Markface's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Animator vs Animation III]

I've always loved these

God damn it. Each one is always incredibly clever.

You take the easily animated stick figure and throw it into a world of nostalgia of old computer programs. You've done well to turn damn near everything into a possible weapon and left absolutely nothing unturned in regards to destruction.

There's hardly any story to this other than a pissed off stick figure and a crafty computer animator, but you've managed to wrap up this trilogy quite nicely.

It's a shame there will be no more of these, but it's nice knowing you're not whoring yourself out with these.

[Go! Animate rocks!]

Could have been better

I'm sure some kids just sit around and think "TV sucks, I'll go do an animation", but most of the time it comes on a little differently than that. I noticed the picture of Tom Fulp (who couldn't notice that beast?), so you could have led up to the fact that the kid was obsessed with the website/animating a little better.

I'm not sure what 'GoAnimate' is, but I gather it's just another easy-to-do animation program. Either way, the joke worked for me as I'm used to seeing so many similar sorts of animations on Newgrounds itself.

I've noticed in a few animations you're great at controlling a characters body (to an extent), mainly the arms. They were fluent for the few seconds of usage in this animation and I'm not sure why you didn't follow through with that throughout your whole animation. Oh well.

Decent joke. Animation could have been a little better.

[Breakdance stick-man]

I really liked this

I thought it was just going to be another stick figure dance routine. But then I saw it morphed into your username and was impressed.

The stick figure was very fluent, mind you, that's not very difficult to do with a stick figure. It seemed to stay true to the movements of a break-dancer, though did seem a little too fast during a few of the spins.

The morphing into your name was great. Clever and fluent, and the text design of the name looked superb. This would be a high quality opener for any animation you might make in the future.

[My little practice FLA]

Good start

If this is one your first attempts at animating then you're going to do some seriously good things later down the line. I'm willing to bet on it.

The reason I say this is that you've really honed in on some vital effects that really make up a quality animation. Rushing effects, difficult angles, shaking effects, and other pieces here and there that are essential to creating any animation that requires movement. This sort of grasp on movement and animating usually takes a little while for a new animator to pick up. I personally suck at it.

It would have been nice to see a little more frame by frame work from yourself. The characters and sketches felt rooted into place and made the animation feel more like an interactive comic book than a fight scene.

The only advice I can offer is to keep going. Make mistakes and learn from them. You've avoided the normal path of making shitty stick figure fights like most flash artists do at their beginnings and have created something that shows that you have some real talent lurking within.

I won't be surprised if I see you owning the weekly awards one day. Keep it up.

Shock4th responds:

Hey, thanks bro. knowing people have confidence in me, makes me confident. ^^
And you really flatter me when you say i might own at the Weekly Awards. But let's not try to get ahead of the present, well see what happens in time.

[Robby's crib]

Lol what

I'm willing to bet one day you'll be a pretty damn popular animator. A funny one too. But right now the quality of your animation and ideas are just lacking.

On the plus side; You're working well with the characters you've created. You're not trying anything too flashy and it's paying off. A lot of beginner animators mess themselves up by trying to create incredibly complex characters to make their animations look good (and in turn, end up fucking it over). You've taken a simple design and really homed in on how to animate it to your advantage. So good work there.

Your animations feel like their being created for the sake of being created. I did the same when I first started animating on Newgrounds. I just created new shit just so I could submit something, and great ideas and funny scripts came second to just rolling something new out. I really think you could create something hilarious and high in quality if you sit down and think up a few jokes before starting.

This just feels like you're making it up as you go along.

I'm sure I'm going to see a lot more from you, though.

Cheetoh responds:

Finally someone who thinks like me. My friend and I try so hard to make good scripts. I have an idea set, but I have to right the script.

[The End Of the World?]

Cute.

Pretty decent punchline, and the best part is you didn't ruin it by dragging it out. There obviously were some issues.

The flash file looks very compressed. Did you export it as a .swf file? I noticed at the end it says "Subscribe", so was this originally made for YouTube? For the sake of quality it might have been easier recreating the whole thing.

You did well with the facial expressions and body language of the character. It met with your voice acting quite well and the whole casual approach your character had to the end of the world.

The character looked very simple, but hey, it was a short skit, who cares? Could have done a little more on the background imaging at the start. Also, the thickness of the lines on the rock/table were a little much. They almost ate up the screen a bit.

At the end of your animation if you include the following script it will stop sounds and the looping issue you have:

stop();
stopallsounds();

Anyway, good joke let down a little by the animation.

Cheetoh responds:

I exported this to swf. Before it was an avi, and it's on youtube. Is there anyway I can put a pre loader in the new swf file?

[Beer Run!]

Lol'd

You always seem to make me laugh. Despite leading up to one big punch-line the animation seemed to make me laugh all the way through. It's almost like you just animate one of your web-comics.

The style of character being true to your own was very fluently animated, and while simply drawn and animated you compensated by excelling in things like expressions and body language, which was crucial for this sort of animation.

The voice acting was great at some times, plain at the others. At the start of the animation I wouldn't be surprised if I heard the script shuffling from where the person was reading off of it... but that was redeemed towards the end.

Eh, good work is what I'm trying to say.

[Katan]

Loved it

Absolutely superb. I'm not sure why I haven't gotten around to reviewing this yet as it left such a strong impression on me last year.

The whole animation was a superb hit. But the stand out factor for me was your consistency and fluency in your frame by frame animation. You took some amazing and (at times) difficult angles quite courageously, and the results were superb. The animation didn't feel hindered or manipulated in order to have an easier strain on your animation ability and allowed us to get on with the story.

Which, by the way was great. Dialogue aside it was a very grim "Cutesy Animal meets Indiana Jones". Great action scenes made it frightening and suspenseful to watch at times. But in all it told a great short story.

I really hope we can see more and more from you.

[MvC3: She-Hulk]

Simply dirty humor

An average short where sexual innuendo's rule and animation is suppressed. The drawing was decent, but it felt overused amongst the little animation. The background cinematic was able to gain my attention for a moment before becoming a bit repetitive. The sad part how the end credits looked flashier and more thought out than the animation itself.

Nice voice acting, though.

[Man Head Pop]

Righteo.

This sort of thing is designed for the 'Animation' forum, where you showcase your shorts. But there's nothing wrong with submitting it here, I guess.

I can't really comment on the subject of the animation as there is none. In regards to your animation is was somewhat simple. The frame by frame work involved is ok, could use a bit of work maintaining consistency in your characters when they move/turn, etc.

Other than that, pretty bland.

TheRealNat23 responds:

I agree. But to get better, what do you mean by "could use a bit of work maintaining consistency in your characters when they move/turn, etc."? I know bland means terrible. Also, where is the animation album on this site?