Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Wiero]

I love how you used multiple camera angles and used plenty of animation poses.

The body parts of your characters in this movie often had the wrong proportions.

The arms sometimes lacked shoulders attaching it to the rest of the body.

Hands would sometimes lack wrists in this movie.

The human has a lot of joints for the fingers, hands, feet, toes, neck, back and head.

These kinda details take a lot of practice to hold together.

You may need to people watch more often.

You could act out the animation poses.

Create more simplified versions of the poses in advanced.

Do whatever is necessary to not only make effective poses but also improve the proportions.

Practice by observing actual people, action figures or something else.

I would advise you to act out each pose and than recreate as a drawing.

Keep making new movies and practice drawing ways to give connecting joints to all the parts.

The actual movie itself while lacking in the graphics department still had entertainment value.

I love the music used for this movie.

The voice acting was nothing too special.

The video itself was very funny.

I enjoyed the silliness of this movie.

Just keep practicing and producing new movies.

You'll improve in the graphics department over time.

-Mightydein

[CMANIM Wrestling]

You created animation using a program for computer generated images.

You put a lot of careful attention into the poses.

You produced some excellent practice animation using a CGI program.

Chitch responds:

Yes, I started out by simply blocking in the poses, so I knew exactly what each character was going to do in the scene. From there, I enabled tweening and cleaned up the animation. I put it through a couple runs of clean up, ensuring to have secondary action where needed.
Thanks for reviewing!

[How to Mayweather]

I love this style of presentation way better.

The subtle subcription button at the end has no adverse effects towards the movie's overall entertainment value.

A lot of the animation used motion tweens and the drawings have lots of detail.

The cameras in the background would also effect the lighting on the characters.

each camera flash is a source of light changing how lights and shadows react.

The characters had expressive faces and many of the poses were great.

The light taps by the black boxer were very funny.

His scared facial expression added a lot to very funny animation pose.

Your work looks pretty interesting so far.

- Mightydein

[Star Seraphs]

I like how you used your own drawing style as a calling card for other possible animations.

I only seen this one cartoon produced by you; However, your chair and thing were drawn in distinct ways.

The short cartoon was pretty stupid in my honest opinion.

But it should have ended before the video attempted to beg for youtube subs.

I don't enjoy youtube videoes including speeches about needing me to subcribe.

I usually feel alienated as an audience member by the author including a long speech about needing me to subcribe.

You could have made an entirely separate video to talk about youtube subs.

The speech at the end felt way out of place.

I seen other youtube videoes show previews of past animations.

Showing previews of past animation at the end will significantly increase subs without alienation of the audience.

Posting your youtube cartoons at newgrounds will increase your fan base.

You selected a great site for getting exposure to your work.

Next time make the section for audience subscription a lot more brief and entertaining.

Simple previews of past cartoons is the most effective way.

The actual cartoon itself had a great drawing style.

The characters had expressive faces.

I like a lot of coloring; However, experimentation with different colored outlines would create different looks.

The shading really makes the coloring look better.

The shadows and light can use a bit more direction by working from clear light sources.

Some of the shadows had no clear light sources.

The backgrounds would also have lights and shadows to blend with the characters.

Shadows are generally difficult because sometimes more thevone light source exists in certain backgrounds.

It takes practice to learn how differences in light will effect the look of your subjects.

Using plenty of shadows does make for a more polished looking cartoon; However, you may need to use less shadows to give more clear direction to shadows.

You can than add more shadows with increasing improvement from past experience.

Don't worry about producing longer movies too much.

It's generally better to create a short awesome movies instead of a lengthy average submission.

Short movies can work most effectively for quick gags.

That short movie was alright.

I just didn't like the long speech encouraging me to subcribe at the end.

Use short previews of past movies instead.

