Istari's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Gundam vs Evangelion]

Uhhhhh

-Why are you tracing images, instead of creating your own?
-Why are you tweening those images, instead of actually animating them?
-Why did you make a trailer for a movie you don't plan on making, when you have another "important" project?
-Why did you submit this in the first place, when you don't care about it?

SoulDealer responds:

Well, that was a bit hard but I will answer, this flash is important to me, it is the first no crappy one that I made, and if you see the date whene it was made (read the credits) you will see that this is an old proyect.
If you wanna see a really good and 100% opriginal work the wait till my new proyect (over a month of work), belive me, you would like that one :)

[Bob the Ball]

Hell yaaaa!!

You, sir, are an genius. Great spoof of children's literature, and incredible voice acting!

[Chronicles of Evil: 1]

Blam

You know what you said in your profile about working on your movies for a month and making them good? Do that.

[DragonBall Ecks Trailer]

Heh

More like Dragon Ball: Traced.
Learn to choreograph and animate your own fight scenes. It may be a pain in the ass and it may not turn out very nice at first, but it's very rewarding when you finally get it right.

[PUSTOTA]

Awe-inspiring

Absolutely godly use of color and atmosphere. Smooth animation and good choice of music. I know there's a story in there, but couldn't quite get it. What I did get was that this blew my mind.

[The Original Hunt: Pt. 2]

Mediocre

Now, I don't have any problems with cliched, overused storylines- this is Flash, after all, not the Oscars. I do, however, have problems with cliched overused storylines where THE CHARACTERS' FEET DON'T MOVE AS THEY WALK.

It's as if all the characters can psychokinetically levitate themselves of the ground just so they don't have to move their legs. Or, more likely, you drew the models and was too much of a bum to animate them properly.
And when you're talking about an action film, proper animation - proper violence, is the point of the movie.

I don't see why people are giving good reviews. To see a real piece of Flash(and the RIGHT way to animate), check out PUSTOTA, today's daily feature. I watched it several hours ago and am still in awe of it.

RobsH66 responds:

Okay, this review kind of ticks me off.

First, let's disregard the fact that I've replied to this same complaint, and explained the reasons behind it, more times than I care to count. And we'll also disregard the fact that I made this movie almost 5 years ago, when I had very little experience in Flash. And we'll forget about everything I wrote in the Author's Comments, which you should have read before you decided to post such a negative review.

This was never intended to be a very graphics-intensive movie, nor should a movie ever have to be. Sure, flashy graphics and tons of detail are great, but have you ever heard of beauty in simplicity? The lack of character animation is what allowed me to make a movie almost 10 minutes long without spending several years making it, or creating a file so large it couldn't possibly be posted online. I also chose to create this movie in a simplified style to compliment its humorous nature. This is a comedy first and an action movie second; it would take a very ignorant individual to watch this movie and not see that.

You don't see why people are giving good reviews? They're doing so because they are looking past the simple animation, and enjoying the humor and randomness that is the basis of the movie.

I suggest you try being a little more open-minded in the future. Try to appreciate things for more than just their visual appearance. And next time you feel like bad-mouthing someone's hard work, please look at what that person and others have already said about it (ie. read the Author's Comments and previous reviews) before you go shooting your mouth off. Thanks.

[Legacy episode 1]

You brought Nelson out of retirement!

Thank you.

[Battle for the Portal Pt2]

Whoa!

I still think Joe Zombie is pathetically animated and that the series panders to the middle school crowd with its cheap 3D, cheap topic, cheap plotline, and cheap animation, but that was a really frickin cool shot around the base. Oh, and nice voice work.

[Battle for the Portal Pt1]

Lacks substance

Whatever the impressionable 13 year olds may say, 3-D does not equal quality. Animation equals quality, and this film has precious little of that.
None of the characters actually DO anything. The battle, for example, has the combatants hopping around each other and all over the place, without actually attacking. Joe Zombie runs across the screen(if a 2-frame cycle can be called running), but again he doesn't do anything.
In the later Xiaoxiaos we saw what 3-D animation is capable of. Show us something other than explosions and camera rotations. Show us some ANIMATION

SecretAgentBob responds:

3D does not equal quality, but good animation doesn't equal quality either, it just equals good animation, the movie could still suck.

What I’ve brought here is not frame-by-frame limb motion, but rather cinematics and advanced compositing. You can’t do too much animation wise with a solid Clock figure, and to get the authentic “sprite” feel you can’t do too much with them either. The animation isn’t the impressive aspect of this movie, it’s the world in which the animation lives in.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!