Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fast and Furry-ous 8]

This movie used a combination of puppeteer work and stop motion animation.

It's a surprisingly effective way to create movies despite the shortcuts.

Animators often use shortcuts for the purpose of sticking with schedules.

Certain animation shortcuts were created to minimize loss of production quality.

The process of creating animation is an extremely slow process and certain shortcuts can often speed things up.

The strings used for walk cycles were often visible in certain parts of the film.

Hiding strings for special effects is a learned skill.

Lighting conditions effects the visibility of the strings sometimes.

String length also effects the visibility of string effects.

The strings you used were a bit short and needed extra length.

The puppet movie wouldn't be impressive without the additional element of your animation.

The combined effect of puppets and stop motion worked well together.

Create more movies using this interesting visual style.

- Mightydein

[Vete Ala Mierda Capítulo 1]

I don't speak the language used in this movie; However, the voices seemed to work.

The characters each had distinct voices that belong to themselves.

The movie's actual subtitles were contained within the authors comments.

That is actually really helpful.

I would still prefer to see the subtitles added to the actual video.

Perhaps an english dubbed version of this submission would be effective too.

You'll be pleased to know that a lot of english speaking voice actors would be honored to lend their talents to you.

The simple translation in the authors comment also works effectively; However, it ruins the flow of your movie having to check back at the translated text.

The drawings didn't really strike me as particularly great.

The chick in the movie had circle like arms with no hands.

a lot of the animation used motion tweens.

The arms didn't really have connecting joints.

The arms had no shoulders, elbows, forearm or hands.

It didn't really connect to the body itself.

The body has a lot of joints connecting to each other.

The foot alone has a lot of moveable parts inside.

Carefully observe your subject and than practice drawing your subject.

You may actually surprise yourself.

You'll get better in the graphics department with plenty of practice.

I hope this review helps you with future improvement towards better movies.

Best of luck with your next endeavors.

- Mightydein

JoseMance responds:

This text was translated by google translator: Thank you for evaluating the first chapter of the "Vete Ala Mierda" Thanks for your criticism will be worth in the future to improve a little bit each day. On the subject of the characters it is that they are well are styled as South Park, thanks for his criticism! : D

[Blue Mango: Pilot Episode]

This movie was very entertaining.

The drawings for this movie had a simple look with minimal shading.

The actual shading in the colors used shadows with clear light sources.

The shadows applied to the drawings were not arbitrary and random.

The shadows actually made sense with the changes in lighting conditions and environment.

I seen shading in other cartoons that merely add shadows without considering the importance of the direction of light.

I love all the fbf animation used for this submission.

Creating cartoons by using fbf is the most difficult way to do it.

Drawing frame by frame takes a ridiculous level of work.

The work load increases significantly based on how detailed the drawing are.

I love your use of different camera angles.

The soundtrack was subdued and mostly used sound effects.

The sound effects worked effectively as your soundtrack.

Sometimes the most appropriate sound is none.

The audience doesn't need constant noise to grab their attention.

The movie utilized sound very effectively.

In closing; Cool movie that uses lots of fbf animation.

- Mightydein

[EUPHORIA]

That was awesome cartoon with very visually pleasing animation.

I love the animation effects used for the drug induced fantasy in your movie.

The double outlines used during the shroom induced fantasy added a very surreal look to that scene.

One outline has a ghost like effect to it and the other outline is more solid.

The colorfully backgrounds in that drug induced fantasy world were strobe lights, swirls and a series of colorful squares.

That shroom trip was definitely not visually boring.

A lot of the other animation before the cat head ate mushrooms was very strange too.

Some anime chick tried to cast a spell using the cat head.

Cathead kills anime chick by zapping her head off.

I assume the backgrounds were created with a image manipulation program.

The anime influenced chick had some great poses.

The chick seemed to have spoken very incoherently.

I didn't understand a word that she said.

The blood effect on the chick's exploded head appears to be created with photoshop or GIMP.

That decapitation effect can be improved upon by thinking about parts of the head.

What are the parts connecting her head together?

After understanding how to put the parts together than the next step is animation of gory scenes.

You want your gory scenes to look gruesome.

The blood leaving the headless corpse will have lots of blood come out at the start.

Than less blood comes out of the wound progressively until none is left.

Animate gore effects this way and it'll look a lot more polished.

The girl and cat had cute designs.

The lighting effects used for the first section of your movie looked awesome.

You blended flash and digital images from outside programs beautifully.

Your animated short reminds me of those short cartoons produced for the fox network.

This cartoon was much more visually appealing than most animation domination HD animated shorts.

This was a very entertaining thing to watch.

