Celx-Requin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Silent Hill Menu]

Good menu, but still...

Hello,

I must say I loved the preloader, the menu itself was pretty cool.
Although I would have made the play button animate to a blur effect on rollover,
and I would have also added a mute button for the music.

So as a menu it wasn't bad at all, I would have rated it as a 4/5.
Unfortunately as a actual flash submission it was really lacking, obviously
because it's unfinished.

The sad thing about this submission, is it showed so much promise,
I think it sucks you're not going to finish it, but to each their own.

Thanks,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

Fro responds:

That's about what I expected.

[Falling.]

Good first submission.

Hello,

I liked the overall feel of the film,
unfortunately the animation was really choppy.

The drawings weren't bad, however they felt a little too simplistic.
I did like that you redrew the backgrounds, which gave your piece a surreal dream like feeling, the sound was good, and it was a nice choice of music.

So overall it was a fairly solid first submission.
Thanks,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

Influous responds:

Hi, I think the choppyness is from when I made the animation smaller so it would fit the 10 mb limit, try setting the quality lower if this happens and it should run more smoothly if you are using an older pc.

[Shoes for Sale]

It was alright...

Hello,

I'll start off with the positive, the script was solid, the mouth animation was well done, and the art style while simple was unique.

Now the not so great aspect of the film, the hands seemed so wrong, and there wasn't too much animation per-se, aside from the basic tweens and such.

Not a bad holiday flash, and it's nice to see something a little darker around this time of year, still I felt it could have been handled better.

Sincerely,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

Jimtopia responds:

I'm very aware that I'm absolutely awful at drawing hands, and I am trying to learn, I've even considered getting one of those wooden hand models, but... well I'm holding out hope that I can learn how to draw them without having to shell out money. Either way thanks for the review.

[The Mummy's Tomb]

Psychopathic fun!!!

Hello,

The animation on this ranged from being good to, choppy.
Obviously the big draw to this piece was your use of colors, fun, and vibrant,
kind of reminds me of the "harlequin fetus" series (although no where near as dark).

There wasn't really much of a narrative, however it was still a pleasure to watch the film, I enjoyed it more as an experience than as a story oriented piece.
I'll be sure to keep an eye out for some of your other stuff!

Thanks,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

Voodoo responds:

Psychopathic??? What?? haha

I definitely didn't have a story in mind for this, I just added new ideas as I was going.

[Xmas at the obamas]

Hurt by poor animation, and an unclear message...

I'm sure this was supposed to be a satire, I'm just not too sure what your message was.

The animation wasn't too great either, and instead of a loop you should have had a replay button at the end. The comedy was relying heavy on being random without any setup or context, this in turn made the film fail.

Sincerely,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

PowerRangerYELLOW responds:

The naked paper bag man is mad at obama and takes his anti psychotics so that he doesn't try to kill obama.

He takes pill to clam himself down but the pill he took has adverse effects due to obama's health care plan.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[The Last Minute Shopper]

An Excellent Noir...

Man I loved this!

The execution was so professional,
The character was interesting, a thief who actually doesn't seem to care about
money as much as human life, he seems to have his own sense of ethics.

Which works well into the tradition of noir genre themes, namely moral ambiguity.

I see you've received criticism for "ripping off Frank M" I think that's bullshit,
Frank M didn't create noir, he learned from it, this has more in common with 1950's film than it does with his work.

I would have like some special features. Specifically being able to flip through the original comic, and a commentary on how, and why you deviated from the original character design so much.

Still this is a really cool film!
Well done!
- Celx

knobbywood responds:

Thank you for the more than kind words :)

[One Cold Christmas]

Cool holiday short!

Hello,

I really liked this,
it reminded me of the work of John K, which I'm sure was the feel you were going for.

The animation was pretty good, the drawings were very well done although at times felt unpolished.

The music again had a pretty good selection, and fit the piece.
I guess my only problem with this film is the voice acting.
It wasn't bad, although at times it was very difficult to make out what the characters were saying.

I tend to go easier on sound issues when it comes to flash films, since the focus should be on the art/animation.

The only thing I'm wondering is why you chose godlimations as an affiliate?
Didn't the whole bit with Santas asscheeks seem a little gay to him?

Thanks,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

MrAbnormal responds:

i'm in a contest thats hosted by him thats dealing out the big $$$. hes not an affiliate, but im required to put all those ads. and i was going for a kind of class cartoon feel. yeh

[60 Seconds of Awesome]

Cool Concept

Hello,
The concept was pretty cool.

The menu design was very solid, it was on par with the way I design my menus!
Which is to say it had a bunch of features no one will ever use.

The extras you added were pretty cool.
A good selection of music, rounded out the piece.

Some of the animation was lacking, but overall it was a really well executed project.

It reminded me of another submission on the portal called "One Big Morphing Orgasm", but that may only be because there was a piece of music that was used in both submissions.

It obviously was pretty short, although very well done!

Thanks,
- Celx
~Review Request Club~

Emrox responds:

Thanks for the review, I appreciate it!

I actually found the song "sadja's soul" via that movie. It was too good a song... I couldn't resist using it!

[Eku Dance Sock]

Very poor quality...

I must say I didn't like this cartoon at all,
The drawings were bad, the animation was horrid.

I know you mentioned that you used a mouse, and we shouldn't blame you for the quality of your drawing due to that.

Frankly I can't sympathize with that argument. Some of my early work was done with a mouse, and alot of prominent animators on the portal still use mice, since they can't afford wacoms... Yet they still are able to produce decent animations/drawings.

You also mentioned that the art style was intended, and that is a fair argument,
however just because poor work is what you were going for doesn't make it any better.

The replay button at the end was in dire need of a larger "hit state",
because without that it was extremely frustrating to use...

I couldn't dig the concept either, and I felt it was too short.

Next time work on your drawing, animation, & narrative,
& you will have a better product.

Thanks,
- Celx

RollLip responds:

You have a point. but just look at the score! can all those people be wrong?