PowerRangerYELLOW's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Lighthouse Girl]

I'm very pleased to know that Light House Girls is finally being seen on Newgrounds.

I remember you finished this at a time before Newgrounds actually had any sort of video player at all.

I really love all of the beautiful painting like backgrounds and the various environments to create an entire world.

simple extra touches such as placing the shadows in the correct places according to light conditions adds a certain layer of reality to the animation.

Please feel free to upload your future work anywhere online at all.

I would love see it.

I assume you have made improvements since Light House Girl because this movie is really old.

Glad you finally uploaded it to newgrounds and other people get to enjoy it.

I look forward to seeing your other stuff.

-Mightydein

rtil responds:

That is true, there was no video player on Newgrounds at the time, so even if i wanted to submit it I couldn't have. At least when it was finished - i'm not sure when they added it.

[A Compassionate Message]

The plight of the emos

the life of an emo is hard with all the pretending to be depressed and wearing skinny jeans all the time and what not.

KillYourselfSlowly responds:

True dat

[Dangerous race!]

Much better than flips are fighting

The animation was a bit more smooth and the overall movie was much more dynamic and lively than flips are fighting.

I would recommend simply making this much longer than a few seconds since you have tons of potential to do things with flipnote.

while you are limited to 2 colors on flipnotes however this didn't stop other flipnote animators from changing colors in different frames or even thinking up creative work arounds for the color limitations of flipnotes.

While that is a bit advanced it is much more interesting than using the red brush for strictly blood whenever your stickman crashes into some spikes.

but it is the simple thing of simply making your movie longer is what will be your saving grace.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[DaveyToons10172011]

Visually it looks interesting to say the least

I'm actually really disappointed because there was so much potential in this very flash to do so much more.

Your usage of color theory and the way the animation was kept surreal reminded me of the work of Catoblepas but drawn in a more crude child like fashion in fact i would say this style is visually awesome.

Beyond that there was really nothing much more compelling than the graphics itself because it was a simple loop of a DJ scratching the shit out of records.

I was expecting that maybe if i pressed some kind of button on the DJ that something else would happen and i ended up right clicking and playing and went right back to the preloader.

It really pains me to give you a low score because i see so much potential in you and so much potential in these daveytoons.

I say keep em going and your abilities will excel beyond belief because making spam is like training in the gym.

The more you do it than the more muscle you build up.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

David responds:

Ah, my dear old friend, thank you for these kind words. Maybe I will have the drive to do something cool in the future with a similar concept. I will work towards better things, but of course there will be spam.

[Openers]

This is not an easy review for me

This is very much refreshing to see a turd of the week made with an honest awfulness to it since while garbage it is still far superior to many of the intentionally bad turd of the week movies.

Often these intentionally awful movies lack the charm, creativity and honesty of something much like this.

I think the idea of a flash movie sending you an email back is a great idea but the execution is not very good.

Not many people will include there email addresses within there reviews and even if they did.

It is more effort than it is worth to write them an email.

This is energy you can be using to make your drawings more polished, improvements on your animation by practicing whenever you even have the slightest hint of boredom.

I personally practice animating using a nintendo ds and logging on to pictochat.

I can put up with crude drawings but not crude animation since your character stands in a stationary position.

You could at least animate the mouth a bit more than merely flapping away it's gums like a gold fish.

I've often seen this animation short cut used in anime but even there it doesn't look too impressive.

You will need to animate mouths in all kinds of directions to give the mouth flaps more variety.

It is a bit of a pain in the ass to go the extra mile just to animate talking but the results are worth it because you will be surprised to know that most reasonable people do appreciate the extra bit of effort.

Other than all this i can still see some potential in you since you can get better by constantly pumping out these movies despite the annoyance of everyone else.

But for what you lack in graphics you can easily make up for it with a sense humor and the balls to keep going.

I wish you better luck in your future movies.

-PowerRangerYELLOW