructive criticism I can provide is to:
-acquire a female voice actor for the reporter
-make it longer

Really, ridiculously badass and funny...I can never figure out how to manipulate the "camera man" in a flash...a response would be so appreciated, it hurts.

andreasng responds:

hey thanks. and it isnt really that complicated. what i do is to merge everything down into one graphic, then move the whole graphic from side to side, then mark all keyframes in the timeslider, go down into properties, click on the timing button (i think it just says edit, or something) but click on all the buttons till you reach the one with a curve inside -> then click the little dot in lower left corner, drag the "tangent" down till the bottom and to the right. with the upper right dot, click it, drag tangent up till edge and to the left. that should give you exactly what i got.

However it is limited in many ways, and doesnt really work as well as other animation applications i think.

thanks. good luck.

[Culture Clubbing]

Ha! So true...

The Melting Pot analogy was pretty accurate...even though the US is still incredibly young for a country...so there's really no telling what else America will start.

I like the custom Hulk theme + "Livin' La Vida Loca" piano tune...and I especially loved the Veritech on the kid's shirt, being a huge fan of the Macross series myself. (They're making a Robotech movie next year! :O)

The voice acting was spot on throughout, appropriate sound effects, awesome music, and the animation was excellently done. The typical anime sequence in the beginning was unexpected, random, and as well done as it was, didn't diminish YOUR style of animation afterwards in contrast. Sam Deats and yourself should pat yourselves on the back.

The only part that probably could've looked better was the blood splatter on Lady Liberty while she was cooking.

That doesn't change the fact that this was a brilliant flash. Fived, and Faved, keep up the great work!

P.S. ...How do you know J. Schuh from Dallas?

[Korean Missile Crisis]

America.

Fuck Yeah.

Fived and Faved for much needed Patriotism and Truth.

/salutes

Sh0T-D0wN responds:

/Resalute.

[Lil' Hoots]

Lol, aww...

First, hat's are off to the voice cast; they both did a tremendously good job.

Secondly, you immediately get huge points for doing something original; we need diversity in this community that's supposed to emphasize on creativity.

This was a really well-done cartoon! It deserves a much higher score than it's already received! (By the time this review was written, 4.07 / 5.00) The character's were well designed, and appealing to the eye with their distinct, contrasting colors.

There's no gore, no cursing; finally something on NG that's family safe. But it's whacky enough that it can be enjoyed by anyone with a sense of humor.

It was smoothly animated, and it demonstrates great cartooning ability on your behalf because you can carry on humor through the body language of the characters along, which is a feat not often seen in the independent community here. I smiled, and laughed out loud several times over visual details, odd facial expressions, Lil' Hoots eyes twisting around it's completely stationary head and body...the whole flash was fun!

I'd love to see more from you. At this rate of improvement in skill that you're demonstrating, I wouldn't be surprised to see you go pro in the near future.

Fived and Faved <4.11 / 5.00 (+ 0.0060)>

Keep up the great work!