TheShrike's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kingdom Sprites: Episode1]

Meh.

It was ok, nothing special.
I kept expecting a change in scenery, but it never really came. Also, the whole ccross-game 8/16-bit sprite movie is a lil played out here @ newgrounds.

The animation wasn't bad, but it wasn't great, either. Also, I'd suggest using some of paragonX9's audio, rather than copyrighted material.

silencer169 responds:

Ok, I appreciate your honesty.
About it being played out, This movie was submitted quite a while ago, sorry your just getting to it. When it was submitted people still liked sprites, I guess. ]
OH! what the HELL is Paragonx9? newgrounds artist maybe? I looked into some of the music at newgrounds and had one of the worst musical experiences of my life....UGH!!!!
"as the world turns and my soul burns"
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

-silencer169

[Hitchhikers Guide]

Not the best interpretation I've ever seen of H2G2

But the only interpretation I've ever seen in flash. Kudos!

Kind of poorly done, it looks rushed. But I gave you a 5 anyway. =]

anti-blah responds:

Yeah, it looks rushed because it was. I couldn't try as hard as I wanted and fit it in the time I had to do it in, or the length it had to be. I wish I had more time and talent. Thanks for your review!

[Jesus' Revenge]

Not bad

I liked the moral of the story.

This one was much better than the rest of the series.

ImmoralLibertarian responds:

Really? most of the few followers I’ve gathered would say that Burning of the Vatican is the best of the series, then again, that’s a whole new style of animation. Kind of like The original Star Trek and The Next Generation… (I Wish)

Thanks for the good review anyway, I may even forgive you for banning me from the BBS for a day :-p

[Right-click menu tutorial]

Ok

The reason why everything looks jagged is because it's being displayed smaller than it is. If you put a bitmap (jpg or gif or bmp or tiff) in a flash movie, it needs to be its original size (100%). Resizing bitmaps doesn't work well in flash.

You can kind of get around this by editing the images in another program, then importing to flash.

mac5 responds:

Whoah, thanks! I actually didn't resize them. I think the newgrounds filesystem resized it. It may have detected that the screen params were too big, so it resized my movie. Now, in "Super Mac Bros!", I did resize the icon images, so that'll explain why those icons are so jagged.

Thanks again! This is an extremely helpful review!

It's an honor to be reviewed by you,
mac5

[Thursday the 28th]

OK, some suggestions

1-Get rid of the opening music.
2-Put the credits at the end, not at the beginning.
3-Hurry it up. It moves too slowly, people lose interest quickly.
4-Learn how to tween.

Other than that, it was... ok. Mediocre, at best. =\

Beefybooyawn responds:

What was wrong with the tweening? It wasn't special because it didn't have to be. Other than that, thanks for the input, I made most of the changes you said.

[Super mac bros!]

Nice emulation of the Mac OS

I liked and disliked the style at the same time.

Kinda boring. You need sound, and the icons look jagged.

Have you considered re-creating the icon's edges in flash with the line tools?

mac5 responds:

Wow! A BBS mod reviewed MY movie! Thanks!

I have no Idea why the icons looked jagged. They looked great, until I started to move them, then they went bad. Check out my "right-click menu tutorial", and you'll see it happened there also.

I haven't considered recreating the icon's edges in flash, but it is a good idea.

Thanks a lot!

(PS, If you happen to be a review mod also, please take a look at some of the other reviews for this movie.)

[Tails and his GBA 6]

Not bad.

One of the first clay flashes I've seen in a while that didn't make my blam-finger twitch. Nice crossover. Good work, etc, blah blah blah.

ArseOnToast responds:

Yeh thanks,etc,blah blah blah.
_refused_

[Some Dude's Pro Trolley!!]

It was ok. Nothing special.

You need to convert your tweens to individual frames (select all frames in the tween, then hit...F6, I think, then select no tween on the properties box.) and just do an all-around optimization. And give people with broadband the ability to stream the movie if it's over 500k. That's a good rule of thumb.

Also, Don't use whole songs. Use loops, it cuts back on the file size.

It's a little better than blam-worthy. Also, try and make it interesting. Some people don't give a damn about skate movies. Like me.

cool-penguin-0 responds:

Does that individual frames thing make the file smaller or something? I'll have to try it. Also, I didn't use full songs, only 30-second-ish sound clips.