Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[Vs. Iris (Pokemon Black/W]

This was an attention grabbing 12 seconds of animation.

You used plenty of camera angles and somehow created the illusion of constant movement.

The animation sometimes had temporary pauses of less than a second.

The music had a 8 bit sound to it.

It sounded like it came fron a videogame soundtrack.

This video works as an introduction to a much longer movie.

I enjoyed the animation and love what you made so far.

- Mightydein

MiloticMaster responds:

I did use the original soundtrack from Black/White 2 on the DS so that's probably why it sounds that way xD.
Thanks!

[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.

[Animated Intro Timelapse]

This movie shows all the work involved with the creation of animation.

It's incredibly difficult to just make a bad cartoon because multiple drawings are needed.

It takes a lot of drawings to create the illusion of a living entity.

Animation means to bring to life.

I noticed you use a lot of complex steps for working out the poses.

I seen a lot of other animators create skeletons for their drawings.

You created a skeleton for an extremely simple drawing.

You generally gotta do whatever it takes to work out strong poses for your animation.

I presently struggle with creating effective poses for my own animations.

I'm still learning how to pose my drawings.

Thank you, for showing some behind-the-scenes footage of your own animation.

It's fascinating to observe how different artists do things.

- Mightydein

[Creepypasta flash loop]

I love the roughness of the drawings because it has the look of being sketched out.

The roughness of the drawings had a very appealing look to it.

The music was excellent and set the tone of a horror movie.

This animation could be used to convey insanity, snapping or going crazy.

It could be used as a possible view inside the mind of your characters.

That animation can be used in all kinda of creative ways.

It can be part of a more ambitious horror movie.

This loop was very cool.

-Mightydein

Harionago responds:

Thanks so much ! I wouldn't say it deserves 4 and a half stars, but that is pretty much the kind of animation i was aiming for. thanks, seriously! :D

[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

[Whipsmash]

This movie used audio from already existing sources.

You mixed two entirely unrelated pieces of audio to create voice acting for your characters.

That was a very imaginative way to use these sounds.

The backgrounds looked great and were created in an image manipulation program.

The shading on the light fixtures gotten progressively lighter from increased distance of light fixture.

The characters lacked shading and had no shadows reacting to sources of light.

The overall movie was very silly but have noted areas of possible improvement.

I hope this review provides some useful feedback for future improvement.

-Mightydein

NoahSegura responds:

It started out as just me screwing around in Audacity and I decided to animate to it.

I plan to add more detail, especially in the shading department, in future animations. I didn't really do it here because it was a silly little short I just kind of wanted to get out.

Thanks for the feedback :)