Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Yonder Ho! - Episode 3]

I found this be the most entertaining episode out of your entire series so far.

A lot of the pacing problems with episode 2 were eliminated.

This had more of a straight forward and much more simple story than the previous episode.

Sometimes going with a more simple story is a bit more effective.

I didn't like the opening musical number that came after the show's theme song.

The song was funny in certain places.

The music video elements of that musical number were kinda cool too.

The opening musical number dragged and could have been shortened.

Those shots of the guy singing that song could have been eliminated in favor of more music video elements.

I like the drawings of the boy and his cat during the musical number.

Animation is great for music videos and has an ability for creating entire worlds of fantasy worlds.

A lot of sound effects used remind me of ancient video game technology.

I assume you used a lot of 8 bit sound effects.

I even noticed an anime sound effect used in that movie as well.

The musical soundtrack used for this episode was entirely different from the other episodes.

You did a lot of home work on sound and it shows.

The sound has significantly improved since episode 2.

Sometimes that rabbit's voice in the previous episode was a bit too low volume.

You are getting better at sound design.

I like sound of the animation effects used for mud, water and other things.

The backgrounds look better; However, gaps are sometimes still left unfilled in certain sections of drawing.

I sometimes spot a green gap on the main character's arm in certain shots.

The episode length doesn't leave a whole lot of time to refine certain drawings.

Creating an new episode since the previous one has shown some artistic growth.

This has been an improvement from past episodes.

- Mightydein

Bertn1991 responds:

Wow, what can I say, Mighty? I can't tell you how grateful I am that someone would take the time to watch such a long cartoon and write a review about it. You, sir, are a saint! And I agree with your review. I didn't really like the musical number that much. It couldn't been shorter...and better. This is actually my least favorite episode. I thought it was kinda sad. But yeah, thank you for everything. And you'll be seeing the green stuff for a little while longer I'm afraid. I eventually reworked all the drawings of Pete. And the sound of episode 4 gets kinda hard to hear at one point I'm afraid. But I look forward to your opinion nonetheless! You are cool! Let me know if you ever want me to add any jokes or references in future episodes!

[Yonder Ho! - Episode 1]

I've seen episode 2 of this series first.

I was expecting the series to be like a serial based on the content of episode 2.

This episode never really explained where the rabbit character came from.

Based on the two episodes already posted.

I'll assume that each episode are stand alone entities with loose continuity.

These two episodes shown themselves to be stand alone episodes.

This episode was a bit shorter than the second episode and gave increased time for fine tuning the drawings.

Parts of episode one were a bit funnier; However, the second episode was much higher quality overall.

You an interesting series so far.

Bertn1991 responds:

Thank you so so much! I've never gotten any real feedback on these before. Thank you for that. And yes, the episodes are sort of like stand alone stories, and things aren't always explained. They tend to start in the middle in a way. Thanks again for your input : )

[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.

[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

[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

[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 :)

[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.

[NWAR: Vision Quest]

I liked the entire back and white look of this animated short.

The movie doesn't look like it was created in flash and has appeared to have utilized water color paint.

I'm not entirely certain of the types of art supplies used but it works.

I like the sharp dialogue and all those witty puns.

I might check out the other episodes in this series.

-Mightydein

danmarkowitz responds:

Thanks, hope you like the rest of the series too! (And it's made in Photoshop and After Effects)

[Mab tries to do something]

Your character has a very expressive face.

I like the sound effects used for this movie and the special effect of the camcorder lens breaking was kinda neat.

With that said; I found the movie to be entirely way too short.

I'd be interested in seeing a much longer movie in the future.

- Mightydein

Zikpotimus responds:

as I said, I didnt have time to work on longer animation, I have tests and ect (school).