Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wegra Adventure 5]

Small improvement

Tell me, do you have Attention Defecit Disorder? You really don't seem to have the patience to work through these projects, which is a little worrying, considering how many of these flash you've created.

I think that you need to work on your drawing style, so that the images of Wegra look the same - it doesn't even give us that at the moment, especially when you can't be bothered to colour in the frames half the time.

I think that some animation is also called for, rather than just sliding the characters around, make them move, so that they appear to be walking, for example.

Please pay attention to these issues, as I'd hate to see you continue with this kind of lousy quality animation, when I believe that you do have the potential to come up with something worthy of being called a decent flash.

[Review Request Club]

[The Dot Of Excellence 6]

Hmm...

Well, this is certainly a flash that needs to have some work - you don't really give us much in the animation stakes, so maybe you need to work on that, with tweeing between points a and b on the storyboard - they just seem to flick around like a slideshow.

At least you've got the voices in this one. I would also ask that you start working on adding lip sync to the project, as it would make it look so much better. Thanks for adding the backgrounds, it gave something less boring to look at, even though they bore little relevance to the story.

[Review Request Club]

["A Slice of the Action"]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

You are either going to be very close to what he's thinking, or you're going to be going the way of most people watching this flash.

Seriously, like a sniper on a rooftop, you don't see it coming until it's hit you. What a great delivery. Who really cares if he's a terrible boyfriend, he's fucking hilarious!

The only thing I'd have done differently, is have Michael wear the pizza boy uniform for when he springs his surprise to get his slice of the action. Great animation, great jokes and overall, a great piece.

[Review Request Club]

[Newgrounds Intro Collab]

Some good, some not so good

A varied collection of Newgrounds idents, I must say. Some of them were really awesome, but I think that there needs to be some rather drastic tweaks on others. Some selections of sounds were horrific, with static dominating the piece, which wouldn't sound good attached to award winning flash.

I'd tend to go for the look of using Newgrounds characters, as they are easily recognisable, which is why Tankmen features so heavily. I would ask why the one author has chosen the drunk from Tankmen 2, instead of Steve to be the Tank driver. It just seems slightly odd.

Of course, there are other NG features and characters you can use for idents - Pico, or the bots for example, as they don't get used as much in NG paraphenalia and the bots ident would be a lovely addition to this collection.

[Review Request Club]

Insanimation responds:

Thanks for the review.

The thing about a bot intro is that they are very hard to draw and animate, whereas Tankmen are easy to draw, and, if assembled correctly, easy to animate.

[Ode to Elevator Music]

Regret?

So what is it that you regret? Do you perhaps regret not having written such a simple song and submitting it to the Audio portal yourself?

I think that you've lost me with this offering, as it could have a great many meanings. The letters in red don't spell out anything that I could make out, so there was no subliminal message. It's a very simple slideshow, that could have been so much more, if for a key component, that was forethought.

I wonder if that is what you regret?

I regret not being able to write anything more positive about this flash.

[Review Request Club]

SprintT responds:

Take what you wish from this peice and scorn me all you like. I applaud. As to what I regret I choose to keep that to my self for it is irelivent to the flash.

[The Dropping Egg Collab]

Nice Easter Egg

Not a bad mini-game, but I think that the animation wasn't the best concept ever - not that I want to take away from your animation skills, but when you came up with the collab, you didn't really think it through enough for my liking.

The main reason that I've got a grudge against the collab, per se, is that there isn't really a plot. It would have been great, if some sort of machine would have caught it, for example, but this time, it was for Easter Eggs and Faberge Eggs (nice touch, by the way)

With a little more forethought on the plot, this could have been such a great flash.

[Review Request Club]

[A new clock!]

It's a start

There are a few bits and pieces that you have performed well - the basics of the animation are straightforward and you've added the sounds of the skateboard well enough to the production.

The only problem is that it's really too short - he does a couple of skate jumps and then gets a large weight dropped on him. You didn't even change the appearance of the clock - just flattened it a little. Why not do some sort of crack down the glass of the face and maybe have a bent hand, to make it look more broken?

[Review Request Club]

sistem69 responds:

As i said i did it in very litle time and fucused more in the animation thanks for the review.

[The Last Hour: Chapter 10]

Marked improvement

Now that we've seen that you're capable of producing good works that have a decent length to them, please keep it up. Don't rest on your laurels, as it's only just begun.

The problem with you making the season 10 episodes long is that now you're in a position of having loose ends which pass across into the second series. Large loose ends like the missing brother don't tend to get left between series on TV, so why do it here?

A little work with the animation never hurt anyone - the pilot looks a little stiff when he walks, so watch people when they walk around the place, to see if you can spot where you're going wrong. It's only minor tweaks, so you're getting there.

The other thing I'd say is that your drawing style has improved over the course of the series. If you can invest in a tablet, I'd seriously reccomend that you do so.

Great work on removing the long intro - it might be something that you decide to put in at the start of each series, for example - kind of in a Star Wars fashion, but suddenly it's asituation where an episode this long actually starts to justify an intro like you had, so think about it.

[Review Request Club]

[Wegra Adventure 4]

What the..?

Well, it's a poor enough animation that simply fails to impress on so many levels. It's a real shame that you can't come up with anything more controlled by now, it really is.

Concentrate on the things that you really could do that would improve your flash so much more - Motion Tweening, for example. There are plenty of tutorials on this site for it, just head to the top of the screen and type Tweening into the search bar - you'll find enough tutorials about it there.

Slow down the flicking through of the subtitles. We can't all read as fast as Johnny 5 from Short Circuit. If it helps, read out what you're going to say and time it, so that you get a rough idea of how long it should stay on screen for.

Try zooming in and decreasing the size of the tool to get better detail with your drawing implement of choice (Mouse or tablet). Hopefully you can learn from what has been said and hopefully we can see some of your better stuff at some point.

[Review Request Club]

Wegra responds:

Lol your icon pretty much explains the review.

[Vault]

Nice joke

Let's face it, this is one of the precursors to the Jim & Pals series as we now know it. Great little joke and it only goes to show how much better your flash are with voices. This one was certainly missing something, aside from the lack of vocal talent.

There's usually something else about the supermarket - usually some other background noise, other than the musac, which was spot on, to be honest. I think that a basic humming noise for the refrigerator and a few noises for the cash register and the door would have added nicely to it.

[Review Request Club]

Jimtopia responds:

Yeah I think you're right this was sort of a Jim and Pals precursor, that had never really occured to me before honestly. And you're right again with your sound effects suggestion, this really would have been improved with the addition of a few sound effects.