Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Roommates - Queen's Curse]

Not all like the regular Roommates , but even the April Fool variant works fantastic. XD Entertaining randomness. It's never too late!

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FlowJoe responds:

thanks! :)

[Kirby ReAnimated Collab Shot 207 (EXTENDED/UNEDITED)]

An ambient albeit glitchy sunrise scene... looks good, though really wonder how this'll fit into that collab... well done though.

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CartoonChill responds:

The official version has the audio from the actual scene and cut down to 2 seconds, being the runtime of the scene.

[Chess is serious]

The clash of games. XD Entertaining but... so short!

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Hidden-Maverick responds:

SFM is a harsh mistress with long animations. Thanks anyways!

[Incident-Zhiguli]

that bed of spikes as new... and the final drink. XD Not sure I've seen this kind of madness in Russia before... nice work. Short but fun; smoothly animated.

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theredknight2 responds:

Thanks so much)

[Go Poppy, Go!]

Simple fun! A smooth; funky loop... though I am a bit baffled it was judged so highly it won an award! It's really... pretty simple. Nice work though.

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PascalSchmidlin responds:

Thanks! It really is a simple little animation, but I just love how it came out...
Although, I might be a bit biased ;)

If you like to see something that's a bit longer, check out Weird Girl(s): https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/702666

[EAE - The Way We Raise Our Kids]

I was indeed the lucky third. :) And this really is spot on how we were raised, though things definitely changed with time as we all grew older... really enlightening little bit of info. It also seems like, by bringing this to a conscious level, you really don't need to keep raising kids the same way, but realize right from the start that it'll be in a set pattern, and as such avoid that pattern for: whatever's really best for those kids. Didn't expect this to be so eye-opening! Really. Nice work.

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EAEverything responds:

I was lucky third as well.

I'd say this place is full of them :)

[Willow Wiggle]

Wonder what that tongue twister means? Feels like knowing that the ending might actually make sense. :) Though the animation overall was just beautiful anyway. So ambient and smooth... pleasure to watch!

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Extellus responds:

There's actually a translation right under the sheet of paper he picks up at the beginning but to save you time it translates to: ''A willow wiggles on a hilltop'' :)

[For Whom the Bell Knows]

Thought the animation was great, as was voicing, and sound, and pacing, and symbolism with the bell... I didn't really catch the story at all. Something about finding religion...? It seems to lead to a realization, and that's the symbolism he holds in his hand at the end, but the story leading up to that particular point doesn't seem to have any relation. He doesn't seem like a religious man. He doesn't seem like a sinner, either. I wonder if his work might have something to do with it, or if he suffers from some disease, and thus the bell tolls for him, or if it's a material bell and he suffers from lack of sleep but... in the end I still haven't figured it out. So conclusively: script could definitely use some polish, but otherwise it's work well done!

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coltenseamans responds:

The inspiration for it was this really annoying bell on my way to class that was super loud and seemed to go off every time I went by it. I was like, oh what if a guy had a really traumatic experience with a bell and it kind of haunted him to an extreme level until a breaking point. So I knew moments that I wanted to happen and originally he lit the bell tower on fire after snapping but people were pointing out problems with my storytelling for that part. I ended up going with this thing where he is defeated and just does what the bell was telling him to do. To change by confronting his past. Not that that’s even conveyed haha.

Extra notes are that I was having him be this WWII British firefighter of the auxiliary firefighting service that I was doing research on for another class. So that was the uniform he had on in the beginning and that was a child he was trying to save but got spooked by the falling Bell (totally didn’t look like one) and ran from that. At which point he tried to start anew elsewhere. Anyways the thing he holds at the end is a little badge from his firefighting times and I was like, I don’t know, he’s going to stop forgetting it/confront what happened or something.

The script was a mess :)

I do wish that I did something smaller so that I could of focused on the script, my weakest point at the time. You know, less, but done really well.

It’s interesting that you saw a religious side to the end and I think I might watch it through with that in mind. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to try sharing it again because I always wondered what others thought of it and such. Thanks for the comment!