Xiphon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ecopoiesis]

Well put together

But you already knew I thought that.

I was intrigued by this video from the day you showed me the original animatic for it.
I'll still remember thinking about all the crazy ways you could animate plants growing, and than you said 'Oh i'm just gonna shape tween a lot of it" and i was like, "oh... well that's not exciting!!"

Still a very good piece of work though. I always particularly liked the outer space sequences. (and the individually animated parachute strings! GOOD GOD)

And as to the reviewers, i'm surprised, I read through the lot expecting more bible thumpers going nuts. Although the guy who said this movie was certainly a metephor for sex was pretty entertaining. I saved that review to look at again in later days!

th1rt3en responds:

Haha, yeah, he was a troll, but that was an entertaining review nonetheless! I remember you talking about your own interpretation of how to show/animate this overall idea; I think it'd be cool if you did it and see how different it is.

[Melbourne shuffle stick]

a few things

the flow behind your animation isn't bad. This flash at least keeps up a good rythm, once it gets going.

Things you'll want to steer clear of is long openings, the time it took to read out all the title stuff and flash the letters was almost as long as the rest of the cartoon, which isn't good. Things like that are going to get people to turn the flash off before it even really gets rolling.

Also, work on your backgrounds!

Tuggieman responds:

Backgrounds are not to be seen directly, only the stick guys. and I had to put in a long intro because of the music. the part where the red stick man was dancing, that is when I put details in the background.

I usually wouldn't submit flash in newgrounds, but I need someone to critique my work.

But overall, I understand and will consider it. thank you.

[Tendril]

ok but overdone,

i've never made something like this myself, so i'm not sure how difficult they might be to do, but there's a LOT of fbf randomness videos out there and in the end they're all pretty much the same. not bad though, i mean, it's smooth and flows well enough.

also, to fix the white screen thing, you need to have a pre-loader loader. basically, just a single image at the very start of the film that pops up before the actual preloader, if i'm right. it's been a while since i've had to make use of something like that, but it should take over the blank white screen that makes people think it's broken

ScelesticFish responds:

Yea i guess that's fair enough. I have a preloader, but there's a chance it's messed up...
hmmmm

[Incredible Saga]

Well,

I thought this was fairly masterful, I don't want to spoil the true fun of it for anyone else, but it caught me totally offguard!

cyberen responds:

15 miles to the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEE SHAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

[1up Clock Saves Everybody]

Well,

It's got some pretty nasty horrible graphics, but I think it's funny as hell to listen to this thing. To bad the score is so low lol

LD1984 responds:

It took me hours to draw that fork. :(

[Little Less Conversation]

Yah this was good

Anyone who knows me knows I hate music colab movies, but I did enjoy this one, and it's going in my favorites.

Cognrats to all of you, you won me over.

Most of it was fairly dazzling, and fun to watch. not a lot of meaningless things going on, and not very repetitive either. like riding a roller coaster really.

Wonchop responds:

thanks. it's nice to wow the non-believers once in a while.

[Sugar & Spice]

Not bad Graphics,

Ease the trees in instead of out though, (Coming from someone whos messed around with 3-d flying around in flash), things move slower if they are further away, and faster up close. Also, you might want to add more stuff moving past, cause just a couple trees gets old.

edelion responds:

I was thinking about that. THanKs. and as for the moving advice. thanks again because it did look odd to me. looks like i got my work cut out for me.

[Luke's Double Feature]

haha! well...

I really should talk to you sometime, your one of my favorite authors, but not because you have insane animation with 3-d effects and everything, but because you know how to make people laugh without getting into all that garbage. It's sad nowadays how people think that all entertainment should be a bunch of flying terrificness, pardon my gibberish, but I digres.

I liked this movie a lot, Amazingly, I like the year old one better than the bubble one, I would ask that you do those RIGHT NOW for my viewing pleasure, but as an artist myself who hasn't released anything since christmas (embarrasingly) I probably shouldn't say anything.

Awaiting your command...

LD1984 responds:

Charge!

[FFVI:The Time Before P-1]

Not bad

Your going to want to make the people fade out when they pass through a door, like it does in most games, and make a blue box around the text or something like it does in final fantasy, and if you could (It'd take a lot of time but would look nice) make the text scroll out like it does in most games.

Another fancy trick I just learned, increase the FPS (Frames per second) of your movies. (to do it, just go into Modify and than Click document. In the window that appears, change the frame rate to something higher. 18 is pretty good, 24 works to unless you've got a lot of animation, where the program might crash. If you do this to an existing movie, the speed of everything will increase and be off-key, but you can work to fix it if you want. It's best to just do it from the start or not at all).

On a side note, stop insulting people who give you bad reviews, if they're idiots, let them be idiots. Anyone who has children knows that shouting at them doesn't usually help in the long run. Besides, you know your better than them anyway right?

keep up the work.

DanyLaporte responds:

Thx alot of the comment...Im gonna take all what uve told me in note and gonna make my second movie 10 times better :
Still thx alot for taking ur time wirting this comment :D

[The Lost .Fla]

HA!

You really need to tell me when you make new flash movies, I didn't even notice it was there till had the award in your profile. This was terrific though, I admit I laughed my fair share of laughs at this.

(On a side note, did you see my christmas movie that got into the collection this year? And I'm really jumpin around about my next movie, cause it's a blast. Anyway, see you around)

KillMoochie responds:

oooo sorry i didnt get back to you Gandoof! I went away for my summer holidays and couldnt do any animating. and I did see your christmas animation! LOL!!! it was GREAT!!! Next time i come up with an animation i WILL get back to you, and i'll make sure I have the time to complete it, but right now I have got no ideas...
see you around and happy animating