Rikimaru-Azlar's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[VG Exiles - Episode 3]

When you've worked that hard.. why...

The art and voiceacting is good but the animation on the Nash scenes needs alot of work. It would be easy to animate the characters talking. Then before entering the portal look at the bison cape loop for instance, moving from left to right because you couldn't line up the pixels. It also goes on a bit. In alot of areas it's brilliant but the flaws bring the whole thing down. If it was just the stryker vs bison scene it would be a flawless victory.

R1665 responds:

The pixels are lined up just fine. The problem is on your end with your connection and/or flash player. Were you watching it full screen? That can heighten mathematical display issues with the VCAM in flash.

I can see that you are also a flash animator and have done some lip-synching of your own. Many kudos to you. However, please refrain from calling it "easy" for my movie until you can do it while also cramming thirty minutes' worth of movie into a thirteen-minute autoplay timeline. Not all flash is built alike.

R1665

[chaos control pt1]

Great job!

You're skills are coming on. Did you use Movieclip Filter Blur on the backgrounds? It gives a great sense of perspective and looks great but can slow frame rate down. Question - are you working at 12 fps? The sprite animation would look tighter at 24 and you could have a sprite every two frames without extra work. The mini game was great, hitting keys at during different time windows, you totally pulled it off. You made me laugh twice which is a feat. 'I feel a strange energy'. There were a couple of shots (cartoon eyes when knuckles was suprised) and (the winter scene with big) that I felt could have been improved a bit but overall a great job, this submission offers a lot in the way of entertainment. Visual Effects good, sound effects good, comedy good, story good, music good and I liked that you used advance sprites. I'm being really picky about those two shots but that's the only reason you don't get a ten from me, and I'm being 100% honest with you. Awesome job Da-boi, we may have to collaborate.

TubeSocSamurai responds:

thanks rikimaru for all the advice and most definitely we'll have to collab

[why link isnt a surgeon]

Definately tickled me

The humour in this is very well thought out, I loved the extra item descriptions and link's inability to form words. You took a recognisable character and in put him in a scenario that aided the humour and the dialogue was both funny and clever. Great job and congratulations on 2nd place

balbod responds:

thanks

[Ask Raptor Jesus]

Ha ha nice

I like your' character style, you blend realistic looking characters with watermelons and dinosaurs smoothly and the quality doesn't drop on frame by frame work. I still prefer that mutant fish thing in an earlier animation, it had like a needless foot sewn to its gills or something.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks!

[Gandalf hitting the bong.]

nice

I like the distortion on his face to show the impact of the hit and the frame by frame on the lasers was good. Also the jpegs were cut out well, couldn't see anything out of place and its funny to boot!

Erty responds:

Yeah, I remember putting some work into cutting all the jpegs and redo backgrounds and such.
Going to make some real animations once I get my new microphone, getting bored of just using flash in business.

[Knuckles Gaiden]

I have to say I liked this

Considering this is your first submission I'm shocked at the use of different techniques. Usually when someone does a sprite movie, the sprites aren't cut out properly or lined up poorly on the stage OR it's basically a remake of an original but this suprised me.
First off I liked how it was set around the whole last of the echinda Tikal floating island crap (that zoom pan out of the city was impressive) and influenced by MGS and Final Fantasy 7.
Definately keep up the good work. My advice to you for improving would be to make some of your own sprites of characters (major ballache but necessary) so you have more potential movements for knuckles etc.
I'd watch the sequel.

TubeSocSamurai responds:

thanks for the review it was very intuitive i have been working hard on on my next movie i had made this one with my 30 day trial way back when i could get the full version of flash since then ive been worked on my techniques alot so look to be amazed with my next flash

[Tales from the Dumpster]

note to self, wrong oats.

Haha, was the guy with the cap dave? People that agree with everything you say like mindless chimps are entertaining. Is that image you use so often through manic depressive man and this movie one of your friends or something? Hes gonna have international star status as methane machine. Aside from the craziness, it followed the same style as your other movies and as always, you really established the characters well and they were believable. Great movie.

Kurt-Reznor responds:

You're not the first one to ask me about the little guy that pee's in this show and farts in the Manic Depressive Man episodes. Well, he's just a guy that I picked up out of a crowd of people. Let me explain. If you look at Manic Depressive Man #1, there's the part where all the people rush into the store. Well, it's the same group of people, just with many many copies of them, but it's just something I did to make it look like alot of people. Now, look at the little guy and the bottom right of each group of people. He'll be kind of in the back. Look familiar? Yep, that's the guy. I just did a search on google for "crowds" and I got a picture of some motorcycle derby, and this was a picture someone took on a polaroid, so I ripped it and just used it for my own nefarious deeds. And hey, he's my favorite character too.