MCarsten's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Resistance Is Futile]

Awesome!

I love the song and the animation is really cool. I like when the grape clock foot step the camera and show the clocks with a wire in their foot. Nice job! Keep up the great work!

CorpseGrinderClock responds:

I was really surprised that the grapesclock stepping part turned out looking as good as it did, I used some really lazy animation to make it happen but it just worked really well. Thanks for the kind review!

[Friendship.]

Nice!

The effects were pretty much well done! The animation is really smooth and realistic, like as you can see in the scout's hair, the wind moving the hair, loved it. The menu also had a really nice background, oh not forgetting the awesome gallery. The rain and sounds were perfect, I found a bit of the rain sound weird, it looks like crystals or glass falling not a rain but the thunder was nice. Overall, awesome!

funkycaveman responds:

It seems you liked almost everything! We thank you very much :) We have changed the rain and added some more details.

[Populace]

Nice!

The animation is really random and funny. I liked how it have several scenes in only one random movie. The sounds are nice and the content too, oh and also nice concept. The colors scheme were also well added. My favorite part was the one which the guy starts to talk about the metro scene in cartoon.

funkycaveman responds:

Thanks for the feedback.

[Madness Inflammation]

Goods and bads!

This was a really nice collab, with all the animations/shorts/parts inside it, some of them were pretty good looking really professional, others were more average, while a little of them looks a bit poor.

So the best I think I need to do here is give a commentary for each of the participants of your collab, describing their efforts and giving to it is wrong (if have it).

Also, before I start, I really liked your menu design, with these kind of "sketches" in the background, I also liked the digital buttons you did, when you roll over, it will have a white masked color going through. The author bios were informative, but too short and with little information, this is just like a rogue gallery, not a Biography. The music for the intro and credits were good too, but the smoke effects were glowing A LOT, this give a diffculty to read the texts and also this cammo with the white color, maybe try to do the glows gray or something. Would be cool if you have added a scene gallery/section/selection, for example, if someone really liked someone part, he don't will like to wait everything till the wanted part.

Now officially going to judgement from each scene:
EDGe0wnz -- it was nice with interesting action, I liked how he shoots (I think in a bird). 3~4/5
ZaracaM -- good action in this part, the chaingun fire was pretty good and the enemies coming too, just was a little "stupid" when he looks at the mouse and fall in the ground and say LOL. 3/5
Stemage -- I liked when the gray guys enter the room and the black ones do like a barricade behind the table, was with a lot of action and shooting in this one, turned this animation part pretty good, nice job! 4/5
xCooldude30x -- The blood FX was good, but I think the enemies could act a little fast, they just look to the clown and do as they don't care for his appearence. 3/5
Vogxhamraks -- The graphics and movements were pretty good animated, but I think your parts were slow and a little "repetitive", like in both, Hank looks to a side, fire, and turns to other and shoot. 3/5
Thingthingdude200 -- I liked how you introduced physics and realism in your animation where the bulletholes were nicely done in the guy face and the movements. 4/5
XXblinx -- Good action and nice movements. 3/5
ZaracaM(2) -- The movements were pretty good, was just weird that guy who jumped from nowhere. 3/5
Thingthingdude(2) -- Not so good as the first one, everything seems to be too slow. Was funny when he spit blood hehe. 3/5
xRoadkillx -- one of the more BEST here, physics from the characters, movements, guns, shootings, blood FX everything AMAZING. 5/5
DIMB -- the movements were nice, the shooting too, I also liked that everything happend fast, turning this with more quality. 4/5
EDG(2) -- everything working fast and nice movements and actions, nice! 4/5
Thingthingdude(3) -- Poor, just some seconds of nothing so cool. 1/5
Wyvernhunt -- The sniper costume is awesome, and the shot FX and physics were pretty good. 4/5
Vog(2) -- check first one 2/5
EDG(3) -- good action, running fast and good dynamics. 4~5/5
DIMB(2) -- The bg, lights, FX, alpha, everything AWESOME, the best from all. 5/5
STEMAGE -- Action, running fast, good quality, good fireshots, everything nice. 4~5/5

For the end, where have the flashing lights and some letters through, you could have added beneath the REPLAY button, a BACK TO MENU button, because for who leaved the credits and extras to the end, would like to see there, so add this simple and effort feature.

VOTE 5
3.90 / 5.00 (+ 0.0022)
"Goods and bads!"

