Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ransack Rabbit #3]

Man that work was freaky. O_o Never thought there'd be a Ransack Rabbit without a bike! But as this does all take place in the faraway fictive world of cartoons maybe that vehicle of transport will be automatically resurrected in a near future... nice episode!

-cd-

[Fernando's New Fragrance]

So... the goats are a no go! XD Looks like I missed some awesome stuff this summer! Was expecting this to be entirely melodic, but a series... I can get used to this! Plot progression, dialog dynamics and pun placement fit perfectly. I guess what I like most about all these skits is their seemingly unintentional humor, how the characters are all simply doing what they do and not attempting to be humorous (almost seems some are distinctively trying not to), but still end up so by mere coincidence. Or maybe it's the contrasts between one characters thought and the others actions, how their wills so easily clash and squabble yet without any intensity in that conflict. In most series even minor conflicts quickly escalate, as if that'd make the scenes all the more memorably intense. Maybe it's how the characters quickly transition between thoughts and events, or how their appearances seem to reflect their stereotypes. Ahh whatever it is, it's all working great! Looking forward to many more of these!

-cd-

[Lunch with Mancubus]

And here I though Mancubuses were fed on a diet consisting entirely of roasted human flesh. Wonder what those burgers contain hmm... was a fun sketch though, with a tragic ending! :( Going to be a different experience next time I'm playing Doom!

-cd-

[Tail's Halloween]

What a suspenseful tail of Halloween horror! :O Nice jopb keeping the suspense up! Animation, sound; everything works great. I didn't notice Tails was dressed up as Pika till the end btw. Nice work!

-cd-

[The Tragic Tale of Timmy]

Whaaa... no repercussions for that evil wizard? Could make for a sequel. ;) Was a tragic yet endevouringly entertaining tale, nice work!

-cd-

[Office Plankton: Silhouet]

Haha, what a return! It's like the Matrix but... in 2D. :P Glad to see Office Plankton back!

-cd-

[J Rocketfingers 3 Trailer]

Each time I thought it was over... it turns out it's just one twist after the other, in escalating levels of explosive action and random revelations! :D I love the idea, and would love to play this in some distant future... but looking at the funding page that is one insane goal... and that half a million is still only for the first episode in a game that to me seems just wouldn't be as explosive without all parts included.

Couldn't you cut out the income tax completely? I don't know how the system works on the other side of the world, but it seems to me that by keeping the venture a hobby project or similar, by not 'officially' hiring people to do parts, by turning to volunteers for effects/audio/etc you could cut down those prices by at least a few chunks easily equal to the yearly wages of any normal working individual. All the pieces of that pie chart just seem so unnecesarily expensive for something that's to be contributed to by the community. I understand that original art and FBF is incredibly time-consuming, and you want to create something out of this world, but this feels like buying a product based on brand rather than functionality, like that much money shouldn't be needed for what's being attempted. Anyway, I read your answer to Wegra's comment so I get your standpoint, just throwing my two cents out there. Best of luck with the project!

-cd-

vastcool responds:

I'll be updating the kickstarter soon with another video that will hopefully get the point across that this will be an insanely hard game to make. An 11 minute Ren & Stimpy cartoon cost 500,000 and that was in 1992. My budget is not astronomical for this quality of project, as shocking as that may seem to some. The 390k budget simply allows me not to commit suicide while trying to complete this monster project. But instead it allows me to teter on the brink of insanely stressed and over worked for the entire production. If I had a 590k budget, THAT would be far more realistic of industry standards and I would be able to work comfortably, not stressed out and living in ulcer city.

If I were an architect and wanted to build a sky scraper, no one would be questioning my budget because nobody here is an architect and would know very little of what exactly goes into constructing a massive building.

Yet here everyone is chiming in thinking they know how much this game should cost. People are comparing it to Madness and other kickstarters that are completely incomparable to Johnny since Johnny is a one of a kind project not only in art style but story, humor and animation.

How many people here know how much the industry standard is for a Background Artist? How about a clean-up artist or even better yet a Storyboard Artist or Animator? My guess is very few.

I am a 32 year old adult industry working professional. Not a kid making flashes for fun to submit to Newgrounds. Eleven other adult industry professionals would be hired whom I have hand selected as the most talented people that I have met in the past seven years while working at Titmouse, Six Point Harness, Shadow Machine and Nickelodeon.

They do not work for peanuts. They are working industry adults who have families and bills to pay.

If everyone just pledged for the game they want and stopped worrying about the goal we would be a lot closer to a new Johnny game.

Thanks for the comment Cd.