Kajenx's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Once at the Lesson]

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That was really cool! I loved the overlay, you could sort of predict what was going to happen. Nice animation too!

trul responds:

yes, u can guess it from the title.

Why you have choose Dao sign as your icon?

[A Tweenless Animation]

Not bad!

It was pretty funny, I enjoyed watching it. Keep practicing, you seem to have the basics down!

Fawx responds:

thanks braw B)

[Robotic Octopus Snowman]

LOL wtf?

You're so weird Mr. Zekey. But I liked it!

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

Mr.?
oh yeah my wife
i forgot to let her out today

[oney]

Wow...

The last one was actually pretty good. I don't doubt Oney will love the whole thing though.

Fawx responds:

Oh my god you made Ether.

[One Big Morphing Orgasm]

Fantastic!

I love seeing people promote FBF animating and this was a really great way to do it! The result is fantastic, and some people got really creative with it! If you do another one, I'll join!

TheBoogley responds:

I will run another collab, but it will have a different theme... something to do with fbf though, maybe one of the animation principles.

[Irrelevance]

Nice!

That was really funny, and a total lack of penises, blood, and pop culture references makes this one of the most originally inventive flashes on NG.

NickJS responds:

Thanks! Although I did throw a few memes in there...

[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.

[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!

[|~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!

[Just Me]

Phone home?

Haha, he looks like E.T.

Anyway, the pacing was really slow. It might have been long, but it was drawn out too, and those don't go together well. It was a nice effort though!

RedHotPoker responds:

I didn't think it was that slow. I mean i got the whole story told in 6 min, not 90 like a proper movie would.