Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A day in Babu's Life]

So here's the one I saw in the previews. :) Really like the attention to detail, and the clear sound. You even make the lighting look natural, and adding in the background via drawing like that was a pretty cool idea. It ends... a bit abruptly, but it's a fun little glimpse! Frame rate might be higher, but it looks good like this too. Adds to the style, somehow. Keep it going!

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[Incident:010E]

Pretty smooth animation overall, though seems like the first guy in the first room should've fallen back instead of forward. Gravity's a bit quick to pull people down sometimes too, but action otherwise looks good! Good pace; good variation.

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[Robots Escape from Boston Dynamics]

Actual footage from Boston Dynamics too? Feel kinda sorry for them robots! Good stuff.

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[Chronicles in Space - Battle For The Bleyde]

The Beyblade battle that went down in intergalactic history! XD Looks like some pretty exciting things happened in the one episode I missed! Entertaining as always, and it does explain some of the things that came after... good stuff.

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[EAE - The Way We Raise Our Kids]

I was indeed the lucky third. :) And this really is spot on how we were raised, though things definitely changed with time as we all grew older... really enlightening little bit of info. It also seems like, by bringing this to a conscious level, you really don't need to keep raising kids the same way, but realize right from the start that it'll be in a set pattern, and as such avoid that pattern for: whatever's really best for those kids. Didn't expect this to be so eye-opening! Really. Nice work.

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EAEverything responds:

I was lucky third as well.

I'd say this place is full of them :)

[Totally Tubular Collab: Part 55]

Paused the movie to maybe find an easter egg on the screen but... looked like pretty regular random instructions. :/ Bit disappointed! Considering how easy that flipped by it would've been the perfect place to hide a little Easter egg. Apart from that though: smooth work! Fun little short.

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[Willow Wiggle]

Wonder what that tongue twister means? Feels like knowing that the ending might actually make sense. :) Though the animation overall was just beautiful anyway. So ambient and smooth... pleasure to watch!

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Extellus responds:

There's actually a translation right under the sheet of paper he picks up at the beginning but to save you time it translates to: ''A willow wiggles on a hilltop'' :)

[Speedpaint | Alyssa Reynard, Flexible Fox]

A pretty smooth speed paint! Intro, music and all. More elaborate than most.

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[For Whom the Bell Knows]

Thought the animation was great, as was voicing, and sound, and pacing, and symbolism with the bell... I didn't really catch the story at all. Something about finding religion...? It seems to lead to a realization, and that's the symbolism he holds in his hand at the end, but the story leading up to that particular point doesn't seem to have any relation. He doesn't seem like a religious man. He doesn't seem like a sinner, either. I wonder if his work might have something to do with it, or if he suffers from some disease, and thus the bell tolls for him, or if it's a material bell and he suffers from lack of sleep but... in the end I still haven't figured it out. So conclusively: script could definitely use some polish, but otherwise it's work well done!

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coltenseamans responds:

The inspiration for it was this really annoying bell on my way to class that was super loud and seemed to go off every time I went by it. I was like, oh what if a guy had a really traumatic experience with a bell and it kind of haunted him to an extreme level until a breaking point. So I knew moments that I wanted to happen and originally he lit the bell tower on fire after snapping but people were pointing out problems with my storytelling for that part. I ended up going with this thing where he is defeated and just does what the bell was telling him to do. To change by confronting his past. Not that that’s even conveyed haha.

Extra notes are that I was having him be this WWII British firefighter of the auxiliary firefighting service that I was doing research on for another class. So that was the uniform he had on in the beginning and that was a child he was trying to save but got spooked by the falling Bell (totally didn’t look like one) and ran from that. At which point he tried to start anew elsewhere. Anyways the thing he holds at the end is a little badge from his firefighting times and I was like, I don’t know, he’s going to stop forgetting it/confront what happened or something.

The script was a mess :)

I do wish that I did something smaller so that I could of focused on the script, my weakest point at the time. You know, less, but done really well.

It’s interesting that you saw a religious side to the end and I think I might watch it through with that in mind. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to try sharing it again because I always wondered what others thought of it and such. Thanks for the comment!