Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Megaman IV - Intro Redux]

Another intro for a Megaman game I haven't seen, but at least I'm learning the story... it's a lot longer than that other one, with much more of a story. Animation and sound's great, not much to comment on, nice work! Are there any more of these intros on queue?

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Steinberg responds:

Thank you for your review.

There is one more! For Megaman V.

[A Christmas Guide]

A bit early for Christmas aint it? Twas a fun infomercial though! Nice narration, animation and overall just a great creation. Keep it going!

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Michael-T-Scott responds:

May be early, but I don't care (and neither do retail outlets and radio stations). Before you know it it'll be Christmas 2015... Then 2016... Glad you liked it. Come back again when it's closer to Black Friday (two weeks).

[Father Moscow]

Don't spot any of that ugliness the description promises, just awesomeness, and a flawless victory! It's fun, stereotypical and cartoonishly brutal. Feels like it's missing out on some potentially great sound effects, but apart from that the animation's not bad at all. Keep it going!

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ryanaltounji92 responds:

Thank you! :D
I hope you'll stay tuned for upcoming videos

[Train Justice!]

Train justice as in: we need more justice, so we should all train justice?! Yeah! Good morals! :P Animation feels a bit so so, but I like the idea. Looking forward to more!

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AnimatedCritic responds:

The hope is that it comes across as funny, but perhaps also gets the question of "what is justice?" going in our minds as well. So it looks like I've accomplished at least a little something!

The animation is an issue, in that I'm trained by Pixar / Dreamworks animators through Animation Mentor but wasn't going for my very best work here. It should seem competent at least but it's definitely not amazing.

Also if my drawing were better the animation would also appear stronger, and this happens a lot, where we're tricked by really nice drawing into thinking the animation is better than it is. I have a long way to go in that regard, but at least some of the light I'm after is shining through! So glad to hear that.

Thanks so much for your interest and for your honest critique!

[Megaman II - Intro Redux]

I was wondering if anything more was going to happen once you reach the PRESS START stage... but I guess no! Glad it fades away to white after a while or I'd never know... but on the other hand it'd be nice with some kind of 'play again' thing, maybe iostead of START?

I've never played this game, but it was a nicely animated intro!

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Steinberg responds:

haha, yeaaah! I didnt wanted to cut the music since it is way too cool! So I let it play up to the end since it isnt too long! But I confess that seeing "press start" blinking without anyone pressing it kinda gives on my nerves.

I didnt think about the play again thing, that's a great idea!

[B&W Groove]

Goes to show that if the process is fun, the result is too! It's a nice and stylistically simple mesh of creative scenarios, with focus on graphics and motion rather than plot. I wonder if there's an easy way of making those transitions between black and white shapes flowing over each other, where they shift colors as they cross... some kind of filter? Overall this was just a genuinely fun thing to see, groovy work!

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Steinberg responds:

Thanks!

Yeah, at first I copy pasted both scenes in different layers, inverted the colors of one of them and then used a mask over it so it would alternate the colors wherever the mask was, kind of annoying to do but not really hard, but afterwards I remembered I could just use a movie clip with a filter that automatically does the color inversion on the place it is, making it really simple and easy.

I'm glad that you enjoyed the fact that it focus more on motion, this gotta be one of the animations I am more proud of (aesthetically).

Thanks for the review.

[Jim Vs The Bees]

You might wonder where he's getting all that heavy weaponry from. :) I like the scribbly black and white style of animation, feels both rough and incredibly detailed, especially with all those bees. Music reminds me a bit of a System of A Down track, I thought it was at first but... it changes. Could it be an inspiration behind it though, or just coincidence? It fits perfectly though. Nice work!

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NOITCNUFLAM responds:

Did you know you are supposed to put hypnotize and mezmerize together into one giant tracklist
all you do is flip hypnotizes tracklist order and put mezmerize into it like this
M for mezmerize song H for hypnotize song
H M H M H M H M H M H M H M H M H M H M H M H
then youll notice that the singles on both albums are next to each other
the only other thing you have to do is move the first song which is soldier side to the bottom of the tracklist because soldier side intro is supposed to be at the very beginning the 2 songs act sort of like the cover of a book

[No Ifs, Butts, n Coconuts]

lmao, life's tough as a kid! Such a brutally hilarious and incredibly random scenario, and the fact that the violence isn't particularly violent just makes the atmosphere of despair and aggravation all the more fun. :D Nice work!

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JonSock responds:

lol thanks!

[Chrono Trigger Unglued 24]

Been a long time since the last episode! So long I'm starting to doubt if I've seen it, though the name seems familiar... plot doesn't make much sense at first, but in the end the randomness seems like a natural ingredient. Dialog seemed excessive at first, but it is packed with entertainment... "violence the solution to everything" lmao. Though animation comes second, it wasn't as ungraphically gratifying as I thought it'd be.

At the start, after the narrated part, I was expecting narration/voicing for everything, but it seems to be only occasional voicing. I guess it'd be difficult to have voices move the pace of the viewer though. The transition on that dialog box starts to feel a bit too long after a while, repeated after even the shortest remarks as it is, but overall this fun watching err reading. Script's where most entertainment lies after all. Hope the next episode won't be three years off? :P

What happened to the first ten episodes btw? Do they exist? Keep up the good work!

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Clovis15 responds:

I'm glad to hear that you liked this episode, especially the writing (since a lot of work went into crafting that writing). I'm sorry to hear that some of the dialogue confused you, which was probably due to there being a ton of call backs in this episode to things that happened long ago in the series. If you had forgotten what was going on so far, then it's largely our own fault for being so late this time around.

Thankfully the next episode should be out much sooner than three years from now. Unlike this episode - that had last second preproduction issues out the whazoo, with one person even taking over a year to turn in anything at all - all of the material for the next episode has been done for years, so that won't be a problem here.

The next episode is a very special episode that we've been slowly building up to since sometime after Episode 11's debut, and thus we've had a lot of time to get all of our ducks in a row for this next part. From Crono's stated fear of Zombies back in Episode 12, to Lucca saying she spent all night repairing Gato in Episode 14, to Crono discovering that he had an 11th toe during Episode 19, and even learning that this toe came from a left over Gato part in Episode 21, and finally having Crono forget to pick his sword back up in Episode 23, we've spent a long time setting up the events that lead into something very special happening in Episode 25.

Some might even say that it'll be a "Thriller".

As for Episodes 1-10, they're actually still up on Newgrounds. They were made by a man named Cryokenetic, and are still freely available on his personal Newgrounds account (that said, I may soon be uploading special fully voiced editions of those earlier episodes to my own account). He eventually handed over production of CTU to me beginning with Episode 11, but stayed on for the longest time afterwards as the series' writer. This is why Episodes 11-23 all credit him in some manner.

However, recent Newgrounds rules have changed how you may credit other people that helped with a movie. It used to be that I could list anyone on a movie that I was friends with, now I can only list people if they personally confirm that they helped out on their end. Since Cryokenetic permanently disappeared sometime back in 2010, with Episode 23 being the last thing he wrote before disappearing, it's currently impossible for him to confirm the co-creator credit request that I sent him.

I do hope that Cryokenetic is okay (he's suffered from numerous grim health issues over the years), and that he one day shows up again.

[Octoween: Squishy Terror]

A strange scientific encounter... an invasion of tenctacle-wielding critters from some outer place. :O So random, and entertaining, and Einstein's genius. Keep it going!

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Bphilow1 responds:

Thanks man