PenguinLink's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[1 min FBF jam 3]

Smooth Animation Skills

But the lack of length and creativity factor are absent. You have very nice Frame by Frame skills, but use them for a better plot or purpose. These "1 min FBF jams" are conveying your skills of FBF animation, but that's about it. They don't really have a purpose or plot. Of course, it's nice to have some random stuff every now and then but by inputting some kind of storyline or plot it would make the movie more significant and more symbollic to your creativity level. Nice graphics, suitable song for the flash, and a bit interactivity though. Nice job on those factors. Good luck on your future submissions.

[Wilson!]

Needs a little bit more work...

But otherwise, ok! The graphics weren't that good. You could have at least tried to add more detail to Wilson and could at least have shaded him. The blankets of the bed weren't drawn too good niether. The drawing of the man was a bit crummy as well... Animation wise, it was pretty good. But a flaw in the animation was when the tears fell. It looked very crummy. Next time try making it Frame by Frame and a bit more smooth. The sounds clips from the actual movie were heard clear and there wasn't any problem with the sound. This movie was pretty good, but next time try improving your graphics and spiffen up your animation skills. Good luck on your future submissions.

cyber-turnip responds:

Thanks alot for the advice! I've added some basic shading to the toon, I'm definately going to put more effort into the animation of my next work (this one was quite a quick job).

[The Lesson]

Actually...

Pretty good! The graphics were very nice, the narrator's voice suited the animation very well also. The animation was quite good too. Pretty smooth. The only flaw to this movie was the lack of sound effects. The only sound effect there was at the beginning, that of a shotgun. When the teacher was running around the classroom with a sword, you could have included a stabbing sound that would have conveyed the killing. I can understand that maybe the sound effects would had messed the narrator up and you wouldn't have been able to hear him quite well but by adding the sound effects, you could have further elaborated the animation experience. Overall, very nice job on this indeed and good luck on your future submissions.

[Sandwich Flavored Soda]

Not bad...

For your first flash. It seemed that you actually took the time to make something and here it is. The graphics were average, nice shading techniques. The style was average as well, nice use of the blurring technique. The voices were not too good, nor to bad. They were alright. Although, to me, it wasn't quite funny, many other people might find it. Good implication on the word "random" Good luck on your future submissions.

[Weebl and Bob loop]

Nice little loop...

But nothing else. It had nice effects. Using alpha and such. I believe that although it was a loop, it could have had a at least a meaning to it. This was practically you messing around with flash and you came up with this. What you could have done that would have been much better, was to grab all your Weebl and Bob loops or animations and put them all in one flash file. That would have been much better and would have probably gotten a nicer score. Next time, try making something that would at least have some point to it, not just random replications of another person's characters. Good luck on your future submissions.

[Block]

This was great!

It is obvious that you put effort into this animation. It was very well done. The style of the characters, (which were awesome by the way...) were very well done. The storytelling and plot was also great, which just endearly left me to give you a ten for style. Awesome style. What really made this animation shine was the main character's emotions. His emotions were very clear and vivid. Nice job on that. The music fitted the movie very well also. It went well with the sequence of the movie and conveyed the mood of the movie as a whole very well also. The categories (Violence, Interactivity, humor...) scores' are self explainable. Very, very well done. Keep up the good work, and good luck on your future submissons.

[Jazz]

Great Style!

This was great! First of all, everything fitted in nicely with the style of the music. The graphics you used suited the animation very well. Very nice job on that. The music was very good, also. The only flaw I found was that it got a bit repetitive. And the objects or instruments moved a bit slowly. But nonetheless, this was a great animation and a relief from seeing such random and violent stuff the portal brings everyday. Good luck on your future submissions.

[Halloween Runaway]

This is not good...

At all. First of all, practice your drawing skills. The two drawings you had, the pumpkin and the machine thing, are poorly drawn and didn't show any effort. The song you used has been used numerous times now. So it made it seem oversused. What does this have to do with Halloween anyway? Just because it has a pumpkin, it is Halloween related? You need to work a lot on the graphics, plot/storyline, (because it didn't have any) and if circumstances permit, a less overused song. Good luck on your future submissions.

[Why Drugs are Bad]

Where were the improvements?

I remember seeing this in the portal a long time ago, but where were the improvements? And also, you should have made it at least more longer. I'm sorry to say this, but this will probably get blammed. Next time, try improving the walking cycle and the graphics, and the length. Good luck on your future submissions.

Skutieos109 responds:

I dont remeber submitting this before... But anyway, I did change it from when I made it, I made it look a little better and added some better smoke for the cig, and made his words come up after like in real old movies. Thanks for the review.