- Mightydein

neitoproductions responds:

Am really sorry that the video may not have made much sense, it was a parody to the Yu-Gi-Oh current metagame, and I do apologize about the last message the only reason why it was there was due to Youtube standards where longer means better, so that's why I added the message with the animation, I just forgot to take it out for Newgrounds, but I do appreciate a lot all of the guidance you gave me with your comment.

[Pokemon Alpha Sapphire/ DirtyChimiChanga]

It's actually really cool that flipnotes was used for creating this animation.

You can still create new animation while you are away from the computer with flipnotes.

Any version of the nintendo DS can be taken anywhere because it is portable device.

You have the luxury of actually observing out door settings while creating new animation using flipnotes.

Flipnotes is an art application that you can easily take with you.

Flash is not portable unless it is installed inside a laptop.

I'm not certain if is possible to create flash animation using your cellphone.

Generally flash animation cannot be created in portable devices such as a cellphone.

The nintendo DS is basically a small computer that can taken anywhere.

You can play games, animate with flipnotes and possibly access the internet using wifi.

You have an amazing animation tool that didn't exist in my own childhood.

I would have appreciated flipnotes existing.

I appreciate flipnotes existence right now.

I can more easily pump out new animation because of flipnotes.

You don't always have access to a computer but a portable gaming device can be used whenever another family member hogs the computer.

The nintendo DS has a built in pen tool to make drawing easily accomplished.

Flipnotes and Nintendo DS were tailor-made for each other.

Drawing with the nintendo DS pen tool is significantly more natural feeling than using a computer mouse.

If you can't afford a tablet for the computer than the nintendo DS already functions as a mini tablet.

You could import your flipnote animations into flash and trace it.

You have an amazing animation tool in your possession with lots of potential.

You have no reason not to use multiple tools for creating different animations.

It's not the actual tools used for creating art but your artistic ability.

The great thing about animation is the endless possibilities to invent strange new worlds.

Anything is possible in cartoons.

Internet animation has an edge against mainstream animation produced for television, movies, ect.

Internet animation has a level of freedom that cannot be offered by television and movies.

You can easily get lots of exposure for your new animations on this website.

I usually received more viewers for my cartoons by posting them to newgrounds instead of youtube.

Flipnotes is a kickass new animation tool for creating internet cartoons.

I noticed you used the latest version of flipnotes.

Flipnotes now has more colors to play around with.

My version of flipnotes has a much more limited ability for adding colors.

I seen red, blue, green and yellow.

I only have an ability to use two colors at a time.

I have a much more limited supply of colors in my nintendo DS.

Your version of the nintendo DS has a lot less limitations.

Don't blame the tool used for the quality of the overall cartoon.

You can train yourself to get better at animation and drawing with experience.

Your voice acting sounds like a young kid.

Being a young kid will give plenty more time to practice your craft and make improvements.

Stick with creating animations and you will have an edge against future rivals.

A lot of internet animators begin in their teenage years or adult years.

Starting from childhood will give you plenty of time for practice.

Take advantage of your youthfulness while you are still young.

The drawings in this movie were very primitive.

The arms were often drawn in stick form.

You also used actual stick figures too.

I liked the poses of a few of those stick figures.

Stick figures generally need strong poses like anything else.

Animation poses are very important.

The quality of the drawings began to decline as the movie continued forward.

You can prevent that problem by only working on the cartoon at certain times.

You want to completely enjoy the process of creating new animation.

You appeared to have the most fun creating the animation at the start.

I noticed a higher attention to details during the early parts of your movie.

You gotta constantly change things up to break up the boredom of creating the same thing.

Take breaks with creating your cartoons and than return after you received a renewal of energy.

You can't force yourself to create new art.

You'll create new stuff whenever you want to.

Creating will simply come naturally to you.

I didn't like your movie to be completely honest with you.

I still awarded you with extra points because you selected an extremely good animation tool.

You just need more practice and soon will be able to more effectively utilize it's potential.

Keep pumping out those new movies.

Ignore those nasty critics because your goal is practice by producing new animation.

