Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Snow Wars Introduction]

Not quite there

This isn't the best movie I've ever seen, but then again, it's by no accounts the worst one either. I think that the visual effects that you used over the metal track were poor, to say the least, especially as the movie screed didn't fit in the line "Comes the highly anticipated..." It sets a bad tone for the whole piece.

When it comes to the video, the music was too loud for the voices in places, which really let it down. Personally, I wouldn't waste so much time with producing a lengthy introductory video, that keeps going to a black screen for "directed by", "starring" and all that other stuff. You can get that out of the way in a few minutes. This looks more like a trailer, rather than the first episode. It doesn't really offer much of an introduction - if you were trying to make it look like a movie trailer, get a final frame piece, with a big promotional shot, some great graphics and some things like the traditional billboard print for who's in it and everything.

Still, something to work on, is always good.

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

Yeah in the author comments I mention that it is just a trailer for the movie, but I agree with you this really didn't turn out well. Not in flash at least. Try and watch the youtube version, which is also posted in my author comments and you will notice that the audio and video problems are fixed and it runs much more smoothly.

You can also think of it as an introduction when the other 2 episodes are played right in a row and it runs together quite smoothly. We've decided not to finish this now and you'll just be getting some sprite flashes from me and that's probably about it for the movies that I submit to newgrounds. I'll try to get 5 sprites or so more and then I'll be done.

Thanks for the review.

[SsistedSuicideAnticipatio]

Awesome, but too short

This piece was looking to shape up really nicely and then it ended, which was the major let down if I'm totally honest with you. I think that the animation style was neat, despite the flashing imagery, which might be detrimental to epileptics watching.

I'd love to see you have a go at a piece or two with some plot line behind it, as your animating skills are great, but when they are given a direction to proceed in, I'm sure that they will set the place alight.

Certainly someone to keep a watch out for when the Writers portal is released. I've got soem flash scripts made, but I'm not sure that they would interest you, doing music videos.

[Review Request Club]

EmptyOrange responds:

Thanks for reminding me about the flashing, I put a warning up there now. The shortness of the flash was determined by the song of choice, but ultimately the main focus was to get some more practice.

I am planning on making flash other then music videos but for now this is doing it for me :D I will keep an eye out for your work!

Thank you for the review it is always appreciated

[What All Men Want]

Needs a lot of work

Come on, this is just a slideshow - you should be able to do better than that quite easily. Here's how:

1) Get some sounds. Possibly some sort of female to voice over in a sexy style that makes the joke more believable.

2) Some animation never hurt anyone. Make it like a silhouette, which will give people the impression of oral sex, like you were trying to put across. Fade in the colour, when the guy puts the toothbrush back in the cup after brushing his teeth, for example.

If you do those two relatively simple things, I'm sure your flash would be vastly improved.

[Review Request Club]

[Stickmen Of Arcadia: Ep01]

Funny, but needs work

Well, the jokes on this are pretty good, but I wouldn't say that they're exactly award winning, but it's a nice start. Perhaps a little work is required on the colouring and then again with the voice acting - two people don't make for very good cast if they can't do a good range of voices. I'd certainly suggest a lot more masculine voice for the King next time as well.

Still, there are plenty of voice actors available to the discerning user on Newgrounds :)

I think that with the way you've given us a half-decent flash, you can certainly take this a lot further - the drawing style is nice and can be made to look a lot better for relatively little extra effort. It's good to see that you can poke fun at your own shortcomings, but with that extra effort, I think you would be rewarded far more than like you would be for performing to some sort of Mel Brooks style joke.

[Review Request Club]

LittleBigG responds:

thnx for the tips , Ill work on my flash.

[Butterfly Joke]

Funny, but short

Not a bad little joke, although, it could certainly use some voice acting, to give it that little extra oomph. I love the drawing style, as it's a very well produced piece in that respect, from the drawing of the butterfly and the flowers, but also with the font in the speech bubble, which certain artists overlook.

I'd love to see some more of your work, as you've got the talent to produce bigger and better things, but it's one hell of a start.

[Review Request Club]

zaxbro responds:

I look forward to you reviewing my next work. Thank you very much for you feedback.

[Saturday Morning Watchmen]

Genius!

As a patron of those Saturday morning cartoons that were spinoffs of popular movies or comics of the time, I can certainly see the resemblance. Particularly noted are the references to Scooby Doo and the feeling that this was a mickey take of the early "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" cartoon series theme as well.

This is your calling - making up some sort of tribute to watchmen before it became popular, then adapting to the whole thing, when the movie itself comes out. I'd really love to see you make some sort of spoof episode of this, just to see how it goes. I loved the reference to John giving people cancer as well, it was very well fit in.

If I'd have made any changes, I'd have made Adrian's cat look more like either Cringer from Masters of the Universe or Snarf from Thundercats.

[Review Request Club]

[TOFUZILLA]

Needs to be longer

A nice piece, with a simple, fast moving animation that really does come alive nicely.

I think that you've got that certain penache that is required of animators at this level. It can take the flash to a whole new level. Don't go changing the animation, just make the fights last longer, as this sort of random combat always looks good.

Perhaps emphasise the music and maybe make a music video out of it, for example. You've got a lot of potential and I'd love to see you use it productively.

[Review Request Club]

[:: Achievements ::]

So many achievements, so little time

A highly cunning observation on the way that the world of video gaming works. Fortunately for us all, this only seems to be really prevalent on the Xbox360 and more recently on Newgrounds itself.

Still, some of the achievements are really brain dead - completing the tutorial mission and you can gain a small number of points, which might make you more popular with some sweaty geek elsewhere on this planet.

I love the simplicity of the animation, the classy call backs and of course the perception that Germaine is slowly getting bigger, possibly in order to pacify the fanboys.

[Review Request Club]

[That's Fishing]

Nice work

Did you draw this with paper and pencil and animate it the old fashioned way? The presentation put me in mind of those classic art / animation programs of the early 90s.

A nice little plot and a great piece of silent comedy, if ever I saw one. I love the way that you kept me guessing until the punchline actually came along.

I think that you could work a little on making the animation look a little less rough around the edges, without actually removing from that lovely quality that makes it look quite old, like a secret film made by someone who's now famous.

[Review Request Club]

grabbelfant responds:

Parts are drawn on paper scanned and cleaned in tvpaint. TVpaint is in fact like those classic animation programs of the early 90s. Cool you liked the story. Yeah I could improve the rough edges and some rushed lines. Most of it came because we had a tight deadline. Thanks for the review!

[OLD Tywo At Large Ep. #1]

Nice work

It's good to see how far you've managed to come in a few episodes from your beginnings with this series. The animation is well done, with some great characters thrown in there, to develop the whole plot into more than just a 2-D cartoon.

Great series are built on sturdy foundations. Clearly you have been able to demonstrate this and as a result, this series was well set to do things nicely. Now we've seen the first four episodes of this, I can see that you're going places. The only thing I find a trial is how long between episodes it takes to get them prepared. Perhaps make 3 or 4 episodes and release them once a week, so that people really start to recognise the series and give it the respect it deserves?

[Review Request Club]

Pixmintro responds:

Wow, didn't expect to see you reviewing this! I wish I could do what you're asking but some of these movies take an EXCRUCIATING amount of time to complete. Episode #3 took a solid 10 months and (The REAL) Episode #4 will probably take another 3 or 4. I may start doing short stand-alones more often since they seem to really help... But it's so damn hard to write a 1 minute episode! :P Episode #5's script currently clocks in at 16 minutes! Excellent advice though, thanks.