Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Real Estate Commercial]

Makes an interesting point.

However, I don't know enough about real-estate selling in America to know if your jibes are warranted.

Yet another side of you...

curiouser and curiouser...

[Dead Parents]

Thanks for the health-wish.

I'm still trying to work out why you decided NG was so in need of more gay images.

Not that I think it's intrinsically wrong, but it seems like you've taken a mission on to provide us with an endless supply of cartoons with cocks.

I'm just trying to work out where this obsession, phase or whatever it is came from.

[Self Portrait]

Brilliant animation and art. Also, great tune.

I always have a soft spot for 'sketchy' animations and this was one of the best I've seen.

It looked as if you drew every frame on paper with soft pencils, scanned them all in and imported them all as bitmaps into Flash.

It must have taken ages!

How did you make the pictures match up so well without access to stuff like onion skinning? Did you put paper on top of each other?

It is a really, really lovely style and the way the head turns to draw the harder to reach areas makes it really seem alive. I also liked the random ending, with a hand silhouette walking off.

The music too was a perfect accompaniment to the visuals and general idea.

Apart from the nature of the animation (obviously I'd have liked the same style to be used in a longer animation, maybe and with a plot) was the 'play' screen.

It'd be so much nicer as a whole package if that screen was drawn in the same style, maybe wibbling away.

Or even if it was just a static bitmap, that'd be so much nicer to look at and shouldn't take too long to download...

[Knock Knock]

That's gonna stick in my mind for a looooong time.

I just didn't find it funny at all. It seemed rather innappropriate... I suppose maybe that's meant to be the joke, but still...

In any case, I'm giving you a 5 for the reason that whilst I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, it was certainly memorable...

[A Tribute to Howard Stern]

Not too great, but nice art.

The art was really nice. But still, the fact that it was just 7 pictures (or however many) and pretty much nothing else was done by you kinda makes me look down on it. It seems like a learning project rather than a great one if you see what I mean, which isn't meant to be an insult - I suppose you would have been learning when you made this?

If there was more animation, maybe even lip synching, maybe speech bubbles or something, then the visuals would be closer to the standard of the audio clip.

As it is, it was the audio clip alone that entertained. The little joke with Tom wasn't really enough to make me smile even.

Sorry to be harsh, but in any case, you've prograssed far beyond this as 'lost at sea' shows.

So, congratulations on your progress and here's to your future progression.

SketchMichaels responds:

You are correct, sir; this was my second flash, and purely experimental. I think this would be something nice to redo someday... I just don't have the motivation (or time, for that matter), to take on such a project at this time.

[Eternally Yours]

Not too keen on this.

The art was really nice, and the animation was OK.

I just wasn't too keen on the basic 'story'. It seems to be an attempt at sweetness, but becomes part sickly, part cliched, part morbid.

SketchMichaels responds:

= one screwed up kid. Thanks for the reviews :)

[Lost At Sea]

nice joke

Maybe if Tom's short description hadn't ruined the surprise it would have been even funnier...

The graphics, whilst economic, were really nicely drawn. And the economy was in itself fairly ingenious - such as the way the mermaids you see through the telescope are the same as those later shown and the simple tweening that's so effective.

The characters - as I said - were wonderfully drawn and this played an important part in bringing about the humour and character present in a simple action, such as a wink.

The voices too were great, my only complaint being some poor recording.

The island and sea look as if they've been taken from a computer game or something and look slightly at odds with the rest of the animation. It might have been nice to have had those drawn in the same style.

I loved the final joke and the incidental picture that came up during the credits was charming.

Overall, a charming and amusing animation.

SketchMichaels responds:

Constructive criticism! My best review for this submission yet :)

I wasn't sure how the backgrounds would turn out; they're masked, a background manipulated image with a flash low-opacity graphic on top.

And the great majority of this movie was frame by frame, not tweening :P

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the detailed review (I appreciate this a thousand times more)!

[(2004) Glass of water]

They're mad! Mad, I tell you!

Up to your usual standard of silliness, but for some reason didn't make me laugh as much as your stuff normally does.

I hope this doesn't affect the chances of us raising llamas together.

[FLASH fables- Mary's Lamb]

Fun to watch.

The graphics are nicer in this than in the 2nd Fable.

Btw, when I said the animation could be better in that one, I was largely referring to the runningbits.

The actual expressions were rather nice and you seem to have continued to develop your skills.

I enjoyed this and would probably enjoy another, but I'd personally hope that you'd make the next one a bit more unpredictable. Make it even more twisted.

But I'm confident that whatever decision you make will be the right one.

Btw, I also thought 'had' was something of a sexual nature.