Kajenx's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Intruder Returns]

Not bad.

One of the best use of tweens I've seen. You achieved some really realistic movements. The rotoscoping on the silhouettes was nice, and by mixing the two of them you're able to fool the viewer into a more three dimensional setting. Very clever!

mmankt responds:

all character animations are done by hand. No tweens.

[Cardboard City]

Interesting...

It was a lot more cohesive than most collabs, and you didn't use some lame punk rock track, which was refreshing. It had a cool urban feel, too. Nice work.

[Apples and Oranges]

Weird

I thought it was a Tim Frommeyer cartoon until I looked at the author tag.

[Mr Coo #4]

Great

I just keep watching this over and over...

[Sweet Summer Break]

Cool

It was pretty good. Funny in that sunday comics sort of way.

JKR responds:

Interesting, I never thought of it like a Sunday comic, but you're very much right about that sort of feeling. Cool, now I have something else to think about when making them.

Thanks for leaving a review!

[~Birth~]

Erm...

That was terrible... The art was nice though.

[Blockhead: Quick Shot 2]

LOL

I know that feeling... I think all coders have their own personal blockhead...

[Awesome Gaiden]

Haha!

It's like watching a Tex Avery cartoon!

[Paper Chase]

Cool

Kinda random, but it was very well done!

[|~SpeedAnim:BattleCool~|]

Critical Review for Improvement

Before this, there wasn't much actual animation in these. However, when things were moving in this one, it was rather confused and difficult to follow. The timing needs a bit work, my eyes had trouble interpreting movement. If you want things to move quickly, you need to stretch the forms out otherwise they flicker and you lose the viewer.

The movement felt pretty stiff in some places, the posing was pretty good most of the time, but you don't want to mindlessly draw the inbetweens. Remember the animation principals of easing in and out and overlapping the action, they're the keys to giving a character life. It's easy to get wrapped up in drawing the details, so if you block the action in with scribbled gesture drawings first, you can use that as an armature for the details.

You have obviously been influenced by anime, whic is fine, but it isn't the best thing to use for character animation reference as it usually uses limited animation (all of the television series do, anyway). You seem to be pretty comfortable with drawing your characters, so some good reference would be the old 1940's theatrical shorts, like Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry. If you can adopt the same vitality those cartoons have into the angular anime style, you'll be set to work for Miazaki! :D

Keep practicing, good luck!

SpikeVallentine responds:

Thank you thank you thank you!
I am sending you a message cause I have a meaty response where I'd appreciate your reply.

Thank you for your honesty!