zachdewd's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bamboo Garden- Ep. 1]

I remeber seeing this animation on youtube and I liked it a lot.

It is very clever and I love it.

One thing I can say is that sometimes there is just too much animation and it makes things look awkward. A few things i can suggest is make the frames go on for a shorter amount of time (like, on ones) or just have less frames for some actions. Like, you don't always have to have your characters moving all the time, you can have them slow down a bit.

Joshuanimations responds:

Hey Zachselsior! Really appreciate the feedback, thanks! And yea I agree with you on the animation- sometimes I did animate too much ahah, I'll keep the advice in mind, thanks again, glad you enjoyed it!

[The Forgotten Video]

This is pretty good because this pretty much explains how I feel about TOME.

404Tales responds:

Hadn't heard of TOME before now- thanks for letting me know about it.

[Sonic the Hedgehog: A Dark Secret]

The animation and art is really good, but the writing is an abysmal mix of Chris Oney's, Psycicpebble's shitty writing and shitty memes.

Narmak responds:

Just a simple video for simple fun, but thanks for the feedback.

[Legend Of The Ancient Relic | Cartoon Chill Animated Short]

Alright here we go.

The backgrounds are absolutely amazing and I was just gushing over how great they were and they really set my expectations high for this animation

Then I saw how the character actually looks and how they were animated and it made me :( because they looked like they were drawn really ameaturly

the bight lines can work in dark spaces, but in places like the bar scene it doesn't really work, well, I mean, it's for some reason brighter for some characters than others, like the black guy.

Either way, you probably shouldn't call this an "origional animation" if you're going to balantly steal characters from other shows and shoves them in the background, you should at least be a little bit more subtle about it, like, say for example change up there designs to look similar from it and not explicitly rip them out from there respective shows, because when you do that it takes me aback and ruins the immersion for me for a little bit, I then have to have a little 10 second adjustment period to get back into it.

The bar fight could have been done better, it was pretty much only key frames and animation swipes, some inbetweens would have helped.

The part where they were hopping on to the motorcycle was embarrasing to watch, I mean the animation right there went to literal slide show levels, I mean, they were just singular colors, it should have been even easier to animate all of that!

I'm giving this a 3 out of five for the pure fact that I was absolutley blown away with how amazing the backgrounds were and how stunning the after effects were, but the characters should have been drawn better so that they could reflect that, because when characters are drawn crappily in front of amazing backgrounds it can be pretty jarring.

I understand you only had a month to do this, but maybe some things could have been balanced here? Or maybe not because the presentation of everything other than the characters and andimation saved the film, and then some, so I guess all I can say is, good job, and I hope your next animation is even better.

CartoonChill responds:

Thank you so much for the constructive criticism! Yeah, this was a rushed project because of the amount of time I had. I had school work and only had April break and sometime during the weekend. If you want to check out the deleted scene of the original beginning, check out Cartoon Lounge on YouTube!! I'm also only 15, and this is also only my 3rd animated short film, so I'd say I made lots of progress from my first short film a few months back. I'm not really stealing the characters from other anime, but using them as like a little cameo or something along the lines of that. They're still Lupin and Jigen. The backgrounds in the beginning was when I was being more patient with the project and not worrying too much about the deadline, but as time became more scarce, it felt like a gun on the back of my head and myself telling me I have to get this done and into the film festival before the due date or else I'm dead. If I didn't have any restrictions, then you'd be seeing more gorgeous backgrounds and animation. I'm pretty sure my next animation is going to be better, as it always seems so far. But thank you for the response! Make sure if you want, to follow me for future content!

[Somewhere Other: Snooze]

This was a pretty good animation!

But uh... that guy with the hat... You're pushing it my dude.

cecameron responds:

Haha thanks!

[Chase Through Space]

Your pretty good at music, but you should probably study animation a bit more.

mashitandsmashit responds:

Don't worry. I will.

[Deus Exodus Prototype V5.3]

Hey, dude, you have potential, I like these origional characters you got here.

Let me just say that you gotta know when to have animations be fast and when they shuold be slow, like when they're doing that spinning stuff? It should be a lot faster.

SrTomDub responds:

thanks, i was trying to match the animation to the musics beat, i guess i have to do better with that :P
but thanks for responding :)

[Pokemon Omeger Rubyer Part 2]

That fucking contest bit was insane.

mattyburrito responds:

thanks for watching it!

[Hey That's Offensive!]

To me, honestly, this wan't funny at all, theres a thing called the rule of three and you just throw that out the window and drive this joke into the ground and by the end I get it and I know what's coming because you just do it over and over AND OVER again.

Also, the voice acting on the purple guy was so cringe worthy, it sounded like he was holding back the whole time with that tone of fake anger in his voice, like his mom is in the house and he doesn't want to be too loud or else he'll get in trouble for saying dick.

That's another thing, If your gonna have a dick in your cartoon, and only show the balls, then you might as well show the whole thing at that point because there's no hiding it anymore, it's not like the balls aren't as bad as the shaft and the head, no the dick and balls is all the same amount of priority.

The animation was nothing to write home about either, it's just the same lame old cyanide and happyness-esque stuff we've all seen before, and you don't even put any effort into it.

I'm only gonna give you two stars because that Nickleback impersonation did make me smile at the end

Cheetoh responds:

the reason why the purple guy sounds like that is because that's how his character is. That is his personality. He is not this loud, aggressive, assertive guy, he is this shy guy who occasionally attempts to stick up for himself but it never works. Also, it was just a little bit of the balls showing, it's not like I had both balls hanging out. To me, having the jokes be a little predictable can be charming because it can engage the audience into how absolutely ridiculous and bewildering the situation is, and makes the pay off better leaving the viewer with a positive taste in their mouth. As for the animation, yeah it's similar to cyanide and happiness, but that show has such simple character designs it's hard to not think of it too. The characters did their thing, they told the story, and it resonated with many people so I'm happy about that. Thanks for the review though, I do enjoy the criticism. I hope what I said made sense, it's 3 am and i'm exhausted

[Mexico´s Economy]

The punch line is lost on me because you sound like your just choking on a giant cock and balls.

Please speak more clearly for you flash so I can actually appreaciate it.

drainzerhg responds:

i need to re-record the voice, but besides, i´m making fun of the guy too