Victory's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Surface EP 2 (Part 1/ 2)]

Atmospheric.

I really loved this. The way you used subtle music, character narration and animating things from lots of different angles created a poignant, atmospheric animation that makes this character's story seem very interesting. I'm looking forward to part 2 enormously! Well done. 10/10.

[Congé.]

Loved it! Best so far.

Watching this with sound on certainly makes it better. It's probably the animation's synchronisation with it - they really go well together. Such a random and mashed-up beat combined with lovely odd frame-by-frame goes down a treat. I really liked the fuzzy video effect at the end - maybe you could do a whole cartoon with that over the top? Just an idea, might come out good.

I liked the way you looped it as well, that worked great, as well as your Firth-style jittery lines on everything and your changing-font text.

I had a headache before this, and this took my mind off it for a second. :D

Certainly your best flash so far! Fived and favourited.

Mechabloby responds:

Thanks. :)

But what do you mean by: 'over the top?'

[That Mean Olde Villain]

Brilliant!

I loved the old grainy film texture to the film, I thought that really brought something to this. I also thought the animation was great, though your drawing skills could be improved - try to have a go at drawing the human figure more - possibly do some pencil drawing and then scan in into the computer?

The plot was a bit too basic for my liking as well - you could assume everything before it happened.

The old-fashioned film style of this was great though - 8/10 and a five from me!

[Madness Contisteration]

Awesome skills for an eleven year old.

Let me say that your animating skills are very, very good if you are actually eleven, and the fact that you know flash so well at this age is fantastic.

The animation was almost as good as Krinkels' in places; fast, smooth and violent, the way Madness should be presented and the way that numerous tributes lack. I liked the fact that you put a new character in place of just using the same carbon copy characters.

However, I felt that you let yourself down in a few places: firstly, your choice of music, which isn't the usual in a Madness episode: some sort of pounding club beat is more appropriate and pumped, as opposed to rock music. But if you were trying to differentiate your Madness to Krinkels', then that's alright.

Another thing I had a problem with was the filters and the text. You chose to use a ton of blur filters, which causes slight rendering problems sometimes, and it looks totally different to the normal Madness episodes. The text is also similar here: Krinkels only ever uses full caps, maybe you might want to consider that.

And the last thing I didn't like was your submission icon: it looks sketchy and bad-quality. Next time, export your picture from flash in jpg or png format, then import into a graphics editor like Photoshop and then export that in gif format. The quality will rise considerably.

9/10: a few minor problems, most notably the choice of music, but overall very well put together.

[-Falling-]

Absolutely brilliant

The quality of this is astonishing, I love every aspect to this; particularly your music, which fits perfectly and gives a Nightmare Before Christmas-feel to this. I love what you did with the tv and the rolled up paper as flowers. The plot of this is executed smoothly and all the different camera angles added so much to this.

Brilliant, brilliant stop motion brilliance. 10/10.

[TANKMEN .5]

Best series ever

I love the art and dry wit in all the Tankmen episodes, this one doesn't fail to provide the usual. Awesome, 10/10.

[The One Layer Collab]

A mixed bag.

Some of these were great; however, a lot of the animators involved need more practice drawing mainly, and some of the ideas were based around silly 'random' humour - weights falling on people, etc. Lots did well though, and at least you managed to get a lot of parts in. I liked what you did with the loading screen.

I have one last problem with this: why limit yourselves to only one layer? I know you were trying to give this collab a 'theme' of sorts, but there's no need to reinvent the wheel. :D

Well done, anyway.

[Heil's New Grounds]

Orgasmic

As soon as I saw that you were the author, I know this was going to be a hilarious parody. I wasn't disappointed. 10/10

Heil responds:

oh goody

[SAATANA]

I love this sort of cartoon.

I love this sort of bizarre animation - this is on par with Zekey and Firth for greatness. I really like the frequently used bright colours, the frame-by-frame and the random spurts of violence. 10/10.