Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[I R Smart 2]

I presume you'd just discovered Shape tweening?

Well, it looked nice when I first discovered it too, but to anyone else who knows how to do it, this just looks horrible and like a 5-minute job.

The flashing bg is a little hard on the eyes, and you should probably learn how to use shape hints in future.

By the by, I'm astonished at how high a score this has. (3.23)

[Type Wild]

Slightly more variation that the pseudo-sequel.

The bit with pong playing and the sky background made interesting diversion for a few seconds, but this still doesn't have enough variation to be that interesting.

Showing the same thing multiple times just isn't interesting. Showing us the same face as before modified to look like its singing just isn't interesting at all the 2nd time.

As I said in the last review, you could have a really good animation of this sort, but you should really use your imagination to throw in more varied pictures.

Instead of having a typewriter pop up repeatedly, maybe change that picture a bit each time. Have a guy using it the 2nd time.

Have that as a symbol and have 2 of them the 3rd time you show it.

Maybe have 10 of them the 4th time you show it.

And have bodies cut up and animated. Dancing, moving, doing more interesting things.

It wouldn't look at all realistic, but it's not supposed to. It would at least add to the humour...

[Truth]

Hmm...

Not living in America, I don't know about this zero tolerance policy.

Whether this is something that hapenned to you or not, maybe you should have explained it better?

I'm left a bit confused as to what the joke was all about.

I thought the music suited it really well though and I liked the winged dudes.

But I really feel like I'm missing something.

By the way, I noticed you have no animations after 2001. I'm sorry you gave up making stuff. It took me years to make anything decent, and I'm still improving, so if you want to be good at Flash, just keep at it and you can still make it.

Stay funky,
Bez

[Gunya Gunya Gasu Gasu]

Got boring by the end.

To be fair, there do seem to be a number of folk who like this kind of stuff and can't get enough of it.

It's probably their comments you should focus more on, rather than mine when I very rarely like these crazy things.

For me, it wasn't funny, became too repetitive and got boring by the end.

If you do another crazy video, maybe you should have something happen, rather than just have folk with their jaws moving and pretty much nothing else.

Maybe have a head shoot another, or have them start to head-butt each other.

Maybe have one do a crazy dance for a few seconds.

Use your imagination! Give us variety!

[Kashinnu Episode 13]

Nice enough ending.

Nice enough ending. Not completely successful at answering all questions, but does a good job of bringing the series to a close.

re: your frame rate.

If you had a higher frame rate, motion tweens would look a lot better and I don't see why it'd take you any more time.

Just change the frame every 12th frame or something but then have the extra frames to provide fluidity when you're motion tweening, or if you want to fade something out etc.

To be honest, I'd rather a story with a good plot was released faster rather than have to wait for the author to make quality graphics.

And I understand that you'd want to get your stuff out faster.

But graphics are part of the experience.

Jon-Mahashintina responds:

Thanx for all your reviews. I'll see if i can do what you suggest. Most of the next series has been completed and i'll get it up on NG soon. Hope you keep watching.
Jon.

[Kashinnu Episode 12]

Entertaining, like some poorer Cartoons.

You want to keep watching to see what happens, even though you know what will probably happen and a lot of it's substandard.

I'm not sure if you were trying to be funny or not with the over the top DBZ references. Kashinuhameha? Him being the same species as the villain?

More and more it seems as if you can't resist pilfering from DBZ. Please don't let it be this way...

[Kashinnu Episode 11]

Though flawed, the series is an entertaining watch

I enjoyed that last episode and am going to watch #12 asap.

Seriously, you should work more on the plot for your next series, as that's maybe the most important part of any movie. And just now, this seems too derivative and cliched.

Still, it's enjoyable, so I'm sure with a bit more practise you'll be able to make a totally brilliant series.

[Kashinnu Episode 10]

Too much DBZ

The way Kashinuu underwent the symptoms of turning Super Saiyan, and the way that the demon 'exposed' his full power made me realise how much you've obviously lifted from the series.

You really should try to steer clear copying imagery so directly.

It's OK to be inspired, but not to copy stuff the way you seem to have done.

[The Crack Deal (dir. cut)]

Hmmm...

Again, interesting without being anything special.

I really don't understand why you had his head blow off.

I'm going to assume it was all done in the name of humour.

It wasn't funny to me.

I did like the bit where the dealer said 'follow me' though.

I also liked the bgm you used throughout.