CultSyndicate's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Zionic Eclipse]

10/11

Effort is obvious, I know how frustrating it is to get really good looking results with a lot of 3d applications. I can only imagine what a project this must have been for you.

That being said I feel guilty trying to offer any kind of criticism, constructive or otherwise, but if I were to look for any kind of improvement in the next animation, I would say that the 2d special effects could have been more spectacular. The a few of the explosions and gunfire looked pretty bitchin', but the force field destructing and the jet engine flame and smoke trails did sort of visibly contrast the quality of the 3d animations, like it was a little out of context or something. It looked like really developed use of gradient fills, and while it worked with the edgy style of 3d animations, I do think it could been more appealing.

This is really trivial, but the lighting was a little unconvincing for being in the middle of space, like when I think of foto's of astronaughts and spacestations I imagine really extreme lights and darks from light sources in 360 degrees.

The starry background was out of sync for a few of those circling camera angles. And I know it's not an easy thing to coordinate with flash, just work with a little more maybe.

I really like how you did the camera movements and blur effects, it was interesting and well done, especially during the shakey boosting scenes. Maybe a little superfluous and needlessly jumpy maybe once or twice but all together very compelling.

I'm a really big fan of sci-fi and futuristic apocalypses in space and all that jazz and I love your presentation of it all, it was very smooth, I really liked the ideas behind this a lot. The voice acting and recording did sound a little amature, like audio that's recorded on high-consumer end production tools has a recognizable clarity that I think yours lacked. For instance, there was an audible white noise before and after every voice-over, I could see it getting worked it into the whole outerspace dialogue thing, but it didn't sound very intentional.

Again, I really do like the plot the and setting and the intro to this whole story, but I kind of feel like that last scene was a really exaggerated note to end on. I liked it really, like it reminded me of all the fighter pilot games I used to play before they started sucking, it's just that it didn't expand whatsoever to the initial scene with the drops of blood and end of humanity stuff. It was just a little disconnected is all, it makes for choppy storytelling.

The last thing I'll mention is that I think maybe not having any shots of the main character from inside the cockpit or showing him at all disserviced the dramatic effect. It's almost like you didn't show him at all because you couldn't, and it kind of left the speaker a little dissociated, like, for all I know this animation is about a talking spaceship with a bright blue dash.

I'm a tad high right now and don't know if I just wasted a shitload of time typing out of my ass, but I wouldn't have said anything if I didn't think you put a mature effort into it, and I wrote this because I'd really like to see more of this that's even better and more developed.

Good work, 10/11

DutchinLive responds:

Awesome review man, everything you said I had considered beforehand, working on the lighting at the moment for the next one, Swift 3d's lighting effects are pretty standard, nothing like that of maya or 3ds, but I see where you are coming from, no sources in the first episode really existed, so i just used a standard light, which made the ships pretty bright, but contrast was what i needed.

The audible white noise wasn't intentional, I just kinda forgot to remove it, and had it masked with the ambient noise i added, didn't think anyone would notice, but with sub-par voice acting (my bad), it was pretty apparent.

The initial scene won't be expanded on immediately, but the direction of the series may become apparent after a few episodes, trust me, if overall you rated this a 10 based on potential plot, you won't be disappointed.

The main character will be revealed next episode!

Thanks for the great review man!

[Mario twa the movie]

yeah dude fuck yeah!

This is why I got into flash.

Goodwork

Figter responds:

thanks man

[Nene's Sorrow]

lawls

Yeah I was hoping it didn't just end with Nene taking the one way dip.

That ending was too funny though, now I gotsta see your other shit.

[pigeon]

Yeah this was awesome

And this wasn't not awesome because it was random as shit or because it had an epic storyline with huge metaphorical significance, it was awesome because it was a goddamn flash animation doing what good flash animations do. I thought it was eerie as shit.

and it was damn well done, the sounds were ill and the background was fucked up, and the artistic style was very crisp.

I give mad props just to compensate for all the shit you gonna get from people who think a frontpage flash has to have shitty cock jokes and stick figure fight scenes.

[Kupo! the beginning pt1]

Good work

The animation was good, especially during the fight.

I gave 7/10 because there's definitely room for improvement, but it was a solid production.

It reminded me of FF6, just because the gang of moogles was cave-dwelling, and the yeti thing was also in some cave later on in the game. I liked how the moogles looked more like people than teddy bears.

Try adding sound effects and experimenting with more believable looking blood.

Your camera work was good and jumpy, no boring shots or angles during the fight.

Keep it up and good work

synsacrum responds:

thanks for the comments and the critque its all really helpful.

and yeah FF6 is still my favorite FF game, thanks in no small part to the fact its the only one where you get to play as Mog/a moogle, but i always hated the yeti thing, so i made them a bad guy.

[N.G. Showdown]

Wonderful, 10++

wonderful production, perfectly tailored for newgrounds.

Imaginative and well animated.

I'm honored to be one of the first 200 viewers

10++

Good luck on the contest.

[Class Projects 2008]

10++

This is high quality, I'm extremely impressed.

Best of luck in your animation class.

[Avant-garde Film]

I liked it.

I actually thought the idea behind this was pretty funny. What would have helped is having a preloader and an applicable thumbnail, or maybe doing something about the 4.7mb file size.

Things like that make it hard to take a flash like this as a good joke instead of a bad joke with good intentions.

I fucking hate the phrase Avant Garde

VespeneGas responds:

Although I believe a preloader would contradict the minimalism, an appropriate thumbnail has been added.

Thank you for your input.