Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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 :)

[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

[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

[Toy Guns]

This reminds me of my own childhood.

[Kashinnu Z episode 4]

This movie seems to be a motion comic using extremely simple drawings in most cases.

You did show potential for drawing better since that space ship looked kinda neat.

I assume this comic is an episode of a serial and the story was surprisingly easy to follow despite missing information,

References to pervious events in past episodes are for audience members already following the story from the very beginning.

A recap of pervious episodes will farther assist with helping the audience understand your show with clearly.

I often try to communicate with clearly; However, sometimes my own use of words get lost in translation.

I can clear up misunderstandings by answering questions. Movies don't have the luxury of going back to answer questions asked by the audience.

A serial can answer questions in the next episode because it is possible to continue that story indefinitely.

I didn't completely understand your movie's story without the important information from pervious episodes.

Have the pervious episodes already been posted somewhere?

Seeing pervious episodes would have influenced my review.

I decided to review this movie as a single stand alone entity and hope to still provide useful feedback.

-Mightydein

Jon-Mahashintina responds:

thanks. early eps are in my movies on NG.

hesitant to recap previous eps, it'd be almost as long as the new content.

ideally everything would be edited together to make one big movie. but I doubt that would ever end up on NG.