CrimsonKero's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Duke Nukem: Balls of Steel]

You know what would be really funny? What if at the end, he ends up completely demolished EXCEPT his balls.

I'm also giving this a 3.5 because of the short length and that Duke wasn't really animated that much. Plus the whole thing was animated in 24 hours if the end credits are to be believed.

BoredIIDeath responds:

You know if I'd ever do an alt ending, I'd totally do that. And do a quick zoom in on the balls and one of them says "I'm Duke's BALLS OF STEEL".

[The Job Interview]

The outlines, especially around the limbs, look really wobbly and crude.

You seem to be good at this sort of stuff, even if it's heavily stylised, as shown in your Art Portal submissions. It doesn't look like I'm seeing the same type of quality here.

SUGGESTIONS:
I would recommend learning anatomy and cleaning up your drawings. Be careful around drawing outlines. It's OK to undo and try again if you don't get it right the first time.

QUESTIONS:
What software do you use?

~frog~

[Skyward Sword is Forever Wonky]

No lip-syncing, characters don't move. Who in the f*** told you that you's an animator?
At least the character poses are good.

[Legend of Miyamoto]

Last edited Dec 14th 2022

For its time (2008), the animation is really good, and still is. It blends 'traditional' Flash animation with sprite animation in certain areas, with custom Miyamoto sprites in at least three different games.

The Flash sections use very minimal animation, some motion tweens are used, and a few imperfections in the outlines are noticeable, a common problem with Flash movies of the time, but it's still well-shaded.

The music was replaced in May 2022 for copyrighted reasons, (originally the Fatboy Slim song "Gangster Tripping"). Unlike what @LiteraryWho said, it was @Recorped who swapped it out with something more Nintendo themed, although I did consider making an original track (I got lazy).
However, it did still credit the old music, so I hand-drew the new text. That's the only involvment I can claim here outside of a lengthy PM conversation regarding other removed submissions.

Also presumably as a result of being removed for so long, its score of 4.86 managed to get preserved well enough to put it in the top 50 movies of all time, beating out Tarboy and several Madness movies.

[YAAFM 13: Pres. Bush 2]

Even after his presidency ended, Bush continued to be a fucking moron. Yesterday he slipped up Iraq instead of Ukraine.

Anyways, There's a lot more stuff going on this YAAFM compared to others, not just Reginold, Slugger, their hellpit, or that big ol' television.

[What I Ate Today]

So he eats his hand at 0:57, but when he dies at 1:11, his hand is back.

[Easter]

Music pans from right ear to left. Keep it consistent or it's going to get annoying.

DuendeInexistente responds:

Ah! I didn't think sound would do that with a source set to infinite range. Lesson for the next one, then.

[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.