reikiba's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Physics 102]

.... What?

That was interesting animation and the text effects were cool, but the humor was non-existent and I had no idea what the hell was going on.

It's like you randomly stuck a physics tutorial in a clip from a bad mobster movie. The delivery was just flat-out confusing.

deathfun responds:

Well allow me to clarify then.
What I had to do was present details regarding the ride hence the blueprint part. The voice clips of the Russian are also not random, but rather demonstrate how one is feeling before, during, and after the ride. When he says "I am fast" then falls over, it indicates that if one were to get up too quickly from the ride, they would feel that sensation of being tipsy. The part after the Physics equation was simply add-on material to fill in time, so yes. Zero significance and I could see why you couldn't follow it.

As for the humour, some people find certain things funny while others do not. I can not please everyone in that sense

[SSSWarriorCat ep 2 part 3]

hm....

The voice acting needs alot more work than the artwork--though, the artwork could use work.

I can still barely understand Whitestorm. The volume of his voice seems half the volume of anyone else. And the voice actors need to put emotion into their lines. The more monotone they speak, the harder it is to understand. Subtitles would help.

The artwork in the closing credits was much better than the artwork in the animation. During the clan meeting, one of the cats in the crowd looked like a doberman. Lionheart is starting to look ridiculous to me (he reminds me of a pokemon) --but maybe that's just me.

(At one point, I was expecting Lionheart to pick Kit up by the scruff of the neck and present him to the clan while they all roared (or yowled) and "Circle of Life" was playing in the background, but that's another story. But seriously, it would be so easy to make a parody of this.)

Playing music during the dialogue is distracting, even if you keep it down. Even without music to distract me, I have trouble understanding them sometimes. In general, music should be played when there's very little or no dialogue.

I still find the series interesting enough to keep up with. But I'm still deducting a point because I think the author needs to post his own work himself.

wanton360 responds:

ummmm...there are subtitles...and if your so annoyed at the fact he doesn't post his own work, YOU TELL HIM, NOT ME. I see a lot of lionheart = pokemon so it's definitely not just you (I have the same feeling). And there's subtitles so the music shouldn't be annoying.

[SSSWarriorCat ep 2 part 2]

I like it

Overall, I think it's good. I'm giving this a one-point lower score than the first part because of the voice acting. I could barely understand some of Whitestorm's lines because they were so quiet. Someone needs to make sure all the voices are the same volume.

The voice actors need to show more emotion. Some of the lines were delivered like they were reading them for the first time. And Lionheart kept flipping between calling the little orange cat a "him" and a "her".

And I'm subtracting a point again because the author didn't post this himself.

wanton360 responds:

well, once again...there were subtitles so it shouldn't be that hard to understand ;)
voice acting is not that amazing, I know...it's not that easy to find good people, jeez

[SSSWarriorCat ep 2 part 1]

It's a nice animation

Overall it's a good animation. It would really help if the voice actors were better at putting expression in their voice--they don't quite sound bored, but the way they deliver lines is flat compared to the action in the animation.

I subtracted one point because the author didn't post this himself. (I hope no one is surprised. It's in the author's comments.) I feel that authors should stand behind their own work. I can understand getting a distributor for commercial work, but in this case, the author could easily post this.

If authors don't post their own stuff, their work must either not be that important to them or they don't want their work posted here. That's the impression, anyway.

wanton360 responds:

he doesn't want his NG account flooded with the response i guess, and he doesn't like uploaded to NG. I don't really know, but he sent me the files and said upload them where ever so yeah, that's what I did.

[Hatter!]

not bad

It's well done. Very dramatic.

The explanation at the end was unnecessary. If you hadn't said anything, for all anyone knows, this is a finished product--or an animation test or something. Anyway, I think the computerized voice is annoying.

But still, this looks interesting and would be worth expanding on.

NathanDay responds:

Who doesn't hate the computer voice?
I sure don't.
I am rather amused by it.
Anyways, I kinda figured it'd piss people off, so what the heck. I'd rather have it than people complaining to me to expand upo- OH CRAP HERE WE GO

[Generic Ninja Battle]

they're just waiting to get hit

Needs to be more fast-paced. And don't forget secondary action like recoiling from a jump--recoil from any action at that. He didn't even pull his arm back to throw the sword.

I think stick figures are perfectly fine to animate with. It just depends on how well you animate them.

nostalgiccreations responds:

yeah I've never been good at fight scenes...thanks for the advice

[Morpher 2]

better than morpher 1

Turning into all Newgrounds characters was nice. Not as random as Morpher 1. However, the pace is too fast. Morpher needs to stay in each shape a bit longer. Changing colors would also be nice.

Firetalon responds:

I kept it in black to accent the movement. and also, i had a person say that it should faster, so i guess i cant please everybody. I am working on a color animation though, so look for that.

[[KK] Vaporeon]

?????

The opening was kinda good but then you did that stupid animation loop. The loop makes no sense, but even if it did, short loops like that don't look impressive at all.

If you honestly want to make higher scores, learn to animate a figure. At least break apart a character into pieces so you can move around each limb. Even sprite animation would work.

Although, just being a [KK] member is likely to always drag your score down, so you might want to distance yourself from them.

SAK responds:

haha no