Ryan4Ever's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FFVI:The Day After Part11]

Excellent Work!

This is the first I've seen of your series, but after this, I'm definitely going to see the rest. I'd first like to commend you on your use of a spell checker, and your refraining from the use of internet acronyms, for they have spoiled so very many would-be great movies. Also, excellent work on keeping your reiterations of the Final Fantasy VI characters' personalities and dialogue to be up to par with that of the game. I know I'm a big fan of the game, I'm glad someone is doing a good job keeping with the spirit. Great sound quality and use of sounds, as well as nice clear and smooth animation, especially for a 16 bit production. It was a little different seeing the text in the middle of the screen, rather then the box at the bottom with an accompanying icon, but the added cinematic space was well worth it.

Vinstigator responds:

I didn't use a spell checker, but before I submit, I make go over it to make sure I haven't made any grammar mistakes.

Hope you enjoy the other episodes!

[How Would You Feel??]

Decent Video, You put up a good Point

The video was meaningful, however, biased. I enjoy sprite animations, but of course, not all. This is the same with sticks, clocks, 3D attempts, and any other forms of animation that are butchered by would-be animators. You did a wonderful job, the text speed is much more readable than most other formats. On a side note, what's with the:

repla
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Was that intentional to have the double-meaning of having the viewer to both have the option to replay the movie, as well as encourage him/her to reply with a review? I look forward to seeing more of your work, I always love watching animations from people I'm on the same wavelength with.

J-Smooth responds:

Thanks for the review Ryan4Ever

I appreciate the positive overall 9 and I'm really glad you like the flash. Be on the look out for my new movie "Recollection" that will be comming out soon. (Hard to work on it right now but it will contain some more humour for those who like my humour.)

About the Replay buttons Hehe I just felt like button the Y on the bottom cuase it looked more meaningful hehe Im not sure.

Once again, Thanks :)

-J

[The Way We Get By]

Fantastic Music Video

The audio and video meshed perfectly in most parts. The frame by frame animation was carried out flawlessly by all animators. Together, all of the participating authors created a work of art with vibrant color, and the utmost randomness. Too much randomness I'm afraid. The song warranted for the joyful prancing of the boy and girl, and the growth, and color of the trees. However, I was truly disgusted by the suicide and torture in the movie by Livecorpse. It seemed a bit out of place.

J-Smooth responds:

Yea, random was to be expected when you have 4 authors animating on what comes into thier mind when they hear thier piece of the song.

The joful skipping of the boy and girl to the growth of the trees was my part. (Happiness and just plain fun came to my mind) Glad you liked it :)

And yes most get disgusted by some of livecorpse graphics, but he does have talent and does have an original way of animating.

The group thanks you for your positive review :)

[Mario's Bad Day]

Music... Too... Catchy...

I really liked the music you used for the end, although it wouldn't have hurt to cut it after the credits finished. Here I am nearly 5 minutes after the animation is finished still listening to the unlooped soundtrack... none the less, good movie.

Dagio responds:

Oh I forgot to put credits on it! I got that song from:

http://www.ocremix.org/index.php

[Knight Clock]

The Resemblance is Uncanny

Your animation is almost exactly the same as mine! I didn't copy off of you, I swear, but if you look at my one and only animation, there are tons of similarities. Knights, darkness, climactic setting, bubbles, some blurb about a king, and all that. The only MAJOR difference between the two is that yours was actually well done ;) Nice work.

Eternal-Panda responds:

rofl, thanks man.

[QuickSpaceScene3d Looped]

Interesting

I liked your graphics, did you really make that in flash. Also, what was the soundtrack you used, it sounded like a cross between Metallica and Eye of the Tiger.

Poutine-boy responds:

I used Maya 5.0, and the song was by DVDA from the movie Orgasmo

[Bush Bash 8]

Great Movie!

Loved it, absolutely loved it. Great animation, excellent humor. The only 'problems' I had with it were that one of the President's questions wasn't for dubble-ya... hehehe... also, you could have used the other strawberry clock voice, which I have no idea where it is, that would just make it sound a little more authentic. Enough with the critisism, great movie!

TheOtherTruth responds:

Thank you for your review.

I am desperately trying to get the strawberry clock voice down, and I have asked a couple of the clock crew guys for help, but they haven't told me how to do it yet.

I am using Speakonia (which is the same program used by WEAKSAUCE on TRUE NORTH), so I know it can be done! I just need somebody to tell me how.

[Shock and Awe #3]

Gaaah! What was that Soundtrack

Great movie, especially the blue-eyes white devil bit, so well thought out and yet so priceless all at once! What was that music that you used? The one with the electric guitars...

DeathRayGraphics responds:

That was a music loop from http://sounddogs.com/start.asp. Lotsa good royalty free loops!

[Spirited Away - Solitude]

Nice Movie

Nice graphics, a little moving. How did you do that opacity gradient with no-face's body?

Maurizio responds:

You just export the vector file into Photoshop from Illustrator or Corel Draw, then use the select tool with a feather about 20 pixels, delete the end, so you get a soft gradient, export it back to Illustrator, export it as an .swf file, and voila : )