Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[TD-The Punishment]

The life of art is... challenging, baffling, creative, and with poetic jargon to boot. Entertaining too, in retrospect, in these artistic slide-show flashbacks with add-on narrative! Good stuff as always.

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[Crash Zoom: Orcs n Dorks]

Well that spiraled out of control fast! XD She certainly does make things fun, that little girl. Crazy, brutal, but in the end it all works out. Awesome work.

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[Apple Picking.]

IMO the secret to having fun picking apples is having a mindset with which you derive more satisfaction from challenging yourself than taking than the easiest way possible to do or get something, in this case the apples. This combined with the appreciated knowledge that the apples you are picking weren't pounded by pesticides and pollution (at least I wouldn't pick them in a place they were), and haven't been pummeled by other people looking for the freshest types all day at the supermarket. When you get them at the shop, who knows where they come from? Could've grown next fence to a powerplant. That, and the added exhilaration gained from evading the consumerist politics pyramid that's turning the modern world into a shithole. Also: the actual act of picking apples is kind of fun. :P You move around a bit. See how fast you can get. Walk home with a 20kg pack of apples bouncing on your back until your legs feel like spaghetti all ready. I do love picking apples, but that said this was a pretty entertaining sketch! Considering the apple surplus in the neighborhood I guess more people relate to your reasoning too. Good stuff.

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tonyfamous responds:

Thanks for the nice review, but sorry, but you haven't convinced me and I won't be doing any apple picking in the near future. ;-)

[She Thor vs Zombie Hulk (marvel fan film)]

Feels kind of weird that She Tor has no voice, unlike Zombie Hulk (it's the little grunts), but the animation itself is fantastic! Smooth, stylish and powerful. Love it.

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[My Childhood Nightmare]

Now that w as a pretty eerie dreamy! More so the parts with all the people looking than the part about getting dragged into the darkness. It's the smallest and most familiar things, I suppose. Wonder how much of this is really exactly as it was in the dream too: the pictures on the walls? Wallpapers on the walls? The door handle slightly twitching as you crawl out of the room to fetch the ball? Overall really nicely done! Smooth claymation/stopmotion, and more so you really build up the mood.

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djavh responds:

Wow, I was going trough old comments, and found that I somehow missed to reply to this one. Better late than never I guess :). The dream took place in my grandparent's house around year 1992 and I was trying to recreate the scenery as closely as possible. I had and old wedding video on vhs transfered to dvd, just because there were some scenes filmed in this room and I wanted to see what the wallpapers looked like at that time (I don't have a vhs player now). There are the same pictures on the walls of my young father, aunt and some old pople in that room to this day. The cupboard still stands at the same spot to this day too. I took a photo of it when I was visiting my grandparents and made the exact little cardboard copy for a film. The carpet is no longer hanged on the wall, but it was at the time and I made it as close to the real one as possible. The twitching door handle was actually an accident. I kept touching it accidentally while animating the kid. I was going to photoshop it out, but my girlfriend suggested to keep it in, because she thought it added to the creepiness of the video. So I kept it as is. I really love your comments. They are always very insightful and it's clear that you pay attention while watching the videos. If you really liked this one, I would be very curious to know what you thought about my newest big (~23 minutes long) claymation video "Baby boy". It was uploaded here on October 2019, so check it out if you're interested. Thank you and have a nice day :)