Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Average churches]

The movie's setting is inside a church.

The red carpet on the floor along with the church styled chairs had an accurate look.

I been inside a few churches and your observations on the inside of a church was surprisingly accurate.

You did a good job on accurately drawing the inside of the church.

The backgrounds still need a bit of improvement since the item holding the body of christ and wine wasn't obvious without close inspection.

I originally assumed that case holding the body of christ was a window with a curtains.

Put more time into drawing each background until it can easily be understood without close inspection.

Your characters were mostly colored white and had black outlines.

You at least avoided leaving uncolored areas and gaps.

You used a bit of shading; However, the shadows lacked clear direction.

A church would have multiple sources of light such as a light bulb, candles and natural light.

You would have to actually visit a church to get completely accurate observation of the location.

That about covers the graphics department aspect of my review.

The sound quality was reasonable quality.

The animation used a few motion tweens and fbf for the mouth flaps.

Nothing spectacular in the animation department.

The real meat of the review is based on the actual entertainment value.

I've often been entertained by unpolished cartoons on this site.

I love the satirical piss take on organized religion.

The movie could be shortened without losing impact of the punchline.

I often noticed a lot of long pauses in this one minute short.

More can happen in a minute than one would think.

I have noted possible areas of improvement for future movies.

This movie was a very silly social satire on organized religion.

- Mightydein

KneeKaps responds:

oh my fuggin gawd you just made my day!!!!!!!!! Alright I'll try to work more on shading and frame by frame animtaion more than classical tweens this is one of my firsts though so I really enjoy your feeling towards it, it gives me some confidence. Also I am kinda bad with background characters. But thank you!! If you ever need me for anything just ask!! cya!

[Buttocks & Thighs]

I just finished reviewing another live action submission a little while ago.

I honestly prefer to watch animated submissions because of my own general preference for cartoons.

The video's looked very amateurish because of a lack of lighting.

Polished live action is achieved by doing something called, ''Painting with light''

The part with the guy in the shower looked fake because of the digital smoke.

Perhaps, actually turn the hot water on and use water proof protection on the camera.

Always figure out ways to achieve whatever is needed using practical effects.

I like the animation elements used in certain sections.

I still would have preferred to watch an entirely animated short to be honest.

This was a very silly short film and have noted possible areas for future improvement.

I wasn't expecting to review live action.

- Mightydein

Lambtaco responds:

Of course it looks amateurish, I'm an amateur. I know all about key light, and fill light and such, I just don't have any lighting equipment. Honestly, at the level I'm at now, my lighting goals are making sure there's enough to tell what's going on and prevent grainy looking footage.

Obvious green screen is always going to look fake. It's sort of part of the feel of the bit. The smoke I admit isn't perfect, but it's the best asset I had, and I'm not getting my green screen all steamed up in the shower. I decided the look of the blue tiles was more important than steam, and I stand by my decision.

You don't really seem like my audience, so whatevs.

But I find your review style condescending. You come off like a worn out teacher just listing bullet points. I mean you're not making any effort to form paragraphs with a natural flow, and you're barely putting in the effort to write complete sentences. Thus concludes my review of your review.

[Rëëkër "Salirophilia"]

I'm not gonna be an ass about your chosen medium of live action.

All the footage in this movie was your own creation and I will attempt to write constructive criticism like anything else.

A lot of reviews will say stuff about how this video belongs on youtube in a very derogatory fashion.

Newgrounds is generally a good site for getting exposure because every new submission has a judgement phase.

Youtube lacks a judgement phase and the videoes posted are more likely to go unwatched.

Don't listen to those kids saying how your video belongs to youtube instead.

I've often seen stupid speed drawing videoes and all kinds of youtube like content.

If you are actually creating something than it belongs to newgrounds too.

The numa numa videoes were posted on newgrounds before youtube existed.

I've seen plenty of live action submissions posted here.

Now onto the actual review.

The music was some obscure techno song and the visuals did not completely synchronization with the song.

Your chosen medium of live action will make synchronization of sights and sounds to be more difficult.

You can't time images by the standards of frame by frame with live action.

Try to work out the timing by increasing practice of the choreography.

Rehearsal is very important for acting within music video.

The music video acts as both a movie and a dance to the music.

One shot did effectively sync with the music.

A few of strobelight effects placed over the chick shaking her ass synchronized with music in that one shot.

The lighting in the live action movie could use a bit more polish.

A lot of the lighting was very bland and you should have experimented with light more.

You generally need to paint with light to make more polished live action.

Thus the conclusion of review; work on lighting, choreography, synchronization and use plenty of interesting shots.

I hope this review helps with improvement on movies.

- Mightydein

bushknifetherise responds:

Thank you very much. I love your review. And as I am still learning I will do a better job next time. It was a no budget video so i could not afford lighting and used what was available

[Ninja Sex Party Theme Song Animated]

I would like to first mention that the cartoon is gonna get a ridiculous level of views.

Including the word sex in the title will guarantee plenty of views because provocative titles are effective.

The title was merely an effective ploy for more views and it is gonna work.

The average newgrounds submission usually gets 100 views or less after passing judgement.

This submission will likely get a significantly higher number of viewership based on the title.

Other tricks to use is including a hot chick in the movie's icon or a high content rating.

These all continue to be an extremely effective tricks to use for avoiding obscurity.

You gotta do whatever it takes to get plenty of views including a lot of shameless self promotion.

