SpikeVallentine's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Eyes of a Stranger]

Love the style. That LOOONG neck, awesome dude. I'd say this peice's strength is the animation (absolutely, you did great), and the visual art. And wow, you can paint your backgrounds, too? Good deal, man.

However, I do NOT support the combination of narration + the voice acting, that's a bad unatural mix. At least the way it was done. I even paused your vid to see if the narration would stop or keep talking (to double check if it was in the vid or not) The narration ruined it. If it wasn't there I'd be way more immersed, lol. Not just becuase it didn't mix well, but becuase even the content of what was narrarated didn'td o it for me. I didn't care and I don't even remember what she said.

Not sure if you did that as a 'quick move' to 'wrap up' your cartoon out of being in a pinch for time.

If you did want to do an intentional narration, I would think one of the strongest voices it can come from is the main character. The girl we see on screen. What story, emotions, point of views, or secrets can she share with the audience? Anyway, 3 weeks or less is not a lot of time so yeah, don't worry mate, I got you. I know you can do better and understand that what people produce for their NATA entries may not reflect their true abilities.

Hope this feedback helps you in your future NATA battles. :)

StejkRobot responds:

Thank you so much man! And you're totally right! The narration over the character voice was a bad idea, i realized that when i cut it all together 20 min before the deadline.
The original idea was to put explanatory wall paintings in the backgrounds that told the story/prophecy
instead of the narration, but i knew that i wouldn't be able to make that in time.
I feel kinda bad because these incredibly talented voice actresses put up and made this for me and i kinda screwed it up. But ill be sure to make it up to them somehow!
Thanks for the review, really helpful!

[Pine]

Very very nice. You did everything right.

dylan responds:

Thanks!

[Will Die For Food]

I cried...

ADASport responds:

Awesome. We glad we made you cry, ha

[Being a Zombie BITES!]

hahahha rofl. the ending was disgusting.
Also, you had a lot of intersting ideas :)
Gj.

jessejayjones responds:

Thank you very much! :)

[Caution is Key]

He needs to grow some balls. He acts like it's the end of the world after realizing one of the many possibilities to enter the building is a no go. Anyway, good job. =)

Brewster responds:

lol thanks

[Walking the Walk]

lol good job.

I really like how you made the main character the purple turtle.
My fave is the red happy monster with scales who keeps slapping the air. Lol.

Good job mate. Trippy. Nice imagination. =)

TheBoogley responds:

Thanks Spike, I just watched Snow Snow For Lucy again in your honour! :D
Good old Scaly McScales The Red, he loves the "massage the breeze" as he calls it.

[Burunguru 4: reservoirdug]

loL

um for story help. tell the audience what his motivation is fork killing everyone.

LOL! THE SONIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Horsenwelles responds:

the movie's biggest plot point was mr. blonde randomly killing people. GET IT HURR HURR genocide

[knife training]

yea yea yea! its good its good!

30 hours of work for 3 seconds, hahahha. yo 30 hours straight? i like it i like it =)
make some real stuff.

okay what to improve is the speed. sometimes she's doing things in slow motion!
unless you wanted that. the slow motion is specifically when she does the 180 side kick

um.......just...delete ....some frames. and it should be good to go. =)
but good job! make some more stuff and then let me know and stuff.

Gekon responds:

no, no 30 in straight ;), 3 days for 10 hrs each, and you're right, I can delete frame here or there, maybe I'll think about it if I'll have some time to improve this one or add some movements, there should be even background, but somehow my PC couldn't handle any more operation :/

[Say NO to Facebook Button]

Just get over it guys.

Move on and all. Perhaps ya'll will adapt. Give it some time.

I mean, I'm sure Tom felt it might be a wise decision to put up the "like" feature.
He's the one running the site, so he needs to guide it according to his vision. Look how far that's got him.

Anyway, if you don't digg the like button, then don't look at it or touch it. It's really that simple.
Rofl....

Peace!

Prid-Outing responds:

It's true what you're saying, but perhaps a proper and matching design for the LIKE button, plus a less attractive position, would be much better?