Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fancy Dog: 14]

You can do better

Well, this started off reasonably well, but you've shown in the animation itself that you're capable of moving parts to the animations. Work on improving the intro and losing that "temporary intro" crap would make this a lot better.

Getting Fancy Dog to the moon was the best part of the piece - I like the tween that you put at the back of the craft for the flame. Perhaps a little more in the way of things to see during the flight itself. I think that you've put yourself in a position to develop this a lot further and give the public a much better finished product.

The ending was a little poor, losing out only to giving a badly drawn line image of a dog, that barely did anything. If you thought of other things to do when you're on the moon, then this could certainly improve the plot.

[Review Request Club]

BobtehLog responds:

If you bothered to watch the other episodes, you WOULD OF SEEN THIS IS REALLY A TEMP PRELOADER/INTRO/MENU!!

Ofcourse getting Fancy Dog to the moon was the best piece, it was the goal! And the flame wasn't a tween. It was a fbf.

The ending was perfect, because Fancy Dog gets to the moon. There was a plot, and it was Fancy Dog going to the moon, which we achieved.

Next time you or your buddies in that review request club review a movie that isn't the first in the series, please be sure to watch the previous parts. If you can't be bothered watching them, then don't bother leaving me a review.

[Once When I Was a Kid 4]

Truly bizarre

Well, that's certainly an interesting story that you've told here. I love the way that very few people will use a piece of horn music to portray a piece like you have and you've taken this to the extremes of well designed and indeed of good taste.

I'd certainly try to encourage you to draw your own backgrounds as that's the major thing that lets the productions down, to be honest. It looks good with your own drawings flying across the screen, but it would look even better if the designs were your own.

I think that you've certainly got a gift for writing and this truly does take quite a stroll around the block for abstract qualities of writing, but in order to make it slightly more acceptable to the mainstream, you need to reign that in just a little, which will give you something that more people will appreciate.

[Review Request Club]

tacobuttfish responds:

Thanks for coming back and checking out more of our stuff! Yeah, we started doing the jpeg real life pics in this series when we started it in 2006 and have just stuck with that formula, although we have a few ideas we'll be implementing later to spice things up a bit. Glad you enjoyed it overall, and as always thanks for the informative and constructive criticism. Hope to see you back next time!

-Taco Buttfish.

[Resident Hall Evil]

A very good piece

What a wonderful play on the original Resident Evil game. It takes me back to my teenage years. Thanks guys.

I love how the graphics are largely better than those of the first game - it just shows how far video has come in that time, as well as gaming :P

The few pieces which need a little tweaking are the door animations - the door goes, but the handles don't move with it and the stair animations don't move as if you're going down them, more like a conveyor belt.

Subtitles would have helped here with the vocals, as it's really difficult to understand Jill & Barry... erm, I mean Nick and Corey.

Finally, a little tweak to the ending - it came up and dissappeared too quickly about the character dying. Perhaps have that as the end screen, because it then went straight back to the main play button at the end of the pre-loader.

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

I'm happy you liked it. We messed up a lot in the animations and stuff because it was a lost project. We pretty much gave up on it. As you can tell this was made when there was still snow on the ground. I saw a slow day on the portal and it was a rainy day so I decided to throw some stuff together and submit it.

We never really planned on finishing it, but we still wanted people to see it. It has quite a bit of favorites and fans so I am happy I submitted it.

Thanks man.

[Generic Sprite Flash: 2]

Not bad

It's improving. Slowly in places, but you're getting there, I've got to give you that :P

I think that you could do with working on the sounds of this more - the jingle you play for picking up something is so loud compared to the rest of the sounds that it knocks you back a little. Perhaps make the other sounds a little louder, or just tone this one down a little.

I'd have said that the fireball was the wrong way around. It would act like a comet and have a tail following it, rather than preceding it. Other than that, you've done a decent job and I couldn't spot any errors.

Decent sprite manipulation and a well devised plot line. I'm wondering what the next part might be...

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

Oh shit.. your right about the fire ball... hahaha I'll fix that if I ever make a new submission with it.

I have to work on my sound a lot. I'm not very good at it, so I found a person that would do the songs/sound effects for me next time. It'll be much better. Plus I'm doing voices so I'm going to have and tone the music down a little.

