dw817's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[3D-The Bounty of Dr Agon]

Unbelievable

I had no idea SWF was capable of doing 3-Dimensional graphics to this high a level. I did notice that most of the 3-D figures had very few colors on them, but the difficulty to develop something like this must be well beyond my scope.

VERY WELL DONE !
10 !
David

[The Pond]

Not good ..

You can hit [Tab] to see all selectable areas for most SWF. In this case, I really don't think it was the board that creaked, but that the creek was boarded ? Is that why it was rippling ?

Excellent self-portrait of yourself in the top-right-hand corner and I do believe you sounded sad ? :)

David

[8-bit Theater 2]

Wow ..

That was incredible !
Keep it up ! :)

David

[MGS: Shopping]

Good ..

This movie was VERY small (in filesize I mean!)
You seem to be a stickler for small coding like me. :)

Okay, MGS, there are a TON of things that could be done. Consider:

1. PLEASE add real voices when he is using the communicator. 2meg files aren't going to hurt me.

2. Add the horizontal line animation in the communicator, parodies could be the chief is caught knickering one of the girls when he tunes in.

3. The knocking was good. You are VERY WELCOME to use any and all of the sound effects from the PSX game including. "What was that?" "Return To Your Positions," etc. It would add to the parody. ESPECIALLY if you could duplicate the voices with new messages like "I SAID RETURN TO YOUR POSITIONS YOU TWITS!"

4. Camera-work. Use a really cool 3-D camera that flies all around snake to look hi-tech and then bumps into Snake, ouch.

5. There were no heat-goggle scenes. Further there were no guards wearing the face-masks. Accidentally removing a face mask reveals a CUTE girl and Snake can't kill her despite the chief yelling at him for that. :)

6. No bosses. There were a lot of bosses in MGS.
the Sharpshooter accidentally brings his kid's dart gun, the Huntress could "mark" Snake a different way. }:> There are many possibilities.

7. Snake needs to get Jiggy with Mai Lin (call her Lai-Mi) the Save-Girl. She was cute as a button with just as many curves in the game and EVERYONE would like to see that. :D

8. The box scene was good with him trying to get away with the Animal Crackers. Have some scenes with Snake crawling on the ground, he did that a lot.

9. There was a POV for each of the guards, showing that in real-life would be funny as hell where they beam a green eye-cone down a corridor like something from Locutis of BORG. Even have Snake approach one guard until right on top of him just staying 1 pixel out of the cone to show how ridiculous their vision is.

There are many possibilities.
Keep up the great work ! :)

David

[Making of Zelda Movie]

Well ..

Not very funny.

Like LF, you are a good artist. I have to confess to not seeing too much of animation, but that probably is harder than the drawing part.

The story is a bit long. Consider most movies made today 2003-2004. They REALLY grip you hard and rarely let you go, and they do it within the span of 120 seconds.

There is tremendous re-watch value in them.
I have to ask myself, did this movie have re-watch value ?

Sorry if I seem critical, but re-watch value is a very high priority with me. Please add some incidental music, if even for the parodies.

Thanks. :)

David

[Resident Evil: Flash Edn]

You do excellent work ..

But this was not ..

You are an exceptional animator and artist.

Perhaps adding more elements like background music during the presentation, flashbacks, and incredible special FX (I know you can do 'em).

Ask yourself, when you write a SWF, does it have believable characters, "hold" the audience all the way through, perhaps have multiple endings chosen by the viewer, and have good rewatch value ? I especially look for the last one.

Refer to:
C Is For Cookie, bizarre humor
Snow Day, very very cute
Poninjas, high karate action
Alien Report, story depth
Splatman + Level Editor, gameplay

And my all time favorites,
Wink99k and LoveWink by GelatinGuy.

These are just a few I have come across recently that I will DEFINITELY want to see again in the future.

I Haven't seen any games by LF either !
You draw VERY GOOD people. I imagine me and others would LOVE to see you make a playable RPG, if even a small one, like:

Kerrigan's Quest For The Golden Muffin.
:)

David

[YouKnow You LoveThe Ninja]

Very nice ..

Your Ninjas look a little rough cut ..
Is there some way you can make them more like Poninjas without stealing his work ?

Otherwise, excellent music, logo, and in-text presentations.

David

Jimong5 responds:

well, I took a look, and What I see is indeed nice, but at the same time, its a different style. You may like one more then the other, and in your case his style made you like mine less, and thats perfectly fine. But I like to go my own way, and try not to emulate other artists style, It is just something I'm against.

[bagagaga bop! in 54 fps!]

WTF ??

Dude, you musta dumped the whole frigging 1 pound bag of sugar in your cereal this morning or eat a whole carton of nicotine gum ?? :)

David