CrimsonKero's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Entertainment is what I seek...]

MEDIOCRE (2 / 5)

NEGATIVES:
- Extremely rough + rushed animation without colour.
- Very few sounds, aside from Chronos's (the man in the top hat) voice. All dialogue aside from him come from text
- Basic ovals and rectangles that makes 1 week look like 1 day.
- No music.

POSITIVES:
- Chronos is drawn a little better than everyone else, although he still seems a little off.
- Has the potential to be a good story if the above negatives were fixed.

INFO:
- 2 minutes long
- No colour, only black and white / couldn't be bothered to use the fill tool

ChronosTimeOverlord responds:

Nearly 7 moths have gone by, but that does not matter. It wasn't made in a week as far as I remember. I storyboarded it for 5-6 days and then made in 1.5 days straight without sleep, so I definitely wasn't thinking straight when animating, but that's kind of an excuse. Happy to infrom that I now animate much better and faster :)

["I'm not built for this trooper!"(Animation Contest Entry)]

OK (3 / 5)
POSITIVE:
- Good animation. Not at all like those monkey NFT images.
- Nice use of dust and explosion effects

NEGATIVE:
- No sound effects, only music.

INFO:
- No description
- Various techniques such as tweening, looping, and stretching are used.
- Just below the 15 second minimum for the contest it was made for.

~frog~

[Cosmic Wonders - "Pioneers" - Ep. 0]

GREAT (4 / 5)

POSITIVES:
- A lot of effort went into the voice acting. Everyone involved did a great job, even if I personally found them to be annoying 10% of the time.
- Great writing that holds on its own, but could be further developed if you carried on with this series.
- Great music.
- Artwork is good, even though it's a little too shiny for my tastes.

NEGATIVES: - Although most of the art is good, rarely any of it is moving, hence the definition of 'movie'. The only thing that does move are the character's lips, but sometimes even those don't move. I did that too when creating longer content and it's an extremely efficient time-saver when done right.
- Around 0:52 there's a scene where six of the characters' heads pop up for 1 whole minute. It's unclear who's supposed to be talking. It doesn't help that all of them move slightly and all at once.

INFO:
- After 8:50 the 'movie' ends, leaving 5 minutes for the outro and credits. It's that long because there's a ton of commentary from the voice actors. Am I watching a pilot episode or a DVD with bonus features? Overall, not counting the intro and the commentary, there was only really seven minutes worth of actual 'movie' in a 14 minute long upload.

~frog~

[Ghost in the Rain]

GOOD (3.5 / 5)

POSITIVES:
- Great lighting
- Great sound effects
- Great 3D modelling
- Great motion

NEGATIVES:
- None

INFO:
- Very simplistic 8 second loop
- The character looks a little rubbery in that light, but that may just be the style used

[Shambles | Operation Javelin]

OK (3 / 5)

An interesting 7 minute long 3D animation telling the story of a space battle between the TXR and Nerion factions.

POSITIVES:
- Ship models look nice, even though they aren't very detailed
- Good writing, topped only by the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Probably where all the focus went.

NEGATIVES:
- Only ships are on-screen for most of the movie, despite a lot of spoken dialogue. I would like to see some more shots with the pilots + crewmembers in them.
- In the few scenes we do see it's only the TXR and are represented as 2D which heavily contrasts against the 3D ships and scenery. They also very static with no motion whatsoever.
Multiple ship models reused
- Voice acting could've been better, but nothing too bad.
- Lighting is not the best.
- May be padded out way longer than it should be.

~frog~

[Repella Fella - Short #2]

GOOD (3.5 / 5) (formerly NOT MUCH (2.5 / 5):

POSITIVE
- Portrays the kind of stuff that I'd expect from a post-apocalyptic story-driven game like the one you want to make.
- Lots of little bits lying around, great attention to detail.

NEGATIVE:
- No audio. You really need that if you want to give a good impression and get people to back your Kickstarter
EDIT: There's now audio. Changing my review.

INFO:
- Very gory. Not for the faint of heart.
- Simplistic lineless vector art style that's no longer ripping off South Park.

~frog~

Philljc responds:

My mistake, I saved it from my Youtube channel and didn't realise the audio didn't get saved with it for some reason. I have since replaced it and confirmed audio to be working, sorry about that!

[Life in the metal mines]

OK (3/5)
A day in the life of a Rodite slave working in a Nerion owned mine. I would never want to work there, unless I was one of those Nerions

POSITIVE:
- Decent frame by frame animation with a ton of new frames. Most of the Nerions are uniquely designed as well.
- Great music that fits well with the setting. Where did you get that?

NEGATIVE:
- No sound effects.
- Jittery motion, especially noticeable on the tunnel walls.

INFO:
- 30 seconds long. Not too padded out.
- Very basic intro + outro title cards
~frog~

IvanPrime93 responds:

1. I made the music on Groove pad it was something that I made a long time ago and decided to use it since I didn't have time to make a new one (and my phone deleted the app without me knowing) It is a free app so try it when you have the time.
2. I wanted to put sound effects when I finished the animation but 1. My whip sound wasn't compatible with Power director 2. I wanted to ad my own sounds for the birds but again time was spent only on what was absolutely needed meaning only the animation.
3. intro/outro was last minute because I was too tired to animate that as well and again not enough time.

[is what it seems 4]

GREAT (4/5):

POSITIVES:
- Interesting concept: Made to believe that the girl is being fucked. Even the turtle believes it.
- Great animation, especially on the turtle
- Approriate (or rather inappropriate) use of sound effects

INFO:
- Text bubbles instead of spoken dialogue.

~frog~

ChuchoZepa responds:

Thanks for your comments, I would have liked to make my animations with spoken dialogues but it is very difficult to get someone to help me, especially with a woman's voice

[The night watch]

OK (3 / 5): (Updated from 3.5 / 5 due to the review being incomplete)
Lacks a lot of substance, but otherwise decently animated.

POSITIVES:
- Good use of shading + lighting
- Good use of sound effects

NEGATIVES:
- Not very funny. Four users said they 'didnt get it', even though it's very clear what's on screen.
The Nerion soldier was picking their nose and tries to eat it while on guard and there was a Rodite hiding in the nearby ammo box. It is very clear that this soldier is completely incompetent at their job. From a story perspective, it doesn't really add much aside from showing that Stormtroopers are much more efficient than these guys.

- Only 22 seconds long. Maybe if there were some more mishaps caused by this buffoon's actions that would be considered more humorous.

INFO:
Not a lot is going on. The nosepicker doesn't move much past its initial pose and the Rodite never has any screen time aside from a few feathers. Maybe we have less of an attention span than this poor Nerion bugger, but I didn't catch it either.
~frog~

[Apple]

GOOD: (3.5 / 5)

Positives:
Very fluent, although rough frame by frame animation of a dog with an apple.
The dog is cute and likeable

Negatives:
No sound
Under 15 seconds

~frog~