Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Once When I Was A Kid SE]

Good joke

A nice set up play, great animation and a twisted, if not entirely wholesome sense of humour.

I think that you've got it set up nicely, but I could see this piece as a part of a whole 2-5 minute episode. It just seems like there's more to the piece than we all saw here.

I think that I'd certainly like to see something more from your work, as it's got a great twist to them, which kind of reminds me of Ren and Stimpy in the animating style, especially with the dangling balls, for some reason.

[Review Request Club]

tacobuttfish responds:

If you check out our collection you can watch Once When I was a Kid 2 and 3 and 4 is coming soon as it's still in the animation process! Glad you enjoyed, and being compared to Ren and Stimpy brings me great joy!

-Taco Buttfish.

[Warthog flash project]

Needs more depth

Okay, so it's a decent start - you've got the art of tracing down nicely, but people do appreciate it when it is your own drawing, rather than something you've roughly copied off someone else.

With regards to the music file that you used, I'd suggest that you make a spot on the information for it - a direct link would be best, but without that, just a credit for it would be good news for the artist who wrote the track.

Finally, you could do with making some sort of plotline, rather than just a few random gags that are funny on their own. If you can tie them together with some conversations between the characters, they become funnier, if you see what I mean.

Still, it's a good start.

[Review Request Club]

Hybrid-Of-Souls responds:

I'll admit, I'm no real artist, and making my own things would probably take a while.

As for the music, I got it off a YTMND (the site itself was also along the lines of an 8-bit halo thing), but wasn't sure of the exact source.

And for plot, I probably would've wished for there to be voices, similar to those that I hear a lot from Xbox live.

Thanks for watching.

[Join The Red Bull Collab!]

A little short

I think this piece could have been a little more explanatory, even though it does convey the message quickly and effectively.

I think that you've got a nice animating style and it does work quite well, with a good advertising tagline that you could certainly take into marketing. Have you considered a career making flash banner adverts?

[Review Request Club]

Vincoid responds:

Thanks man

I would never make banners though :P
I like to make longer animations and would much rather commit myself to a longer project instead of making 5 banners each day :P

[MSLand C3E2]

Interesting

I still don't see why this can't be combined with the first episode - it's far too short, to be honest. What I would suggest is that you go looking in the forums for 'Voice Acting', as your flash really would benefit from a sound or two, like the rumble of the tanks passing by, as well as the voices for everyone in the piece.

I think that a little animation of the tank tracks moving as well would be of enormous benefit to you - it will make the thing look much more realistic and give it a feel that you didn't just loop the animation of the tank driving by four times ;)

I'm not quite sure of the plot at this point, but it is getting a little more clear than it was in part 1, so it looks like you're making progress on that front. Perhaps if you tried to zoom in and spend more time with the drawing aspect, you'd be able to give us something that is a very well ronded project and worth those extra points from me.

[Review Request Club]

Grimasen responds:

Hi, thanks.

[MilkShake Land Ch. 3 Ep 1]

Needs a little work

I think the main bugbear of this flash is the lip-sync issues, where you have moved the mouth once for multisyllabic words. Try looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding how the mouth movements should look. Then animate them with better tweens, as at this point, it's just a straight switch from one shape to another.

However, this flash is on the whole good, but short. It reminds me very much of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, with the way the song sounds. I like the way that you've put it together, but it's not nearly dark and mysterious enough to be in that league. You've got some great potential to make this fun and enjoyable, so please use it :)

[Review Request Club]

[My Zelda Cd-i cutscenes]

Why?

I think that you need to revisit how you animate from square one to make this worthwhile in any way, shape or form.

If you start by re-doing the voice acting - put the mic further from your mouth and don't shout as much, as this will reduce the static interference that you've getting on this part.

With the animation, try zooming in a lot onto the page, so that when you draw, you can maintain a greater degree of control over the pieces. This will allow you to make a smoother looking drawing of the characters and you will find it easier to animate.

Finally, the indication of speech should be by some sort of arrow above the head and not by having the whole character vibrate in a silly manner, as it takes away from the quality of the animation, if that is at all possible. Have you considered subtitles, as I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to say.

[Review Request Club]

[The Many Mario's Collab]

Really nice stuff

A very well organised collab - no particular semblance of a continual plot, but this particular format works nicely anyway. You've all contributed some really nice material, which is original, has made me laugh in places, cringe in others and just stare dumbfounded in the remaining cases.

I think that some of you need to learn the art of proofing - it would just tidy up a few small niggles with your pieces and would make it extra special.

Perhaps a random order for the pieces would be a nice touch or play around with the order a little - there was something about t that juggled the quality for me, using the best material first and everything.

[Review Request Club]

[Old Lady Vs. Chicken]

Terry Gilliam

Was a great animator from Monty Python's Flying Circus. However, this piece lost a lot when you decided to go with the lack of voice acting in this piece. Your original one was a lot better, with a brilliant animation and this one lacked so much in comparison.

Again, it's too short, so try coming up with something more dynamic to stretch the run time of the gag out - think like Monty Python, when you link two sketches together, to make it longer and not seem like it's taking a break from the action.

[Review Request Club]

ForNoReason responds:

Thank you!

[Behind the Flash:Splapp]

A little too long

Not a bad flash, overall, but I think it certainly could have used some cutting, especially around the 'Harry Hill' style jokes, such as the large Cataracts montage - not even the real thing would have been that long.

A little work on your voices would have been appreciated, as we can pretty much hear that you've supplied most of the bulk voices, with maybe 2 or 3 additional voices that sounded different. Voice artists are easy to come by these days and it should be no issue to get the lines from them and added to the flash.

Overall a good animation, but a few small tweaks would have made it even better.

[Review Request Club]

[Precious Little Chicken]

Interesting short

Well, it's certainly something I didn't really expect to start with. I think that your animating style is a very nice, smooth one, where you've concentrated on the simplicity of the art and have left yourself with not a lot of work to do with the manipulation.

The thing that I would certainly change about it is to make the toon longer than the credits, as it doesn't seem to work very well with the credits being almost 3 times longer than the actual piece. Maybe come up with something else from the chicken's point of view - giving one of the females a gift of an old lady's eye, for example? Maybe this wouldn't work, as the chicken should be female, but that can always be worked on.

[Review Request Club]

ForNoReason responds:

I enjoy writing short scripts. I dont know if its my style or if I am lazy lol! Thanks for the review!