S-K's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[You Love This Movie]

good but feels lacking somehow

I'm not sure about this movie to be honest, but it's at least a 3 out of 5 though so you don't need to worry about that XD I lol'd at the killing spree since I think it's one of the few times I've seen a flash movie with a killing spree with a clear motivation behind it, rather then just for the sake of it ( while we're on the subject WHY is blockhead considered funny? He just strings random words together most of the time).

It was a good story idea, but something about it just didn't work, maybe the animation needed more detail or more work on the script or something. All in all stick with this kind of style, keep doing your best and I guess improvements are bound to happen in time.

RSQViper responds:

Well, I'm glad you liked the killing spree and saw the reasoning behind it.

Thanks for the support and well-wishes.

[The Lonely Life]

what the...

Wow for all the build up hype I'm surprised how short that was. I have nothing against sad stories, but you barely scratched the surface of the potential story in my opinion, still at least no-one can accuse you of milking the drama.

They say animation can get away with being flawed, so long as the story is good, I'm too much of a perfectionist to believe that myself, but any lower then a 5 would be unfair to the work put into this and I don't mean in terms of looking evil for giving a sad movie a low score >.>

[777 - Part 6]

o_o ah so you're still doing these

I haven't seen one of these for a while, although if I remeber correctly the blatant videogame references (complete with music straight from the games) to keep people interested in the fights made me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon. Besides the camera sometimes switching to a straight on view instead of her side not much has changed really. A story like this shouldn't need to fall back onto existing franchises (sup mario and shadow of colossus lolz) to keep peoples interest, simply because whether it works or not it's the biggest cop out in the book.

[Power-of-love]

huh? arn't you the guy who did o.n.e?

I will try and keep the English simple so you have even a chance of translating this out of respect. Your pencil looks broken on the loading screen at the start which made me lol, the animation was pretty good but not as good as your old work. Power of love is wonderful yes but... why do i feel like I just watched a long advert for mini fighter? @_@

[Waterlollies]

seperating the pros from the wannabes once again

The years working with Disney show in all of your work, it's of the highest calibur but still shows your style rather then theirs, and with the connections you have that helped you complete the experience there's very little to fault this movie on.

The amount of care love and attention to detail is something few artists can have the confidence, competence and time to put into a piece, all the people who are dissing it for a simple storyline are failing to see the point of it. Better a simple scene then some cliche based drama in the forest >.>

[Capcom-Vs-Midway]

one of the better sprite movies I've seen...but...

The problem with serious movies like this is to carry them they have to be really well written and/or have a pretty high attention to detail, so being a sprite movie you already had your work cut out for you.

It doesn't take a genius to spot proxides influnces in this movie which is fair enough since his choreography is excellent and his stories, although cheesy as hell are easy to follow. What lets the movie down is the attention to detail and any real polish to it, in my opinion using a character from Cadillacs and Dinosaurs was a mistake and should have been replaced with someone like sean who sees kitana running or something which is how he gets involved. It's hard enough to make motion captured characters and ones in anime style fighting each other look convincing let alone throwing a 3rd old skool style set of sprites thrown in there. A 2 franchise crossover is more then enough, because unless you're willing to remake the characters to fit in the surroundings it has to tendacy to look just plain weird.

[The Video Game Polka]

heh...

Weird Al and countless video game cameos, I don't think it's even possible to get much more cop out then that unless you threw in boobs, more random violence and dick jokes (none of which this movie needs btw). somewhere between a sprite movie and an animutation, I think you kind of lost your way a bit on this one probably because the song was so long. I give you minor props for the lip sync since it was a lot better then some half assed lip syncing I've seen, but your random humour for the most part just wasn't that funny to really carry it.

[TY 3-D Animation Reel]

TidusYuna? lol ff fan much?

I'm a little undecided on this one, if it was me in charge I would say put this on youtube where it belongs, but that's an arguement I've been in before around here and I'm never going to win by myself >.>

I did some more basic 3D so I understand the work that went into this. The main things that strike me as off is the face and the hair, especially since the hair appears frozen in one position and intersects with her shoulders on a couple of parts, but hair is a full job on it's own to make it realistic so I'd be more surprised if it looked awesome from just a year of practice. As for the facial features again that's just something that comes with practise, from a student perspective it's a good sign of you improving, but from an entertainment perspective anyone who doesn't have strong interests in animation or 3D will probably blam this...

[Sonic Bastardized 3]

I have a hat! =D

Saw this on youtube first I remember seeing your sprite movies ages ago now, I'm glad to see you're still making stuff since your humour is pretty awesome. I generally don't like videos on newgrounds but hey if awesome videogames can get frontpage then this is more then worthy for 4th place of the day, although should there be some irony that I got a 4th for a video too? @_@ anywho only criticism I have is the size limit really shows on this version, some of the voices were hard to hear before and on newgrounds it makes them even worse, forced video compression ftl =(

[Bleach 1st opening]

what the?! o_o

What can I say? This is the most random yet still worthy frontpage I've seen in a while. It goes out of sync towards the end (and you can't blame my computer it's pretty much brand new -_-) but the rest was fairly well thought out, my only advice for improvement is sometimes you have to work outside of the limitations of flash to get the effect you want (mainly that mediocre spray paint effect for example) the recreation of them standing in a circle was awesome though, I watched that a few times just to see how it was constructed, good stuff XD