Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[It's for you (coke spoof)]

Good delivery

Well, the delivery was the best part of this piece, by far. The animation looked decent, but the problem with that was most certainly the limbs, as they looked quite disjointed.

The background and the actual drawing style, I can't really fault, as you've given us a good looking piece in that regard, although some more work with your techniques will certainly pay dividends.

[Review Request Club]

annanas responds:

Thank you very much for the review :D

I will try to improve my limb animations, the more I animate the more I learn.
hopefully my next piece will have better art and animation

Michal

[The Pretenders]

Great punchline

A nice movie, I have to say. Possibly could have done with visual effects to add to what the Pretenders themselves were trying to put across as their imaginations.

"They say that before you die, your life flashes before your eyes." Yes, I know. It's called living.

Still, that aside, you've given a production that at times, I did sadly found a little boring. The plot that you started with worked well, but when it was going through the motions, there seemed to be large parts when all you all you got was minimalist action and just the narrator, which I found a little too monotone in his delivery. Sorry.

The jokes were delivered well and the dead pan acting skills were plain for all to see - how many takes did you guys need not to burst out laughing?

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

Towards the whole laughing comment..

I believe we didn't laugh at this while we were making it at all. We didn't laugh until it was all put together and we watched it.

Recently though we shot Beneath the Sheets 2 (You may remember the first one) and we couldn't stop laughing during many of the scenes. Just laughed so hard that we had to shoot some scene 4 or 5 times in a row so we could do them.

Thanks for the review! Hope to see you reviewing Beneath the Sheets 2.

[Creation.]

An interesting take

Calm, collected and a well devised take on the creation of the universe, or at least the immediate aftermath.

A great use of effects like soft-focus, which helps to aid the softness of the tune. I have to say that I think Moonlight Sonata is a wonderful tune for thus, as is the message that you are conveying with it.

The only real issue that I have is that the piece was sadly too short. Something else could have been added to bring the length of the animation up and give us something that at least lasts a little more of this great tune.

[Review Request Club]

Assios responds:

Thank you :)

[SF Series Episode 2]

Not bad

Good plot, well developed (but slightly too short) fight scenes and a good degree of mystery, setting the piece up for the next episode.

I think that this is a nice piece that certainly a good showcase at how you are with manipulating sprites, but that woman had truly massive thighs - is that really necessary? Probably not your decision, but just an observation I thought I'd share.

When you come to the end of the piece, the fade to a complete black screen needs to be addressed urgently - some sort of credits, or a replay button tend to be the favourite options of choice for flash, to be honest. Perhaps you can experiment with that, or just loop it, which I would think is a bit of a cop-out.

Still, a nice piece, that shows off your skills - the addition of voice acting would be a nice touch, but not entirely necessary, since the subtitles worked, despite them jumping around the screen a lot - personally, I would have preferred a bar at the base of the screen, so the reader doesn't have to concentrate too much to enjoy the piece.

[Review Request Club]

mortis5000 responds:

Thank you, I must admit she does have very large thighs but I believe thats the pants that she is wearing, I wanted to release this as soon as possible so thats why i didnt put any voice acting in it, but I may return back to that formula...for my next episode! Thanks for the review!

[Careers In Chemistry]

About normal

A smooth animation about the follies of the humble Chemistry Professor. I'm sure there will be Canadian robots in the future as well - it's inevitable :P

I can see why Professor Hobsquabble took a career in Chemistry now - will he be making more appearances in future episodes of Tywo at Large? I can certainly imagine how he will get on famously with Tywo and the gang.

I think that this piece lacked the certain panache that can accompany most Chemistry teachers - there were no practical experiments set up, showing how much fun teaching Chemistry can be, as we all know that hazardous chemicals can be fun, as can power tools, both of which I have found in a Chemistry lab over my school career.

[Review Request Club]

Pixmintro responds:

Thanks, I'm not sure if I'm going to bring him back again, this was sort of a spur of the moment, "crap I have do another project" movie. :P I didn't really spend enough time this time thinking my idea up since I was on an insanely tight schedule but I did squander a lot of what I could have done in this movie. Thanks for reviewing though. :)

[Fizz]

Early work

It's good to see how your work has progressed since these early beginnings. You've clearly got the early work for Jimtopia sorted out and then the basic motions and tweens (?) set up ready to work.

Now the addition of a plotline was what was really required and this, while having a touch of a random fight about it, made a few good steps toward achieving that goal, when you brought out a few later pieces.

I'm encouraged by the fact that the animation style has, in essence, remained the same over the past few years, with just the occasional few tweaks, to make the animation look more sophisticated. This gradual shift is one of the major features of your animation that makes your style so instantly recognisable, even after so long.

[Review Request Club]

Jimtopia responds:

Well thanks for the review man, I'm glad that I have a recognizable animation style.

[Generic Sprite Flash: 1]

Hmm, not bad

The generic Legend of Zelda flash returns. We see so many of these and everyone seems to make a similar mistake - please put a play button on the speech, as it can really slow down the flow of the flash, when you've read the text screen and then you have to wait for it to disappear before continuing with the movie.

Perhaps you could also locate these subtitles on a subtitle bar - especially when Link (Sorry, generic hero figure #1) was walking through one of the rooms, a lot of the scenery was obscured by the black box for the subtitles.

A lack of plotline, I'm afraid did detract from the whole production, but other than that, there were the occasional sparks of good work that we've seen from you before. Is this project abandoned, or will you give us episode 2 at some point?

[Review Request Club]

Fro responds:

Sorry abou tthe the speech, but it's going to stay the same. I can't take the time to learn actionscript no matter how simple it is. I can't find time to deposit for my newgrounds account most of the time.

I like the idea of a subtitle bar though. That will be implemented in any future work instead of having the text in the middle of the screen. I have two projects right now where the text is the same, but from now on it's going on the bottom in a subtitle thing.

This is actually going to be a series full of plot and plot twists as soon as I find the time in my everyday life to continue it. The name will actually be quite ironic because by the time the series is over it wont be so generic. That was the point of the name. :P

Thanks for the review. Always welcomed and appreciated.

[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.