CrimsonKero's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Elmo & Kermit Start a Podcast]

No animation.

It's a pretty entertaining podcast, or rather it's interesting to see them talk about US presidents' middle names, reusing the characters' iconic quotes in the different context.
Also the 'I'm 42' is pretty much historically accurate. The Elmo muppet was introduced to Sesame Street in 1980, but wasn't fleshed out as much until 1984 and didn't gain popularity until the 90s. This video was released in 2022, so you do the math.

However, actual puppets were used with barely any animation, with one being the letter F and the letter U at the very end.

Graphics: 2 | Style: 5 | Sound: 9 | Writing: 9 | Entertainment: 6 | Humor: 8
Overall Score: 5

[Loop animation, Cheemy. Support my art on patreon.]

There's three titles. You know there's a description. When you submit an animation, there's a "Short Description" and "Author Comments". "Author Comments" is your description, where you can put text (which includes bold and italics), images, and of course links, where you could link your Patreon and also the source for the music you used.

As for the loop, it's a bit choppy, but otherwise it's alright. It uses frame by frame, but the same loop is sped up to do running. Doing a 1 second loop is a whole lot quicker than doing even a 30 second animated short with writing, voice acting, etc, of the same quality. And to save even more time, there's very minimal shading and a patterned background.

Also a bit of irony, hypocrisy, or whatever people want to interpret this as. This animation uses the Cheemy / Bonk / Go to Horny Jail meme, yet you also post NSFW stuff.

[iHATEegg episode1]

I Have Mixed Feelings About Egg!

It's a great subversion to the cutesy family friendly I Love Egg series, complete with gory bloody violence!
The whole premise is there's this grey, evil egg that ends up murdering the rest of the eggs.
However, I will note that the framerate was lower than the original.

Graphics: 8 | Style: 10 |Sound: 6 | Entertainment: 9
Overall Score:

[Ollie & Scoops: Vinnie Video - Cleanup]

Just watch the episode!

This is a compilation of the cleanup shots you did of a 12 minute long Ollie and Scoops episode. Although your work on the show is great, given that it has a huge team of animators and artists and so and so, I really don't recommend posting incomplete packages or demo stuff like this to Newgrounds.

Also I don't know why you aren't coauthored on the episode itself.

EDIT: Newgrounds is more for completed/finished submissions that can stand out on their own.
I've seen some people submit clips from collabs they've worked on, which is fine, but they're all broken up into different segments where one person completes each part from start to finish, backgrounds, characters, and all. They may use external audio, but I won't touch on this, but each part could stand out on its own.

For example, the Half Life Collab from early 2021. Each bit could stand out on its own as a separate submission. This is actually a better example, as each part have a decent run-time and have their own audio + writing. Other collabs may only last for 5-10 seconds and are derived from existing audio, usually the source material if it's a 'reanimated' collab
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/779802

Here, the process is completely different. Many different people work on many different bits at a time, with 11 other cleanup artists, which is pretty much drawing over someone else's rough animation to use in the final product, so I'd hardly call this a finished work.

It's not disallowed, although I would rather you submit your own stuff.

Graphics: 10 | Style: N/A | Sound: N/A | Writing: N/A | Entertainment: N/A | Humor: N/A
Overall Score: 5

MimiScappini responds:

I thought Newgrounds was a place where people can share their work as long as it is animation related.

And, unless someone from the Newgrounds staff itself tells me to stop, I will keep posting my cleanup-freelance work here.

[The Mandela Magazine]

SPOOPY!

This is a parody of 'Mandela Catalogue', specifically volume 1 of an ongoing series,
running at over 7 minutes in length, and subverted for humorous effect (The original is 15 minutes), complete with the big ol' screams you all know Pelo for, of which millions of people across the world will find hilarious.
These screams can be difficult to recreate due to it involving screaming so loud that it hurts. He explains it on his interview with the Newgrounds Podcast. (at 25 minutes in)
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1005176

With some animated bits in between, the first four minutes involve a dialogue between two people, depicted as two images with captions above them. These bits have barely any animation, and although this was based on an audio conversation from the original Mandela Catalogue, it takes up half the movie, about 4 minutes, and then the real fun begins. But that still means a significant amount of effort was put into the movie overall.

There's a guy blowing in the camera at 5:20 and also in 6:20 and also in the outro, a nice recurring little gag and the one gag I remember best out of the whole lot.

Audio's also of high quality throughout the entire video, especially the screams.
~frog~

Graphics: 6 | Style: 10 | Writing: 9 | Sound: 10 | Humor: 8
Overall Score: 8

[Pokemon: World of Chaos 13]

FILLER!

