UriahTWolfe's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Pirate's Ghost Story]

Excellent for a first effort!

It's actually pretty good, if a bit on the short side. But I know 10 seconds of "flash" time is about 1 half hour or more of real-world time, so that's understandable. ;-) There's always room for improvement, but if I had to guess I'd say you're probably doing pretty good for your level of experience. Just keep at it, it will be worth the effort. :-)

Phlashtastix responds:

Much appreciated. :)

[Death on the Job]

I dunno' who Megan is...

...but methinks me no wanna tick her off. :-#

Nice work! :-)

Skal42 responds:

Oh you have no idea O_O

[DMITRI M.]

A bit dry, but then homework usually is.

While I'm pretty sure you can do much better than this, it was nonetheless enjoyable. I don't recall ever having known the story of the man who formulated the periodic table of elements - it was interesting from an educational perspective. Hope you got a good grade on it. :-)

Noxx11 responds:

Thanks. I never can truly enjoy making homework assignments in flash, but then again who expects to enjoy doing homework? I'm glad you liked it anyway. :)

[Alive]

I thought it all went together perfectly.

I've read some of your critics critiques, but I don't see what they're getting at. I thought it was very well put-together. What some seem to be criticising as "poor quality" I see more as simply a style of animation. If you can draw as well as you can in this toon, I'm sure you can draw more realistic and lifelike pics if you really wanted to. But for this flash, that's not what you were shooting for - that's just my guess, though. I think it worked perfectly. It didn't strike me in such a way as to make me want to cry, though - I do have to agree with that. But I could see the sadness in it, and it most definitely seems to pose a "question" of sorts - an unasked question we can all only answer in our own hearts and minds, in that place that nobody else can see but us and the eye of the universe, itself. The tears, if they are to come, will come if the contemplation this kind of flash can put you in draws you in that direction. If it doesn't, then you're not crying because you don't -need- to cry at the moment. I could sit here and think on this subject for hours, and I'd probably have a few very good sob sessions. Emotionality is in the heart of the beholder, after all. :-)

AloneInTheDark responds:

Thanks for the great review! It wasn't really my aim to make people cry with this animation. I wanted to show how every form of life is of such small relevance compared to the grander scheme of things. For me it's more about a realizing this with a smile on the face rather than feeling the need to cry.

[The Meaning of Existence]

You actually had the nerve...

...to put a "Replay" option! LoL! :-) I'm going to assume I just don't get the humor in this joke. But as long as it means something to you, I have no complaints about it. :-)

ArmadilloPillow responds:

The replay was added as a sort of irony because there are no replays in life.

[Whist - Name of the Game]

Loved it!

Excellent story beginning, looking forward to the next episode. :-) Only thing I might suggest - and it's a really trivial deal, I'm just a "detail" man - is to smooth the lines of the drawings. They look a bit scratchy & rough. If you're not aware of it already, Gimp (opensource freeware) lets you create smooth lines of any shape just by manipulating a number of "nodes" on a line.

Even so, great work! :-)

avidlebon responds:

Thanks for the critique! I do pretty much all of my illustration in flash, and while the pencil tool gives me a lot smoother lines the vector brush gives it more of a traditional feel. I suppose it's all preference, sometimes smooth does look better- I did that with delineation, but that animation also took a LOT longer to do that way. Occasionally I do import images from other programs for special effects (like Photoshop or Gimp) but that makes files get really big really fast.

[Vete a la Versh 9]

LOL to encore scene!

"...el anoooo..." (or however it's spelled - I know how some Spanish sounds, but not how it's written) - the tone was perfect. Demented little fairy... Keep 'em coming! :-)

Darkar responds:

I will! Thank you! :)