- Mightydein

TheMethRing responds:

WOW lol, I never knew I'd actually get attention on here so fast, thanks for your input. Love you bro, this is also on my youtube channel "TheMethRing" my first video wasnt all that, i only have two my older one and the one you see on here, subscribe if you like, help me out :D. Thanks for the input again lol seriously, made my day kinda.

[Starbomb - Hero of Rhyme]

The song used for the submission had excellent lyrics relevant to lots of Zelda Video-Games.

It was actually a really catchy little tune.

The drawings style looks a bit amateurish; However, the shading in the coloring adds a certain level of polish.

You are still teaching yourself to improve drawing technique.

Your use of gradients in appropriate places demonstrates an understanding of flash.

You've often created gradients for special effects, sky backgrounds, ect.

I like the multiple camera angles and visual variety.

One background had a few fires with some smoke above.

I wish you had created an animation of the smoke moving to utilize with the background.

Unmoving smoke as part of an animation background often looks off putting.

I remember seeing hand painted backgrounds with unmoving smoke in an episode of gundam wing.

The background looked cool except for the unmoving smoke.

The smoke was part of the stationary background instead of creating separate animation cels for smoke.

The unmoving smoke wouldn't look as bad if the background drawings were painted.

The unmoving smoke backgrounds were created in flash.

The background smoke displaying movement will make for more aesthetically pleasing effect.

Even just putting tiny sparks and flames within the unmoving smoke will demonstrate movement.

These tiny sparks don't even need to move outside the boarders of the smoke.

Try to avoid including moving parts within your cartoon backgrounds.

If you do include moving parts in the background than those moving parts need to demonstrate movement.

You can motion tween clouds for some backgrounds.

You can also make a clear sky to eliminate a need for extra work.

Think of creative ways to both cut down on work load and create visually cool graphics.

Animation short cuts are often effective tools used for different reasons.

The shadows can use a bit work.

It is important to know the origins of the light source before adding shadows.

Lights and shadows do make the cartoon look better; However, it's better to use less shadows until lighting is completely understood.

You have to understand how light effects your characters combined with backgrounds.

You also creases of the body and multiple sources of light in some cases.

Application of lights and shadows to drawings can actually be a difficult task.

Practice applying shading with clear direction to future drawings.

The overall music video was entertaining because of the visual variety and music.

Future movies will need a bit of polishing and refinement.

I hope this review provides helpful advice for these kinda improvements.

Make another flash soon.

Best of luck to all yout future endeavours.

- Mightydein

[Fay- The juice]

I've always considered Fay to be a boy that sometimes enjoys dressing up like a girl.

His sex might be more ambiguous to others.

The character of Fay doesn't really follow gender norms and is often a social outcast.

He loves wearing that pink bow to look his best.

Obviously other people around him are gonna ask questions about him.

Fay is an androgynous male that behaves as both brother and sister within his family unit.

His father is an undead corpse and the mother is washing machine robot.

That was my own personal understanding of the overall story based on several Fay movies.

The actual flash being reviewed is based around Fay's androgynous nature.

Most Fay movies don't call attention to Fay's androgynous nature.

The focus is usually more directed towards understanding the character as a living entity.

There is more to Fay than his fashion sense and androgyny.

This movie doesn't actually answer any questions in regards to Fay's sex.

Is Fay a boy or a girl?

This movie simply opts for a silly visual gag instead.

These visuals didn't actually any questions about Fay's true sex.

This movie's only goal was to entertain the audience instead of answering irrelevant questions.

I assume you want the audience to use their imagination and come to their own conclusions.

I enjoyed this silly little short movie.

- Mightydein

[Kids React Parody: Themselves]

I remember watching another Kids react parody on this site.

That video was basically an imaginary scenario about them being shown obscene material.

It was a very funny parody with a high ridiculous concept.

It was titled; "Kids react: 2 Girls 1 Cup"

Your kids react parody has an equally funny premise.

The basic concept is about kids reacting to embarrassing video of themselves.

How did the kids react series manage to show humiliating footage to their kids?

That bit of information is not important for this parody.

What makes the kids react series work is the actual reactions themselves.

The reactions don't really sale the point about the footage being humiliating.

The kids would have adverse reaction about footage of themselves acting foolish.

Two kids basically reacted to their own appearance in the videos.

The other reactions were not relevant towards the footage shown to them.

You basically need to mentally picture how kids would react to certain visual stimuli and sound.

The kids could be confused, perplexed, shocked, angry, out-raged, scarred, offended, ect.

A parody based on kids react would exaggerate these emotions for comedic effect.

The on screen chalk board graphic could use some improvement.

The chalk board is basically nothing more than a green square.

The chalk at the board was a white square.

the eraser was nothing more than black square.

Take the time to observe how an actual chalk board looks and attempt to draw it.