You'll gain experience from practice and learn new things.

I hope to provide some useful information for your future animations produced with flipnotes.

Keep drawing and be ready to take on new challenges.

Best of luck to your future endeavours.

- Mightydein

JDoUo responds:

Wow..You are so right It's not the app it's me and my talents that creates the project, reading this made me realize to continue to better myself and work harder on my animations. Thank you dearly for your time. p.s Im teaching myself as I go so thank you for the great criticism. c:

[Trek Yourself]

I was expecting the character designs of this fan flash to be based on the other versions of star trek.

I expected to see another random homage to next generation.

I grew up at a time when next generation was brand new.

I loved the colorful characters of next generation but didn't entirely enjoy that version of star trek.

Sometimes, next generation can be a boring show in my own personal opinion.

I honestly find the 1960's star trek to be a way more entertaining television series.

Both versions of star trek were part of my childhood; However, the original star trek was the better show.

I found more entertainment value in the original 60's version of star trek.

The character designs of your cartoon look like the original cast.

Plenty of reference material to assist with drawing star trek exists.

You have star trek toys, puzzles, cards, dvd's, comic books, ect

The characters have the same chins and jawlines as the original characters themselves.

You were likely drawing the star trek cast while watching repeats.

The drawings were crude; However, a certain sense of observation on the subjects was there.

The details on the enterprise appeared to be accurate to the show.

All details of the enterprise was not included in the show.

This means that certain elements of the ship is completely open to interpretation.

If you can some kinda map to the enterprise than you can make improvements to the ship.

The dance floor for the song could be on the holodeck.

The holodeck actually made it's first appearance on the star trek animated series.

The control panels on the ship could have used a bit more detail in my own personal opinion.

You can't actually visit the enterprise for close observation to draw it.

A lot of extra effort is required to reverse engineer the enterprise.

To draw trees, you visit the forest.

But you can't actually visit the enterprise to carefully observe for drawing.

You have to work from limited reference material to recreate the ship in cartoon form.

You've attempted a lot of animation poses to move the star trek characters in completely original ways.

Star trek obviously took place in the future and modern beastie boys music wouldn't be out of place.

The animation and music worked together to create an entertaining flash movie.

The short music video was a very silly homage to the original star trek.

- Mightydein

[Incident: K3n4m11]

This movie was nothing special in my own personal opinion.

The madness sprites appeared to the same as the original; However, my personal preference is the animator putting their own twist on tributes, parodies, ect

I wonder what kinda twist can be put onto madness.

I seen one well made tribute of madness that utilized frame by frame.

Another madness tribute simply created sprites in their own distinct drawing style.

This madness tribute lacks a certain look to make it stand out.

I like the camera angles.

The music was very cool.

The muzzle flashes used to represent shooting guns looked great.

I like the blood effects.

The movie demonstrates a sense of humor with it's dialogue in the text.

Voice acting would have been a welcome addition.

Text to speech can often be an effective tool for voices.

Sometimes, text to speech programs can be a fast way of adding voices.

You can also get voice acting off of friends, fans, family, ect

Do whatever it takes to get actors for their appropriate roles.

Any kind of voice acting for new submissions is better than none.

You can use either real people or robot voices programs.

Some text to speech programs provide free samples and the robot voice can still be used.

You simply type and than save the resulting audio.

You can also manipulate the pitch of your own voice using audio recording programs.

These audio recording programes can help with getting around the limitations of your own voice.

I've gave tons of suggestions on how to add voice acting.

I hope these suggestions help with future submissions.

Sometimes, voices aren't needed for certain submissions such as a music video for example.

The speech balloon with text is most often appropriate for music video.

You can reduce the need for voice actors by having your characters communicate using body language and facial expression.

It's possible to avoid a language barrier by talking in a visual language.

Animation is a visual language because it is a visual medium.

Sound contributes a lot to a finished animation.

Sound often increases the entertainment value and can often improve a visually ugly movie.

