Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FF:The day after LD]

This is my favorite movies out of all your other works posted here.

I generally don't like video game sprite movies and strongly prefer movies that utilize drawings instead.

You have clearly shown yourself to be capable of drawing and have created custom video game sprite based on your character.

I would have liked to see future movies that utilize your drawings.

Come back and post new movies.

-Mightydein

[WHDC Loop]

I like the bit roughness of the brush strokes and the graphics could be enhanced by utilizing some lights and shadows.

The audio was somewhat scratchy since I heard bad audio artifacts.

Audio can often be effected by the environment of the recording, microphone quality, ect.

The audio recording can be a bit more crisp and cleaner.

This movie only contained an endless loop of one person saying one piece of dialogue.

The anime guy said, "Hello and welcome to WHDC" on endless loop.

The buttons on the top of the screen work and it can mute the annoying loop.

This movie is only one step above a blank screen.

-Mightydein

Tsukubane responds:

Lights and shadows will be added. Wish me luck with those, I'm not the best at it.

I might need an audio guy. Someone to handle all that audio stuff.

[Five Nights At Freddy's 3]

The drawing style reminds me of anime and the chosen drawings look decent; However, the character doesn't move a whole lot.

More details generally makes the animation process more difficult and the resulting movie takes longer to make.

Simplifying drawings in favor of more movement is usually preferable to increasing levels of detail.

You can always use the more detailed drawings as money shots within the movie.

I recommend switching up different versions of your drawing style in order to remain motivated with creating animation.

Switch things up in your movie every-time you get bored working on it.

It looks interesting so far and the movie can be a bit longer.

-Mightydein

sincomai responds:

I can animate at that detailed level, hence he was sweating and what not....the choice not to move him was on myself as its in the style of mike tyson mysteries....>.>...they only move in action, not while speaking, also, this was a test of my ability to do an animation in 8 hours.

[Dragon Ball *Master Roshi]

The movie is a bit too short as a stand alone newgrounds submission; However, this piece is intended for a collaboration with multiple artists.

The run time is way too short to give me anything to work with.

I will attempt to write a review anyways.

The brush strokes are clean and you've chosen colors wisely to give a polished look.

The art style is your own interruption of dragonballz characters and created a surprisingly entertaining three seconds.

The video caught my attention and look forward to seeing that dragonball collaboration.

I thought that animation collaboration for sailor moon was kinda cool.

Maybe the reanimated dragonball might be a better movie.

I look forward to seeing more of your work.

-Mightydein

LeonDaydreamer responds:

Thanks Mightydein!
I know it's only three seconds, but I tried to make it the best three seconds I could. :)
I'm excited to see the full episode too! It was really fun working on it.

[FistOfTheNorthStar]

The drawings of characters from hokuto no ken are lifted directly from the anime itself.

I would have rather seen an interruption of the characters using your art style.

The blur effects used for ken shiro's lightening speeding punches looked kinda cool; However, that extra detail using bitmaps might cause lag on other computers.

Thinking ways around computer slowdown while still maintaining your desired polished look is a difficult balance to strike.

The mouth movements of the characters look completely wrong but it works here because it is an imaginary trailer to an english dub of a foreign show.

This is a solid tribute to fist of the fist of the north star.

-Mightydein

[Things Tyler creator like]

I like how you've made uses of different scenes within a short span of 30 seconds.

It certainly holds your attention.

I'm not fan of your drawing style but at least the brush strokes are clean and the coloring has minimal gaps.

I would be interested in seeing longer future episodes of Tyler the creator.

I tried to give a detailed review but this movie hasn't given me much to work with.

-Mightydein

[Blue Stick Slaughter]

The movie lacks a polished look and the resulting movie mediocre stick figure battle.

It's an interesting first movie but future stick movies can be a lot more polished.

Stick figure movies can potentially look polished with a few subtle additions to the drawings.

The stick figures are faceless characters and were simply only distinct by color.

Drawing faces on your sticks will give them much needed personality.

You can easily draw extremely expressive faces onto stick figures and will make this movie a bit more distinct.

I've used hand painted backgrounds in one of the dailytoons to help create a more polished look.

Simple additions to the graphics can make a surprising difference on any flash movie.

I created stick figure movies on an alt account and do simple things to make better looking stick movies.

Faces on stick figures make a surprising difference and most people take it for granted until the faces are gone.

If you have a simple to execute idea on ways to make your movie look better than do it.

I look forward to your new stick figure movies.

Make more.

-Mightydein

[Dragon Ballz]

The drawing style provides an interesting interpretation of the combatants.

I would much rather see the unique drawing style of the satirist rather than look at carbon copies of the anime.

I only consider it to be important that the characters are still recognizable.

The art style is entirely open to new interpretation.

Some elements of this movie completely destroys some level of originality out of this parody.

Parody by definition is not original; However, additional creative elements can still create something brand new.

The teenage mutant ninja turtles comic book started out as a parody of dare devil and has expanded into it's own entity.

The drawing style along with the goofy animation added an interesting element of comedy.

The coloring on the characters leaves small gaps that could have been easily fixed.

The brush strokes were a bit sloppy but you will improve with practice over time.

I liked the voice acting in this movie and you should utilize his talents in future movies.

The movie shows a lot of promise but the humor quoting internet memes ruins an otherwise solid movie.

That just saying gag has caused me to cringe.

I'm aware that it is a pun playing on the word saiyan but that joke has been beaten into the ground.

I love the concept of Goku having a petty argument with Vegeta.

That argument escalates into a ridiculous fight scene and you could have mocked the animation flaws of dragonballz.

This parody shows a lot of potential and future episodes will get better.

I look forward to seeing new movies from you.

-Mightydein

Agent64 responds:

Thanks, dude! :3
I love your level of constructive criticism. Normally people either say "this is great", or "this sucks", but with your advice, now I know what I did wrong, and it'll contribute to improvement.

I will agree that it's not very original, and it could've used a bit more originality, but something loose and easy like this is sometimes fun to make.

I know there were some coloring gaps, but I didn't bother to correct them, as I had already duplicated various frames with the oversights, and the process of correcting each of them is tedious; and normally I wouldn't let the tediousness stand in the way of perfectionism, but I figured little to nobody would notice (obviously I was wrong XD)

I will definitely utilize mErZeE's voice talents more often, especially because of his willingness to contribute. (he even asked me if he could help; it was quite nice of him).

And believe it or not, I frankly did believe I came up with the "Just Saiyan" pun, but provided the fact there are well over 7 billion people in the world, there's bound to be several others who have come up with that joke before I did, if not something entirely similar; therefore, it did not come as a surprise that someone else had beaten me to it.

But anyways, nevertheless, thanks for your advice. ;)