You have chosen a very effective eye catching title.

Now onto the actual review itself.

Much of the animation was a mixture of motion tweens, strobe lights and FBF.

You created some run cycles and placed the characters into plenty of poses.

Some of the shots didn't move and simply placed emphasis on the poses.

Much of the animation quality was a mixed bag.

The tween feature was used most often for this animated short.

A tween is an effective time saver for creating animation and can often be a useful tool.

You generally need to place a higher emphasis onto creating detailed drawings whenever the tween feature is used.

Moving clouds can be created using the motion tween and it generally looks great.

The dimensions used in your movie were wrong since a lot of details not meant to be seen were shown.

You could correct this error by either altering the dimensions within your grounds gold.

It is important to enter the correct box size for your movie within the grounds gold.

You could also get around the box size issue by creating boarders around the smaller shots.

The shading in your movie looks a bit off.

Some of the shadows had no clear direction and was likely used to add more polish.

Shading and shadows can often be difficult because multiple light sources are often used.

The song sounded decent and the audio was of acceptable quality.

I've tried to point out areas for improvement on your possible future movies.

The shadows need a bit of improvement, the music worked and the provocative title will guarantee an increased number of views.

Keep pumping those movies out.

-Mightydein

gamebrojimmy responds:

thanks for this respond it was a great help. Will try to rely less on motion tweens and use more animations.

[Vs. Iris (Pokemon Black/W]

This was an attention grabbing 12 seconds of animation.

You used plenty of camera angles and somehow created the illusion of constant movement.

The animation sometimes had temporary pauses of less than a second.

The music had a 8 bit sound to it.

It sounded like it came fron a videogame soundtrack.

This video works as an introduction to a much longer movie.

I enjoyed the animation and love what you made so far.

- Mightydein

MiloticMaster responds:

I did use the original soundtrack from Black/White 2 on the DS so that's probably why it sounds that way xD.
Thanks!

[Rhythm and Rockets]

I love the extensive usage of frame by frame animation used for this long music video.

The character drawings were extremely simple; However, a lot of special attention was paid into creating plenty of strong poses.

Sometimes, the shadows didn't interact with the characters and backgrounds as a combined entity.

Shadows often create a more polished flash if the lighting has obvious clear direction.

The rockets, fire, explosions, sunlight were often combined light sources.

It becomes increasingly difficult to give direction to shadows needed from multiple light sources.

The 2D backgrounds and characters would also have creases, folds and angles.

Basically you want to animate the shadows while your characters interact with their environments.

The pencil tool in flash is very effective for assistance with animation of shading.

You can use the onionskin tool to move those pencil strokes before additional coloring and eventually deletion of assistant pencil tool strokes.

You did a lot of work out the poses.

Why not workout the shading, lights and shadows too?

The characters seemed to move very freely in a three-dimensional fashion but the shading looked wrong to me.

This was extremely awesome frame by frame animation.

Most other animations on this site will mostly use tweens and other animation short cuts.

I'm pleased to watch movies use the most difficult way of creating animation.

Excellent work.

- Mightydein

gildedguy responds:

Yo! Thanks for your thoughtful response. I will work harder to make my shading even better.

[Hooks Hurt]

A very silly animation loop.

I love all the details put into the one closeup on the fish with a hook in it's mouth.

Did you color that fish using a digital image manipulation program?

The spots on the fish look great and the shading was nicely done.

The fish appeared to be inspired by actual fish in it's entire form.

The eye itself was a bit more cartoony and added a certain sense of silliness.

The loop itself would mostly be standard newgrounds fare for the most part.

I would label this movie as average.

-Mightydein

DanyellSmith responds:

Thanks heaps for all the awesome feedback! Yeah I painted the fish (which is based off of a salmon) in photoshop.

[Mother's Day!!!]

This appears to be a possible early animation created in flash.

The movie could use some sound effects, voice acting and music.

Sound in flash can be added by clicking file than import.

You than need to create a second layer for sound.

Sound adds an additional needed element to your flash movies.

Animation is a visual medium and my review will be focused on visuals.

You display clear signs of inexperience with both your animation and drawings.

You used a bit of tweens and some frame by frame.

The drawings were very amateurish and some of the brush strokes were a bit messy.

You sometimes leave areas uncolored and leave gaps.

Take extra time into filling those gaps because uncolored areas can often be an annoying visual flaw.

You might sometimes miss gaps; However, attempting to fill all coloring gaps is something to strive for.

You did an alright job on the backgrounds within the school.

The actual school itself was simply a square with a crudely drawn door.

Actual buildings are very difficult to draw and have lots of complicated details.

Take some portable art supplies on your next walk passed a school house.

Take a careful look at the school and than draw what you see.

You can also use google to seek out images of schools for drawing material.

You displayed a lot more attention to detail on the shots inside the preschool class room.

The humans can be drawn a bit better as well.

It takes a bit of increased observation of your surroundings and practice to make improvements with drawing.

I love how you used multiple camera angles and how certain shots were used for establishing emotions.

The little girl's state of mind was clearly on display in certain shots.

The shot of the teacher as a threatening monster displayed the little girl's imagination.

She became scarred and her mother provided comfort.

You made an interesting tribute to your mother.

I hope this review has helped you with making future improvements.

-Mightydein

ReyaneAshtar responds:

Thank you so so much for taking the time to tell your ideas! I totally agree with my art being a little slacked but hey! There's room for improvement!!