TheShrike's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Patrick Ewing: Episode 1]

Good Job.

I liked the concept, and it certainly made me smile.

A few pointers to help future projects of yours do better in the portal:

1~ Don't use so many sound files. No, sound effects are crucial to most movies success. Same with music. But you use too many music files. Take the credits, for example: no need for that music, and it didn't really fit with the rest of the movie's feel. Without that one single mortal kombat song, the movie would have been fine, and would have loaded faster, too.

2~ Don't use whole music files. Aside from taking up bandwidth, you end up bending your animation to fit the music. Just use the parts of songs you need.

3~ Speed it up. There are a more than a couple places where the movie hangs for a minute, where no real action is taking place. One or two seconds doesn't seem like much, but you've got to remember your audience. Newgrounders tire quickly of movies without deliberate pace.

4~ Stream. Don't make people wait for 4 megs to load. Give users with high-speed access the ability to play the movie before it's done loading.

5~ Optimize your flash. You're doing well, but you need to learn the art of making flash files smaller. Use sound loops instead of whole songs. Tweak the mp3 compression. Use symbols more. Use tweens less. Reduce the use of 'messy' art. Less lines, less corners and curves = faster and smaller. There are more tips and tricks, but these are the fundamentals.

Good luck.

Quikflash responds:

Thank you! Finally somebody who will actually tell my what to fix w/ what they think I did wrong. w/ #1. I understand. Most of the music are in .wav format so I dont know if that will decrese it alot. #4, your stream idea, is very helpful! I never really thought of this. Thanks! I agree w/ #5 alot, I used way too many layers for this flash and I think your right w/ using so many tweens. Thank you for the kind words and I appreciate it!

[The Matrix Reinstall]

That was great, man.

I liked the fact that Neo was only there for half of it.

Good job, sorry I was late to help get it through judgment, but it looks like you didn't need my help there, anyway.
=D

FoGiMoS responds:

* High Five *

[God I Hate 'Em! (parody)]

Kind of funny.

There seems to be an odd bug here... when I press back, it doesn't really rewind properly. More instances of the song start playing, and it almost sounds like it's playing normally(forward), but as if it were heard through an echo filter.

Trippy effect for a trippy lil flash.

touched responds:

Yow! I see. Okay, I'll get that fixed.

[Ian Morai - Reality]

Not bad at all.

You've got an eye for animation, you just need to find more fluid movement and different angles.

Dark-Boy responds:

Lol i agree...been trying alot of new stuff and still owkring the kinks out of it.Thanks for the input.

[Doodlez]

That was cool.

Well done, chap.

CopyCatDS responds:

Thank you so much guys!

[Ballhicular Manslaughter]

meh

LOLBIGBALLSLOL

Krasher666 responds:

LOLTHANKSLOL. But seriously, thanks =D

[Fables of Faubus-Mingus]

Nice for a first try

It was good. Good message, too. Well, if that's your start, I say invest a lil more time making movies, it will pay off.

Vowl responds:

Thanks. I hope to get better.

[--The Bard's Song--]

Awesome

Nice work, guys.

Magna responds:

Thanks dood.

SHORT POINTLESS REVIEW. BANNED.

:-P

[Beware of falling ovens]

Blah

Good for him.

Boring...

Slickernaut responds:

Shazzam!

[MOLESTER!]

Sweet.

I liked the subdued and skewed humor. You grew up on Mad or Cracked, didn'tcha?

DeathRayGraphics responds:

I surely did!