Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[Review Request Club]

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.

[Review Request Club]

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! :)

[Edgar N' Locke 06]

Review #927

I've not been into an HMV store and looked at their music for years.... well, maybe not the catagorised music, such as Metal - I tend to go for Rock A-Z and head straight for Alice Cooper. I've only got another 12 of his Albums to buy :P

I heard tell of a certain band that has been taking the guitar hero world by storm would be featuring in this series really soon... When are we going to get to DragonForce?! More importantly, are you going to address how their guitarists can have such long hair and not snag it in the strings?

I like the new feature, though i would like to see people dancing to it, just for shits and giggles.

[Review Request Club]

kinggila responds:

You might see Alice Cooper in metal section instead. Those sort of categorisings are fine, but something like blink-182 in metal section is ridiculous.

Yes, DragonForce shall be featured on an episode of Edgar N' Locke sometime.

People dancing to the solos? Perhaps I could do that on the next episode.

Thanks Coop! :)

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 239]

Nice Tune

Well, I'm going to say the usual complaints about the lack of acting talent in your flash 'movies', vocal or otherwise. Each one is supposed to be a showcase of something new, not a quick trip with the photoshop tool, or flash equivalent.

Elekid? Sounds like this one is due to grow up. Therefore we might actually get a little animation in tomorrow's episode. Still, that's getting old, so why not have the original pokemon scream in agony and split down the middle, 'giving birth' to the new addition to the pokedex?

[Review Request Club]

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Elekid evolves into Electabuzz, which Adolf caught a long time ago, so no evolution tomorrow. :P

[Street Fighter Series pt2]

A few issues, but broadly good

This can certainly show that you've got skills for manipulating sprites and developing a decent plotline. I would suggest a few ammendments, as the few issues that cropped up need to be dealt with before the good plot and animation can be looked at without distraction:

1) Buttons. You've got the play button made as just the letters P,L,A and Y. If you can find a buttons tutorial on NG (There are hundreds), you'll be able to make proper buttons to your liking.

2) Subtitles bar. When Dan talks and the text descends to the second line, it gets lost in the white for a while, so you can't read a few words.

Fix those two issues and consider adding a voice actor or two and you've got yourself a damned good flash.

[Review Request Club]

mortis5000 responds:

Thanks...I like the review request club....you all have the best reviewers on the net...

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 238]

Wierd expression

So has the Smoochum seen a child with his tongue stuck to a lamppost or something? The expression on its face looks like it has been just caught at the most awkward moment possible.

Hitler looks like he's gone through some arts surplus store and has provided us with quite a garish outfit.

We definately need more animation, with the fact that you're knocking these out at a rate of knots, a little more animation can be changed nicely every time, giving a neat little featurette for the flash

[Review Request Club]

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Those are simply lips. :P

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 235]

Hitler invades France... again

The Pokemon looked French, with his beret and paintbrush, so why is is living in Spain?!

Ah, tax evasion purposes, I guess :P

Hitler seemed like he was enjoying himself, but he did get a little carried away with the eyeliner - there are white bits inside on the pokemon :P

Needs animation, possibly Hitler doing a Rolf Harris impression this time, coming up with some sort of facist graffiti, which would obviously offend Jews an possibly Muslims as well,a s they tend to get offended at anything that might just pass as an excuse for a Holy War these days :P

[Review Request Club]

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Those are the eyes.

[5 Hour Challenge #1]

Good foundations

This is a good start to a flash project. It needs more work, but I can see where time and effort has been spent and you give me the impression that you'd be willing to put in the time and effort required to make this good.

I'd suggest that you work on the background, as when the robot walks along the first time, it's all jumpy and awful. I think it might even be moving the wrong way... it does look much better when he runs back, which is great.

Once you've got your animation issues dealt with, I'd suggest that you search the BBS on Newgrounds for Voice Actors, as there are plenty out there and they would be willing to help you for maybe a co-authorship. That would deal with the two major issues, while every time you draw, you will get better at it, although a graphics tablet may be useful.

[Review Request Club]

Cranksta responds:

We have a tablet now, as we are going to frame by frame in the nationals.

Thanks for the review,
-James

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 233]

Lack of imagination

So the creators have run out of inspiration for names at last?! They didn't even make much of an effort to redesign the character, just rounding off the edges.

I think that the disguise could take some more work to make it fit in properly - the nose in particular looked badly drawn, which ruined the effect.

At least this one has the evolution animation, but it's still not enough to satisfy me - we need something like Hitler dressing up in his disguise and producing a nice little twist, such as a duck caller, for example.

[Review Request Club]

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Well it is based on the evolution of technology. :)

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 234]

Oh Dear

Ah, the joys of running through the forest, trying to be avoided by the sharp, bony death passed on by 300lbs of muscle in the form of an angry pokemon.

Give us more animation! The petition is gathering pace, although some of the signatures might be my alts, we will not stop until the series ends or gets some animation. Since that scope is huge, you can come up with so many different things, like a song and dance number for Hitler? Would he like a piece of Rammstein, for example?

[Review Request Club]

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Rammstein suck.