DJGuardy's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FBF (My First flash EVER)]

For a first ever flash...

That was very impressive for a first time flash! Particularly an FBF one!
There were some points where the music was quite fast/action packed and the FBF didn't quite have the same intensity, but FBF is an extremely difficult type of animation to get right, and you made a very very very good start!

I hope this gets through judgement, and keep working on FBF, as you honestly could get to a much higher level!

Hope to see more from you soon!

[Target Madness]

Supermon21....

Reviewed by: Supermon21

Overall Score: 1
Atleast don't use Garage Band for your music. I've extreamely sick of that. Tired, boring, nothing really funny about it. Try to work harder at making flash.

Flash by Supermon21:
- none -

Point proven. Anyway, onto my review. Ace little flash you got going there, I like the graphical style a lot! Very funny stuff too, especially the random inclusion of DDR in the equation. Also liking the narrator gimmick/joke too, very clever. Maybe sound quality could be a tad better on the voices, but wasnt terrible overall. A great job, really keep up the good work, I enjoyed this a great deal.

[-Play More-]

In two words...loved it.

I'd never really been truly interested in the art of 'rotoscope', having not heard much about its techniques or how they can be used in the majority of animation today. However, you have really got me inspired here, with incredible style, and an actually awesome technically excellent percussion style piece of music. I am a huge fan of Blue Man Group, and it really did match up with their masterful percussion sounds and rhythmic patterns. Just out of interest, two things - 1) Did you take any form of inspiration from Blue Man Group (if you haven't, check them out you'd like them, and also if you have, congratulations on the style you've done it :) ) and 2) What FPS did you have that at?

Graphics were stylish, excellently done, and very well presented. Style - enough said. Sound, awesome piece of rhythmic music pulled off to a great extent. Violence, a guy punched himself in the end...interesting percussion though :D. Interactivity - rated low but it didnt need interactivity to be honest. Humour - I just found it cool how a guy could punch himself in the head and make it sound like a bass drum, that brought a smile to my face :)

Overall, one of the best original music videos on Newgrounds. I saw your other work, was really impressed, and now, consider yourself to be one my favourite author's list. Congratulations, and be proud of your work :)

[The Apple Orchard 2]

In one word...stunning...

That was absolutely brilliant, no doubts about it. I never knew that such a simple thing as tissue paper could prove to be so effective in animation, and you used it to its highest potential. Overall, the flash looked superb.
Voice acting was also excellent, and you really got the feeling that there was a lot of realism to the situations the three characters were placed in, and as for the cousin, whoever voice acted him...congratualtions, you made me hate him instantly :)
Nice music to fit as well, really nice stuff there.

As for the story, I think you captured a real life situation in a format that really communicates to an audience. I've had no love luck ever, and I mean ever, and I have experienced exactly what happened there, and it was harsh. And I thought you really brought that out in the piece, and you couldn't help but feel sorry for the bird at the end.

Overall, an excellent piece of work, and a REALLY nice addition to the portal. Be proud :-)

[Become]

Pretty damn incredible..

That was something else. The quality and the smoothness of that claymation/stopmotion made for an enjoyable experience overall. I'm sure that many claymation film makers and those completely new to the genre would have still been fascinated by that movie.

The first thing that took me, and I'm sure others will agree, was the quality of the opening wire forming animation. The quality, smoothness, and overall appeal of that opening scene was excellent. I really don't know how you managed to get such a smooth and nice looking animation for that, but it was sheerly incredible in my eyes.

I personally am quite a noob to the claymation scene, and I really enjoyed seeing the full creation of the clay model. This could have been done terribly, if not almost as a tutorial. But you really took your own spin on the idea, and it worked to full potential.

I think this will turn many animators towards claymation now, as you have made the process appealing and have introduced it to experienced and noobs alike.

Thanks for this great submissions, you deserve a high score for this.

One last thing, what was your FPS?

MackProductions responds:

twas at 15 frames per second. I took over 2,000 frames for this beast. Im glad you liked it!:)

[Angel B. Dean 03_04 huge]

Just lip-syncing, and you're there

That was a pretty enjoyable movie, even though it used Flash for a mix between a movie file with 3D graphics and vector graphics. :)
3D graphics were nice, and mixed well with the flash vectors. Only one complaint, and that would be to add lip-syncing. The movie would then REALLY be alive then. I'm not sure if that was what you were aiming for, and please correct me if I'm wrong. :)
Sound was crisp, clear, with some good voiceacting too, and I hope this continues in the same high quality.
People don't normally mention the preloader, but I thought that was not a technically achieving preloader, but a pretty nicely visual designed one. Very nice. :)
Some cool moments in the flash, especially where it was 'a race against time' with people running towards their 'goal'. Now I just need to find out what happens.

Keep up the good work :)

[There she is!! step 2]

Incredible...

That was....mind-blowing! Seriously! That has to be one of the best animations I have seen in my life. How do you do that? (I know with Flash MX ;) )

The graphics were insane! Animation was smooth, fluent, and slick! All in all, I dunno how you became so good at animation, because that was incredible.

Excellent syncing to music and a brilliant soundtrack!

Overall, pretty damn incredible.