Galneda's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[Vampires_test]

Not bad.

Fluid animation, good premise. The pace is a little slow, try cutting out unnecessary pauses, and make it flow more.

Also, you NEED more than just one gunshot. Throw in a shuffling noise for the vampire walking, ambience like the soft bubbling of the pot in the background, the monster growl, crashes, footsteps, cartoony noises like whistles and clangs and what-not...

...and also, VOICES VOICE VOICES! Speech bubbles with an animation is a no-no!

Looking forward to seeing the finishes product!

megaener responds:

I know... I was just testing... and No I'm not going to use balloons for the finished work

[Saunich der Hejhaug]

Dr.Livingston down there is a bit of a cynic...

This was great! I laughed my ass off watching this.

At first glance, I thought it was a flash by Bug, ZekeySpaceyLizard, or one of the other "Funnies collab" crew. I'm pretty refreshed that it wasn't, because they seem to have had enough front-page exposure for one month.

The animation was really well done, and reminded me of darker, sicker flashes like Serius Peashy, and although I hate using him as a reference, Salad Fingers, to a slight extent. Being raised on the gritty, diseased style of Ren & Stimpy as a kid, I totally loved it. It was also incredibly fluid, and I was looking for mistakes in the actual animation, and couldn't find any.

I loved how cartoony everything was...swallowing the cute little Teddy Bear whole caught me off guard and truly made me laugh out loud...same with the Xenomorph tongue near the end. The little details throughout also helped add to the humor; was in a nuclear wasteland or something? I don't care, this was great.

Although Sonic's voice could've been casted better to what you were trying to go for, the sound quality was hard to ignore. The ambient wind in the background, the car humming, every appropriate sound effect never stood out from each other in clarity. It, too, was really well done. Teddy bear voice, and that poor clerk's performance were spot-on (the pathetic, whimpered..."...Here..." when he's handing the chili drink to Saunich) and the awesome eating noises he constantly did helped bounce around the humor.

I say keep it up! You may not have gotten a sponser, but maybe Flash API could be something to look into that couldn't hurt. Although I agree with the Brawl Funnies message in that we need to ween ourselves from unoriginal video game parodies which dominantly permeate through Newgrounds, this was a very entertaining, originally done video game parody.

The only thing that kept it from a perfect 10 was Saunich's voice...I understood what you were trying to do, but it's possible you know someone or could find someone else to pull it off better. Everything else in this flash was awesome!

[Brawl Funnies [dick 3]]

Nobody wins in this city...not even GOD.

Have patience; as we shall lead by example.

I've been guilty for falling into the trench of unoriginality...or rather, moat...but the difference is found in those who learn from their mistakes.

I say give it time...the fad will be over with, and maybe...just maybe...something will happen to inspire most to try something from themselves. I mean, hell, Hollywood's running out of ideas...it's true, I think they're the one's to blame for degrading the idea of an expanding imagination...the thing is, if they aren't going to set the example, let us.

I think if you look for it you'll find it...unfortunately, that's not difficult to do with the beaten horse that is video game parodies on this site, and again, I'm guilty by one account...but y'know...behold the turtle, it makes progress by sticking out it's neck and all that.

Chin-up...the message was delivered well enough through the other two Brawl Funnies, and I read it loud and clear the first time. :D

(reading back on this review, I hope it's coherent enough to convey my point; I've been up for hours actually...and I'm taking a break animating. Please understand. lol)

dreftclub responds:

A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".

Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".

I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?

I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.

Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.

I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.

Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.

But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.

I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.

I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.

People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.

For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.

Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important