Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Droids Vs Aliens]

too fast and jerky

Improve your title screen! As the first thing folk see, it plays a big part and this title screen - with the typography not really meshing well together and the slightly sloppy drawings - sent a bad first message. Not that the droid or alien would be appalling within the animation, but you should make the first screen send out a great first impression! Maybe use shading and cleaner lines? Better typography...

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised by the actual movie. I liked the stop motion with the toys and liked the way you faded into the drawing at the end.

My main issue is that it's hard to follow - some motion's OK, but it seems like you need to get used to moving the guys a bit less between frames. Sometimes they jump about a bit too much and it's hard to tell what happened. When the guy's on his own, maybe have him walking for a few seconds to build up tension.

It's too fast and jerky and it took me 3 watches to properly understand what was going on, despite the fairly simple action.

If you moved the guys less between frames and thus slowed it down a tad, it might be understanded on first watch and it'd have time to resonate with us.

Cool sfx though.

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Graeme responds:

The preloader is rather messy and boring.

And when I look back at the movie. It seems a guy moves across an entire screen in about 3 frames. When making it I wasn't aware how much i was moving them. And i'm used to flash, were if the movement was to much, you go back and add more.
But in this I was kinda stuck with what I had.

[Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 181]

Same old.

I used to play Pokemon Blue/Red shitloads when they were first released in the US.

So seeing these 2 new pokemon is slightly more interesting whilst having no nostalgic value.

Anyway, I imagine the tune is just your latest love. Soothing to listen to.

The neck-splice is added well though maybe a liquified stretching of the face would have worked well.

Anyways, after checking the amusing parodies, I was curious to see if this had changed at all. Any pics up to the level of ATWI80D:Japan yet?

This is neither fresh nor cool imo. Surprised you still have lovers.

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

ATWI80D in Japan was crap. CAI493+D will make that look like a masterpiece.