VicariousE's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[the xmas short (part 2)]

Very professional work, though I think the late submission, may impact the score in the short term... oh well, at least it's out on a holiday ;)

tylerghardin responds:

yeahhh i realize that. the whole late thing tore me up for a while but i've accepted it. and right? anyone who doesn't want to celebrate valentine's day can celebrate christmas!

[the xmas short (part 1)]

The production quality is outstanding, broadcast quality timing and script, very sponsor worthy.

tylerghardin responds:

thank you!

[Elf]

Best and most logical action sequence I've seen on NG in quite a while!

Ghosty22 responds:

Thanks! I like my fights to be gritty.

[The Click]

Very nicely done! Though the fight sequence didn't look reversed enough, and there wasn't any audio/visual cue, to signal when things were going forward again. Still, the point was made clear.... was wondering why the play arrow was facing the wrong way (unless your native language goes from right to left, I guess?)

libraken1016 responds:

the play button was made reversed as a hint for the video being played backward (a suggestion from my lecturer haha)
since it was my first animation so there might still be many improvements can be made and your comment means alot to me
thanks for the compliment =D

['Lizard Brain Freeze']

My friend, that was awesome. It sure seemed like you synched the audio to the action, or was that just years of experience, and a love for what you do? The very last scene, with the sepia filter, really put a smile on my face, dunno why, I guess I'm just proud of your accomplishments (hence my username lol)

Have a very happy, prosperous and loving new year :)

Butzbo responds:

Thanks a lot for the thoughts, glad you liked it!
I normally work with plenty of sound effects, but there were some parts of the song that could work pretty well in the animation without sfx, so I mostly tried to synch it to the music to change a bit; and also to give the song some more 'priority'.
Happy new year aswell :D

[donuts plus]

I could stand to see a few more of these. Slightly too much video for NG, but that's easily forgivable.
Did you meet the owners before doing any of these ads? A little research goes a long way, in getting a good, airable (for TV/local origination) commission. Couldn't help but think there was a way the burglar could've had knife marks already in him (digital masking, up until the stabbing began)... there's always a plethora of cat skinning ways, even optical ones. Eh, forgive my armchair quarterbacking, it's a decent ad!

AlantheBOX responds:

well you're in luck! i just uploaded another one!

[Christinsanity]

Excellent collaborative effort. Wow, it's 3 years since I last saw this tale of Christmas. The resolution seems a little low, but the tracking of the images, VA work (difficult script, to be sure!), all stellar :)

Gianni responds:

The prototypes of the file were actually just abstract blocks of general color because Pax sarcastically interpreted what I meant when I said quality didn't matter too much, and thought it would be hilarious to give me porn-esque blurring, and poetic considering the comic's original creator.

Thanks as always Vic, you're the king.

[Ball]

Wow, that came out great: good frame rate, animation of the construction paper cutouts, sound effects. Was the noise/background static/wind noise intentional? Seemed a tad over the top, barely worth mentioning..

Btw, could you add these to the author comments?: frame rate, number of frames, how these images were captured (scanner/camera), how many hours it took to get every animated frame captured and in place. Seeing work like this, give me hope that one day, I can animate something like this (and not use a finicky pricey animation program) I docked half a star, because it seemed overly simplistic and short, especially the end - minor quibbles, since everything is lovingly rendered and lit/focused well :)

CameronMc responds:

Wow, thanks for being so nice about this little thing! I wanted some ambient outside noise in the background so it didn't seem as stark as it looks, and to kind of sell the joke at the end. Probably was a little too much tho...

As far as the specs go, it was about as basic as you can get:
It was shot on 2s (so 12fps)
I shot it with my iPhone 5, held down by books on a shelf over my desk.
The app I used was "iMotion", but that doesn't really matter. the most important things are:
-Some kind of Onion Skinning feature to see you're last frame
-1080p or higher export (this particular one has that if you export an image sequence)
-Some way to take the picture without touching the camera (This app let me use the button on my headphones)
I then edited this in Adobe after effects & premiere, but I didn't do anything you couldn't do in any other editing program.

Animating straight ahead took about 7 hour total for the 30 seconds of character animation. This was one of those things where I just did it and the joke was whatever, but I did take the actual animating pretty seriously, so thanks for appreciating that :)

[GPS Christmas Special]

Every fan service trick in the book (except female attributes) went into this one. It's so high energy, so confusing, but who cares, it's all the same boy/girl/conflict plot. Maybe I need to rewatch the GPS episodes so far, but really, it's a wild mess of action, with no clear: chain of command, plot, setting, bad guys.. plot.

Again, it's awfully fast paced with little IRL context, but it's a huge and successful parody of anime in general. Great VAing and animation, all around :)

Kel-chan responds:

yeah these vignettes or minisodes for the will be sort of just random gag spoofs with some central theme. The episodes however will be a bit more focused. I have probably one one more of these to do before making a full fledged episode

[The Bananas Has Gone Bad!]

Not many handrawn frames, canned audio content. The characters look fluid and attractive, and since this is your first video here, it's a legit first submission.

Poch101 responds:

Thank you, I'll make sure to add in more frames for future stuff. I don't actually have flash so yeah not as easy to do so for me I guess. But yes, I appreciate the comments and will see to it future works try to be even better. ^^