VicariousE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Parasitic Valentines Day (Animatic)]

Nice, simple story with the right amount of subtext (both in title and the ending). Have to admit, when first watching it, I didn't differentiate the 2 worms or understand the wafting ribbon above the male worm.

Maybe if there were a light pink trail the female worm left from the get-go (and in the later ribbon/scent trail), the rest would've made more sense. Also, maybe if there were more of a female worm establishing shot... eh, still worthy of 4/5, GG

MongooseMinion responds:

Thank you for the comment! Just letting you know- this is unfinished, so any ideas on how to improve it are extremely appreciated!

[Face Punch : Foamy The Squirrel]

Jeez, faic punchin, without ANY probable cause? Nope, not me. Some times certain people have 'tells' that you can pick up on from just a glance, a window into who they are... not discussing those things kinda leaves this episode flat.

Foamy needs to live away from the city for a while, or take a step back from getting irked by the modern 'civilized' living that goes on in close quarters.

[Be Nice]

Short, sweet, the VA work sounded a bit muffled and under volumed, but was slight on both counts. Kind of expected a scene or a frame after the credits... did the bomb go off, and if it did, was there some poetic conclusion to the thing?

Never heard of 5 Second Day, kin u add any deets to the author description?

SethBrady responds:

This oughta answer your question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mO0LJsBh30

[ZTV News Episode 9]

Saw a fair bit of this episode (and lots of VR hijinks) made on Twitch, and all I can say to viewers is "Lots of frames, lots of mouth and eye movements = grueling, monotonous, life shortening, will sapping work." It's really easy to overlook the high frame rate lip-sync folks, bump up your score by half a star if you can.

To Zone I say this, "Read the above." This episode came out a little better than average for Z-TV News. However I think you could mix up the content and effort a little, Zone hardly ever does anything with her tongue, doesn't bite her lip, no tongue in cheek. No leaning or swaying either. No need for much past that, since, you know, newscaster, static.

Best wishes Zone, you're a hard workin mutha

[Banana Phone]

This has been a favorite of mine since it came out, and I'm happy to share this vid with friends. Nice and easy, a true classic of mind fuckery and 'ear worms' gone amok

[Escape From The Kindergarten]

It's a good narrative/anecdote, but it feels slightly rushed. If there were a few pauses added between sentences here and there (like paragraph breaks), the listener/reader could have time to properly imagine this scene in his/her mind. It's a very minor quibble, if nothing else, imagine you're telling the story to someone.. at times you'll pause and wait for someone to react or reflect internally, if they haven't already.

The ez animation's okay, though the way the scenes were laid out on the screen, especially w/ the text below, seemed off center in some spots. Flip phone? Guess this did happen a while ago.

Yeah, add a little more time drawing per frame, I don't mind placeholder graphics, but in this case lol, some of the frames were poor. Well told story, generally well paced, graphics lame, but varied enough, what animation there was, was appropriate. 1/2 star extra, because you're in the Discord ;)

Belthagor responds:

I can kind of explain the reason for the fast pacing.

This is a story from my life, and yes I animated it well, but I drew it up and completed it in a short time, so the pacing is kind of... uncaring, not to sound rude. Maybe I should call it: I don't feel like wasting my audiences time by slowing it down, and theres a lack of movement in animation so the pace makes up for that. Most people's attention is highest during the 30 seconds first starting in a short film, animation, song, whatever, and I thought I would get the story out for my audience in an easy to understand, meaning quickly paced animation, to avoid wasting their time despite the basic drawing. Here's the story, okay, you heard it. That's not to say I don't care about views, I finished the project in maybe half a day of rapid drawing including several breaks, I guess I just wanted to get it done, and so did my voice actor who does not want to be credited due to the basic animation, so even though we did our individual parts separately we had the same thought in mind. I didn't have time to really focus on the project, and he read the script quickly so it kind of matched the whole thing. I may find more time and do a well paced, detailed, slowly spoken version of this, a final version so to say. Maybe if a bunch of people request for me to do so, even more so chance of that.

[The Wish Fish Family - Episode 18 - Fish in a Barrel]

Played out very well! I think any good comedy is gonna ruffle someone's feathers, but this has a nice middle ground; I was definitely prepared to cringe. Only gripe might be the Trump and Newscaster's voices, though they were voiced perfectly, perhaps there wasn't enough enunciation to cut through the bassy voice acting; was kinda hard to make out in spots.

This makes a wonderful edition to the Wish Fish saga, a little topical humor now and then, is just what the lobotomy doctor ordered.

fartoons responds:

I noticed Trump's voice being hard to understand sometimes. But it's hard to notice for me since I wrote it and automatically know what they're saying. I will try to mellow out the voices the next time around. It is actually funny watching me do voices because I run out of breath constantly. It's really annoying. So voice recording takes several hours for me.

[Sublo & Tangy Mustard #9 - Bad Guys]

Unlike TheMAM's review, I liked the biplay, it's a good time to lay down a little exposition or cameo of new characters out in the 'real world', away from SubLo. Any good piece requires an inciting incident to set things in motion. Plus being drunk on the job is plainly not a laughing matter lol

So far the entire series has my 100% seal of Creative Approval, gg dude, and don't think I didn't notice the sweet new animation techniques either ;) Don't know how you manage to write and animate so well equally, it's always a rare trait that should be showered w/ $ and authority.

Aaron-Long responds:

Thanks a lot, yeah I think nine episodes in it's probably a good time to venture out to new areas, both literally and in terms of learning more about the characters... and there will be lots more of that in upcoming episodes!

[Simple Jam - Art compliation (NSFW)]

Great first submission, though it'd be nice if the images/resolution were higher, and there were more than just 3 characters on one page.