Graeme's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Scope of Sports]

Great scoping!

You don't see enough work based solely on rotoscopes on Newgrounds.
This is an extremely well done piece.

the transitions were always smooth, and matched with a change in color just to make it that much more noticable.
The music also fit very well.
It's a shame that the piece wasn't longer. But I've tried rotoscoping before, and it does take a damn long time.

Glad to see you back on Newgrounds. Although I would like to see more from you, doing some more "Noodles on my Back" song/animation type pieces.

[TommyVF's New Grounds]

Outstanding

This never really did get the attention it deserved. This is an amazing tribute to Allen Awesome, and exremely well done.
Everything was so smooth, and there were some clever little jokes and such in there.
In all honesty I like this one a bit better than Marcy's too ;)
Although his got like a weekly award and stuff. I think your should have too. Great work all the way through.

And like I've said before. That is like the greatest hoodie I've ever seeen :D

[-balance]

Intriguing

It was gutsy of you to take this in such an artsy direction. When the competition asked to animate to the mood of the song, you could have easily picked a different song, and done some more humorous things with it.

But honestly, that's what you always do. Don't get me wrong. We love you for it. But I personally like that you wanted to do something a little more... out there.
There were some nice touches in there. Such as the transitions:
Pixel man = freehand background
Freehand man = pixel background

I like that you edited the song slightly too. That makes your submission already that much more unique than the others.
It didn't perform too well on Newgrounds. But best of luck to you in the TOFA!

[The Food Collab]

Awesome!

Boogley, you put together some amazing collabs!
Your parts were my favorites. Your style is always so unique, and recognizable.
I especially love your opening scene of the assembling of the hamburger.

There were a few parts that were a little poor in quality, but others certainly made up for it. It all came together amazingly.

You menu was also awesome. It was like a waiters little notepad or something. And your collabs are the only ones I know that you can see the collab either all at once, or one persons clips at a time. That is great to see.

The only thing was the game. It's nice to have a preloader game. But the sound effects were bad, and half the time the things I shot at didn't get hit.
It was an okay little time killer during loading, but overall a oor game. Sorry.
But, in the end it's collab that really matters.

So great work!
I would love to see more solo projects by you Boogley. Your FBF skills are awesome. Like your chicken scene.
But I would also love to see you host some more unique and original collabs!

TheBoogley responds:

Thanks Goat-Man, I thought I was the only one who couldn't shoot anything in the game... I just went to your userpage and you've been busy as hell so far this year, DAMN!! WHITE NINJA IS AWESOME!!

[20 Hit Combo]

Awesome

That was truely awesome.
At first when I saw it loading, I was like, "This looks a little too basic"

But right off the bat it whips out these awesome action shots, synched up with DragonBall Z sound fx, and finishing with a falcon punch!?
I thought that was really cool and original.

I especially like the detail in the damage done to the ground. Those marks look really detailed and professional.

Keep at it. If you made this in a day, spend a week or two on something, and it could be amazing!

[OMG, OWNED :D]

I enjoyed it

Very nice use of sound effects, and FBF. All around, I can't find anything wrong with it other than length. Although it was meant to be short.

If you made an entire movie with this style, I would most certainly watch it, because this was sweet!

[Grand Theft Awesome]

Kinda slap together

You had a few good scenes, and smooth animation throughout, but this is still way to overrated.
Egoraptor has a timeless humor. This seemed way to forced, with was to basic of jokes.
It was an ok movie, and I won't rated based solely on humor. So just for animation you can get a bit of a higher review.

[pls delete]

Disturbing...

But hilarious!
You have a great sense of humor. I've seen it come out in many different forms. This one was more adult humor than usual, but some of that classic MyKindOfFlash humor was still there. Like the guy just not being on the bench anymore at the end.

Maybe you should throw together animations more often.
For being such a simple flash, it still has great drawings, and detail. Especially on the characters faces, with the shading and such.

Very nice work. Hope to see more from you!

[A Part]

Too far

I understand it was an artsy movie, with a deeper meaning.
I can respect that. There are lots of great movies with the same goal.

But this one seemed like it was trying to hard, perhaps a little forced?
Not a lot happened.
But there were some cool scenes. Like the one where the alchohol bottle keeps pouring and emptying.
So because some of it was pretty cool, I can't rate it horribly.
But I think it took the whole artsy thing too far, which took away from it some.

[Surface Texture]

Well earned Daily 3rd

I always love your artsy style. It always comes out so clean, and awesome.

I also like that you don't just animate willy-nilly (such as myself)
Your movies like this have deeper meanings.
One suggestion on this though, (taking an example from yourself,) don't tell what things represent.
It's cool to ask fro people's own interpretations. Then you can see what effect your movie had on people.
THEN tell them your own thoughts when making. Just as a little extra, for some interactivity outsude the movie ;)

As I already said, you have a unique style that I love to watch. Where do you get such I wide assortment of textures? I'm pretty sure at one point the walls were graph paper, but I think this is the first time I haven't seen paper towel in one of your movies.

My own views on this movie on an analytical level, are slightly different. But that's the point, different interpretations are good.
I kinda saw it as the little dude walking around, and exploring. But the lesson is something along the lines of:
People test their limits all the time, trying new things. But when we take it too far, our aren't cautious enough, it won't always have positive results.
I saw this when he decided to go into his table, and all of a sudden he was trapped in an endless void.

Once again, great movie, very well done.
Good job testing your own limits, (much like the guy in the movie). Learning new things.

MorrowDays responds:

I LOVE YOU GOATMAN! What you took from it was something I hadn't thought of at all, and it's a beautiful interpretation. BEAUTIFUL.

You make a lot of good points, about not explaining it before hand. I'll try that. What I found with some earlier work (vinto box/carousel) is that when you dont explain it as much, people review saying things like 'i dont get it' and they don't really enjoy the animation as much. But seriously, I will do that with whatever I do next. Promise :)

I'm kind of superstitious about checking for awards on my stuff, so when I wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, and then go see how the submission did, I go into 'My Account' and click submissions, see what the score is, and then read all of the reviews. For whatever reason, I'm really cautious about actually going to the submission page, so when I read you review header, I was like, AWESOME! Because I hadn't even checked myself! :D I don't know why I dont just check it, but for whatever reason, I dont like to. Takes all kinds I guess.

Yeah, no paper towels! I wanted this piece to be on sort of a new level for me, which meant not using things I was really comfy with, etc. So thats why there wasn't any paper towel. I guess I could have used it as the sky in the window, but other than that there also really wouldnt have been much use for it.

You'll be the first to hear if I need help getting out of an endless void.

Thanks goat-man :)

Moro