PenguinLink's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[ATHF: The Broodwich]

Nice!

You have greatly improved upon from the time you joined the Sunday Comics and Toons Collab. Ahh, the good old days... Anyway, let's get to the review. You did a pretty good job on this, but there is room for improvement. The graphics, or characters need some working on. Shake could have been added more upon. What I mean is that you could have shaded him and added more details to him. For example, the straw on top of his head was just a stick. Try drawing out the straw and add those thick red and white lines so that it would look much more realistic and would even enhance the character's overall look. Another detail or improvement you could have added was making the characters, especially the characters that were talking, blink. It would have looked great and made the characters look more realistic. Unless, if in the real episode, they didn't blink, then I guess it was ok you left them without blinking. The sound, or in other words, the sound clip from the acutal episode was of good quality and there really wasn't any problem with it. The feature that was really good in your animation was the lip synching. You did a great job on making the lip syncing accurate and it looked really nice on the characters animation wise. Overall next time, work on the graphics or characters a little bit more (The background looked nice by the way), if chances permit try to make it a little bit longer and you'll be much better off. Very nice job on this and keep up the great work!

Summary Points: Average graphics, can be improved upon, Nice Style, Nice crystal clear sound, very great lip synching techniques.

pixelz responds:

LOL the characters were drawn as they are in the show, the scene features a less graphic intensivnessissity to it. Its more of a lip sync test, If your in need of practisiing lip syncing yourself I highly suggest using this clip because of the range of speed in the voices. Thanks for the review.

[DERAILED]

Very nicely done

This was a great animation and was polished excellent as well. It also had a great message that should be taken by every member who uses the BBS often. The graphics were great and I liked the fact that you didn't color them in, which indeed demonstrated your style of the animation. I found this to be extremely original, therefore giving this submission a ten in style. The mix of music was marvelous and it blended very well with the overall effect of the movie. The violence, or in this case, the gory and intestines drawings were very well done and executed. Very nice job on that. I also found this to be quite funny in the way you animated the characters and their somewhat funny expressions they had while they were in the train, or thread, so to speak. This was a great metaphorfic animation portraying how it just takes one user to ruining such a nice, on-going thread, in depth with easy conversation. Very nice job on this, and keep up the awesome work.

Summary Points: Great Graphics, Awesome Style, Great blend of music, very nicely executed violence, actually a bit funny, overall extrememly well done.

[Gabrel]

Nicely done

You did a nice job on this. But some flaws were involved. First of all, the graphics were good, but needed to be improved upon. For example, try drawing the blood more smoothly, or less messy as it is. Try drawing it more like it would look like a puddle of some kind because the method you use to draw it looks somewhat "lacking" and "roughly done". Don't get me wrong, it looks nice, but try drawing it so it looks more realistic in terms of violence. I like the style of this. Found it to be quite original for it to be a stick figure animation. But since there is no storyline, it really deteriates it's value. Why did Gabrel become or why is he a vampire slayer? Who was that woman the vampire was sucking blood off from? Answer these questions and you have yourself a storyline. The music was very nice since it fitted the animation very well. The sound effects were good as well, but I didn't like the obnoxious scream of the woman you inputted. It would have been better if you would have left it out. There was plenty of violence, which is highly common in stick figure animations. Good job on that. Overall, you did an ok job the only thing that would make this submission better would be to add a storyline and make it much more longer. Keep up the good work and good luck on your future submissions.

Summary Points: Good Graphics, Nice Style, Great music and nice sound effects, blood drawn roughly but looked ok, animation lacked storyline. short on length.

[Trapped in the Screen]

Nicely done!

You did a good job on this, but there is room for improvement. The clocks were nicely drawn and animated. I liked the combination you made with the real picture of a background and the animated clocks for the characters. Implementing footstep sound effects as the clocks jumped around was great also. Nice job on that. Excluding the credits, there was a lack of music during the animation. It would have been better if you would have put a decent song for the duration of the movie. In terms of originality, I found it to be quite amusing. It was nice you came up with some ideas of two clocks being stuck on a Flash Program screen. Here are the improvements. You should have gone further with this concept. You could have made it longer and made the clocks try to get out of the screen. For example, you could have made them throw bombs at the sides of the screen, make them run super fast at the sides of the screen in an attempt in breaking out or something. You could have gone way further with this idea. Overall, you did a decent job on this and it would be great if you could further extend this concept. Good luck on your future submissions.

Summary Points: Decent graphics, Nice Style and concept, Nice implemented sound effects and music, mildly amusing, could have gone further with this idea.

SalmonBerryClock responds:

interesting. I was thinking about a continuation, after what a friend of mine said. I like your suggestions, and I think I should have gone a bit longer. Should I continue this, I will start using more interesting music for the background, my only problem with background music is it makes it hard to hear the talking. thanks for the feedback :)

[ORDINARY MAN Ep.1 Ketchup]

Very Original!

