Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Everything You Know Is Wrong]

Awesome.

This whole movie is ust one complete episode of randomness. Flying bacon, people ripping their faces off, car crashes, cows flying by, a clash of graphical styles, the circulating banana, portals, hah, the animation just keeps changing. All the time! So much creativity packed in this, and it syns perfectly too the music as well. Great work!

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[Son of the Apprentice]

Well that was unexpected, the door getting kicked down, that menacing voice... it wasn't what I was expecting when the initial stick figure popped up. Overall it's a really varied mixxture of styles, some Pokemon (?) interface, blur effects, stick figures, real muscly body-structures, simple figures, photoshop (?) backgrounds, real photos with lipsync... it's all like one big experiement. It's a bit like a collab in how all the different styles are mixed. Looks good!

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[SummerShorts]

The beginning kind of reminded me of Resident Evil. Not sure why, maybe it was the music that did it, or the gray gritty layer effect above the animation. After that it completely switches in a different direction though, from dull and depressing to crazy happy, hah. Love the added NG ray transition just before the 'real animation' kicks in. Nice work!

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[Spittin' Narcissism]

Gotta love that intro transition. The whole animation is a great sprite build up, and it's not just the regular sprite fight either, it's a music video! The added subtitles are a great addition, and the music itself is great. Nice work!

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[Viva La Vida Mario]

It's with a more lifelike view of the SMB universe. After a while Mario still goes on a killing spree, but overall it's a refreshingly peaceful animation. The music fits great, and all the characters helping out. Next word Earth? Haha, that's awesome! Wasn't expecting that end. :) Keep it going!

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jackbliss responds:

Thank you so much! Btw your games rock :D

[Oxob's Demonstration]

This reminds me of Xiao Xiao. I'm wondering if it even uses the same program for animating all those 3D looking effects. When I watch this I feel like that one's still getting a bit too much hype. This has some awesome effects, like the circle of cracks on the ground after the tank explossion, the close'up of the first, all the different angles that really add a dimension to the action. Even the background, the simple white and gray, helps bring out those angles. Fitting music, great sound effects... only thing that seems a bit blocky compared to the rest of the animation is the tank. Great work!

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[Calvin & Hobbes Tiger Pounce]

This is awesome. The animation really captures the original comic. Even the sounds sound exactly like I'd imagine them if they were animated, apart from maybe the very loud footsteps when he just walks across the carpet. Otherwise it's perfect, everything is in traditional Calvin & Hobbes style. Nice work!

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[Motion Graphics Explainer]

Can't help but feel this commercial is too cheesy, just like a regular commercial. You could take that as a compliment though since I really don't like most commercials for the same reason. :) I appreicate this for the graphical work, which is smooth and symbolic, and goes well with the text, but that background melody, the arguments to make me buy the product, it's just... too cheesy. I wouldn't buy it HSYK. The voice also sounds a bit stiff and strained, but as for the graphical presentation, that part is great, stylish and effectual. Keep it going!

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GnomeSlice responds:

Hey, thanks for watching.

The whole idea was to make it look as professional as possible; I was trying to emulate the sort of ads you see out there right now (Google 'Simple Story Videos', brilliant local studio to me). I'm pretty pleased with my graphical presentation, but I think the script and some of the audio could definitely be improved.

Anyway, thanks again!

[Just a Monday Collab]

Did I say steak I meant snake, haha, Brewster's has got to be my favorite. There's a ton of creativity stuffed into this though, and so many different styles. I appreciated every single one of them, all with something unique to contribute and a few that would easily have made standalone movies. The Decky & Reckless part in particular was extraordinarily long for just a collab. Apart from the animations, even the credits were awesome, great with a preliminary showcase of all the characters and then previous on all of them, and there's comedy everywhere you look! Kind of wish this was in flash format instead of mp4, with menus and stuff (could've saved in filesize too), but I shouldn't be complaining about such trivialism. Great work!

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ReklessCreati0n responds:

Started out as a flash format with menu's and everything as you were saying, but the file size was too much for flash to handle so we had to compromise and actually lost a bit of content in the process or compiling as a video file.

Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it. :D