Galneda's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[Spoiler fights Zombies]

I'm going to pretend this wasn't your first flash.

...and it's still nothing short of amazing. Holy shit, that was incredible...absolutely murders my first animation.

You are incredibly skilled...never stop animating, never get discouraged...within no time, I could easily see you rising among the greats of Newgrounds and beyond...you have your own unique style, that looks brilliant, which has some tongue-in-cheek dark humor...just how I personally like it!

Can't wait to see what else you got for us. Keep it up!

[lordofthematrixwars]

Clever Girl...

Nearly four years later, I still get a kick out of this. You did a damn good job spoofing parodies of other things, meshed into one. Well-done!

[MK vs. SF 2]

This never gets old.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most well made sprite fight animation on Newgrounds. It was well written, the dialogue got to the point, and the fights were choreographed amazingly.

What I also liked about this one, particularly compared with MK vs. SF 1, was significantly less bullet-time...it ruins the pace of the fight, and this fight remained rapid throughout.

Keep up the good work!

[Facebook Twitter]

I love it!

My friends and I quote your other stuff all the time...and I can already tell this is incredibly referencable.

For example:
"My ball bags slapping against my big green thighs tell a better story..."
Instant classic!

Everything's well-drawn and well-animated as expected, voiced well also! (Were you Draconius as well? Good switch up from your normal range if it is) and the music was perfect for the fantasy stage you've set-up. Also, I love the idea of internet what-nots in a fantasy realm...the concept alone made me lol

But what really earned the ten is it's all your style and your sense of humor, and it's ORIGINAL! :D IT'S NOT ANOTHER VIDEO GAME PARODY, OR SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN DONE HUNDREDS OF TIMES! Praise the Lord!

Like I said, I loved it! It wasn't too talky, because the content made up for it! It would be too "talky" if it were boring meaningless shit-rambling. Ya did a good job! Fav'd and Fived = 4.46 / 5.00 (+0.00074).

[Advent of Sock]

Brilliant and original!

I don't care if this gets marked down for useless because I refuse to tell you to change anything.

You chose a very difficult method of animation, and the fact that you made it look GREAT deserves an eleven instead of a ten. With original characters and what-not, great music through-out, it's like you took the greatness from Gary Larson, Jhonen Vasquez, Don Hurtzfeldt, but it's nothing like any of those three...

It's all you, man. GREAT WORK. The antagonist tiger thing is adorable, and the creatures from hell look amazing. I'd love to see more!

[I need a Hero]

Good Practice animation!

The flash shows me that you got a lot of artistic ability, and an ear to coordinate key-parts of the music with what the viewer is watching (something a lot of people are pretty incapable of being aware of).

However, there were tiny details that just seemed to bug me.
-So the guy is basically a drunk until she (the captive) telepathically (?) put out the SOS just for him, (because I'm assuming he had the other jewel...some sort of magical connection...whatever, I'm getting off subject) and he goes from being a hopelessly depressed drunkard to, "Shit yeah, I'm going to save my girlfriend in the castle of demons with only my sword and my horse. Hyah!" ? Is he in the bar because she was captured, or was he the only guy with a jewel necklace to contact nearby?
-So he's off. Galloping gallantly to save the girl. He APPEARS to just do a dramatic pose with his horse near a cliff...if the animation were more fluid and you took just a wee-bit more time on it, you could've established that he was riding, riding, riding, couldn't really see well because of the trees, until all of a sudden they came to drop-off that could've killed the horse and him...so because they can't go on, he ditches the horse and slides down the hill to hoof it himself.

-I don't really care for bad-guy designs; goons will be goons...but at least do the fight scene with something less repetitive. If you wanted to do one or five really well-drawn dramatic poses tweened across with the Alpha on 50% or something, while you had random, each-different-from-the-last slashes and patterns of blood, that would be cool. But it was the same slash, angled differently, and when it kept on coming back to him, I felt like it was a Photoshoot, he was the model, and the slashes was the shudder closing for the camera.

-Then he's got this rival fight...the animation had almost no effort put into it...hell, and when he (somehow) in the blink of an eye wins the fight (we don't know how because it was drawings flipping and cutting out from each other) you actually put more effort into his cloak waving in the wind while he walks off in slow-motion then you did for either of the fights.

-There was at one point where the hero's running alone, it keeps switching from him running in the forest from different perspectives...you need to keep in mind how your character is positioned, because some of his body language was hilarious. His legs all awkwardly contorted, and his arms, I don't know what the hell they were trying to do...just, when you take the stills all together, and imagine them all moving from one position to the next, it looks whacky and jumbled...kinda distracted from the mood the flash was trying to give.

-At one point, he's down-stabbing a demon. At first, his hand was on the blade. The next frame, his hands were on the handle where they were supposed to be.

Okay, so what? You made a couple of easily made mistakes in animaiton, big deal, we've all been there. :D All in all, though, this shows to us all that you got tremendous potential, and in time, you will naturally get better.

Hope to see more from ya!