Draw that chalk board to the best of your abilities while carefully observing the details.

You'll surprise yourself by learning that you are better at drawing than previously thought.

You can actually learn a lot about drawing by observing the subject before drawing it.

Eventually you will be able to draw the same subject more easily from memory because of previous experience.

The writing on the chalk board was a bit messy and extremely sloppy.

Straighten out the hand drawn text for more easy readability.

The voices of the kids except for the intro generally did not sound like children.

You can do impressions of children voices, alter the pitch or better yet.

Have younger relatives voice the actual kids themselves.

The characters mostly seemed to have subdued facial expressions.

The one kid reacting to himself being ugly should have much more wild facial expressions.

People often make really funny faces whenever they see an ugly person.

The kid would make a repulsed expression way before mentioning his looks.

The one kid reacting favorably to his appearance had a good pose.

You could enhance that gag by using silly drawings.

He could attempt to flirt with his own video.

Blow a kiss, wink, ect.

The finger clicking pose of that shot worked effectively for that gag.

One kid was confused about how the video was done.

You should play around with the eye shapes and the iris part of the eyes.

The eyes serve as a window the souls of your characters.

Animating a cartoon gives you a chance to really screw around with the eyes.

Play around with the character faces including eyes to breath more emotion into them.

Not only are the voices an actor in your cartoon.

The actual cartoon character themselves are actors too.

The faces of your characters can sometimes do impossible things for expressing emotion.

Your future cartoons can be improved upon by using more exaggeration.

Your future cartoons just need to play around with the character faces for expressing emotion.

Use more exaggeration whenever appropriate.

Carefully observe more details of everyday objects because you might be better at drawing than you think.

Just keep creating new movies and continue with the practice.

You should see some improvement with future movies after taking my advice into consideration.

I hope this review helps you in the future.

Continue drawing and best of luck with your next movies.

-Mightydein

[Lunch Menu: First Gig]

This was a really neat music video with plenty of visual variety.

I love the changes in artistic styles and mediums.

Some of backgrounds appear to be painted by hand.

The animation style of your band reminds me of the same aesthetic as Ka-Blam.

The drawing style reminded me of Ka-Blam for whatever reason.

Perhaps, you were a fan of that cartoon series during childhood or possibly somebody involved with that show.

Your art style will experience an evolutionary transformation as you progressively become a better artist from practice.

All our own art styles start off by inspired by outside influence and than eventually building onto it.

The building material of the art style takes a life of it's own.

That art style than becomes the calling card of that artist.

You already seem to be creating your own distinct drawing style; However, improvement will be seen from increased practice and observation.

Make more cartoons.

- Mightydein

mistagreenbeanz responds:

Hey, thank you!! That really means alot! =D

[Fay - Time for work.]

This movie had a very a perverse sense of humor.

The movie becomes extra funny by having a certain level of familiarity with the other Fay movies.

The blonde guy in the movie sometimes simply puts a pink bow into his hair.

The pink bow usually indicates that he is cross dressing.

The context of the movie still works as a stand alone submission.

I've sometimes seen uncolored gaps where color was supposed to be.

The movie looks a bit rushed in certain spots.

The overall movie still turned out to be entertaining because of it's demented sense of humor.

I'm loving these movies so far.

- Mightydein

willcamick responds:

It was a bit rushed. I hope to take more time on my next one. :) I have had a few people ask about Fay's bow and what is the meaning behind the fact Fay wears it half the time. My answer is Fay is what ever people want Fay to be.

[Illuminati's War Against DanielofDoria Episode1]

You have a good idea for your flash about a hero doing battle against the illuminati ; However, the execution is not very pleasing to the eye.

The movie mostly pasted face graphics onto already existing movie scenes.

I honestly would prefer to see the scenes get recreated in animation form.

You could trace those scenes or simply pay close attention to your reference material.

Most of the newgrounds audience prefers watching animation.

Your movie is more likely to go over well if the footage is converted to animation.

adding fake heads onto live action is a type of animation; However, an additional step of recreating those scenes with complete drawings will create a more polished finished product.

Research into something called Rotoscoping.

Try making another illuminati movie.

Trace the footage, draw it, use action figures, clay, ect

Do whatever is needed to create animation or create your own live action footage.

You can create your own live action footage instead of borrowing the work of others.

It shouldn't be difficult to create prop pyramid masks for the illuminati.

Prop guns can be created from different types of toy guns.

A home made movie would be a lot more funny than altering already existing footage.

The overall movie had a funny concept with potential for craziness.

The movie could have been a whole lot more visually pleasant.

I hope these suggestions help produce better episodes in the future.

Just move onto episode 2 and include a recap summary at the start.

I might like the other episodes better.

Best of luck.

- Mightydein