Masquatto's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bunnykill 3 Vol.1]

Very well done.

Nice work. It's presented well, with good animation and an enjoyable plot, although it's slightly a rip of madness.

I'd work on your blood a bit. It's good, but it needs a bit more 'splat' to it (with more blood spots that have a spray look, as oppsed to being circular spots of red), and the it aught to be a bit darker. The lightsabers also needed work (you can see very good saber work by searching for NG author OrangeClock and scroll to the movie called "L"), and I thought the gradients on the metal stuff could use a bit of touching up. In addition, butting shadows under the characters would add a nice polish.

All in all, though, it's a very nice movie. Keep it up.

Mottis responds:

I made the blood look crappy like that on purpose. I wanted to have a simple, "cartoonish" look for it, and i think im going to keep it the way it is.

The lightsabers... i know the effects are kinda lame, i saw SW ep3 yesterday and i now remember what makes lightsabers lighsabers. (or lightblades in this case;) ) I will TRY to change the style of the swinging effect in the next one...

The shadows is almost impossible task. I animate fbf, with every bodypart like eyes, hands and everything beeing single objects in one layer and by moving these parts a little bit in each frame. If you have any idea how could i EASILY add shadows for them on to the floor (assuming thats what you meant), contact me.

Thanks!

[OMFG!! Zombies!!!]

I was in it yet again. ^-^

You've really improved. The easing is noticeable, and the overall visual performance is quite nice. Cameo = 10. Fifened.

biblo responds:

Ah thank you very much! You'll be in many more to come!

[Star Wars Gangsta Rap: SE]

The Best Visual Performance on Newgrounds to Date

Let's run down your visual analysis:
+ You certainly have easing down.
+ You understand perspective.
+ Your mouth animation is timed correctly.
+ You have good character layouts.
+ Your animation was overall smooth and well-done.
- You used an excess amount of imported jpg/gif files for a few things (primarily backgrounds).
- You used radial gradients way too much on your character models.
- Your mouth animation could be better. You need to watch yourself saying it in a mirror. Also, if you really want to do it well, you should use a mask and move the teeth under it with motion tweens, and move the tongue underneath with shape tweens. You should also be sure to move the lower jaw whenever his mouth opens more than just a little bit. If you don't feel like doing that, at least remove those lines around the sides of the mouth. They are unnecessary and actually make it look worse.
- You, for some reason, altered the alpha on some of your lines. I don't know why you did this. It's unnecessary, and it would probably look better without that.

You did a very very nice job even with those suggestions. I haven't seen better on newgrounds, fortunately or unfortunately. You deserve #1 on the charts here at newgounrds more than anyone else. Keep up the good job and follow my suggestions and you'll get very far.
Lol... must feel weird: taking advice from a 15 year old like me. :-P

You get my fifen.

Well, I hope you get to read this. Good luck on finishing the full version.

pyropymp responds:

Wow, you have a keen eye! Thanks for the sincere review! The alpha on some of the lines was intended to make some shapes look soft, like the skin, metal glow, etc... but I only discovered to do that half-way, so some of the lines of the alphas remain unchanged, cuz it'd be too much work to go back and change all of them... I know what you are saying about it being unecessary, but I just wanted to try new effects too :P

[Bubble Wrap (clay)]

Nice, very nice indeed.

I'll admit that it was lacking in originality, which docked off a few points on style, but it was still quite funny. The animation was smooth, although I would recommend a smaller window, as to lower file size, and add a sharper picture. Overall, good work, and I look forward to seeing other pieces from you in the future.

Fifened.

~ Masquatto

DrNeroCF responds:

thanks for the feedback, but the movie was already rediculously small, then I expanded it in flash, so that's as low as that filesize is going to go, any worse quality would kill any time there's a lot of motion going on

[Friday the 13th w/ Clocks]

I'm in the movie!!!

It's a very good movie by itself, but the fact that I was in it makes it perfect. ;-)

biblo responds:

Yeah....AND THEN YOU DIED!!!!!

[3D Clocks Slideshow]

I'M IN THE MOVIE!!!

FIFEN FIFEN FIFEN!!!

Very nice graphics, BTW. =D

RenegadeClock responds:

Thanx Masquatto, yours was a pain to make but it came out pretty damn good!

[NG Badger Spoof]

HAHA

Man, the original badge thing totally bored me, but that was funny. Not bad...

halycon responds:

im glad you didnt find it boring... I could watch the original one all day if it didnt go out of sync

[Chao Kids ~Halloween~]

LOL

How old are you? 5?

Skye-McCloud responds:

Actually, I'm 18, but I wanted to create a flash comic series that was about video game characters as children. That meant kid voices, kid bodies, and the whole works.

Hopefully the next episode I make will be better. Hell, it WILL be better. :)