Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Under My Voodoo]

Not Bad

I quite liked the complete randomness of the instrumental of this song - it really stuck with me. I'd certainly say that you've got talent when it comes to animation and other similar things.

I'd reccomend that you try to zoom in, giving you more control when you are drawing - it would produce a better looking piece of art and the overall effect of the piece would be much more pleasing on the eye.

I'd also reccomend that you lay the black box over the black guy's wang as the last thing in each scene, it looks like you've painted it on badly - make it look like they do in things like cop shows and they black out people's faces. Pure black, perfect angles and the sense of "There's something that we're not allowed to look at behind here"

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Voodoo responds:

I will zoom in next time I make a flash, maybe I'll see an improvement :)

[VZ Series:Naruto V Sasuke]

Nice endings

The one thing that really gets to me with the flash movies of this type is that there is no voice acting. It's such a simple addition and it's easily overlooked. You've put in so much dialogue here that it needs to be read out, rather than forcing the viewer to read it all for themselves.

I like how you've put the subtitles in one place, as it makes it easier to read - now all you need to do is tone down the font you chose for them, as it can be quite difficult to recognise certain letters in a short amount of time.

You've manipulated the sprites quite well and have written a decent plot for it. I would suggest that you have a scene selector, so that you can view the alternative endings, rather than just throwing us back in to watch the rest of the movie over and over again.

I liked the battle effects, with the swirling energy around both Sasuke and Naruto, it worked well with the rest of it and was definately your best piece of animation.

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mortis5000 responds:

Thank You...

[Music Video Collection]

Neither here nor there

I think that you've taken some inspiration from listening to Weird Al's polkas here. The one thing that these do have going for them is that they are remade in his own style. Yours are just snippets of what would be a music video for each individual tune, bearing no relevance to one another.

What I'm trying to say is come up with a proper music video for one of the songs, rather than just doing bits and pieces. The full project would hone your animation skills and would be much more satisfying in the end.

I'd reccomend that you zoom in with the drawing tools more, so that you get better control over your cursor - then with those, you will get some better drawings coming out and thus the animations will look ten times better.

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Assios responds:

Thanks. I'm working on a music video now, for one song.

[3D Animation Test]

Take it further

So we've got the examples of your 3-D rendering of a twin-linked minigun. It doesn't look bad, which is certainly a bonus. That's where it stops, as you need to put it onto a flash so that we can see how it would look, partuicularly when firing and objects or characters are getting filled with hot lead.

Good lateral movement in the bottom left, all gun barrels spin well, but overall, it could do with more depth - both of the context and of the colour scheme.

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[Ng Voicemail #973]

Mmm, McDonalds.

Some of the things you animate are quite disturbing, Will. However, some of the voicemails that Newgrounds receive are more disturbing - clearly we can see this from the actual audio footage.

I wonder why the authorities let people like this into the community. I get the feeling that this might have been his one allowed phone call under police caution, as stranger things have happened before, haven't they.

I like the stick figure for Tom, as the way that the beard doesn't join up to the rest of his hair tends to indicate that he might be causing internal strife with himself by keeping the beard - it seems to have fallen out with the hair on his head. What's next? Tom shaves his head and keeps the beard? Sickening!

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[Cat Face ep.2]

Random Kleptomania

So we're getting better on the plotline front at least. The animation is good as always, but a veteran animator such as yourself should have quite a repetoire in the old flash tools, yes?

Now that we get a better insight into the life of Catface. As he is a cat, he does believe that the entire universe revolves around him and no-one else at all. Now that he has calimed more territory and property, he might just need a bigger place to put it in... either that or some friends to show it off to.

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[Cat Face ep.1]

Quite Random

A rather inauspicious start to the Cat Face series (Didn't you use the graphics from Cold Feet for the title of this series, by the way) with a very random plotline, where the shopkeeper has burst into flames, possibly because Cat Face doesn't like the man.

I would be very scared of the whole cat with a giant head floating down the street, rather than like the children waving to them. The innocence of youth, I suppose.

I'm glad that the future episodes have better plotlines, the fact that i can actually use the hindsight here only leaves me with one question - will you be submitting the other episodes over the next few days, or will you wait months to keep us in eager anticipation?

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[AnalogyOfFrozenSheep Ep 7]

Nice animation

The music was a really nice selection that you've chosen. Quite ecclectic even, but that's what makes it so good with your 'controlled randomness' style of animation. I particularly liked the trumpets from the Reel Big Fish piece, that added a nice spot of colour to the red & white proceedings.

I'm not entirely sure about all of the aspects of the animation, as I can't quite relate to amorphous blobs on a personal level. Maybe it needs more explanation.

How did you produce the background? Did you just scrunch up a piece of paper and scan it into your computer just like that, or did you make it from scratch on Flash?

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FrozenSheep responds:

Yeah, i'm pretty proud of how that decending thrumpets scene turned out.
As for the blobs, i just wanted a medium to utlilise that "delayed shadow" technique I was experimenting with.

Also, Background = Google.
kthxbye.

[Chalk Adventure]

Good, but short

I quite liked your idea of a stop-motion chalk-board animation. It works quite well. I have to say that your musical choice was great, with one problem - with a piece of music that good, you need to really come up with the animation goods to do the piece justice. You've come close, but there are one or two parts that let you down, I'm afraid.

It's too short to really capture the essence of Jurian's awesome piano, sadly. That track is almost 5 minutes long and your movie is about 2 minutes, maximum, with most of it being spent with the writing on the board, which I think deprives us of a well animated production.

The abstract nature is good and the whole image that has been counjured up is nice, but it does seem like you got bored and finished it too soon.

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Graeme responds:

He truely does do BEAUTIFUL piano.
I knew as soon as I started it wouldn't be the whole 5 minutes.
But when doing stop motion, it's hard to measure how long your animation is so far.
I think on my next attempt, I have a much better grasp on these things, and it will be better for sure.

And I didn't get bored, it was just a two day weekend, and I kinda ran out ideas
;)

[Pokemon Bahamut Version]

Intense

This is by far your best flash yet. The plot was developed expertly and the entire epsiode looks well worked, especially when it comes to the additional characters, like Professor Oak.

I wish that Graham would have battled with you, as it would have been fun to see him trying to get you to look at Goatse as your forfeit. What would you have had him do, had you beaten him instead?

I suppose that as a result of your exploding DS, you could always auction off your cheat code card on eBay - maybe someone like Afro_Stud or Trish would buy it and have their hardware explode as well?

Does this herald a new era in Bahamut Animations? You've even got rid of the traditional Bahamut introduction logo, which was interesting, to say the least.

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kinggila responds:

"This is by far your best flash yet."

I'd say so myself. :)

"What would you have had him do, had you beaten him instead?"

KICK BISHOP BRENNAN UP THE ARSE! :D

"you could always auction off your cheat code card on eBay"

The cheat cartridge was wrecked by the DS' explosions. :P

"You've even got rid of the traditional Bahamut introduction logo, which was interesting, to say the least."

No no no no no. The Bahamut introduction logo isn't gone for good. I only removed it on this flash since two intros would have been silly. However, when I start actual improvements on my flashes, maybe then the Bahamut introduction logo will be gone for good.

Thanks for that great review Coop! :)