AflacMan13's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[[S] Cascade.]

I can see why this would have crashed so much in 2011. The world was still using Win 7 and Win Serv 2008 R1 & R2. RAM was still low, Disc Space was still on a LOT of HDD's because SSD's hadn't quite become ubiquitous and as cheaply proliferated as they are today, and USB-C/Thunderbolt wasn't really out of the Apple/IBM Closet yet. Yeah, I can see why this set the NG Servers on fire and killed off all of V¡ct¡m's friends. V¡ct¡m from the Becker-Verse of course, of Alan Becker fame. :-)

Justice for V¡ct¡m's Girlffriend!

[Prison of the Clairvoyant]

I think the message is clear enough for anyone who think 3 dimensionally. Depression, lack of sleep, fear, nightmares, childhood memories, destiny, various area of the mind such as the analytical, the clever, the inner child...

... all parts of the Id.

The clairvoyant, (if such a thing existed) would be a prisoner of their own mind. A prisoner of the past, present, and future. As such the clairvoyant would be unable to slumber, even though they desperately need it, as their fear of the prison of slumber would force them to feel as though they have to take drastic measures to stay awake... like self-mutilation and excrutiating pain.

As aforementioned... the message is plain to see, to those who can see it. :-)

Depression is a heck of a thing. Perhaps one should see a mental health professional if they are seeing and feeling such a way as this.

[BLISS]

This could easily be the pilot episode to an entire series.

It could even get sydication... Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network might just eat this up with a spoon.

[Snow Hare]

Whoa. I am rather speechless right now. That was one of the most amazing pieces of art I have ever watched. You and the crew you ran are phenomenal at flash. Great work.

ShawnBranden responds:

Thank you. The people that helped me with this were amazing. Not flash by the way. That's all pencil and paper compiled into toonboom :)

[2starWarrior]

Your art style... I understand. I draw like that too. ADHD?

I will say that, perhaps you are more of a 3 dimensional artist? I tried drawing for years like everyone else and all I ever came up with was gibberish. But then I found Google Sketch-up and I found that I can make 3-d art really well. Perhaps you have a similar art bend.

OR...

... perhaps you just need to practice, practice, practice... or maybe you just didn't care for this flash and threw together some random lines.

EITHER WAY...

I liked this one. The art style was not something spectacular but, it mixed well with the theme of this flash and the music. I actually liked this one, it was fairly interesting.

[Zombie Bunny Adventures]

I like where you were going with this but, after the words laser cannon scrawl across the screen, it goes into a never ending loop of black screen and some random background sounds.

[LOL Runner]

It's like an early version of portal almost. Like the forerunner or something. This was very well done, and very funny.

Heck, I half expected GLADoS to come across singing that "The Cake is a Lie" song.

[Valentine]

Would have been better if the little figures mouth would have been singing the song.

julienmandell94 responds:

eille merci monsieur.

[A shoddy stop animation]

Kinda funny, a little childish, short, and simple. Shows the potential of some real talent here. A littel more work, some music in the background and it would be even better.

Remember this, music and sound effects can make or break a scene. Even ambient white noise is better than nothing at all. It gives the brain something to hear and satisfies a primal instinct in the mind. While your dialouge was amusing, having some sound effects or music in the background would make this even better.

Music is to movies as air is to breathing.

PixelsGame responds:

Well cheers for taking the time to actually think about the animation, heh, I'll make sure to remember music for next time but this was quite literally the result of a couple hours fooling around, on the flipside if this isn't as absolutely terrible as I think it is then when I actually get some proper animation done everyone will love it.

[Diplomatie]

Nicely done. I like the style and the feel of it. The music fits it quite nicely and the whole thing felt very smooth.

I have just one tiny tweak.

At between 20 and 25 seconds; the scene where the camera is behind the king and his soldiers zooming away from the first line of troops. As it zooms away the second line of troops seems to POP into view. It just feels a little jumpy on the transition, not totally smooth. The rest felt very smooth and non-jumpy. Perhaps a glitch in the upload? My theory is that you may have taken a break at this point and were either distracted by something or perhaps you lost a little focus here. It seems as though at between these five seconds you were thinking of the troops appearing from AT the lense of the camera instead of from BEHIND the lense of the camera. Not saying it should be fixed or anything and I really just nitpicking to be honest but; I know how many artisits of talent such as your can be sometimes. Small details can feel like a massive boulder sitting right in the middle of the project.

Art is by no means about perfection but, the details can be the difference between whether you like your own art or don't. The important thing is that YOU are satisfied with your art. That is what this is too...

...true art.

Very nicely done. I enjoyed watching this. I only point it out because I think it should be pointed out, that is all. My opinion is only my opinion.

Your art is superb.

iLott responds:

Thank you very much, appreciate your time.

Yes, there actualy is an error that I forgot, it pops back since there is one frame after the whole layer fades out. I don't get how I didn't notice that, I'll fix it and reupload when I get home. Thanks mate :)

Well coming from my personality I usualy don't like my own work very much and find too much mistakes in it all the time. And honestly if you want to succeed with art in real life you can't focus on just how do YOU like it, but you need to make it generic in some ways.

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate when I get to hear constructive criticism.