Celx-Requin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[SpeedE The WFD]

Inconsistent drawing but I admire the effort.

Hello,

I like that you submitted something other than a stick movie as your first submission.

The drawings were solid, although at times a little off, and disproportionate.
The animation was mediocre in comparison to other submissions, and sadly quite choppy.

The voice acting was well done, and the sound effects were well selected.

My main gripe with the cartoon was the story, it didn't really make sense to me... Why did he turn into a super hero drummer? it was random and out of place.
The submission was also terribly short.

I was considering giving you a seven, since it is a very good first submission, however pragmatically when I think about it it wouldn't be the right thing to do.

I do think you show immense potential, and you should continue to produce content!

Sincerely,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

McAfee-Enterprises responds:

Celix, thanks fro your input! With the success we have recently had with SpeedE in WFD The Game, Worlds Fastest Gamer and especially all the awesome suggestions here at Newgrounds, we are very inspired and exciting about the possibility to do a longer more involved episode of SpeedE......

I agree with your comments and we really do need someone in the creative story writing area............. Once you try to beat him in WFD The Game he makes a little more since possibly but yea we do need to build more storyline to why he transforms and more siuations etc........HELP!!!!!! :)

[shroogy the alien prequil]

Way too short...

I have no idea what the point of this animation was, the drawings were really basic, and the animation was mostly bad.

Expand on the concept of an alien coming to earth, work on your drawings, add some quixotic music, and you'll have a significantly better product...

As it stand this bordered on being spam...

Sincerely,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

["EXTINCT"]

Nice fusion piece...

Hello,

I applaud you on the way you've integrated the 2D, & 3D elements together, it was very well done with only a few instances that I felt could have been better. To be more specific at times the 3D stuck out quite a bit, and ruined the whole illusion of the world you created.

That said the animation was very smooth, even considering you were animating cats, because as any animator knows anything with four legs is a bitch to animate.

Nice use of effects, it would have been cool if you made some of them dynamic though, hearing stuff move on the left, and right speaker is always cool, and adds a layer of realism.

Nice story, a little too generic, and "cute" for my tastes. I'm sure the majority of newgrounds will dig this though!

Sincerely,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

manuelberja responds:

thanks man!

[Another Day Two]

Perfect music to compliment the flash...

I rarely write reviews for stuff not listed in the R.R.C. but I needed to write something for this.

The animation appears to all be frame by frame, which gives it a nice "dreamy" quality.
"Emergency 72" is one of the bands most intimate pieces of music, aside from there more powerful "The door"...

I applaud you for using their work since they really aren't that well known stateside,
I think this is the only flash submission to have done so aside from a super old submission I did a few years back...

It was really sweet, something quite rare for newgrounds.
Sincerely,
- Celx

[Rape is Bat]

Basic premise yet a horribly effective execution.

Hello,

I'm not too sure what to make of the piece, on one hand I did laugh at the humor, on the other the artwork, and "animation" held it back significantly.

The music was well selected, and gave the film a dark, and ironic tone.
I say this since that is the theme song to the old batman T.V. series aimed at kids,
whereas your film is anything but kid friendly.

The whole concept of batman being gay for robin, has existed for a while, so this again is playing on the batman mythos to great effect...

The submission is rather short, and could have gone further, thus increasing it's shock value, as it stand it's not bad but not really memorable either.

Sincerely,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

[Snow Wars]

A fine milestone...

Alas it's finally here, I must say it's pretty cool stuff, I like the special effects, and most of the jokes work...

For a newgrounds submission it's quite long, adding to the overall epic feel of the submission.

The menu design is above par, although not amazing, the info on the characters is pretty fun though.

I guess if I had any big issues with the piece it would be that the video quality isn't up to snuff.

You would have done better if you used the flash video stream component,
then made your film load from an external server. This would have ensured high quality video, and made the file size around 1mb, opposed to importing degraded video into one large flash file.

It becomes an issue because the submission is so large if I want to watch a little now, and watch the rest later I need to re-download the whole thing.

Whereas if you used the above method you could break up the film into chapters and then stream those individual ones according to what the user selects.

And you could actionscript the end of each chapter to start the next video so as to have a continuos flow.

I don't blame you though, the only submission on the portal to have pulled this off is "tarboy" (some of the special features use this technique), I guess it requires specific knowledge of the flash tools.

Aside from that big thing good work,
Sincerely,
- Celx

P.S. I glad to see you picked up fifth!

Fro responds:

That's personally something that I don't know how to do. Is this something that I could ask you next time I'm in this situation?