punbeard81's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[TD-Disengage]

Nice work. Really enjoyed the character designs and your color choices. For minimal animation the expressions and character poses were really strong.

[Operation: Graveyard]

Pretty well animated

The only thing I didn't like was I thought the fight scene could have been a little faster paced, Shorter, quicker cuts to make the action seem more intense. Congrats on completing such a fbf intensive project.

[The Ballad of CrippleKane]

really great!

Cool style and really smooth, correct horse running animation. Away into my favs it goes.

[SMB: Super Gonaka Designs]

Seems a bit too long for what it is

If this is a type of advertising it needs to be shorter or faster paced. Not a bad animation just too long. Could easily shave 10 seconds off this. Quick and quirky will help the cause, not a bad effort though.

[The Forbidden Forest]

Characters a little weak but the environment rocks

Great work on the back grounds. The actual movement of the characters wasn't bad. but it would have been nice to see tighter, prettier designs. The quality difference between the fore and backgrounds was a little distracting. Keep at it. It's only up, up, up from here. I don't mind it being short, just needs a better end. Even if he just stands on the guy and yells or he gets shot by and arrow or and even bigger baddie pops out and he reaches for more arrows and it is out and says yipe. Just feels undone.

[In My Arms Collab]

Good effort but some artist drag you down

Didn't care much for the actual idea of the animation in terms of the story, and I'd have been pickier on who gets to animate for you because actual frame animation is much harder than puppet flash animation, and some people really hurt the overall project. Just because everyone uses hatching for shading doesn't make it feel the same, and I really would have tried to hammer down the style a little more before diving in. Still, I can relate to just wanting to work on a project with friends and people and see it come together, and of course having fun, I just don't feel it's as solid as it could be. Sorry 'bout the honesty, but if you wanna get better, it can't all be having smoke blown up your ass. Good effort

[The Lady In White]

Nice but characters suffer at times

A nice fluid look to your style, (I really like the trees and backgrounds) but the human characters suffer from inconsistencies. Legs get too thin in places or you can see obvious breaks where legs meet up with the hips. Walk cycles need a little more work as they distract. Basically, needs some polish and it will be good to go. Still, good effort.

Hildebrandt responds:

Farrck, dude, I thought- well, okay, that part where hes is walking through the woods where he is just a black shape) (--> less work XD) his leg doesn't seem to be connected to the hip for a quarter of a second because I used one SHITTY formtween (I don't do that anymore since I got a drawing pad...), but, well, people won't realize... I was just to eager to finish the animation, I really worked sloppyly on some parts- but, you know... animation just always takes so damn long, and neither am I a professional animator, nor am I unemployed... :/ Thx for you review!!

[-Love at First Sight-]

Nice but (dot dot dot)

Fix the hit area on your play and replay buttons. Good representation of styles and takes on one idea. Always nice to see lots of work come together that doesn't involve penis'. (or is it Penie?)

[Hans Jellyfish]

Great stuff!

Usually when something is throw together so fast, it's pure crap, but I loved it man. Great twist at the end.

[The Big Toy Book]

Nice style but don't get it

I don't get the point of this other than he's happy about it and stunned but sorta left opened ended, otherwise I'd have shot you higher. YES! longer isn't always better. Keep it up.

ConAir responds:

I figured this would be way over some people's heads but I explain it in my latest news post so check that out if you get a chance, it would be very appreciated. There's not a whole lot to these movies, just to make you think a little bit and laugh over something small. Thanks for the very reasonable review!