CrimsonKero's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Infutile]

EDIT: This is actual genuine criticism, what’s with the bad emojis?

This review is dedicated specifically to the animation/visuals.

GOOD:
The characters are simple, yet cute and expressive.

The first-person scene from 0:08 to 0:16 was done frame by frame to emulate 3D. I bet that was difficult to do, but it was done using only outlines and looks really rough.

NEEDS IMPROVEMENTS:
In frames 88-89, the mother switches poses without any in-betweens. She was holding a spoon in the former and not holding it in the latter. Where did it go?

She also lacks lip-syncing (except the 'here comes the airplane' line), which is a good way to indicate if a user is talking.

Outlines are really rough. It's not that noticeable to the human eye when the frame is only visible for 1-2 frames, ie. the baby crawling under the fridge, but people WILL notice it if you stay on that frame for a lot longer, ie. the mother looking at the baby crawl under the fridge (specifically at her neck).
I recommend you attempt to fix these outlines after you've drawn them.

~frog~

[Sierra Reflection]

This is a really simple animation. So simple, I bet I can teach a few beginners how to recreate this.

No, seriously!

Step 1: Draw the girl looking up
Step 2: Redraw about 3 more frames with the hair / clothes distorted in the direction of the wind (which is right in her face), but keep the face still.
Step 3: Every frame switch between these alternate drawings.
Step 4: At random intervals, change the brightness
Step 5: Speed up a video of some clouds and paste that on the background.
Step 6: Steal some music from a SNES game and use that.

Lesson over.

[EOFS - Beach City (Promo)]

I can see a lot of corners were cut in order to achieve even 50 minutes of animation. Characters are usually only shown from the waist up, barely move aside from their eyes and mouth. They're also never use any additional poses. This results in you being able to push this out quicker, but it comes at the cost of quality. About 60-70% of this animation is just talking heads and the rest still don't even animate that well, such as in 16:57, to give an example. Look at how the protagonist jumps. Does it look very janky to you?

I can't comment much on the writing + dialogue, since it's in Portuguese, but thankfully there's subtitles.

SUGGESTIONS:
- 10 minutes is more time than you'll ever need here, so aim for that.
- Try to actually make your characters move.
- Don't reuse the same pose in 20 different scenes.
- I've also noticed an inconsistent outline thickness. If I had to guess it's because the smoothness is set too high. Set it to 40-45

~frog~

TheMiamiDeSantos responds:

thanks homie, really appreciate it

[Putin Dance Party 2]

When FatBadger comes back to Newgrounds and submits not one, but TWO cartoons satirising you; you know you fucked up! That’s what makes FatBadger so funny.

[The Legend of Amber Turd]

You know what's weird, Johnny and Amber both don't lip-sync, but the judge does.
Is this intentional or just inconsistent?

PeePopStudios responds:

It's intentional. They're listening to one of their crazy recorded fights.
I tried to make it more obvious with the subtitles and messing with the audio to sound like it was on the telephone 🤷‍♂️

[Blue Devil // la fiesta]

You know this cartoon is very similar to Killer Bean. Maybe a bit too similar.

Damiazul responds:

Si, de hecho es una copia jaja

[Kero Kero Groove - License to DIE!]

There has been some improvements between this and the last Kero Kero Groove. The girl's voice is still a little annoying, and doesn't match the original, but at least it doesn't sound 'spliced'.

I also saw the version with commercials, which was over 2 minutes longer, and the rest of the animation is 3 minutes, I can see why they were cut, but maybe you could've spared room for just two and it wouldn't cause any pacing issues.

SUGGESTED IDEAS:
Hire @vurb for future episodes. (for music)

~frog~

tofokyo responds:

haha, i'm sorry that you found the girl's voice annoying, the last time I gave her one it was just tts (⌒_⌒;) I don't plan on hiring anyone to help, as I'd much rather just keep to my vision, but I appreciate the suggestion!

[7 GRAND AWESOME (safe for work)]

Joke: This is a parody of '7 Grand Dad', a bootleg Mario game (actually a sprite swapped Flintstones game) made in the style of Egoraptor's 'Awesome' series. If not for the fact there's an actual SiIvaGunner Newgrounds account, I could've sworn this was an official entry in the series. But then again, this is SiIvaGunner, who only does HIGH QUALITY rips, so it's no surprise.

Except this is identical to what's uploaded on YouTube, minus the great gherkin, which for me was the best part.

[The RCR Shorts - 3]

Does this flash even work? How is it still here? Even trying to download this gives a 404 error.

[Intelligent Critique]

This video mocks one specific review, one made by Doktillia on your 'Foany' animation, which predates Dot Dot Dot by a couple of years at least.

Graphics: I've seen Fat Badger as well, and he just throws whatever into his flash and mashes it all together, whereas you keep a consistent, if not surreal art style that doesn't rely too much on existing assets or motion tweens. I'm not saying Fat Badger is better than you, it's more like he primarily focuses on spam.

Style: Germaine talked, but Foamy's voice was gibberish that later goes distorted as he mutates.

Sound: Could be annoying + gay on purpose.

Violence: A maggot crawled out of Foamy's eye and his head turned into a vagina, and that was 'a little violence'.

Interactivity: There are PLAY and REPLAY buttons, that's about it. This was before Movies and Games were split into two categories.

Humor: The joke is that Foamy's face becomes super creepy. I guess Doktillia had a point. I will point out one thing, the movie was short.

I will keep in mind that this was very early in your career and your second animation on Newgrounds, of course it's not going to be refined.

To summarise, what pretty much happened is that a n00b was talking shit to a not-so n00b.