JazLyte's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Closing In]

Pretty damn sweet!

I loved it. The color choices were great, and I love your drawing style. The plot was pretty cool too, a simple concept that went a long way. There's some complaints, I think the animations could be a lot smoother and use more keyframes for how simplistic your style is, and maybe some more realistic timing, other than that I can't find much wrong with it. Noice wuk

LewToons responds:

thanks a ton dude, i definitely have a lot to brush up on, but thanks for takin the time to write a thot out review.

[Sleepless Ep.1]

The storyline is brutal...

You've improved in Flash since the last iteration, but it doesn't seem like you've learned much about presentation. The character designs are nice, and the voice acting is solid. But the graphics still look so rough and jagged and not in a stylish way, because there's holes in the characters in a lot of places to where you can see the background, and white spots in the background where there wasn't enough cleanup. However, things like that can be forgiven for good storytelling, and here's what turns me off.

This cartoon accomplishes nothing. It talks in cryptics and has a bunch of shit thrown in that's impossible to understand for anybody except you who created it (not because it's the first Episode, that was my favorite excuse when I first started out). YOU as the artist were impatient with the storytelling and didn't take your audience into consideration when you made it. I can see your main priority with this flash was showing off all the characters and fires and fights and mystic conversations about killing sages and disappearing boys whose girlfriends cry.

When you make any flash, regardless of whether it's the first in a series or not, don't confuse your audience, you want to accomplish something story-wise so your audience walks away with some knowledge about what's going on and MAYBE a question or two, instead of "Hey that was kinda cool but what the hell was going on." It'll make things easier on you later on if you be more mindful of this, and easier on the audience. Now you have to work double-time to answer all the questions you created with this flash in later episodes, don't add anymore mysteries, please... Whether it's the first episode or not, that's no excuse for inconsiderate writing.

No hard feelings I hope Sci-fi, just being honest. I look forward to more of your work, I know you're still just getting your feet wet with flash.

Sci-Fi responds:

meh heh heh! i'm glad you checked this out. considering your one of the few who knew it was a remake. but i'll have to dissagree. i dont much pride my self as an artist as i do a story teller, and everything loped into this script was purposeful. it may seem like an excuse i suppose, but there was alot of consideration when thinking about how and what should be included in this episode. but it would be simply to much to fit 10 or 15 flashes. wait for the extras. it might lighten things up a bit. i made this so that it would be one part of a whole. the extra's will help fill in some gaps but only a bit. as time goes on it will make sense. i want it to be one of those things that people look back at and say "OOH ok now i get it" again you could be saying...whatever full of bs. but no. and yeah my style is kind of lazy when it comes to cleaning, and coloring, no excuses, i just dont have that high of a standard for myself. thanks so much for the review, i hope you continue to watch. it'll be really confusing the second episode. just like last time

[WTF_Action]

I needed that.

Design was a little lazy, but the animation (how animated it was), the slick camera angles, the sound and the effects you used to simulate the falling from the sky looked sick. The was no story, so I'm not gonna comment on that, and the sound quality was a little bit crusty but it was fun to watch regardless. I thought it was hilarious and shocking. Loved the sound choices, but I wish it was better optimized. Loved it.

After spending 8 hours on the phone at work, I foreal feel like doing what Skyman just did. Very entertaining, entertaining in the way Dead Leaves does it, but making you point at the screen, cover your mouth and yell "OH SHIT N***A DID HE REALLY JUST DO THAT!?!?!" Want more.

andreasng responds:

awesome! thanks you. Yeah Dead leaves is like one of my main inspirations. Have you seen "mind game" ? that IS my fav, and it has some clever things going on, with the broken foot, the milk, and the ... yeah if you've seen it you know, if not - go see it. its fantastic.

thanks. great review man

[Things that Remind Me]

You have great style

But this is very unsatisfying. The character, the colors and the style looked fantastic. But the animation was bad on this short in that...there was none, except for some tweening. If you add some more time onto future works, and find a good balance between shading and character detail so that you won't be afraid of frame by frame, you'll be diabolical here. I look forward to seeing more from ya'

gogojimbo responds:

Thank you for the critique, it's really appreciated! And detailed too. What you pointed out is what I want to work on, so I'm glad about that.