Some of the sprite work, especially backgrounds look blurry and contrast from the sprites, notably the cave where Gym Leader Ryu is fought. Not even Dorkly makes that mistake.

The battles use the Gen 6-7 (and some Gen 8) 3D Pokemon models, pixelated and bilinear filtered, while the UI just looks plain, which contrasts from the Gen 3 style used in the rest of the movie.
In addition, most Trainer battles themselves don't add much to the plot / story or add any humor, such as the battle with Ryu, which goes on for 2 and a half minutes without at least a single dialogue in between (aside from the start and end).
Same deal with Propel, which lasts 2 minutes as well.

There's also two Rocket Grunt battles, though it looks like it's shortened, it still feels too long.
it's best to just skip parts of these battles just to see the outcome and move along.

Overall, it's a total mishmash of styles that don't really blend well, even for sprite movie standards. I'm not asking for something on the same level as Super Mario Bros Z, but at least keep things clean, consistent and keep the viewer engaged.
Aside from that, 20 minutes is impressive for an individual animator, even for a sprite movie, and you've got a good team of voice actors. Just needs ironing out

Graphics: 3 | Style: 5 | Sound: 9 | Writing: 9
Overall Score: 6

teejay-number13 responds:

Thanks for the feedback.

[Scooby Roo & the Ham Sandwich]

I'll write a new review if you post a new cartoon.

The formula is exactly the same, and like I said in 'Scooby Roo', it's been done a dozen times already with little variation. It's gotten stale and easily predictable.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/847803

Here's how you spice things up. Instead of doing ten 20-second Scooby Doo parodies, you do 1 parody that imitates a full Scooby Doo episode with your kangaroo counterpart in place.
That is the following:

1. Mystery Inc drives to a specific location
2. Bad guy shows up
3. Chaos ensues
4. The gang try to stop the threat
5. They set up traps
6. Bad guy falls into trap after some climax
7. Bad guy is unmasked
8. The end

Maybe if you followed through all the way with, this then you can do something creative with the concept. It doesn't have to be super long, around 2-3 minutes will do. You could probably reuse one of the older Scooby Roos and shove that in if it works.

Animation: 9 | Style: 4 | Humor: 6 | Writing: 5
Overall Score: 6.

[Neurotically Yours EP 2 (Audio Comic Book Series)]

Not another comic dub!

This is a comic dub, although you're calling it a 'Comic book with SOUND'. Same thing.

Months ago, I made a thread complaining about uploading comic dubs to Newgrounds. I said that they generally take less time and effort than a regular animation made at a similar skill level. Even less if they didn't create the comic themselves and just used a pre-existing one. As a result, the Movie Guidelines were changed to reflect that.

"Comic Dubs: This is an evolving area. If you are simply adding audio over static images from an existing comic, please refrain from sharing it here. If you have created a motion comic that introduces elements of animation along with audio, you can share it here but only if the artist themselves has an NG account and is co-authored on the piece. Please rate your entry appropriately; this category has been under much scrutiny after several misrated Adult comic dubs won daily awards. Rate your entry Adult if it contains nudity and sexual situations."

while Tom Fulp said:
"Comic Dubs should require the comic artist to be co-authored with an NG account and also require the "Opt out of Awards" box to be checked."

So, how does this Foamy 'Audio Comic' stand up? Well, there's barely any lewd stuff in this, and you pretty much created everything here, the comic itself, the audio, and most of the voices, with some from Dawn, a voice actor you worked with for many years, but I didn't really see a lot of motion.
I assume you've opted out of awards in this episode, since you said you opted out in the first episode:
"Also opting out of awards here on this as I kinda don't feel like it's "animation" or whatever. :P"

Also, I want to point out that you just started doing that when you reposted the old Foamy episodes here from 2018-2020 and got backlash for constant Daily award winning. And with these 'audio comics' skirting past the Guidelines, I could see this getting messy at some point down the line.

Graphics: 4 | Style: 7 | Sound: 10 | Writing: 7 | Humor: 8
Overall Score: 6

[porch]

This won't make you cry!

This is cute and was animated very well, but at the end of the day, this is still a 8 second clip of what I believe is external audio. Pretty much a dime a dozen on YouTube or TikTok and unless it's super viral, you'd most likely forget about it once the next one comes out.

Also:
- The little guy appears to have a face on both sides of their head. And also isn't redrawn.
- Stick arms and legs also saves some extra time when animating.

Not really '4.17 star' material in my opinion In general, anything less than 10 seconds aren't recommended.

Graphics: 7 | Style: 9 | Sound: 6 | Writing: 2 | Humor: 6
Overall: 6

jobaba responds:

based