Markface's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Jimtopia Changes]

I liked it

This was quite good. You really set out a setting for your animation. Really the whole thing is about nothing... about the unknown direction of a movie to the viewers, but still good.

Your characters, though not spectacularly drawn were good, I enjoyed watching them, it really set up the mode on how you focused them, their eyes, their stances and the general way they moved, which compensated for the small lack of art in them.

The animating was good too, it was generally smooth... enjoyable and you paid attention to the only real parts that counted, and in a comedy thats very important, you did well in the direction of this movie.

But another thing I think you pulled off with flare was the sound, very fruity... though that would be intentional. The whole soundtrack you had going was a pleasent backdrop for the humor you had in place. Even though there were no voices used in it (though it helped having the text for a few jokes) the cartoon with text speeches was still quite good and didnt offput any of the humor which may of been missed by using tone of voice or soundscaping.

As mentioned, the cartoon was funny. You really pulled out irony and a complete sense of confusion and used it well, a hardcore death to everything character such as yourself being forced into a nice loveable git. Really a classic style of comedy used, the force of change to a unlikely situation of a character, and you used that humor refreshingly well... which is quite a good change to see on here.

Also mentioned above was the ending, it was quite well brought out. Using the whole cop-out "it was just a dream" or "it didnt really happen" kind of sketch is a simple way to tell when a person has run out of ideas for a way to finish their cartoon. Though the way you did it was still funny and it played along with the cartoon so it worked, very well.

From the start to the end this was a great flash, funny, lengthy and quite unique in comparison to other peoples work. When I see "I made this awhile ago and I wanted to share it with you guys" in the description im normally upset, its usually a bad reminder of what the flash artist use to be. But this isnt, this was enjoyable and topped all of my expectations.

Good job, and keep it up!

Jimtopia responds:

Wow! Where to start. I'll go by parargraph.

Response:

Lol, well, it had a direction originally, it just kinda got off track.

I take great pride in making sure my characters convey what they want or what they are feeling, I'm glad you noticed. :)

Smooth animation, never gotten that compliment before, if you think this one was smooth check out some of my newer stuff.

As I've stated before, I don't do voices, at least not for those charactrs, I do intend to do some cartoon with voices soon hopefully. Anyway, one of the things I updated from the original was the song, so I'm glad you liked the change.

Yay, I'm really glad you liked my sense of humor, most of the time my humor is for like 12-13 year olds, but you seemed to really enjoy this cartoon even though you are 16, glad to see my humor can branch out.

Lol, yeah, I couldn't think of an ending. Or I was too lazy, I can't remember now, lol.

Thx for that compliment, I know that putting older work on isn't always a good idea, but like I said in the author's comments, I think this is one of the funniest flash's I've made.

Thx a bunch for reviewing, it's really refreshing to see someone who takes extra care in conveying there opinions about a cartoon.

Your Pal, Jimtopia

[just bring it ok?]

Sore Eyes o.O

This was alright, your visuals were nice, and the animation was quite well made... bar the shape tweens.

But after a while, the whole trance music video got my eyes bleeding. It was decent, but something I wont be watching again in fear of my health :)

[007 GoldenEye Gunbarrel]

Original, but could of been better

It was funny, ill hand you that. Though glitchy, the idea was quite original, but once again... the graphics were somewhat glitchy.

Anyway, decent for what you had.

[Stick Fight!]

New style of stick

I liked the whole Tekken health bar thing you got going on. The start of the flash was nice, good visuals, nice angles and some good frame by frame fluent martial arts moves you got the characters working on.

Im quite suprised this doesnt have a higher score :S, well enjoy my 5.

flamingstick responds:

Thx! :D

[Impossible door]

The end made me chuckle

I quite enjoyed this. The animation was good for a stick flash, though at points a bit bumpy the animation was the majority of the time, very fluent. I especially liked the rocket scene, your frame by frame work is quite good, and I strongly think you should implement on it for further work.

In conclusion, quite a decent stick flash. Sure the whole "Get into the door/box/room" or whatever idea has been done before, but I found this one quite refreshing.

Good job.

[Juan in The Sea]

Sure, the start up was good

But the rest? Well, atleast it shows you've improved over the years.

The concept was good, but the animation didnt follow through.

nIcO-gR responds:

Yeah, I was going to put this on the internet years ago but I lost the file, now I can do the much better, and btter animated part 2!!!

JUAN IN THE SEA__________________
E P I S O D E II
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BUSH STRIKES BACK

[The Ninja Monkey]

Very Road-Runner like

I noted a Blackadder joke in there, whether on purpose or not.

Anyway, the animation was nice... quite fluent. Decent visuals and good humor to boot. Overall, quite good.

[LevonToons Ep 6]

Squirtle is awesome...

Nice little short. As per usual the clocks were decently drawn and animated. Quite humerous too, keep up the good work.

[No Michael]

Rofl, nice short.

I don't know why I found this funny, but I did. The animating was good, even though there was very little of it. Your characters looked nice and you chose a very good sound clip for your flash.

But seriously, how the fuck did you come across that clip?

f-a-c-e-p-l-a-n-t responds:

just my friend amanda being random i guess...we're always like that...wow...i just realized how weird i am

[sticks stairs]

I've seen something similar

Called "Over The Bridge", sure its not to print of this but its alot like.

This animation was decent, the graphics had their moments... once again the style has been done. I liked the sound but hated the song and the humor was ok... but weak at times.

Drop the sticks and invest into something more worthwhile.