ArneTheTurtle's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[B.B. The Fat Lady]

Keep at it

Your animations were good as well as your style. I had a hard time, however, understanding what the characters were saying because the sound quality needed improvement. I had to rely on the images to get your message.

Nonetheless, I got the message and I think you should keep at it because it was very decent.

[Coleoptera Bibliophile]

Very well done

There are not, in my opinion, enough flash animations to make a message like that. It has been too long since I've seen someone speak up and say what everyone else is thinking.

Funny--at first the flash caught me off guard--I very much dislike violence in flash unless it has a high level of artistic value. So when the elephant lost his head I was tempted to click out after my jaw dropped. I'm glad I didn't, however, because the message was what I thought was important.

Thank you.

[Cats & Dogs part I]

Interesting

I couldn't help but sense that there was a war allegory in this flash. You really seem to be trying to make a statement, but until I see the rest of this animation, I don't know what that statement is.
The black and white worked well, and made a good contrast to the blood, making everything very stark and surreal.

I do think you could work on your realism a little. The cats and dogs were rather misshapen in some scenes. Over all, very well done.

[robowar 1]

Glad you're practicing....

Having stock artwork to work with that someone else has created for you is really handy for practice, but I rarely ever give someone much in the way of a high score for making something out of someone else's hard work. This flash was... to say the least, boring.. It was the same 5 seconds repeated some 500 times.. Robot walks on screen, player robot kills robot.. lather rinse repeat etc.

If you want to impress anyone on NG, you should draw the characters yourself, and go ahead and give a little more thought to making them actual characters. You will draw a lot more viewers in with a story than you will with masses of unnecessary and directionless violence.

Keep practicing. Your explosions at least showed some effort, so props for those.

dex-exe1234 responds:

um.. i dont want to paint this! i just want to make a sprite movie! i got another idea to paint in the future!

[Mr. Clean's Secret]

Dictionary...

You may want to brush up on your vocabulary skills, swearing is not an art form.

[DCK: Oh, Baby!]

Waste Of Talent

You have an incredible amount of talent and artistic skill, but I'm appaled at how low you have sunk with the throwing baby act. I think that the best type of humor is mature and without machismo.

Your sound was good, but the volume was WAY off, differing several decibles between voice actors, I suggest checking out Audacity at sourceforge to use the normalize feature on your audio. This should greatly improve your recordings and sound effects consistency.

[Vamp ep. 5]

Great but slow

You are an excellent artist and I can see that you're developing skills in flash (I haven't exactly posted much skillful stuff myself) but the flash is slow. Seems to me that you are perhaps a bit impatient and not filling in movements in between for smoothness. But perhaps that's all a part of your style. It's very different from a lot of other submissions but I would give if it were more smooth.

Michelangelo responds:

its because my flash cartoons are too graphic intensive, plus i have no idea how to fix. try changing the quality for best viewing.

[Malltime Musings 5]

Just a thought

You're a pretty good flash artist in some areas--need better drawing skills in others. Overall it was decent work--random is good. I was, however, a bit offended by the Jewish joke on the T-shirt. I hope you're Jewish, otherwise you're just adding to the everyday ignorance that brings down the overall intelligence of the population of this planet.

[feiinloveteaserpreloader]

Wow... OK

I have to say it looks like an intreguing series, but it also looks like you got tired after working on it for a long time, and threw this together to try and give yourself a boost to finish with (to hear feedback and get motivation). Well, here's my feedback. The story looks very interesting, and a few points of your frame by frame animation are incredible, however, you've worked so hard to do those little snipets of animation that you've kind of thrown the rest together. I realize this is only a teaser, but I'd suggest storyboarding your work, and creating the entire animation using only the storyboards as visuals the first time through, then fleshing it out with audio, and finally animating the portions that are most important in FBF and the ones that aren't , use slow still frames that don't show mouth movement etc. Best of luck! I'd love to see what you come up with.

-ATT

[Mean Shepherds - Part#2]

Ummmmm...

I see that you have talent in using flash...and you're some type of artist...I just don't think people should always have to wrap their minds around something to appreciate it. Perhaps what I mean is--take it easy--go out for something without trying so hard to be "creepy" or "dark". You're obviously an interesting person with an interesting art style. However, you were so interested in making this flash hit a spooky vibe that I could hardly pick out one object from the next. Practically everything was black or some other extremely dark color. It may be that your monitor settings are very bright and so this flash appears more visible to you than it does to your audience...

Don't get me wrong--I'm not expecting bunnies and rainbows. Just relax a bit and let it flow.