I don't know where I'm going with this either. I'm thinking just another episode or two and then I'm finished with it.

[Yu-Gi-Oh DUB Style]

A little short

I think if you're going to do dubbed movies that you need to get longer pieces and make the writing a lot better.

For me, the next logical step is to start taking these characters and trying to draw them yourself. It will take time, but gradually, you will be able to make a better Yu-Gi-Oh parody if it's something that's been drawn yourself, rather than poor quality video from other sources.

The voice acting was a little quiet and somewhat muffled. Perhaps adding another dimension to the project, by having voices that were vastly different to the original wasn't the way to go, who knows?

All in all, making a piece that is more your own work would be more beneficial to yourself and to the viewers. Increasing the length and possibly searching through lots of relevant fanfics to come up with some ideas will help your writing.

[Review Request Club]

ForNoReason responds:

I appreciate the review. It was in a way an experiment I was doing, and now I can work off of it. Especially with the help/ideas I get from reviews. Which was the main reason I requested help from the RRC. I am happy with the way it came out for the aspect of the steps I am taking to make my next project, and I think once that project comes out it will all come together. I am not trying to throw half assed crap on the portal, not saying you are calling it crap, but instead show a progression of work. Whether or not it will be a success is still up in the air, but I hope this will at least help explain this submission a little more. At any rate, I understand why you might not have enjoyed this movie, but I guess those are the same reasons some people did enjoy this movie.

Also I find the most important thing to do is to first and foremost create things that you enjoy. That's what I did here, and that's why I submitted it. For some strange reason this little experiment made me giggle, and I felt like sharing that, knowing that a lot of people might not exactly enjoy it =p. However this is not the standard I am setting myself too. This is merely a beginning. I hope that with some hard work and long hours/days the quality will improve greatly.

Look at me ranting for no particular reason. Thanks for the review!

[-Monster Mash-]

Weird

I think that this is probably one of the more bizarre movies that I've ever seen on Newgrounds - the animation was quite smooth and well drawn, although there was a little too much emphasis on cock jokes, for my liking.

The piece was a little short and the most annoying part of it was that the music was so quiet through the animation, that the rock tune that comes on for the credits really does blow your mind - possibly it needs a different selection of track for the credits and speak to the author of the track that you used for the movie to get the volume up a little - this seemingly insignificant change will make a huge difference. Perhaps some sound effects as well would show a great benefit.

[Review Request Club]

Voodoo responds:

You can never have too many cock jokes.

[Did You Hear That?]

Inspired Works

What a stellar collection of work.

This truly is a remarkable piece, where you all have exactly the same sound sample to use for your own imagination to run riot. I note that pretty much everyone had the occurrence of the rubber duck for the squeaks. Did you talk to one another about what you were thinking, or did you just get the sound and go your own separate ways to come up with what you could?

While these may not be the best animated pieces that we will ever see, this is most certainly a great way to get a foot in the door, by showing how you can interpret direction and have good fun while making a flash like this.

[Review Request Club]

Graeme responds:

My intentions for organizing this through PM, were a) so people didn't constantly ask for parts, and b) was so that there was no contact with each other, and any similarities in parts came abut coincidentally. That is some of the magic of this particular collab :D

[The Unfinished Pile]

Not bad

This piece is full of potential and some of the parts, I'd love to see you take further - you just need some sort of impetus to push on with these things. If you could find a writer to come up with some good scripts for you, then this would probably give you the drive you need to take this forward.

When the piece got around to 'Warcows' (I'd personally have called it Cows of War, but there you go), I'd have stopped the music, as that made the piece a little busy, with the sound effects of the gunfire and the music clashing. The other piece of musical editing would have been to stop the music when the flash finishes.

I'm looking forward to seeing how some of your pieces work out - I'd love to see the experimental cow get some more airtime, as this was the best part of the piece in my opinion.

[Review Request Club]

Imacow responds:

Thanks, I was a little concerned about the gunshots and the music clashing. It was originally so loud that you couldn't hear the song. I lowed it and I thought it sounded much better.

Cows of War is probably a better name if I ever get around to finishing/remaking it.

I'll be sure to look into finishing the experimental part in the future.