Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Do you Bleed?]

The drawing of batman looked a lot better than superman.

The shadows can use a bit of work since batman standing above superman would be a source of shade.

The one city background shown the building outlines in different shapes.

You avoided the common mistake of drawing a collection of square buildings.

The white outline to highlight batman and superman were often messy in places.

The brush strokes could use a bit more clean up.

You could also sketch the drawings to create another possible polished look.

The art was generally passable but have noted possible areas of improvement in the graphics department.

Batman could speak a bit more clearly since his dialogue sounded a bit incomprehensible.

I wouldn't understand a whole lot of the words said by batman without the submission title.

The music seemed to work effectively.

The goat soundeffect when superman gave the finger added an extra element of comedy.

I personally didn't like this movie but pointed out good aspects and areas needed for improvement.

I hope you have better luck, next time.

- Mightydein

[HG's The Cobra]

The panning shot across several buildings until reaching the angle on main protagonist is a good establishing shot.

You moved different sets of buildings at a variety of speeds to create a semi three-dimensional effect.

It looks kinda cool and is a very effective use of motion tweens.

The guy's coat moving in the wind looked really cool.

The movie had way too many credits and actually overwhelmingly took over.

The credits felt longer than the establishing shot.

Your animation would work effectively for establishing shot in a more ambitious animated movie for this site.

Excellent establishing shot.

This short looks good so far. It just needs to be part of a more complete submission.

- Mightydein

[Rhythm and Rockets]

I love the extensive usage of frame by frame animation used for this long music video.

The character drawings were extremely simple; However, a lot of special attention was paid into creating plenty of strong poses.

Sometimes, the shadows didn't interact with the characters and backgrounds as a combined entity.

Shadows often create a more polished flash if the lighting has obvious clear direction.

The rockets, fire, explosions, sunlight were often combined light sources.

It becomes increasingly difficult to give direction to shadows needed from multiple light sources.

The 2D backgrounds and characters would also have creases, folds and angles.

Basically you want to animate the shadows while your characters interact with their environments.

The pencil tool in flash is very effective for assistance with animation of shading.

You can use the onionskin tool to move those pencil strokes before additional coloring and eventually deletion of assistant pencil tool strokes.

You did a lot of work out the poses.

Why not workout the shading, lights and shadows too?

The characters seemed to move very freely in a three-dimensional fashion but the shading looked wrong to me.

This was extremely awesome frame by frame animation.

Most other animations on this site will mostly use tweens and other animation short cuts.

I'm pleased to watch movies use the most difficult way of creating animation.

Excellent work.

- Mightydein

gildedguy responds:

Yo! Thanks for your thoughtful response. I will work harder to make my shading even better.

[Hooks Hurt]

A very silly animation loop.

I love all the details put into the one closeup on the fish with a hook in it's mouth.

Did you color that fish using a digital image manipulation program?

The spots on the fish look great and the shading was nicely done.

The fish appeared to be inspired by actual fish in it's entire form.

The eye itself was a bit more cartoony and added a certain sense of silliness.

The loop itself would mostly be standard newgrounds fare for the most part.

I would label this movie as average.

-Mightydein

DanyellSmith responds:

Thanks heaps for all the awesome feedback! Yeah I painted the fish (which is based off of a salmon) in photoshop.

[GT Cartoons: Every Fire E]

I love the soundtrack used for this movie.

The music had the sound of classical orchestra but was obviously from a video game, anime, tokusatsu.

Certain forms of Japanese media create entirely orginal classical orchestra music for their anime, movies, video games, ect.

You decided on an excellent musical score for your cartoon.

The characters themselves were drawn like chubby stick figures.

The drawings were mostly amateurish; However the sound has caused me to award more points.

This movie had excellent sound.

-Mightydein

[Mothers Day Card]

I like the attention to detail on the heart and how you drawn veins.

The background displayed a lot of creativity and actually looks really neat.

The lettering looked great too.

Unfortunately the movie's animation was simply a motion tweened heart to simulate pulsating.

The movie is very bad by technical standards and is merely a step above a blank screen.

I consider this to be an extremely bad movie; However, I do my best to point out the positives and ideas for future improvement.

This movie can improved by increased run-time and adding a lot more animation.

You seem to be very good at drawing and have the potential to create something better.

Please try again.

-Mightydein

[Mother's Day!!!]

This appears to be a possible early animation created in flash.

The movie could use some sound effects, voice acting and music.

Sound in flash can be added by clicking file than import.

You than need to create a second layer for sound.

Sound adds an additional needed element to your flash movies.

Animation is a visual medium and my review will be focused on visuals.

You display clear signs of inexperience with both your animation and drawings.

You used a bit of tweens and some frame by frame.

The drawings were very amateurish and some of the brush strokes were a bit messy.

You sometimes leave areas uncolored and leave gaps.

Take extra time into filling those gaps because uncolored areas can often be an annoying visual flaw.

You might sometimes miss gaps; However, attempting to fill all coloring gaps is something to strive for.

You did an alright job on the backgrounds within the school.

The actual school itself was simply a square with a crudely drawn door.

Actual buildings are very difficult to draw and have lots of complicated details.

Take some portable art supplies on your next walk passed a school house.

Take a careful look at the school and than draw what you see.

You can also use google to seek out images of schools for drawing material.

You displayed a lot more attention to detail on the shots inside the preschool class room.

The humans can be drawn a bit better as well.

It takes a bit of increased observation of your surroundings and practice to make improvements with drawing.

I love how you used multiple camera angles and how certain shots were used for establishing emotions.

The little girl's state of mind was clearly on display in certain shots.

The shot of the teacher as a threatening monster displayed the little girl's imagination.

She became scarred and her mother provided comfort.

You made an interesting tribute to your mother.

I hope this review has helped you with making future improvements.

-Mightydein

ReyaneAshtar responds:

Thank you so so much for taking the time to tell your ideas! I totally agree with my art being a little slacked but hey! There's room for improvement!!