calslater's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Empire Strikes Back the Musical]

I love how every shot had some entertainment value in it. You managed to capture the feeling of the movie's visuals pretty well, too.

Two suggestions:

Either make the audio clearer (less autotuned), add subtitles or both. Some of the autotune was hard to listen to (maybe too loud?)

When the Falcon is escaping, try moving it diagonally or drawing the ship from another angle. Right now it looks like its flying sideways

I'm sure this will go viral! Great work

[MOUSE COURT: Blender]

The drawings are nice, but no need to make the camera drift back and forth and go in and out of focus. If it served some purpose (or wasn't so noticeable) it may be a cool effect, though.

[The Best Of Us Episode 4]

Visuals are beautiful. Not sure why the guy hops 3 feet forward in the opening in less than a frame, but the visuals are appealing.

However, the sound is painful to listen to. Audio is way more important than visuals.

rotimiolowu responds:

thank you, we are working on getting better sound quality and the next season will definitely look even better visually.

[Root & Digby - Saying Goodbye]

This is adorable and the animation is spot on. The voice acting and characterization is near perfect, and the visuals look like TV quality animation.

I especially like when the purple and red characters are ignoring the green guy in the kitchen, and the camera movement mimics that dynamic.

My only suggestion would be paying more attention to the framing- when they're talking over the Ouija board, the green guy is crammed too far to screen right, with all the dead space behind him.

jerbjpg responds:

Thanks for the thoughtful comment! I had issues framing the ouiji board scene because there was a lot of cheating with character movement I needed to do. But I agree, it could have looked better
:)

[My Childhood Nightmare]

Wow. Simple, but really effective. I was worried you'd ruin it with a cheesy jump-scare, but you nailed it from beginning to end. Thanks for the feeling of existential dread.

[Suction Cup Man!]

Really well done. You nailed the style and feel while adding your own spin. Kudos!

[Suspect: No Evil 021]

Wow. The art is beautiful and some of the concepts are incredibly interesting (like the faceless person near the beginning). This is really, really well done.

My main complaint is the voice acting. Half the cast isn't very good and it brings down the rest of the brilliant piece.

Kudos. I'm a fan.

[Purple Sleep TV #1: Telephones]

I really enjoyed this. It's mellow, charming, visually interesting and unique. Kinda feels like Homestar Runner meets David Firth. Other than tiny issues with the technical animation quality (smoother inbetweens, better use of the 12 principles of animation) I enjoyed every second of it.

[Animated Teaser 07: im late]

Seriously impressive! It's been fun seeing the updates in the Flash Holes FB group.

My two suggestions would be:

-The train looks too 3D. Try and find a way to blend it in more naturally with the background
- In general, I'm sure these clips take a long long time, but I would say waiting till you have the bulk of it ready to go gives it more punch when you release it.

Seriously, though. Super, super impressive. How long do these shots take?

ibrabdo responds:

thx man, all backgrounds will be painted and the characters cleaned-up and got shadow and highlight, the 3d scene will have painted textures and have a heavily VFX in after effects to have the 2D feelings that the 2d painted backgrounds have (or at least that s the plan), it is taking a long time and even longer for finalizing one shot, and i really appreciate ur advise of releasing a bigger and longer parts at once, which u r right about that, but since im doing the whole thing alone and in my free time with a fulltime job plus freelancing so the production time will take even longer, and that why im just releasing them as an updates and it will be cool the have people following the project process if there is any.