Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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

[Aphex twin-Vordhosbn]

Awesome experimental music video.

You created a unique experience of lights, sounds, animation, live action and general image manipulation.

Most movies seem to stick with the same look through the entire duration of the show and that can often be boring to work on.

You used multiple styles that is still uniquely you.

Switching art mediums within the same project often effects motivation for work towards a single project for the better.

You can easily start off as fired up on your current art project and lose energy because of boredom.

Switching mediums often means the difference between a complete movie and an unfinished movie gathering dust.

You made an awesome movie.

- Mightydein

jamaxx responds:

Thank you so much

[Canadians]

I like how you used different coloring for outlining the drawings instead of the conventional black outline.

You've carefully observed how a tim horton's cup looks and changed it into a parody cup.

These were good drawings; However, I'm taking away points for usage of the generic anime art style.

Maybe practice putting your own twist onto your anime style to create more interesting drawings.

Some degree of copying reference material is required for improvement with drawing.

Once you understand the basic mechanics of that drawing than it becomes easy to build onto that drawing.

Some anime titles create their own drawing style such as Dragonballz, Akira, Panty & Stockings, ect.

Anime often uses lights and shadows to create more polished cartoons.

I see nothing wrong with borrowing drawing styles from multiple sources because eventually your own twist get added into the mix.

I personally didn't like the drawing style used for this short animation; However, I liked the coloring and the colors used for the outlining of your brush strokes.

I like the music used for this movie because it was fitting.

You used multiple camera angles and a little bit of frame by frame in places.

The backgrounds acted as a secondary character to enhance emotions felt by your characters.

You made a neat little movie even if i hated the drawing style used.

- Mightydein

jennshiii responds:

Thank you for your honest review Mightydein :)

And I agree with you on the art style being used (tho I don't hate it XD), I understand where you're coming from. I guess I'm still trying to find a "style" that I can call mine. If you look closely you can recognise the style of Naruto and Tokyo Ghoul mainly because I admire their style and was heavily influenced here as I look at them for reference.

I'll keep your review in mind and hopefully soon I'll find a style I can call my own :)
Thanks again for your honest review Mightydien :)

[Keyboard Warriors Movie]

The concept of a literal keyboard warrior is a highly dubious premise; However , the medium for this movie is live action.

Reviewing live action is generally based on entirely different standards. One weakness of live action is being stuck working within boundaries of reality.

Fantasy worlds can still be created with live action but it usually requires the assistance of special effects.

Sometimes elements of animation are used as part of special effects but it sometimes appears to be fake and off putting.

The cinematography of the movie is surprisingly polished for an amateur live action film.

The simple choice of camera effects the movie's look to some degree.

Use of lighting can create a more polished looking movie. Movie's need small crews to assist with lights.

You can have your friends hold a reflective sheet to redirect sunlight, use lamps behind the computer and any other trick to light your movie.

I think the term used for movie lighting is called, '' Painting with light.''

The fighting didn't look very convincing and looked more like comedy fighting.

Look into tutorials on how to create stage fighting.

The keyboard shooting machine gun rounds was a neat effect.

I also liked the explosion special effect.

Interesting movie but it can still be a bit more polished.

- Mightydein

[Robert Story]

This simple animation was synchronized to some goofy story that the author improvised while speaking into microphone.

I've heard short pauses while the author was temporarily stuck for ideas.

The drawings were simple and I like that you choosen to used colors other than black for drawing the outlines.

Most people use black outlines without deviation away from that social norm on drawing.

This silly movie was pretty cool.

- Mighydein

[Fight Scene]

I love the aesthetic of traditional animation and your usage of cardboard cutouts was an excellent stylistic choose.

Your characters are expressive and the movie was pretty funny.

I didn't like the use of south park audio because your animation style has potential than this.

- Mightydein

[RIP headphone users]

I like the cute character designs and the overall look of the brush strokes used.

The brush strokes were clean and the chosen colors were great.

The expressive faces used for the characters breathes life into your simple drawings.

I like the voice acting used in the movie.

The surprising gag at the end has made the video worth a quick laugh.

I like this movie.

- Mightydein

[Golden Frieza?]

The drawings look straight out of dragonballz and remind me of the show.

I usually prefer to see the artist in their more distinct style rather than see attempts at copying the original; However, some degree of copying is required to know the mechanics of the original drawing.

It is important to look at the original drawings for reference material and than build onto it.

Sometimes, fan art can be better than the original source material.

The drawing style used has failed to make itself distinct from other dragonballz movies.

The concept of golden frieza is a creative idea and you have found a way to make dragonballz into your own thing.

I do notice a few hints of your own style on certain drawings of goku but the overall package looked a bit generic.

It looked the dragonballz anime.

- Mightydein