Zyphonee's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Keep your Computer Happy]

That was... enjoyable, really enjoyable

This truly broke my expectations. In a good way, so first, I'd like to say that, as ussual, HappyHarry did a stunishing job with the voice acting, the audio over the whole animation showed a lot of dedication and was entertaining to listen to.
The animation was great and a pleasure to watch, the last scene, the one with the person talking, was a bit worse than the rest (basically due to the making of the lip sync on another layer, which was sort of a contrast with the rest of the animation) this, unlike in most cases, isn't a bad thing, since the animation in the rest of the movie was awesome. The backgrounds, alongside with the audio, make the movie worth watching over and over again.
Probably the strongest point of this movie is that it has things that aren't completely necessary but makes it look better. A good example of this is the work put into the movement of the computer, which has some frame by frame that looks really great. On another note, I managed to spot the Wonchop toy on the shelf, good addition.

Truth is, this is the best submission you've made. Congratulations over a great movie indeed.

Wonchop responds:

Nothing like good ol' Blackcurrant Squash Monkey propoganda.

[Black Hole Sheep]

Hmm... meh...

The flash isn't the kind of animation somebody would get all over it shouting "what the hell!? greatest work ever!" It is a smart animation. That's the proper adjetive to it: Smart.
It has a preety original concept, it's exactly the kind of things that regularly make me laugh, just like this did. The animation was a bit lazy, dare I say primitive, but yet still interesting, specially near the ending. Your acsent is somewhat funny and you made a good job on the voice acting, however, near the begining, there was an annoying sound that truly shows you didn't pay to much attention to the audio. HUGE mistake if you were aiming for the highest quality possible within the time you had making this.
Within the animation, the only thing that was eye catchy was the black hole effect. Besides from that, you relied TOO MUCH on tweening and too little into putting all you have into it. It is still a worth watching submission, just that.

Wonchop responds:

It was my first time animating in After Effects, and we only had been taught a few techniques before having to make this. I honestly don't see how the graphic style would work without tweens though.

[Short - Cold Drink]

Meh...

It's funny and I dig the concept of "Short", however, it seem like you are using the description "Short" as a way to tell everyone not to complain over you being plain out lazy. Besides, the character drawings were rudimentary at best and the animation had a lot of flaws, lack of in betweens and overall lack of movement.

To my opinion, you just raped the concept of "short" modelling it into an abrebiation of "I'm too lazy". You should probably go on youtube and search for animation short and see what I'm talking about, because if the animation was at least better, it would be enjoyable, however, you didn't put any work at all in the animation or the overall concept.

fluffkomix responds:

yes i'm lazy. i never denied it, but this animation wasn't about me biting off more then i can chew and then chickening out, this animation was just a small joke i wanted to share.

i never planned on it being more then 5 seconds anyways. consider the extra second a bonus.

there were inbetweens in the first time he moved his arm, and i was gonna add a bunch in the second time but i liked how it looked. i wasn't being lazy at that time i just liked how it looked without inbetweens.

maybe to warn people i could call it short short?

[-NG Styled Art-]

Oh my!

Some great art in there, and the fact that you're 14 is preety impressive, everyone did an amazing job in there. I could see you got the other one you submited blammed, but it is good that you got permission from the authors, since it really looks like you took your time to put everything together!
What I noticed and almost slipped past through my eye was that your part had some weird anatomy, specially in the arms, it kinda looked like you didn't take your time to make a sketch and look at it wisely with a critic eye for noticing what's right and what's wrong in there. For example, your right arm looks a bit... messed up, the the joint in there looks to close to the shoulder, which messes it up completely. Else than that, you made an incredible job, but you might want to use the line tool to make a "skeleton" on another layer so you can measure everything. The music could have a little twitch, it is too slow, when the idea of a bunch of tough, muscle guys sounds like something a bit more... I don't know, frenetic. Great job anyways, and the truth is, Mr. Swain's drawing of Luis made me jump back a bit.

I love your art collabs, keep em up!

JKAmovies responds:

wow, thanks a lot man. I enjoyed reading your review and thank you.

I'm still learning how to get people looking right. That piece of art was one of my older work but one of my personal faves, I've always noticed the right arm was too short and the left was too big. I'll try the line tool skeleton trick :P

Thanks~JKAmovies

[Just Another Weekend 2]

Cool...

