Markface's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Death's Curtain Ep.01]

Keep this going

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Every now and again an artist with unbelievable talent, style and creative imagination hits the portal, and this is a fine example.

This has got me hooked, I want to see more. Your visuals were amazing, this is the best blood and gore effects ive seen in ANY animation... It started off tame, but then when it got to the face stabbing and arm melting, it had me smiling.

The entire animation was very smooth, interesting and great to look at. The voice acting and general sound use was brilliant and the theme... my god, it feels unbelievably creative yet you haven't told us much yet.

I promise you this, I'll be looking for your name alot more in the future.

[y my 3rd movie]

Quite enjoyable

The only real error I saw with this was the length. It to far to tell the joke. But that didn't destory it, the way you used nice visuals, funny liners and good settings really brought out the humor.

Good job!

Violet-AIM responds:

Thanks

[Heroes of Cybertron]

Brilliant

So, you were ALWAYS submitting good stuff. That makes me feel like shit.

Anyway, the animation was great, the frame by frame work was amazing, even by today's standards.. alot of great visuals and interesting camera views to top it all off.

Great job!

[Akira the Don - Hypocrite]

Good stuff

Another fast paced, enviorment filled and great looking animation. You really have a talent for showing people what they want.

Great job!

Wonchop responds:

Thanks

[The Fenix Chronicles]

Try harder

I was getting quite into it when I saw your characters first off, they were drawn quite well at times. But what really upset me was the way you tried to avoid altering them.

It was easy to tell you tried to avoid all frame by frame work here. Your characters are normally just shown still, not moving and then at any point if there is frame by frame work then its very basic.

If you can find the effort to use all the nice visuals of these characters throughout the animation, you'd be looking at a score much higher than this.

Best of luck.

JohnnyTremain responds:

I immediatly regreted making my characters so detailed, It is so hard to animate them afterwards. I'm still a beginner and was'nt ready to animate such intricate characters. My next flash well take the drawing down a notch, and bring up the animation. Thanks for the criticism.

[The Unlimited]

Far to short

The main problem I saw with this, was that it tried to explain a new plot, new characters and a new setting with just a few words, in under 15 seconds. Then expected us to understand what it meant.

It was then followed by random violence, the most simplistic pull-off on Newgrounds. It would of been alot better if you threw away the 15 second attempt of a plot and just added some more killing, or god forbit, put more effort into your animation.

The way it cut straight into the fight scene, as if it almost expected us to understand what was going on was somewhat weird. It was basically taking the random stick killer, giving it a quick outline and throwing in a plot which took 30 seconds or less to invent.

Along with the thrown in storyline, the visuals were par at best. I saw alot of motion tweening, hardly any frame by frame and you severly missed out on the fine detail (he pulled the shotgun chamber, only his arm moved?). The animation was smooth, but when there is no visual or perceptive backup from the drawings or style of animation, well it doesn't work in the first place.

The characters were copy paste material, no uniqueness in any of them. No symbolic meaning, which once again made the plot look like a last minute attempt.

The backgrounds, paid off. Some decent shading effects and nice foreground to look at, probably your best peice.

The music, was very nice. Though, if you add any fast music to a kill em all it tends to go well, so no points there. The sound effects were in reptition and no special loop, dubs or editing to initiate the spacial differences between them.

Overall, it looked like the cross between Xiao Xiao and Madness... but without the talent. To much tweening, it all looked the same and once again, the plot looked like it was invented after the flash was made... not a good point.

I think if you honestly put some effort into your work, you could pull off something alot more enjoyable than this.

ZeroJ responds:

Dude Dude .... Realy i dident do anything with theewing ! Evrything is FBF Realy only the fade in and outs are tweened

[Toonimated Shorts]

I loved these

Alot of things got me into this, though the main one I think was the frame by frame work. It was so fluent, smooth and enjoyable.

The humor concept was nice, a TASTEFUL, enjoyable sense of humor which is rare to come by on this website, it seemed almost like disney (well atleast the first one).

Anyway, great work and I'd love to see more of these.

[The Ball Collab]

Decent

Well, the collaberation idea was quite good. Vague, but good. There's alot you can do with a red ball, humor or seriousness wise... you guys chose some of the most expected ones and implemented on them well.

The only thing I saw that really lacked were graphics, some were to basic, some used standard tweening for animation.