~Review Request Club~
Respectfully,
SpyS.

vogxhamraks responds:

oh thanx anyways the second will be much better this is shit

[Meat Collab -Sausage's TV]

Funny but animation should be better!

This submission was pretty funny and addicting, I laughed when in the last channel which the meat changes, and suddenly appear that small potato with funny voice and say "I'm a potato" and get a shot, haha, unexpected! This did a really comedy ending for your movie.

The animation, was good in some times and in others no, for example, the movement of the main meat from him walking and sitting in the sofa changing the channels was O.K., but for the television channels, you really could do it a lot better, the first channel, was just a white background with a tweened bacon and a moving mouth from the girl meat, for the second channel, the background was so simple, but the character's animation was nice and in the last channel, the animation was good then, but you just used a real photo bitmap, so this was weird.

My suggestion for your animation, is turn it better via doing a good background and more specified animation, I mean not just half rotation motion tweenings as the bacon one, you can do it with some camera movements, or stage effects. And I liked your storyboard, was a funny content.

Vote 3
3.33 / 5.00 (- 0.0032)
Score: 6/10
"Funny but animation should be better!"

Respectfully,
SpyS.

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Joeylicious responds:

Thanks!
I know, I could have done a lot more with this, but it is an old flash after all.
I made it 5 months ago as a piece for a collab that died.
I really like the criticism and I'm glad you mildly enjoyed it!
:)

[Annoying Orange: Cartoon!]

Really annoying!

With all respect, this was pretty ridiculous, also annoying as you titled this submission. You could have done some better graphics and what you REALLY need to do, is match the voicetrack with the lip synchronization movement because the voice comes before the animation, also you could have done some kind of a bigger story in this piece, this is just 20 seconds, I think your objective was to create like a comedy short, as this is clearly found in this movie genre, but seriously, this didn't had something funny, and I didn't understand what was to laugh here.

If you're not using the correct framerate, try to set this for 25 frames per second or 30 frames per second, these ones will turn it realistic.

Nothing so much to say here.
Vote 0
1.76 / 5.00 (- 0.018)
Score: 3/10
"Really annoying!"

Try something better next time mate.
Respectfully,
SpyS.

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up-a-notch responds:

thank you...

[U: Marathon Race]

Unexpected Scene

Your animation was really good, but I think your inspiration, was in the Explosm characters, also for the kind of storyboard, because, a lot of they're shorts are unexpected as this was, but this don't remove the enterteining or additcting as this was.

The funny content you placed was really good, and it was pretty funny and I never would suspect, that the water bottle would be some kind of venom, to be seriously, I didn't understand what had inside that bottle, but the zombies coming and I think devour the person, was really really funny and made me laugh a lot, this remember me again from the Explosm cartoon shorts.

Next time, use more creativity.
Nice animation!
Nice job!
In my opnion, you took the kinds of creative from the Explosm guys.
Do more unexpected jokes haha

Vote 4
3.71 / 5.00 (+ 0.00035)
Score: 8/10
"Unexpected Scene"

~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

Blakant responds:

thank you for ur brilliant review man!
Explosm rlly do inspired me, but i nvr intend to duplicate his joke in any way...
If u think i took the kind of creativity from him, I'll take that as a very pleasent compliment since he one of the best author/storyteller in Flash history for me! :D

[The Best Video Game Ever]

Quite boring

The animation looks like it was from 2001 or 2002, they are animated brush paintings, and they're design is not so good, the face from the character are with a lot of details and the body is 3 clicks of brush painting with different colors, but, I liked the animation from the Mortal Combat one where was sprites, I really liked your camera movements on this part. For the sound and audio, I think was really poor, sometimes, like in the Mortal Combat one, when the guy with skull head split fire in the face of the another guy, it didn't produced any sound, it looked like really tricky and false. Also, the guy voices were not so good, and if you pay attention, you can listen like little booms on the microphone sounding. For the story content, I didn't laughed so much, but my favourite was when Vader eat the cheese ball and says "hmmmmm", haha this was good, but for other stuff, was really boring and sometimes annoying to keep watching.

You really need to improve your movie drawings and audio sounding, but this through was good.

~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

DarkMatter responds:

Thanks for taking the time to watch and analyze my flash, keep up the good work.

[TBA -Heroes vs Villains]

Good

Good, I liked it! But sometimes, the animation is half slow and the music does not match.

Comick responds:

Yeah near the end it starts slowing up on frames because I was runing out of time lol. As for the music...well I thought it all fit just right ;p And thanks for the nice review