NewEvolution's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Snail]

Fantastic. Into my favorites.

Your timing was impeccable, and your animation was both kitschy and super smooth. My only critique would be to include some stuff flying by when he's going at super high speed. I realized that the background was completely blurred from the immense speed he was traveling at, but it didn't come across very well since the background was so static. On second thought, a bit of vibration of the background like his shell did while transforming would work wonders.

Nice work. It's funny, and very very well executed.

D-R-P responds:

Thanks!
I was going to add some little globs of goo trailing behind him as he was flying, but I realized that I'm not going to have much time over the next few days to work on it what with midterms and all :(
I haven't been able to finish a cartoon since summer, so I figured I'd just submit it now before I lost interest again. But it's doing quite well, so I'm still happy.

[A Fly's Story]

You need to double or quadruple your framerate

that was like watching cement dry.

Really slow and really choppy...up the frame rate and resubmit.

Eques-Ardor responds:

Choppy? I've heard "smooth" from everyone else...how's your computer?

[This is Your Night]

Awesome lip-synching

Drawings were very basic, but not crappy at all. Your animation is fantastic, what with the cuts between scenes and the blur on panning...you made your characters move like real people. Once you get your drawing skills down to a science, you're going to have some frontpage-worthy flashes.

dookiemoole responds:

thanks alot

[Billy the fish]

Not bad...

But too slow. you could have had that entire thing in about 1/2 to 1/4 of the time. Nor bad, but it just dragged.

MonkFlash responds:

Hmmmmmmmmm well i think it looks better when its slow.... it sorta the goes with the theme...... ya

[Puncher Girl]

Heh...nice

Not bad at all...decent sound, damn good frame by frame animation...relatively humorous. Reminds me of Matt Groening's style (simpsons, futurama etc.). Not bad at all. Hope to see more of your stuff in the portal.

45288 responds:

U should watch my latest movie nobody's listening

[How Would You Feel?]

Damn good.

Heh. What a funny and original point. Those poor poor sprites, all blocky and pixelated in this land of vectored smoothness. =(

I only have 2 suggestions. If you do indeed make a movie in this style again, change the text bubbles to a more cartoony style...white, or another solid color with a same-colored tail/arrow thing. The gradient bubbles clashed both with the text and the style of the rest of the animation. Also, see if you can't put just a touch more work into your editing. Mario's sprite had a rather hefty white outline around it in places, which should be easy to get rid of if you zoom in, since he has all square edges. When the new character walks on screen, the stretchy effect you used to show him walking across the background looked really odd, and not all that good. If you can't get a wider swatch of background to scroll under your moving characters, you can always copy and mirror the background you have and then paste it next to it's mirror. The edges will line up perfectly, and while it may look a little weird, it will look better to scroll that than stretch a too-small background oddly.

Your choice of music was fantastic, especially the techo you used on your production splash screen. I got that song off of mp3.com back in freshman year of college, and it still kicks ass. All around it's a really good movie, and it's going into my favorites. I look forward to seeing some more of your work.

JCastillo responds:

Thanks man. Its the viewers like you that take the time that you just did to help me out in that review, that I make my animations for. I really appreciate the tips you gave me, and the positive feedback you had on my movie. Thanks again!

[Japanese Talent Show]

Heh..so odd I like it

Wow...that was weird. But in a new and interesting way. I dig it. Make some more wacky stuff...in fact, add to this and make it longer. Yeah. Do that.

Wasson responds:

Thanks man

[The Life of This Flash]

Nice...had sound issues though

There were some spots where the sounds stopped and there was a blank space before the new audio kicked in. The zapped into the portal sound wasn't all that great either, but other than that, nice flash. Heh...yeah, it may not be in the "good flash" category, but you certainly didn't provide a "free blam point" like the credits say.

DJRunaway responds:

Wow... Reviewed by the great NewEvolution... I feel honored!

[(2003)Marrie Ecks Mus]

nice

TOX's voice was kind of hummy in the background though. That's the only real issue with an otherwise excellent animation. Nice work, and great cameo.

Knox responds:

yeah we tied him up and had him do the lines at gun point :)

[A Tour]

Utterly fantastic

This is going directly into my favorites list. Excellent job with style, animation, syncing the music, concept EVERYTHING! My only question is what did that guy say in the very beginning when the main char. ran past?

make more.

NegativeTWO responds:

The guy says "Thanks for the super-amazing, flawless copy of Emerge, Paul". It's a sarcastic message to the friend of mine who provided the copy of the song.