Good sound is extremely important and most of the audience takes sound for granted.

The sound for this movie was good.

It just needed an additional elements of voice acting to breathe life into the characters.

The movie wasn't a music video since sound effects were included.

Voice tracks would have been a welcome addition.

I hope this review provides plenty of useful insight for ways to improve future submissions.

I might enjoy your future submissions more.

Better luck, next time

- Mightydein

[Ghost]

I love the FBF animation.

The poses of the man escaping from the dead ghost mouth looked great and I like the usage of squash and stretch.

The knife flying at the ghost moved too fast.

You sometimes need to slow animation down to make certain movements more easily readable.

The character design of the ghost was a generic Halloween decoration style.

The ghost looked cute.

The outlines of your drawings are black and have a white background.

You went with a very simple look.

It is cool that you have gotten back into creating new animations.

Start creating new movies only when you are having fun and enjoying the process.

If you hate creating new animations than the quality of your work will significantly down grade.

Change mediums and styles if you get bored working on the same thing.

Do whatever is needed to continue enjoying the process of creating new movies.

Have fun and start pumping out those new animations.

Go with the flow and work out those animation as they come naturally.

-Mightydein

[Game Grumps 'Dinkles"]

I'm personally tired of seeing submissions based on game grumps.

With that said; This movie was actually surprisingly funny as a nice change of pace.

I don't normally like these stupid game grump movies; However an exception is being made here.

You selected a piece of audio that was completely unrelated to the subject matter of video games.

A lot of video game references are lost on me and certain gags just don't click with me.

The subject matter of the movie was an unrelated story about a handsome nerd.

This handsome nerd embodied all the stereotypes about nerds with the exception of being attractive to women.

The game grumps seem to be very colorful story tellers and has managed to inspire lots of newgrounds animators.

The story really went off on a wild tangent much like a conversation between two friends trying to make each other laugh.

That sort of conversation usually happens inside the writers room rather than be used an actual script.

The absurdity of the story along with the voice acting added a lot of comedy.

You selected a surprisingly funny bit of games grump audio.

The drawings themselves is the real meat of this submission.

The characters had lots of funny facial expressions contributed plenty of humor.

You used plenty of camera angles with your cartoon.

I love the colors selected for this movie.

The colors were appropriate and carefully selected to give an interesting look.

The default background for most of the movie looked a lot like paper.

That is a very neat effect.

The resulting movie was surprisingly good for a game grumps styled submission.

I was entertained.

-Mightydein

vlaktemaat responds:

Good review! Thnx

[Zelda Sailor Majora's Moon Mask]

These animation poses were excellent.

The animation poses themselves were accurate to sailor moon.

Link and his movements during the transformation looked extremely feminine.

Women generally move in ways entirely distinct from men.

Link's poses mirrored sailor moon to a perfect tea.

I personally find the gag about a male doing a sailor moon transformation to be a played out.

I would even categorize this movie as overrated in honest opinion.

I personally didn't find the movie to be funny; However, the animation had extremely effective poses.

You did an excellent job with working out the poses.

I can easily imagine a lot of repeating viewings of sailor moon just to get the poses working.

You built on top of those poses and replaced the original protagonist with a brand new one.

It takes a real understanding of the poses to add new material on top of your reference material.

This movie was not my cup tea; However, I will acknowledge this bit of animation is high quality.

You watch way too much sailor moon.

Excellent work on those animation poses.

- Mightydein

ArtistGamerGal responds:

Ya, I really can't take too much credit being that I just copied the poses from the original and didn't design the poses or characters but it was fun to see how they looked with a man's body to me ;)

And ya, video game anime crossover parodies are pretty played out but I wasn't really looking to be super original with this one lol. It was really more of a personal challenge to help me get used to using new software since before this animation most things I made were done in Flash and this animation uses a combination of Toon Boom and After Effects for the bulk of the work so it really helped me to learn that new pipeline.