Soapbubble's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Best Video Game Ever]

A lot of effort?

You seem to have a put a lot of effort into this flash, I can absolutely appreciate that.

The graphics aren't the greatest, but I have to give you some credit for making practically everything with the brush tool. AT least almost everything. THe animations were actually pretty smooth, but I think you should keep working on your drawing skills, and your colouring skills, because there were many instances where you filled in outside of the lines, which doesn't look too good in a flash.

Audio was not of top-notch quality. The voices were pretty good, but they all sounded very similar, which annoyed me. I'd also like MEgatron to have a more robotic voice. Another problem was that all the voices sounded like they were toned down, sort of muted. The audio quality of most songs was pretty bad. The SFX in the fighting and driving almost drove me mad, especially all the different screams used while he's falling. And the screeches from the car. THey wouldn't be as annoying if you also included the sound of a car engine, though.

The story.... uh, I'm not sure I can find much of a story, it just seems like a couple of random, somewhat funny, flashes put together into one flash, and the uploaded here. It's not necessarily bad, it's still somewhat of a funny collage.

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DarkMatter responds:

thanks alot for the review dude, keep up the good work.

[Fiji Clock's 2010 CDay]

meh.

It did have some potential. I mean, your drawing is pretty good, and the monologue isn't too bad, and the jumping animation is not bad either.

If this was Clock Day, it would be considered a good flash, but seeing as Clock Day had been over for three hours when you submitted this, it wasn't.

Could've at least added a tiny stop();

Celestaphone responds:

Actually for me it was uploaded 3 minutes late.
It would have had more if I didn't have to watch my shows.
Sorry.

[flame dead]

Okay test.

It's not bad, but it's far too short, and tests don't really belong on Newgrounds.

Your new tablet seems to be working just fine. The graphics are really simple, not in a bad way, and the animations are smooth. It lacks a background, though, which gives it a very rushed feel. Might want to do something about that. It doesn't even have to be something too detailed, just something other than a a bland coloured sheet.

It's very short, which you explain by saying it's a test. That's okay, but tests don't really need to be uploaded to Newgrounds. I get that you want to get reviews on it to see if people like your style, but then you should probably delete this one again later on.

The story itself is amusing, but very short. I'm not really sure how it could be any longer, but I guess you could make it overly dramatic, with a fire-funeral, a fire-childhood and his entire life behind him, and then he dies because he cries. I don't know, just throwing some ideas.

Song was great, and sfx was pretty good, though maybe not completely in sync. That's just nitpicking, of course.

All in all, I can't give this more than 4, simply because it's a test, and it's so short. However, seeing what you can do, I know you can make some pretty awesome movies in the near future.

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up-a-notch responds:

yay i can make awesome movies :D

[John Madden Commentary 2]

Confusing all right.

I don't really know John Madden, so I don't quite get the joke, but I can still review this. Right? Right.

It's very simple, that much I can say. There's little animation in here, except for the lines and the five-or-so pictures of Madden you've thrown together to make him look overly excited. Which he does. I guess that's what you were going for, as I'm guessing he's one of those overly enthusiastic kind of guys.

Even though I didn't really get it, I did find it somewhat funny, because I can somewhat recognize it from Norwegian commentators during whatever winter sport's on.

I did think you dragged it out a bit, maybe a bit too much of the good stuff. Could easily be shorter.

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Fro responds:

Hmmm. I recommend you watching a few things about John Madden first.

[Dailytoon #430]

Ehe.

NG will never have enough floppay dicks.

FiveStar - flashy and colourful!
RetroSmash - Nixony!
Adam-Ant - Dirtbikey!

Should've had some more variation, sound-wise.

TheStarSyndicate responds:

NO that's the POINT

[Vince The Voodoo doll]

This is under-exposed.

How does this have so few reviews and votes?

I love your style of drawing. It's one of those somewhat simple yet still detailed styles, which simply looks pretty much fantastic in this context, the story.

The animations are at times a bit sloppily done. They seem sort of out of place. Mainly when he's walking down the street, where it rather looks like he's floating down the street.

Story-wise, there's not much to say. I love your interpretation of Steve Kirk's song, which I haven't heard before. You didn't follow the lyrics like a slave, but you did follow them quite well and made a flash based off of it.

The music was also really fun, and the style the entire flash was made in, sort-of-noir-but-not-really, if I can put it like that (language barrier is giving me a hard time on describing this one), really fit the music.

Only thing I have anything to say on this flash is really the animations, and that's barely anything.

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Emanhattan responds:

nail on the head!

I always felt that the first walk cycle I made for vince felt odd but never knew why, and in fact, exactly like you said it, it almost feelt to me like he was floating

it wasnt until quite a lot later in the production that I started to read about proper walk cycles wich was a principle I tryed to make use of in later walks/angles

thanks for taking your time reviewin this!

[Marlin Talks To A Girl]

A bit rushed, maybe?

A fun sketch absolutely.

It's not the best Clockmovie you've made, but it has a decent joke with a quite good punchline.

The graphics are simple. I'm guessing you're using pre-made clocks for your clocks. The backgrounds are just pictures, not of particularly good quality. The cropping of the girl was also quite poorly done. You should've spent some more work on it, but at least you didn't leave the background white/black.

The speakonia voices you used are somewhat hard to understand at times, but most of the time it works out pretty well.

The joke was simple, but it was funny. You pulled it off pretty well, with awkward silences and a punchline at the end.

In general I'd like to see some more work done on the graphics part of things.

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PatriotClock responds:

thanks

[DailyToon #429]

Oh my

I'm very disappointed in you guys.

ThreeStar - Wow, that's cute!
retrosmash - I don't understand.

TheStarSyndicate responds:

GO TO HECK, JERK

[Tomffrey 2: Gangland]

Uh...

I'm not sure what this is.

Graphically, it's a lot simpler than some of your other flashes. It all looks like it's been quickly sketched by hand, making it look... not bad, but a bit sloppy. In addition you've got this weird pixelated philter on top, which makes it all look worse.

The music got a bit annoying when I couldn't clearly make out the voices due to it. The voicing wasn't horrible, but it wasn't good. There was a lot of noise, and some breathing into the microphone.

The story was sorta funny, but nothing hilarious. Seems sort of like a parody, but I'm not sure exactly what it's a parody of.

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PatriotClock responds:

buddy cop 1970s parody

[Who Wields the Staff]

Fun parody, but a bit slow

Ah, how I miss He-Man!

The fact that I love He-Man made this movie a lot more fun, simply because I got the parody joke in it.

The graphics aren't bad, they're just not too good. There is a lack of detail, not in that your style is simple, but in that you're going for something somewhat realistic but coming up short due to lack of detail. The animations are also very simple, and the mouth animation isn't very synced with the audio.

The voicing however is very well done, and made the jokes a bit funnier. If you could add some background music and SFX, that would improve the flash a whole lot, because right now, the lack of sound apart from the voices made the entire flash look very dragged out and slow.

I see this is your first animation ever, so you might want to look up a few tutorials and practice drawing before you upload something new. Would be neat to see a remake of this sometime in the future, with better graphics and sound.

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Mentalholik responds:

Fantastic, thanks ever so much! Will certainly take things into consideration. Would love to make more animations so will certainly work on that. Want to do more fbf stuff in future too!