This was great! You did a very good job on this. The graphics were great, and were very smoothly animated. You said in your comments that you were going to color them later, but I think the graphics look great as they are. Without color, they look oldish and it adds to your style. In my opinion, you should leave them as they are because to me, they look much better this way. The voice overs were great as well. They sounded professional and suited the characters nicely as well. I also found it to be pretty amusing. Nice job with the original characters and amusing storyline. I believe this will be a great series, and keep up the awesome work.

Summary Points: Good graphics and wonderfully animated, Awesome style, Great storyline and plot, Magnificent voices and highly amusing.

NoComicsComics responds:

Thanks for such a great review. It seems so far from what I have seen that I am getting a positive response to the black and white, so maybe I will leave it that way. Once again, thank you very much, I appreciate your review.

[A Short Film About Ants]

Needs some improvements

This wasn't so bad, but it needs a lot of work. The graphics need to be more polished. Instead of using the paint brush tool, try using the pencil tool or try using the line tool. Reason being is that these tools, if you use them right, will make your graphics look more clean and smoother. I actually didn't get the reason behind this animation. Was it supposed to be random? And also, the ant's legs when it walked didn't move at all. Next time try at least moving them so that it seems like they are walking. The music didn't really suit the animation. The music you inputted fits animations that provide at least some action or violence, or some animation that involves more movement so to speak. There also wasn't any sound effects. When the queen any gave birth to the little ants, you could have put a fart sound of some sort. And at the end, when the ants got squashed, you could have put a squish sound as well. Overall, next time, try to polish more the graphics, put some kind of storyline or plot of some sort, add sound effects, make it much more longer, and it'll be a much more better submission. Good luck on your future projects.

Summary Points: Improve graphics, add a storyline or plot, put sound effects and if chances permit a song more suitable to the animation, make it much more longer.

[The title is too long]

The Music was Great

And so was the animation. The graphics were good. It would have been better if you would have shaded them, but they still looked good nonetheless. You also animated the graphics well, should I say. Good animation techniques. The style was great as well. I have never seen characters like these before, therefore finding them original. This animation was random, not those crappy submissions people submit that they say are random, but the flashes that are random and are animated very well. As the heading of this review says, the music was great. It truly fitted the animation and it was composed well. The only flaw to this is that it is weird. But if it is animated well, I don't really care it's weird or random. Keep up the good work.

Summary Points: Good Graphics, Great Style, Awesome Music, Random and wierd, but nicely animated.

[Thee Marshmello Show]

Work on this a little bit more...

And you'll have a great submission here. As other reviewers have posted, the graphics and animation techniques weren't that bad, but what killed you here was that there wasn't any point to this. First off, there wasn't even a background. At least, try to draw a background because white backgrounds kill you. (Unless that is part of the setting or style) Second, it isn't a very good idea to write the headings or introductions using the mouse. It makes the animation look very unprofessional unless, again, it is part of the style. The music fitted the animation nicely, though. It would also have been great if you would have added sound effects. Such as some kind of squishy sounds or something of that kind. Overall, it's apparent you have some talent in animating and drawing characters so use it well. Next time try drawing a background, put at least some point to it, if chances permit add sound effects, and make it much more longer, and finally give it some kind of plot or storyline. Good luck on your future submissions.

Summary Points: Nice Graphics, Good Style, Suitable music, Not very amusing or funny, too short, no point to it.

[Animated Illustration]

Very Nice Style

You had a great style going on around here. The drawings were drawn and animated very well. Unfortunately, there wasn't any music. It would have been great if you would have added in music. But not any kind of music, but a music that is soothing or realaxing or a type a music you think that fits the animation nicely. It would have been great as well if you would have made it much more longer. With the same style, same graphics, but just a little bit more longer. Overall, on your next edition, try making it much more longer, add relaxing music or music you think fits the animation and the animation will be more awesome than it is. Good luck on your future submissions.

Summary Points: Good Graphics, Awesome Style, No music but next time try to add some, very short, try to improve on length next time as well.

[Billy Meets Santa]

Nice Job

As you said in your comments, it is really short. But it was made rather well. The graphics were drawn and animated well. I liked the snow effect you had here, it looked nice. Although "Santa" was blurred, he was still drawn well. It was nice you blurred him too. I found this to be quite original, because I have never seen Santa look like the way he looked. The music at the start of the animation was nice, since it fitted the theme of Christmas, but the selection of music at the end of the animation was horrible. What does that music have anything to do with Christmas? Was it because the demon-like Santa scard the boy? If that's the case, then I can understand why you chose it but in my opinion it would have been better if you had put a Christmas song instead. Overall, as you said in your comments as well, this was a nice animation considering it was done in two days. Keep up the good work, and good luck on your future submissons.

Summary Points: Good Graphics, Nice Style, Good first selection of music but last song was a bit too random for me, Nice joke/storyline, very short but animatied well.

Locked-Ghost responds:

This has to be the best review i've ever gotten for one of my movies. Your well thought out review makes my holliday complete, and yes it was because santa was kinda demonic, for some reason I had to go with thriller, it was like calling me. In any case I thank you for your review and have a happy holiday!