Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Break in and your fired 7]

da con

+++ Cool little music samples.

+ Notion of DT wanting EJ fired made me smile.

++ Midget flashback also.

+++ Great fonts for credits/logos.

--- Overly rigid arms and lips. There seems to be a lot of 'ah' where there should be 'oh' shapes.

--- Surely you meant "you're fired"? Got it wrong in intro and NG name.

==
Made me smile. Kinda confused.

[Striped #1]

for the mountain

Ultimate fbf collab? Yeah... sure...

+++ The trumpet-players in #1 were a good little feature.

--- Roaming lines aren't particularly interesting.

--- Whilst writing this review, heard a lot of the menu music - and it goes on far too long. That's wasted filespace - extra bytes we shouldn't have to dl!

---- Not much reason for these 2 submissions to be placed together from our perspective.

+ Nice buttons.

++++ #2 had some appealing formations, tying in nicely with the music.

+ line bouncing off the other made me smile.

==
Not bad, but it's basically just another stick-man/fbf line video that offers new. Another for the mountain that already exists.

[Free Beer]

all, it main

+++ Great rain graphics.

+ Nice use of black on walker to attract eye.

--- Ending characters are too sudden a stylistic jump.

-- Couldn't make out Line of observer #1.

++ Free beer reveal made me smile.

==
Overall, it mainly confused. But made me smile.

I think you need to wait longer in between the 3 jokes (beer, boom, watchers) to give each more 'power'.

Soupcat responds:

Hey, you reviewed this one as wel !
Djeez, i love the review request club !
but euh, this....wasn't supposed to get more reviews actually....its my very first animation, and euh, well, i do believe it sucks, but, if it gave you a smile, then i'm happy
Thx for the review ! you really have good arguments and its very constructive, you know what your talking about!

Cheers

[ZIMMY puppet pals ep. 3]

to spend more

++++ Some great backgrounds.

!!!!!- starts automatically. Never do this.

----- For most of it, it's impossible to tell what's going on. Are they crawling? Is that person being dragged? Dancing?

--- Overly slow. Specially scene with green thing slowly advancing towards the robot and the end scene, where the same loop is repeated over and over.

Draw more frames. Do more drawings - don't just skew, rotate and resize. Try and approximate reality enough for things to be understandable.

+++ Dramatic music.

==
Mainly a confusing mess. I think you need to spend more time on your work. You can do better.

IZSBHR responds:

Actually, it IS an automatic preloader, because all my preloaders look ugly :(

---They're beating the shit out of one another.

--green thing = ZIM.

-It WAS fbf, but I accidently replaced one of the MCs fbf with tweening :(

==
Thanks, I can do better. I think animation wise, this is very good.

[dream-dragons v2.2!]

it all started

++++ Love the colours in first scene.

++++ Some great vector drawings (specially for backgrounds 1 (purple) and 3 (firey).

--- Tweening the height or skewing look kinda cheap.

-- black outlines in bg kinda confuse the eye.

--- It all seemed like it could be better timed to the music. Hint - set bgm to stream!

--- Overly limited animation - just one mc and a few spot effects!

+++ You did use the basic animation to make some interesting patterns.

==
Enjoyed, specially the starting background and look. Got vaguely tired of it towards the end though and it all started to look kinda messy.

heather-lanham responds:

wow! thank you for your time and input! I'm glad you liked it, and I admit I got a bit tired in the end...I am working on v2. and it will have nicer animations in the background, along with smoother dragons with wings and legs. I'll probably keep the backgrounds, but take the black out like you suggested. thank you agian for a helpful review! --heather

[mythos medly]

groove a bit more

+++ Great colours at the start. The 'flames' and bg go well.

++ Love the bitmap textures - both the organic veiny rooty things and also the circular pattern.

++++ Great tune.

--- Some brush strokes, in the spiral or for other effects, look kinda cheap.

- When we go into the hydra's mouth and all the instances of the silhouettes suddenly appear, together with blue gradient-filled curved shapes, it lacks structure. It seems like you just wanted to wow us with the quantity and didn't put much thought into how you were placing them exactly.

-- Movement is too rigid... too much like it was done on flash - the deformation etc. looking too obvious. Maybe use tweening? Maybe use more joints? Maybe some fbf?

+++ Varying colours of silhouetted shapes is an eye-catching technique.

==
Enjoyed it while it lasted. Had it gone on for longer I would have been able to get into the groove a bit more and enjoyed it further, I'm sure.

At least this way, it stayed interesting. Watched 5 times!

heather-lanham responds:

wow! thank you for a detailed review! v2 will be slow, since I'll change out the song, and most of the graphics, but it will include the same idea,if not more structured. it will include more mythical creatures also, like hypogriffs, basilisks, the kraken, and all sorts of things. --heather

[Tea Time:The Kopitiam Way]

hose that watch

++ Lovely text. All kinda looks like it was written with a vertically held brush.

+++ jpg textures make it look more interesting.

+ Cool little 'play button'.

+ Cute stule of figures, with the simplified shapes and shading.

--- Terrible lip synching.

- At the end, the white edges of the objects kinda irritated my eye.

- Surely you could have used a nicer looking texture? Better than a blank screen

++ Lovely details in background - prices of fishballs etc, spinning fans...

++ pixellated backgrounds kinda help direct the eye.

+++ Great shimmering and pouring effects on the tea.

==
I loved this. Watched 4 times, no joke.

Simple but heartwarming.

I assume this was for television. I'm sure those that watched it would have been smiling - just as I was - by the end.