Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[NWAR: Speed Demons]

Hmm, the plot in this one reminds me of WolfCop a bit, could it be a part of the inspiration? Love the exercise puns, the runs, the suspenseful yet surprisingly uneventful tale where no villians actually get caught or killed, cept for the cult members of course. Guessing the next one will be all the more conclusive! Nice work.

-cd-

danmarkowitz responds:

Haven't heard of WolfCop, but I'll check it out!

[ARCIS Sevetrin Descent P9]

Another nice segment of the saga, and it ends with one shot! As always I love that mist, and the gritty textures. The white text works well, but it feels the darker shades don't really escape the background, maybe you could use borders? Or just brighter colors? Keep it going!

-cd-

buriedantenna responds:

Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you're still enjoying the series. I know what you mean about the text. The different fonts and colours are a way of distinguishing the different characters, but the pallet is kind of limited by the theme and style of the series (in other words bright pink text would be really easy to see, but it doesn't exactly suit the mood.) But I'll certainly make the visibility of the text more of a priority in the future— thanks for the informative feedback :)

[TUMOR: A broken nightmare]

Oooh, it's here! It's like a bridge between start to finish, a journey through... some strange place right back to... where everything started. I like the different styles, the 3D tunnel vission for a change; that creatively crazy psychotic world she traverses. You'd think a missing arm would create a bigger reaction though. :P Looking forward to Halloween!

-cd-

ClockworkPixel responds:

thanks man :) and I did have a reaction cutscene but having her upset at the end of part 1 and starting with her crying in part 2 seemed a bit much lol still I guess i really should of had some sort of reaction

[Consequential Credit]

That's what happens when you go consumption crazy and credit craving! :P Fun stuff, and fun references all the way through, like SBC towards the end, and Poptart's all over the place at the beginning! Animation's great, the clocks sound just like clocks are supposed to sound, and there's even an unexpected twist and tragedy before that imminent ending. Classic!

-cd-

MelloYelloClock responds:

Thank you good sir. :)

[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.

[PSI Boogie]

Funky stuff! Would've been fun to compare this to the original one, but I guess it's not uploaded here? Keep it going!

-cd-

AtomicBottle responds:

The original is actually on my "Atomic Proportions" flash. Although it's only the basic dance.

[Batman VS Superman]

lol, wasn't expecting that kryptonite! Thought it'd be a parody on those cinematic paradox battles where a well-trained (but regular) dude with high-tech equipment's actually able to match actual unimaginable superhuman strength. Didn't need to have that ending IMO, but it was a fun battle!

-cd-

raremasta responds:

Thanks! More comin up :D

[TD-Chocolate Rebellion]

Another entertaining episode! Maybe I'm just imagining things, but it seems the sound quality in this one was a bit fuzzier, no noise removal maybe? As for content: great work!

-cd-

Raziberry responds:

Yeah these old ones had awful sound. For episode 8 I got a microphone. Please bear with me.

[Next On Ransack Rabbit #3]

Cops bugs and bunnies, going to be a batch of rabid rabbit entertainment! Looking forward to it.

-cd-

uncle-x responds:

thanks