Markface's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Jim Learn Mathematization]

I loved this.

"That's right, it becomes a watermelon". God, that made me laugh.

Very few animations follow this "1920's educational" style and pull it off as well as you have. First off, your voice was perfect for the role, classy and distinct. Great work on that. The background music wasn't too jarring and in your face, which a lot of animations like this fail to avoid.

The animation was quite good at some parts, some decent frame by frame work and visually arousing backgrounds.

Overall, a hilarious animation. Great work.

[Seven Eight Nine]

What do you know about being rational.

... dear god, that was so lame I laughed.

A wonderful nerdy animation. Sure, the "Movie preview" thing is so terribly overdone these days but it sort of worked this way. You didn't drag it out and for that reason it wasn't boring.

The animation was basic, which is required for moving numbers from side to side, I did enjoy the generic kid jokes but I would of liked something a little more intelligent... well, that's just my nerdy self.

All in all, a fun flash.

[Math]

Classy.

I really enjoyed the use of numbers in this, 'twas a far more creative way to break up an animation rather than just divulge into the math itself.

The animation was smooth, especially for such dis-portioned characters, that made this animation so unique. The fluency was a key factor to this, as it allowed the flow of the number diagram to be visually expansive.

The background music worked with such minimalist style, great work.

[Email > Mail]

Very nice.

This joke has been around for a long time and this animation is a fine example of that.

The overall joke was abrupt and hilarious. It sort of built up to a level of expectance, only to be destroyed by a robot shooting a laser to the theme of daft punk.

Well done, the animation was smooth, the visuals were great and all in all this was a fun animation.

[attack of the blob]

End...

What? What kind of ending is that? Guy shoots the blobs shins... THE END.

The main problem with this is your lack of effort in your animation. It was incredibly blocky and rough. By this I mean you don't spend enough time on your frame by frame work and instead, depend largely on tweens and simple "drag" movements. An example of this is tumbleweed effect, character movements, etc.

The only real frame by frame work you did was so minor and so short that it played no real part to the animation.

Your background music was alright, I grew accustomed to it. But it was so bland that it didn't build any levels of suspense, action or anything else that music usually does in these animations. Also, the whistle loop was not transitioned and repeated very well.

You need to spend a little more time on this before submitting. I suggest using a smaller brush type for your outlines, and possibly not sticking to an entire black outline for everything, at least with this style.

Good luck in the future.

flunkedy responds:

thanks.....I think
yeah this had very minimal effort and well was just an few hours messing on flash
it's also kinda old and was more of a learning process i guess than an actual finished piece thanks on the background music critique I actually had never really thought about this much and my decisions are usually pretty meh and don't provide suspense either

I am and have been working on a large 2 part mostly frame by frame piece for a while now aswell as a few other smaller pieces that are much more developed than this

thanks for taking the time to respond to my flash
and cheers!
fiachra

[Dig-Dug the Psycho Killer]

Jesus christ, that pumping is insane.

Well that was off. Usually I'm not a fan off the whole "One cranky, deep voice guy" conversing with a "Sweet, light voiced guy" but this was alright. I personally haven't played Dig Dug that much, well, recently but I still got all the jokes behind it. I do love how you've turned such a generic childhood game and made it so casually adult.

This shit was intense. Good work.

[Pain on the Brain]

60 seconds of man.

I quite liked this. For the life of me I don't know why. Probably has something to do with the insane amount of confusion I suffered watching this, the general irony and contradiction behind the jokes were also planned out quite well.

The animation was quite good on this all 'round. Smooth, fluent and not filled to the brim with tweens or other lazy animation techniques, which usually happens a lot with these types of skit animations.

Only downside I'd say is the voice acting, I mean the kid screaming when his head caught on fire... it seemed so docile.

Other than that, good work.

[Criminal!]

*flies*

Jesus christ. This animation is simply amazing...

At first it had that "Oh look, generic stick figure killer" vibe... but you turned this into the most entertaining animation of confusion I've seen in a long time. The animation was so basic, that's it charm. Smoke and mirrors would simply divert away from the simple and rather odd sense of humor you created here.

The sound was a little off but who gives a shit, the quality of the script was brilliant. It honestly had me laughing from near start to finish. Great work.

Nothing more to say.

[Weed. Lol]

Rofl, brilliant.

This was quite well done... I know it was rather effortless but it came out nicely.

What irritated me most was the lack of voicing, sure some of the jokes would of worked better with the casual references of text talking but I think you could of pulled it off with voices themselves.

The animation in all was funny, not the "LOL TALKING DOG" parts but rather, for me, the abrupt ending flying off with aliens. It was a confusing end that was only heightened by the normality of the peaceful music.

Despite the lack of animation this really worked. Good job.

[FAST Twilight]

what.

I see where you were getting at with this. Truly this looked like it could of been a successful bash but there were a few things holding it back.

First off, voice acting. It was so timid, docile... it doesn't work with this type of animation. You needed something over the top and in your face. I know it seems a bit off but with animations half the joke is how you project them... and you projected all your jokes the same... it seemed a little off.

The animation was basic, but not much is ever required for these types of parodies. I did love the abrupt ending and you did make some great jokes at the movie that weren't too obvious or lame.

Good job, but work more on your voicing.