VicariousE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Retail Sim 2020]

Hell is hell, looping of the audio does more to reinforce the misery than the scene. Extra star for... documenting retail hell, and still being sentient enough to put this together. If you got room for an extra tag, 'loop'.. if not, next time eh?

As a sec of the interior once said to my ancestors, 'endeavor to persevere'

[GAME & WATCH: SILVER SERIES | FRIDAY NIGHT GAMEZ | NINTENDO'S FIRST HANDHELDS!]

Decent review, animations are kinda canned, but it's an 'in' to Newgrounds, as is the subject matter... no worries there. Decent production values, though asides like the cat intermission, look like (well produced) time padding, and offer no content to the subject matter at hand - adding extra text info would've been welcome. Guys like stats, like how many sold per continent, price (then and now), price used/new today......

I had a (gold series) Popeye, could not figure out wtf they wanted me to do, likely some convoluted linear series of actions. Kinda recall the folded glossy paper/manual being of some help, but was likely badly translated... was damn near 40 yrs ago. Also recall the batteries holding up well, but not against the cold waiting for the school bus - liquid crystal froze, killing a fair number of icons, making it even harder to complete

JComX responds:

Thank you for your feedback! I'll try to add more stats! I would have liked to, but it's hard to come by concrete numbers for these things, cuz Nintendo wasn't as popular back in the day, so they weren't tracking the numbers as meticulously.
That's so cool that you had a Popeye Game & Watch! It's unfortunate that they are so sensitive to cold and heat and stuff. Shame it got ruined.
As for the animation, I draw every new frame without recycling, so it doesn't look cheap, but animating the whole thing smoothly would take up more time than I have, if I want to produce them consistently. I will keep trying to improve though! Thanks for your thoughts!

[Merry Titmas]

Looks like a lot of hours went into this, animation is smooth, linework and coloring solid. Kept waiting for the tit to self replicate, become a pair... or something. Still appreciate the animation for what it is, dunno what, but it's compelling at least.

Great first animation submission, guess I'll wander over and see how yer audio constructions sound!

JesusBuckland responds:

Yes. A lot.... *cough*like6months*cough*

Thanks, it was a lot like a crash course. I can't even believe I actually finished it... I mean, I planed to have it grow wings and fly through the ceiling but y'know... I have high standards and I constructed sooo much of it in the most inefficient ways, I was just happy to give the things any type of ending!

[Tim Goes to the Moon]

Current score is closer to 3 stars than 2... dunno how I found your profile, likely submitted something the Portal recently. It occurs to me that, since you've been a member here for about 4 years, something is keeping you here other than hentai and a possible existential dread of youtube, commercial pr0n and whatever video games or IRL work you have to occupy your time.

It's far better for normal people to make hot garbage, than dedicated/educated normies, who think the world (and wallet) will revolve around their published efforts.

Figured I'd follow you, to see if you can whip up something like this in the future. Can tell a decent amount of effort went into this, but from this, I'm sure you've learned some shortcuts and gotten your sea legs, as it were. Don't kys, but don't give up. Never know what kinda bullshit story will inspire someone to ... anyways, good luck, take care, don't let the bastards get u down

[Red Snow : Professional Criminal]

It's good as always, but the English subtitles don't seem to match up with the actions. It's all spelled properly, but the context is a little off. I've seen a few of your previous animations, but didn't notice any significant problems with those, so, figured I'd give you a heads up.

[Dot Dot Dot - Animated]

Ran into Axeman13 on GTA:Online recently, told him to come back and keep reviewing. Background music is a little overwhelming, but perfectly timed. Text presentation well animated.

[Sticks in space]

Approve of art stylings, lookin good man

[Swimming]

Sharks don't have lips, what was all that gob smacking I heard? Thinking your best bet for actual bone crunching action would be LiveLeak, I'm sure some uploader rolling over a dead cow can oblige.

Visuals are fine, minimalistic into colorful, got the concept down fine, the music score made the difference and set the mood a little more than the animation. Chunky kielbasi with gristle

Foxcato responds:

Thanks for honest your feedback. I don't know where you saw lips on that shark though? I'm pretty sure I didn't draw any?

The ending is a simple joke really. Which is why I added the silly chewing-sound.

[big mama dance]

Damn fine test, reminded me of a Warner Bros. animation of dancing ready-to-be-cooked chickens I saw back in the day. Both subjects move well, and maintain the same amount of volume/anatomy, which I imagine is the hardest part of FBF.

I'd say this was more of a proper loop than a test, if ends were cleaned up a little. Still, a bangin first submission to NG,GG

jmmo responds:

thank you :D