I liked it overall. It was fun and made me crack smiles every so often. The sound quality was preety good, even though it had these hightly pitched noises at times. Also, the voice acting could've been a bit more emotive, it seemed like as if the characters were too expresionless.
The graphics were nice, however, you might want to put a whole lot of effort to the animation, specially into trying to use less motion tweens and more frame by frame. I know it's way harder, but it makes the movie a lot better.
The sense of humour is probably the best part in the movie. The "Darkan's head" concept was awesome, I really laughed preety loud when he said "It's annoying that you guys get in here all the time without asking!".

You might want to dub your movies to english too, as a lot of people who don't know spanish will pass of it, and it is definetly a good movie. Oh, and what was that song at the begining, the rock and roll titanic one? T'was AWESOME!!!

Darkar responds:

My heart will go on, punk version by New Found Glory. :)

[BB's Demo Reel]

Great!

The whole demo reel was truly awesome, I liked it, unluckly, some moments showed animation that looked very old, as it was made of motion tweens, instead, some other parts looked amazing, with amazing animation and damn good graphics. Also, I liked how you showed some rough animation sketches, since it is something directors want to see when planing on hiring somebody, as it allows them to know that you preety much organize everything when you animate. I'd also recommend you to show different styles of animation if you can, like traditional animation and, if you can, 3D is something directors are always willing to add in a movie or whatever they may hire you for.

Good Luck!

BurningBunnies responds:

Thanks a lot for this great review. Yeah I admit there's a few things in there I made as far back as 3 years ago. I'm applying to University to try and expand on everything I've learnt and to dive into the world of 3D animation. I'll continue to work hard to try and land a job at the end of it all.

Zyphonee, thank you.

[Resident Evil 5 Unmasked]

Niceee...

I liked it, the voices had good quality, but they kinda flopped every now and then, making a short annoying sound, and Wesker's voice should've had a british accent... The drawings were cool, I liked how the character design was a somewhat cartoony drawing of the character, but still kept realistic anatomy in some sort of way.
The general idea was hilarous, I must admit I laughed... preety loud, it wasn't expected and it was 100% original, thumbs up.

The one thing that could've been improved was the animation, which consisted mainly of motion tweens, but the lip sync was very nicely done!

VintageBro responds:

Thank you, Ill keep everything you said in mind and Ill work on it. Im not joking, thanks you covered every aspect of my movie and I thank you.

Yes well I tent to be a bit lazy =3 . To the lip sync, yes Ive been working on it.
Thanks again.

[.::Reunion::.]

Lacks something... recognition!

The whole point of the movie was very good, but some moments in the animation looked kind of rushed, specially the FBF, that had a rough look to it, and I dont mean rough because of the style, I mean it because you should've cleared some keyframes and draw the frame again, and some movie clips looked like the movement wasn't finished before the MC looped, but on the other hand, some parts were really cool, like the old lady falling, the backgrounds and the beautiful animations on the animals, but it'd be better if you used the color pallet to make you own shadings instead of using the ones flash already has preset, specially for the grass, leaves and clouds.

Jessismith responds:

Thank you, Zyphonee....:) That means a lot.

I must admit though, it was very rushed; especially towards the end. You're right about a lot of what you said.
I did actually try to make my own shadings. I didn't use flash. I was basically just lazy though. I put a layer of black over the picture. Yeah....it didn't turn out so good.
The grass leaves and clouds. I should have worked harder on those...:P
Thanks buddy...:)

[Metroid Prime Catastrophe]

Cool one!

It´s a preety good movie, I really like the art, but the only reason I take three stars out from this is because the animation was made out ENTIRELY of motion tweens, which caused a bit of confusion,specially when the Samus turned around, else from that, it was preety good, sweet art, and good voice acting, which could've used a bit more of detail, specially Samus's voice.

Shadowii2 responds:

I know what you mean about the animation quality. I tend to use a lot of tweens.
Anyway, thanks for the review anyway!

[Frost'D]

HAHA, vey funny

Well, it was awesome, but Id recommend you to let loose of so marked milestones, when animating, some drawings stayed still for around four frames, I'd recommend you to add more in-between-frames, that way the animation would be smoother.
Other than that, nothing, just awesome and no, the script wasn't retarded at all, it was actually very good, and the typical MindChamber art, which means, plainly awesome art, actually, the last part made me jump back a bit...

MindChamber responds:

ya I was holding on the extremes longer than I shouldve cause I ran out of time haha. towards the end I was inking over the animatic which usually have volume issues as well. But I had to otherwise I wouldve missed christmas by a week lol.

thanks for the review!