redminus's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Madness: Ascend]

WTF

Concept to execution, definitely the best I've seen so far... so many nice little details and touches, too. Very nice work, sir~!

Pegosho responds:

Thanks bro! I wanted to add even more little details but time was running out haha. Glad you liked it. :D

[Sketchy Friends Dance 2]

LOVE

HOT DAMN has it really been a year since the first one?? Well this one is awesome too. So smooth, so well-timed.
And damn, I know what you mean about it taking longer to animate the better you get :/ YOUR WALK CYCLES ARE THE SHIT.

5/5/ 10/10 faved.

TheBoogley responds:

for a second there I thought you said my walk cycles were shit... :3

[LARRY episode 1]

O FUX

Damn that was intense, masterly use of the blur effect to create perspective and your pans on the crowds to give a feeling of depth were good too, you don't see that much attention to detail very often.
The characters themselves seem quite a bit less polished (pheonix reminded me of the singer of Gorillaz, hah), but I'd still go as far as to say that the amount of detail and effects used is pushing the boundaries of Flash in general. And an impressively small filesize too at only 6.6 megs?!

A year of work totally paid off here... It's almost too bad though because at some points the flash player seemed to chop or lag a little and couldnt keep up with what was going on in the animation :/
tends to be the case with a lot of complicated stuff, have you considered rendering it out as a video and presenting it that way? A little lest purist for people who NEED to see it in flash for whatever reason but it would make the playback a little even across the board, and then everyone would be able to appreciate how much effort you put into all the scenes and environments.

anyways mega GJ
5/5
10/10

Jazza responds:

yea htheres a youtube version but for some reason that has slight lag in a few places but i cant undo that unfortunately :(
thanks for the review :D

[Edwin Ep01]

NICE ONE.

This was a really good, and particularly good being that it's a first episode. The simplicity of the style was made up for by the use of textures on everything, which I really love when it's used tastefully. There's a lot of potential here for a great series, and I really do hope you keep up with it.

Kieran-s responds:

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

[Hoodoos]

crazy styles

You are an FBF machine. The length that this ran at with consistently well-conceived FBF motions was really impressive, I'm compelled to give you a 10 just for that.
For whatever reason, the soundtrack and especially the voicework really reminded me a lot of early Ralph Bakshi stuff, not to mention the subject matter and overall near-1970s-style psychadelic atmosphere.
Really ambitious, to say the least. Nice work.

VillainousTurtleSLC responds:

Thanks I love Ralph Bakshi.

[Losing Track]

Really good

My ONLY complaint was the length, but animating is a painstaking, time-consuming biatch and who am i to presume that this was intended to be an epic feature-lengthfilm fest entry in the first place, so whatever.

The use of color was awesome, I really enjoyed the minimalism in the animation and how it established a real sense of feel with just some sparse audio and small amounts of actual motion. The sky in particular really worked, to me. in some small way it reminded me of Glassy Ocean, which is one of my favorites.

To me, this was all about style and atmosphere. GREAT SUCCESS, SIR

Rutger responds:

Thank you!
I like minimalism. Still I feel a little awkward, since I can see why people complain about the animation. But like you said, it wasn't meant to be a super epic long movie.

[Schmooper-Schmeroes]

amusing

This was awesome, not as smooth and polished as the last one of yours that was up here (cupcake was it?) but as this was for a contest screening time was obviously an issue, and your previous stuff is evidence that you could be capable of cleaning up the rough parts if time were less of an issue. or so is my guess.

excellent concept, i loved how weird alternate forms of the animals were and as usual your style of animating really brought out their characters.

PS, That sounds like an awesome bar if they screen animations once a month.

The few asshats on here complaining that there was no violence or pornography are literally the dumb jocks of the animation world... most of whom don't have the drive, interest or ability to create anything themselves and therefore have no place complaining whatsoever.

TheBoogley responds:

Ah redminus, I just checked out your userpage and love your drawing style :)
You are right about the bar, it's fantastic. Always screening weird locally made short films or music clips, they have an experimental music and video festival on next month! :D

[Squeak]

awesome

a really good showcasing of how flash-based animation has a place outside of the confines of the flash player. I immediately had questions about your process and order of operations, which parts came first and what was trimmed up later etc etc. which is a good thing, i think, because the more questions there are, the better a job you've done at achieving your goal without showing the "seams".
in short, really cool. maximum props.

gene-goldstein responds:

Well, I made an animatic first, which was set to a different song, which you can see in my deviantART gallery. Then I filmed my hand doing stuff while watching the animatic to know when I have to do those motions. It took a few tries to get it close. Then I threw the edited video file into Flash, and animated almost the entire thing frame by frame. Then I put the video file and the swf into After Effects, added sounds, the reflection on the table and tracked the cheese. I did some other stuff, but I don't remember. Then, I simply exported it as an FLV, put it back into flash and added a replay button and such.