VicariousE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[TD-Brain Art]

I should link to this in my Art Portal reviews... nah, but generally speaking, the instructor's right! I usually begin with composition, and work my way out from there, if no specific problem jumps out at me. At least I don't get paid to review/perform/teach lol

...decent stills, just enough of them to keep the visuals in pace with the story. Glad it had an intro for contexts' sake, the teacher's monologue was wonderfully intense. The variety of stills sure helped, great job!

[Spectral Conflict]

Who the man, MisterHerbal is! I was hoping that revive potion would be a bit of a hook! And then you carried it a few steps further, and I wholeheartedly approve. Meh, just under 2 minutes, but hells bells, I'm satisfied with that... okay I'll bite, what else would you have added?

MisterHerbal responds:

Haha hey man! Really, they were little things that could have added to the sketch. Here's some I can remember (I threw away the sticky note with all the ideas)

-The Ghost hunter's Glass eye could be a tech/paranormal-weapon/scanner etc...
-The revival potion could have cuased some serious reaction to the wooden floor, perhaps giving it some form of life?
-The ghost could have fucked around with the hunter more, give him more frights and taking the piss out of him by changing his form, imitating him, pissing him off. This would have given the battle a more powerful effect.

..and to end the list here's a fucked up plot twist :

In the last scene, at the clinic, we don't see the doctor's face, until we zoom out and realize the doctor was the hunter and shoots the woman in her tummy, killing both the babies then last shot after the credits is the ghost hunter in his Cloning room. This motherfucker is a sophisticated paranormal hunter and is more advanced than we think, he creates clones too and sends them on missions like these to get rid of ghosts like mook the spook.

I had much more stuff in my head while I was creating this but only managed to do much. Oh well!

Thanks for watching man!

[Massively Effective]

Damn, I thought Rex would've been the culprit :O Very nicely scripted, rendered and produced, even if it is a bit of a one-fart show. An excellent first submission, congrats!

[Another]

I saw this on your Vimeo page not that long ago, and was impressed with the animation as well as the plot, which, like a sad tale often does, drags you along for the ride to the bitter end.

Plots like this rarely go over well, but I think it was worth the risk: I ultimately liked it, even though most hunters wouldn't have dared to shoot a non-threatening bear so close to a minor.. maybe he didn't see him? Ah well, an O Henry ending always needs a hook at the end, and I felt this whole piece turned out just fine.

I'm glad you're posting your work to NG, you made a fan today!

wh347 responds:

Thanks man! I appreciate the feedback. I think my main fear with the ending was that I didn't want it to be cheap or sentimental. The introduction of the hunter character actually came way late in production (I had a different ending planned that was super corny). I wanted the end to be a little more cynical, but also wrap up the reign of the bear as father. I also meant for it to be like a weird injection of reality having this outside guy come in with no understanding of what this family had been through. I'm sure everything about the way the hunter shoots the bear is inaccurate though, like you said. I like to imagine that he was maybe acting in a rash way because he thought the kid was in imminent danger and wasn't tuned to the mood between the two. Or something :)

Thanks again for watching!!

[Spaceshuttle Experience!]

Nicely done dude! I guess there could've been a few more bells and whistles to click on while on board, but it looks great!

Arnoud1993 responds:

Yeah, I planned that each screen could break when clicked on. But it didn't really worked out ;) thanks for the comment!

[Schoolgirl Alfred: "I Remember You"]

Animation and vocals were professionally executed, and quite lovely together :3 Almost forgot about the plug Lloyd gave you at the '14 to-do, good to finally see it... though I've would've framed him a bit differently: tentacles w/ Toxie looking suction cups, puckering away. Or not, animation sucks to constantly produce, and I do hope, you can one day reap the rewards!

[Pashed [MD2015]]

I'm very happy with this, especially the visual depth and camera angles. Cinematic masterpiece!

GabrielBarsch responds:

i really tried to bring something new to the table, so i came up with this camera idea after watching some SFM videos, im glad you like it

["Semi-Respectable" Show - Episode 2 "The Talk"]

Congrats on earning the Daily 4th! Frankly, I was a little nervous watching this, at first. Now that I've seen the intro episode, I realize that this is a far greater epic, barely out of the gate.

Okay, I'm in, let's get this party started!

SemiRespectable responds:

Haha, love this comment! I'll put some more up real soon, maybe do another one tmw, I hope I can keep the party rolling & somewhat epic

[Semi Respectable Trailer - Original Show]

Pretty ambitious, never seen such a huge character study before! The apparent forthcoming content, might be a bit outside the demographic here, but since this site is over 20 years old, I trust our older members will take notice!

SemiRespectable responds:

Thanks brother, I agree about the demo but I figured this site is where the talent is. So, no matter any demo I want to see if my stuff is up to par. I appreciate you taking the time to comment, very cool!

[Time]

A lot can happen in 10 seconds. We, as mortal beings, are prone to waste time, and somehow this is conveyed quite nicely here... I sure bet it took more than 10 seconds to animate!

Really glad I caught some of your work again man, nicely done! It's fast, but not hard on the eyes. What frame rate is this?