Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Demo Reel 2015]

Cool little demo reel.

I love how it is both short and demonstrates different aspects of your artistic style.

Many of the drawn cartoons had different types of aesthetics and didn't appear to be made by the same person.

I would have loved to see the titles of each work included.

Information on how to track certain movies down.

You did an excellent job at self promotion with this demo reel.

- Mightydein

[Happy Mother's Day!]

I liked your other submissions better but generally pleased to see new stuff from you.

Now onto the review.

You often leave a few uncolored areas and gaps in a few of your drawings.

I noticed some gaps near the stairways of some the background buildings.

Uncolored areas is a tiny flaw that can be missed by the animator.

That flaw can be fixed with increased close inspection on your drawings.

The movie's gag is about a mother getting her daughter to wakeup.

I personally didn't enjoy the humor of this submission.

The brush strokes will be improved upon with practice.

The character designs were cute and seemed to have a bit of anime influence.

Your art style is already recognizable since your other two movies shared the same aesthetics.

The backgrounds could use a bit of improvement as well.

Take some extra time into observing your surroundings and than draw what you see.

I've once gone to the woods and took portable art supplies to draw trees.

Drawing what you see will significantly improve your drawings.

Generally drawing and animation is a learned skill.

Keep practicing.

- Mightydein

LightningBolt13 responds:

Thank you, Mightydein. I agree with everything you said. This honestly isn't my favorite either, this was extremely rushed and I had limited amount of time to work on this. If I had a bit more time, this wouldn't have turned out so poorly. And the backgrounds will get better.. I'm just not use to them, because most of the animations I've done before Newgrounds have all had blank empty backgrounds and uncolored characters.

[Potion Shop]

The art style for this movie had a simple look in terms of character design and many of the backgrounds looked great.

This movie used less shading than other newgrounds submissions; However, the lighting and shadows were always given clear cut sources.

The coloring was well done.

You used plenty of camera angles and the animation had plenty of great poses.

This was a very good submission.

- Mightydein

[Average churches]

The movie's setting is inside a church.

The red carpet on the floor along with the church styled chairs had an accurate look.

I been inside a few churches and your observations on the inside of a church was surprisingly accurate.

You did a good job on accurately drawing the inside of the church.

The backgrounds still need a bit of improvement since the item holding the body of christ and wine wasn't obvious without close inspection.

I originally assumed that case holding the body of christ was a window with a curtains.

Put more time into drawing each background until it can easily be understood without close inspection.

Your characters were mostly colored white and had black outlines.

You at least avoided leaving uncolored areas and gaps.

You used a bit of shading; However, the shadows lacked clear direction.

A church would have multiple sources of light such as a light bulb, candles and natural light.

You would have to actually visit a church to get completely accurate observation of the location.

That about covers the graphics department aspect of my review.

The sound quality was reasonable quality.

The animation used a few motion tweens and fbf for the mouth flaps.

Nothing spectacular in the animation department.

The real meat of the review is based on the actual entertainment value.

I've often been entertained by unpolished cartoons on this site.

I love the satirical piss take on organized religion.

The movie could be shortened without losing impact of the punchline.

I often noticed a lot of long pauses in this one minute short.

More can happen in a minute than one would think.

I have noted possible areas of improvement for future movies.

This movie was a very silly social satire on organized religion.

- Mightydein

KneeKaps responds:

oh my fuggin gawd you just made my day!!!!!!!!! Alright I'll try to work more on shading and frame by frame animtaion more than classical tweens this is one of my firsts though so I really enjoy your feeling towards it, it gives me some confidence. Also I am kinda bad with background characters. But thank you!! If you ever need me for anything just ask!! cya!

[(MV) Ode To Tanner]

I wouldn't expected to hear a rap song about an NGBBS mod.

I remember when the references in that song weren't outdated.

The rap song has a great sound and the vocalist did some excellent singing.

The art style for this movie has a distinct look that is unmistakable.

The author's art style is highly recognizable.

I love the experimentation in the drawings and the author's willingness to try new things.

The music video often used different types of effects for a variety of looks.

This music video turned out to be an entertaining submission by Livecorpse.

- Mightydein

[Geno]

I love all the paintings used for this submission and how you combined digital art supplies with traditional art supplies.

This movie was kinda neat.

- Mightydein

[Buttocks & Thighs]

I just finished reviewing another live action submission a little while ago.

I honestly prefer to watch animated submissions because of my own general preference for cartoons.

The video's looked very amateurish because of a lack of lighting.

Polished live action is achieved by doing something called, ''Painting with light''

The part with the guy in the shower looked fake because of the digital smoke.

Perhaps, actually turn the hot water on and use water proof protection on the camera.

Always figure out ways to achieve whatever is needed using practical effects.

I like the animation elements used in certain sections.

I still would have preferred to watch an entirely animated short to be honest.

This was a very silly short film and have noted possible areas for future improvement.

I wasn't expecting to review live action.

