Istari's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Destroyer Clocks]

Lol!

I can't believe someone made a parody of my animation! Hahahahahhaha!! This is the best compliment that anyone on NG has paid me!

And to traekwon_ : of course I can't kill the clocks. They're flash symbols, silly!

BurritoClock responds:

It is, it's all in good fun. I wish more people could comprehend that! It's just flash people! heh heh

[All Your BLAM!]

Awesome!

Very inspired 3D work, and funny as hell, as well!! The scene of the fighters screeching off to meet the enemy was especially well done. Bravo, Bravo!!

[Armageddon]

Nice lighting effects!

Sure, the plot was a bit cliche, the style a little "borrowed" from dbz, and the character animations were 1-dimentional(the 180 degree front view), but your lighting effects were the best I saw since brutality! Nice job!

You should visit shockanime.com and see genryu's blade, its simply the best amateur flash animation on the web.

[Linkin Park - In The End]

Once again, great job!

Can you plz tell me what program you used convert real video into flash?

[Vampire Hunter INA]

The graphics are there, but......

First of all, I'd like to commend you on a very nicely put together animation. The gore and nudity for the sake of gore and nudity put me off quite a bit, but hey, that's what the average NGer wants, and who are you(or I) to complain?

However, I just couldn't find it in myself to care about the main character. She shows up, chops up vampire, looks really good, and then leaves. The animation is no more than a gore fest without too much attention to atmosphere or character developement.

And the superb grahics simply weren't superb enough to cover that up, as it did in, say, Genryu's Blade. By comparison, your movements werent as smooth, the character designs weren't as pretty, and the backgrounds didn't look as cool... I guess I was simply spoiled by studying GB and Ninjai frame-by-frame to learn their animation techniques.

ImageNation responds:

Thanks for the review and we can understand how you couldn't grow attached to her. this was after all just an attempt to introduce her. Also the animation had to have limits to it not place on by us but by flash and the net in general. we decided to cut down the animation in order to fit more in the cartoon is after all over 6 minutes. Any how thanks for the review.

[Linkin Park - Crawling]

Someone stole your work!

Someone uploaded your "In the end" music video a coupla days ago, I recognized your style immediately, and since you got the site, u must be the real one =). The other guy is Brandon Blackburn, you can find him by running a search on "In the end". Unless he did it with your permission, you should email Tom and get his ass banned.

Oh, and your work kicks ass. I might even start listening to them now!

funnydoodle responds:

thanx for ur support ! but i'm still new here.... perhaps someone could notify the ppl in charge about his atitude... then i'll be really appreciative! thanx!

[Student Battle]

Nice drawing style!

with a little practice you can become really good. A few tips.
Don't rely on lines to replace movement, forget about color(it makes it look worse unless its really expertly done), and use the time you save to do more exact frame by frame for the movements. Your animation will look a lot smoother.
Go to shockanime.com and watch Genryu's Blade. Then watch it frame by frame. Then read the behind the scenes page. You'll learn a lot.

Finally, STREAM THE AUDIO!!! click on the sound, select windows->panel->sound, then stream. This shouldn't have been more than 1000k, instead it's 4000, and ppl get pissed when they wait that long. And put a "stop all sounds" action on the first frame, so the sound doesnt overlap when you replay.

[Evolution (MovieTrailer)]

Let me get this right...

You have the thing all planned out, yet you haven't started yet, and you want to ask us, the Newgrounds community, for ideas? And expect us to respond with something useful?? While telling us nothing whatsoever about your movie(other than it involves evolution and will contain "good graphics")?? Hah!!! I'll bet you get nothing outta this. In fact, I doubt you'll get more than 5 or 6 reviews.

PS For god's sake STREAM THE AUDIO!!!

LucidDREAMS responds:

Ok, thanks for the review first of all, all I'm asking the community is what they like to see in movies, this means that they get the most from the cartoon. I have already started on the animation and as you can see from "ed-3000's" review, all I'm asking for is suggestions, he says that the hero should be a woman, well now we're started, Loki is going to be the main character no matter what, but because Ed wants a woman, a few more people may, so I will now add parts into my story involving the addition of a woman. This is all I am going to tell you for now, because even with a community working on a project in small doses, I still want people to get the element of surprise when this is finished. Its a new and original Idea, without experiment you have nothing.

[Flash Tournament: Fight 1]

that's a great idea!

When pikachu came on stage with the Pokemon music blaring I laughed out loud. However, the graphics really weren't that great. Since the characters didn't move that much, you could have easily traced them outta stills of the show.
Go online, download some pictures, import em into flash, convert to symbol, go to window->panel->effect->alpha, lower it to about 50% or so, and then put another layer over it and trace the pictures with the pencil tool. Easy as can be.
And one more thing, STREAM THE AUDIO!!! Something like this shoulda been 500, 600k, tops.

the-adversary responds:

I know the graphics arent that good, but i dont think i should trace, because in the next fight vegitas in hell move around a lot more, and i wanted to keep it in my style.

[Lain - A Tribute]

Kick ass!

Great art! Though I'm pretty sure that it was traced from the series, it was well done, nevertheless. However, I didn't like the version of the song that you used, the one in the actual anime opening was far better. A preloader couldn't haver hurt, either...