Thanks again, this really helped~.

[MAG Vent]

I only understood the word "fuck"

I want to say, "The British accents are so thick I can't understand anything they say", but that'd be wrong since you guys invented the language... and I guess my ebonics don't help my case.

Well, let's see, you completely ripped Family Guy's style to the point of tracing the characters as bases for your own. The comedy is...non-existant... since it's just a bunch of people sitting around cursing at each other (which actually can be funny, but not here for some reason). The audio quality was also bad. It's just boring. But I like the colors and shading, that's the best I can come up with. Some subtitles would be just fantastic here.

peterthepan responds:

As I said, people who don't know those involved will probably not find this funny or interesting but thanks none the less.

[Asaroki 09- Beginning]

Damn you!

For making a whole series at one time, I am jealous as hell for that lol. I just thought I'd get that off my chest, I've wanted to do something like this ever since I started animating and I give you mad respect for pulling it off.

Now for the review. I think this is a good series, I can tell you have skill. The drawings are nice and clean, and the story...makes sense... this is a rare delight here on NG. The voice acting is solid, though the sound quality is a bit unpleasant.
My main complaint is the animation, there is a god-awful amount of tweening here, looks like about 85% of the animation, and I know why. I know everything in this series is already animated, but for future reference, you need to find balance between drawing detail and quality animation. I notice you putting a lot of shading and such into the characters, which looks nice, but I can tell it's making you a little bit afraid to approach the fBf and it it tends to make some shots look a little cheap, even though they're just talking. I really think that you should simplify the detail on the keyframes just a little, whether it be the character designs or the shading so that you won't be afraid to actually "animate" the actions of the characters. But otherwise this is pretty cool what you did here making a whole saga, I'm completely jealous!

ArtistGamerGal responds:

Thanks a lot dude! I totally agree, I really did do way too much tweening in this series. My new animations (yet to upload on NG) have cut down on character detail and focus on fBf animation more. Thanks for the advice and support, it means a lot! Check out my new stuff when I finally get around to finishing it and let me know what you think :)

[Madness Tutorials: Feet]

Oh okay, awesome, thankyou!

Thanks man for taking 5 minutes to make this. We were really all wondering how to mimic the already lazy ass walk cycle that only Krinkels himself can fuck up. How about a tutorial on how to really animate instead of teaching people to make crap? Madness is boring enough without imitators.

FClock responds:

Ur r a real jerk and a idiot

[The Body Count]

Hahaha, never just the same old shit with you, eh?

As usual, the graphics looked great and the animation was pretty precise. The sound recording was high quality, and the voice acting was just right. Loved the dialogue. The movie was fun to watch, and had it's moments, but could have been funnier. Still, your style sticks out to me and I love it. Keep up the great work.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks yung

[Brawl Funnies [Dick 1]]

Breaks down walls

U gys suuuck stop maeking fun od bralw taunts cuz brawl taunts si funny cumquats WD-40 sheboygan's the episcapalian long time.

Naw foreal tho, kicked ass.

CoolDrMoney responds:

OldJazz

[Madness Aggregation]

Haha I love how you say "I hope you love it"

You already know damn well they love it, man they loved it before they watched it. They loved it before they came to this page.

I have no personal vendetta, but I gotta be honest, I keep trying to watch these and see what people enjoy about them but I can't find it. There's no story, though it doesn't really need one to be good, usually graphics and execution alone can carry a flash. Which brings me to the graphics, I think you're cheating your fans, because you can draw decently, but what they don't know won't hurt them right? Nobody seems to really be looking for good graphics, or catchy music, or even fast, powerful action or interesting violence. I thought it was the violence, which is always fun, yet you've managed to make it slow and repetitive.

So what's my deduction of why people love Madness??....

Because you're a magical fairy from Neverland who has the ability to cast a spell on 13-year-old boys via the internet that makes them vote 5 on something you shat out when you know damn well you can do better than this. But why do that when the mundane and status quo makes the kiddies who think they're mature for watching violence jizz in their pants? I guess they need something different after Sunday school Bible study. Wow, that was a waste...You're not going to read this review, what am I thinking.

Krinkels responds:

Hey man this is about as good as I can do, sorry you didn't like it. :(