Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Yonder Ho! - Episode 2]

You had plenty of very imaginative situations in the entire movie and a lot of genuine effort went into the movie.

The music used for this movie was very beautiful and served well for establishing mood.

A lot of experimentation went into the movie and certain scenes made your crude drawings look better.

The movie was also very long in terms of run time.

I rarely ever seen newgrounds submissions make an entire half hour episode of their cartoon series.

The increased length kinda hurts your movie in certain places since some scenes tend to drag.

Increased length also eliminated opportunities to fine tune certain drawings.

The increased length also helped your movie in certain places.

You gave your audience an opportunity to learn what makes each character tick.

Character development sometimes needs extra time to be of service towards the plot.

Spending more time in the rewriting stages can often eliminate filler and will significantly simplify production ten fold.

I look forward to seeing new episodes of your series.

-Mightydein

Bertn1991 responds:

Thanks, Mighty. I'm very grateful that someone took the time to watch my little cartoon show and give their thoughts. I know they're pretty long, so thank you for taking the time to watch 'em : )

I will be uploading an episode daily for a little while. So far I have 9 made and working on episode 10. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions. I can tell you are sincere and honest, and I really appreciate that. I'm not sure if you'll like episode 3. It's not my favorite episode to be honest.

[Bulbasaur Evolution]

Neat little frame by frame animation of bubasaur evolving into his other forms.

It could have used color and a background would be a nice addition too.

You made a good little animation experiment.

It's great for what it is.

-Mightydein

[The Book]

I like the expressive eyes on your characters.

You played around with the pupils within the eyes to convey emotion and combined it with facial expression and body language.

I like the frame by frame animation used to convey the emotions of the little orange guy.

The other guy tweened towards him and than said a disparaging remark towards to him.

The lip syncing could use a bit of work and that can be improved upon by watching yourself repeat the dialogue in front of a mirror.

Place heavy emphasis on important key words for the lip syncing such as the word; "Ugly" for example.

The lip synching doesn't have to be perfect since you can't really read the lips of a cartoon character.

I like the animation, character designs, music and how the characters convey emotion.

3/5

-Mightydein

[El Club del Random #4]

This will be difficult to review because of the language barrier.

I don't understand a single word out of the dialogue used in that movie but the voices placed a lot of emotion in their acting.

I can overlook the language barrier whenever the submission is a music video that used foreign music.

I can also overlook language barrier on comic book sound effects.

I can not overlook the language barrier on dialogue spoken by the characters because it is needed to follow the story.

I would be interested in seeing subtitles or an english dubbed version of this movie.

I'm well aware that not everyone on newgrounds is a native English speaker but it is a good idea to post an english version too.

It was an interesting movie but I would like to see an english translation of it.

-Mightydein

MatrimeleeStudios responds:

I very appreciate your review, Please excuse me for not dubbing to English because of the video contains many dialects of the language of my nation, Colombia, many of these dialects do not have the English translation, and i want to the Newgrounds Community, in specific the Colombian Community, ear a flash animation with the typical Colombian dialects, however, i know what the Newgrounds Community speak english in majority, i appreciate your comment and i effort to dub the next videos in english.

Thanks and Sincerely

Elihu D. Ariza
Matrimelee Studios Founder and Creator of El Club del Random

[Cat On Stairs]

This movie looks very cool.

I like the effect of the 3D stairs and the backgrounds had a neat look to them.

I assume the backgrounds were created in GIMP.

The character was very expressive and the sound was excellent.

I loved the music, voice acting and sound effects.

I personally didn't laugh but was at least entertained.

-Mightydein

[Miiverse Fun-Time]

I love miiverse because it is fun to draw on that application.

I like your parody of the miiverse but you could have made fun of other asspects of the miiverse itself.

I liked the overall cartoonyness of this whole video.

The voice acting was brillent and the character was very expressive.

I enjoyed the show.

-Mightydein

[Storm Ryder]

Pretty cool movie but I would try to make a more polished looking city to make more impressive visuals.

Most people draw their cities as a series of rectangle buildings with windows and it is common mistake.

Actual cities have different kinda building structures and are extremely difficult to draw.

I would recommend looking at reference material of cities and than observe carefully while drawing.

If you live in an actual city than you have the luxury of grabbing some portable art supplies and than using the out doors as part of your reference material.

I once gone to the woods and started to look at actual trees as reference material for drawings.

It requires patience to draw from any kind of reference material.

Buildings are very hard to draw and that advice was merely a small nit pick about your movie.

I would have liked to have seen the actual helicopter getting cut by the sword.

You used the animation short cut of a darkened screen with slashes acting as colorful lights.

It's a very effective animation shortcut and I won't discourage you from using that technique.

Sometimes the darkened screen with colorful light slashes looks cool in a certain instances.

Rewatch the intro of the teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon from the 1980's for example of a cool colorful light slashes.

Observe the part in the intro's visuals of the four turtles falling from the sky.

The turtles swing their weapons as they fall towards the earth and than finally Leonardo slashes downwards with his sword.

The screen darkens and you see leonardo's sword slash as light moving downwards.

That same sword slash also acts as a scene transition at the same time.

I'm trying to describe that very cool slash effect used in the intro of teenage mutant ninja turtles.

It's a very cool effect and you should consider borrowing it.

I liked the running cycle of the black ninja and how he leaped from one building to another.

The helicopter looked very cool and showing the storyboard used in the end credits was a nice touch.

Those were small insignificant nitpicks about your movie because the overall packaging was very cool.

You made an excellent first movie.

-Mightydein

GCCStudios responds:

thank you for your honest review, we will be sure to make a proper follow up on the background art as in more detailed design on the buildings...we are also glad you liked the short movie,it was more of a demo just to see if we could try to make pull off something good from our artwork
will be sure to adhere to all necessary changes and thanks again for your review

[the Itchybarney Colection]

This collection reminds me of the classic dailytoon series.

Most collections are usually collaborations rather than solo projects.

These kinda collections are usually pumped out quickly and it is generally difficult to work on the schedules of other artists.

It's also difficult to organize collaborations because of the level of rejection before forming a team.

Than you have to keep your team motivated and have them on a schedule.

You skipped all those steps and opted to create the entire collection by yourself.

I seen the passion in your drawings and the art looks surprisingly good for it's genre.

Spam movies can sometimes look very good and it is a legit newgrounds genre of movie.

I like the menu used for the collection.

Barney's Secret Concert- Best movie out of the entire collection. I like the simple yet polished drawings.

Drews Adventures in Drewland - Another cool movie but a longer movie this time.

It was the strangest movie in the whole collection.

Barney takes a dump - I liked the voice acting used for barney while he took a dump.

You are really great at drawing barney.

Drew Pickles Rants - The worst movie out of the entire collection.

Drew just wouldn't shut up and could talk forever.

-- In closing. This was a very neat collection of movies.

-Mightydein

[This is for you.]

I like how you've used a variety of colors on the outline of your animated drawings.

That audio portal track used in the movie was very beautiful music and conveyed a sad mood.

The boy and girl lacking color before finding love was an interesting choose of imagery.

It was an interesting first movie.

I'll look into your other movies at a later time.

Thanks for bringing your movie to my attention.

-Mightydein

[Rooms]

I loved the sound design used for this movie because the music used is perfectly suitable for the soundtrack of a horror movie.

The drawings were a bit crude for my own personal tastes but we all gotta start somewhere.

I got a sense of danger from the combined visuals and sound.

I noticed that you used a lot of motion tweens and shape tweens.

Try mixing in a little bit more frame by frame animation in future movies as well.

You show a lot of potential so far.

Make more movies and upload.

- Mightydein