- Mightydein

Lambtaco responds:

Of course it looks amateurish, I'm an amateur. I know all about key light, and fill light and such, I just don't have any lighting equipment. Honestly, at the level I'm at now, my lighting goals are making sure there's enough to tell what's going on and prevent grainy looking footage.

Obvious green screen is always going to look fake. It's sort of part of the feel of the bit. The smoke I admit isn't perfect, but it's the best asset I had, and I'm not getting my green screen all steamed up in the shower. I decided the look of the blue tiles was more important than steam, and I stand by my decision.

You don't really seem like my audience, so whatevs.

But I find your review style condescending. You come off like a worn out teacher just listing bullet points. I mean you're not making any effort to form paragraphs with a natural flow, and you're barely putting in the effort to write complete sentences. Thus concludes my review of your review.

[Rëëkër "Salirophilia"]

I'm not gonna be an ass about your chosen medium of live action.

All the footage in this movie was your own creation and I will attempt to write constructive criticism like anything else.

A lot of reviews will say stuff about how this video belongs on youtube in a very derogatory fashion.

Newgrounds is generally a good site for getting exposure because every new submission has a judgement phase.

Youtube lacks a judgement phase and the videoes posted are more likely to go unwatched.

Don't listen to those kids saying how your video belongs to youtube instead.

I've often seen stupid speed drawing videoes and all kinds of youtube like content.

If you are actually creating something than it belongs to newgrounds too.

The numa numa videoes were posted on newgrounds before youtube existed.

I've seen plenty of live action submissions posted here.

Now onto the actual review.

The music was some obscure techno song and the visuals did not completely synchronization with the song.

Your chosen medium of live action will make synchronization of sights and sounds to be more difficult.

You can't time images by the standards of frame by frame with live action.

Try to work out the timing by increasing practice of the choreography.

Rehearsal is very important for acting within music video.

The music video acts as both a movie and a dance to the music.

One shot did effectively sync with the music.

A few of strobelight effects placed over the chick shaking her ass synchronized with music in that one shot.

The lighting in the live action movie could use a bit more polish.

A lot of the lighting was very bland and you should have experimented with light more.

You generally need to paint with light to make more polished live action.

Thus the conclusion of review; work on lighting, choreography, synchronization and use plenty of interesting shots.

I hope this review helps with improvement on movies.

- Mightydein

bushknifetherise responds:

Thank you very much. I love your review. And as I am still learning I will do a better job next time. It was a no budget video so i could not afford lighting and used what was available

[Ninja Sex Party Intro]

The drawings look a bit better than your other movie.

You likely placed more care into the drawings because the movie was shorter.

In one short; you left a few uncolored areas and gaps on the ninja and creature.

I would recommend taking more time to clean up the drawings.

Fill in uncolored areas to the best of your abilities.

The first shot looked polished despite it's simplicity in design.

Sometimes the most effective drawings are simple ones.

The music sounded great and the voice acting worked.

I never even heard of a band called, "Ninja sex party"

These flashes of yours have introduced me to them.

[Ninja Sex Party Theme Song Animated]

I would like to first mention that the cartoon is gonna get a ridiculous level of views.

Including the word sex in the title will guarantee plenty of views because provocative titles are effective.

The title was merely an effective ploy for more views and it is gonna work.

The average newgrounds submission usually gets 100 views or less after passing judgement.

This submission will likely get a significantly higher number of viewership based on the title.

Other tricks to use is including a hot chick in the movie's icon or a high content rating.

These all continue to be an extremely effective tricks to use for avoiding obscurity.

You gotta do whatever it takes to get plenty of views including a lot of shameless self promotion.

You have chosen a very effective eye catching title.

Now onto the actual review itself.

Much of the animation was a mixture of motion tweens, strobe lights and FBF.

You created some run cycles and placed the characters into plenty of poses.

Some of the shots didn't move and simply placed emphasis on the poses.

Much of the animation quality was a mixed bag.

The tween feature was used most often for this animated short.

A tween is an effective time saver for creating animation and can often be a useful tool.

You generally need to place a higher emphasis onto creating detailed drawings whenever the tween feature is used.

Moving clouds can be created using the motion tween and it generally looks great.

The dimensions used in your movie were wrong since a lot of details not meant to be seen were shown.

You could correct this error by either altering the dimensions within your grounds gold.

It is important to enter the correct box size for your movie within the grounds gold.

You could also get around the box size issue by creating boarders around the smaller shots.

The shading in your movie looks a bit off.

Some of the shadows had no clear direction and was likely used to add more polish.

Shading and shadows can often be difficult because multiple light sources are often used.

The song sounded decent and the audio was of acceptable quality.

I've tried to point out areas for improvement on your possible future movies.

The shadows need a bit of improvement, the music worked and the provocative title will guarantee an increased number of views.

Keep pumping those movies out.

-Mightydein

gamebrojimmy responds:

thanks for this respond it was a great help. Will try to rely less on motion tweens and use more animations.