Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Poppers]

A parade of random characters popping up to awingly ambient background sound. I wasn't expecting that ending, panning out on a strange world, that was definately worth the parade to wait for. Graphically great, sensefully... existential? Nice work!

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[Police Cops]

For a while on the road at the start of the chase - the cars didn't seem to be moving at all, lack of motion in the road itself. Err or intentionally emulated effect for some unknown reason? I like the colorful style of graphics, it's like oldskool anime shows, and the characters all stereotypes of groovy unnamable classics. Great voice acting (specially that criminal boss lmao), slicka nimation and plenty of random action. Will there be some kind of Crook Criminals sequel cooking? Keep it going!

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Kel-chan responds:

Crook Criminals...sounds pretty good

Bandit Burglars maybe? hmm...

[Studio Stuff]

Uhuh, cliffhanger indeed. With the mild taunting going on that gunshot felt a bit undeserving, but it's a movie with a moral! Animation's good, but I'm wondering why the pupils of that one guy are white? I guess it's intentional though you could think the fill-in's were forgotten. Keep it going!

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[Bear And Bunny Boo ❤]

lmao, well that was an unexpected twist... awesome animation all the way through, both the cozily cute and the viewtifully violent. Fast-paced and eventful too. Nice work!

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[Unoriginality is a Ladder]

Haha, the way of the world, explained by an unexåpected set of characters. Nice work!

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Jonimator responds:

Cheers!

[Guncross Episode 1]

This had some really interesting graphical effects. The rain of bullets, the different angles while jumping off walls etc, it starts of pretty atmospheric, and I was surprised at the transition to backstory around 3:40. At first I felt the narration was an unnecesary atmosphere-breaker, but having the most intense part at the start that is probably inescapable. The story seems interesting so far, a future world; a character on a quest for... what? Doesn't end with any particular tension, but I'm looking forward to the next episode as a plot revealer all the same. Keep it going!

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[Game Grumps- They're Dead]

lmao, bit of a sudden cut at that end there, but it was a quick dose of entertainment! Great animation and obviously great voice acting. :P Amazing how all these random segments of conversation turn out so good! Nice work.

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Wakman111 responds:

Thanks a lot!
Yeah I was afraid the last shot was cut too soon, but I didn't really have a choice since they get distracted directly after and start talking about something else lol.
And I agree, they make great animation exercises too!

[The Pumpkin Patch]

After watching the 'Frogs Around the Round Table' I was a bit surprised at the amount of detail in this, it looks great! The introductory title screen especially is really ablaze with color and light, really atmospheric, I like how it fades away and gets warmly fuzzy in the distance.

The sceneries were detailed as well, patches of grass and pumkins... and the scarecrow transformation real smooth. I'm thinking the moon could've had better lighting considering some other parts of the animation do use gradients (thinking of the sky there), and some form of luminescent glow would definitely make it more atmospheric. The crows are the best part in this, really add to the suspense, but when they fly up, the feathers fall to the ground unnaturally fast, maybe just let them hover even while the camera pans? For the ghost, bit strange the open mouth is the same color as the face. The main character also seems oddly flat when her face is revealed, and when she walks that left arm really stretches haha, overall it looks great but these small details could raise the tension another bar. Also, some form of darkness at the end would be pretty cool, a menacing shadow sweeping over the land more than just the morphing color? Keep up the great work!

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artistunknown responds:

I did take a lot of time to put in a lot of detail and color into this, I thought it would be a good thing to do since this was going to be so short, so I'm glad that shows.

Yeah, I was never really good with moon's though really recently I was watching how other flash animators did moons and I tried it and liked the outcome so I think I could make a decent moon though.

I did put a lot of time and effort into make the part with the crows seem suspenseful. The speed of the feathers has been noted, now that I think about it, yeah, that is pretty fast, feathers are kinda light, heh. If I ever animate feathers falling again, I'll be sure to get it right ;3.

I could have sworn I made the ghost's mouth inside a different color, guess not though. Not sure what happened there, I always use a different color for the inside of the mouth. I'm not sure what you mean by "oddly flat" unless like literally 2 dimensional, which if that's the case, it's probably due to the angle that she's facing the camera, I'm still haven't put a lot of time into proper perspective with my cartoons, but I do no how to so I should probably start doing that. And yeah, that fucking arm. Her arms were moving a different way before, I didn't like how it looked, changed it to swing subtly but they turned out looking like they stretched, hated myself, got lazy, and didn't fix it further. And as for the darkness in the end, the dark clouds did come in when the transformation was happening, but yeah, I didn't do a good job of showing that.

Thanks for the review!