JazLyte's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[GunChest Episode 03_01]

Much better in your native language

The reading is a little tedious sometimes because of the way the subtitles are put on the screen, but the voice acting is a lot better on this movie. Great flash, solid animation, attractive colors, and pretty good sound. Keep up the good work!

[The CTSG Collab!]

Pretty Gr8

An entertaining collab, though a short one, but I won't subtract points for that. Many of them were really animated and stylish, while others looked kind of sloppy. But the good outweighed the bad, and it turned out nice. Keep up the good work, artists.

[Power Star 4]

I won't lie...That was sick for a sprite movie

I literally felt a chill up my spine when Mario and Luigi started fighting, it may just have been you using T-5's theme song and I'm a die-hard Tekken fan. Regardless, the movie had great voice acting, the choreography was great (sorry, still wouldn't feel right saying animation because it's sprites) and managed to set a mood despite having silly 16-bit character cutouts. The fighting was fast and frenetic, which I like and it was just plain entertaining.

The bad part... Sprites. What the hell, man? I know you can draw, this could have been the sickest movie on Newgrounds with original characters and drawings. Had to say it. Glad its your last one, go do this with your own characters! lol Peace

[Simulacrum TV - intro.]

Nice Animation

The drawings were clean, the movements were good, and most of all you have a level of confidence in you art where doing something very different than the norm came out good. To be honest, its not my personal taste at all, but it was a quality animation and the length isn't an object because its meant to be an intro. Keep up the good work.

[GunChest Episode 02_01]

How's THIS for class!!??

Nice job. The whole 3d flash thing is still a little akward to me, but it's growing on me little by little. The story, a complete blur to me, Nice fight scene, refreshing action and well orgainized. However, half the dialogue was SOOO cheesy and unnatural.
"This is my kind of place"
"You need to come up a class"
"How's THIS for class!!??"
All I can say to that is lol...
The good outweighed the bad.

[WeRBopBop #20]

That was epic

Clean drawings, and the tweenimation was decent if not a bit stiff. I've seen worse. The writing was what I liked, though, that was pretty hilarious. Keep up the good work.

[Angry Dog - Be My Bitch]

Man, I love this series

I've watched everything up to the lizard episode on Youtube, I still haven't gotten tired of it. Clean drawings, solid animation, great voice acting, and its pretty funny too. Keep up the good work.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

they look so much better in flash though dont they? thanks!

[Shattered Heaven Act 2.1]

No offense, just honesty

The drawings were very sloppy for it to be a shot at anime style, the lineart was all over the place... The animation... I'd suggest using the onionskin. The story is pretty much the same giant robot fare from the most boring of anime cartoons. The conversations are very bland and uninteresting. Also, changing the character shot and using the same background in the same position with no changes at all, all I can really say to that is 'what the hell?' Keep at flash, but I'd put a lot more practice in. Sorry if it's harsh, I animate with an amount of anime inspiration so I can't help it. Hope that helps, good luck.

AdamTilford responds:

Nah, no offense was taken. Not everyone likes a genre and it would be naive and ignorant to expect everyone too. But as an author first and an animator second I'd say hold off before judging the story as the same cliche crap, cuz it's really not. But judging from one scene I can see where one might think that. But this is also a side non-canon story based of my novels. I just upped one day and was like "I want to animate something based off my series"

Flash is all about progression for me, from the first episode to this one I am thrilled with the difference in quality. But I do see the sketchy-ness and sloppy lines, but I'll deal with that issue with the next one. I do use onionskin, mind you.

As far as the backgrounds go...yeah, I noticed that I did that after and I was pretty much like "fuck it, I'll just make sure i improve on that next time." But for no training/classes and just wanting to get into it, I'm more than content with how this came out. One can only improve with each outing.

I'll say what I said to people who replied to the first one. The next one will be ridiculously better than this one.

[Primal War 18]

Damn good cartoon, man

Thanks for carrying on an action flash series on NG, it's been awhile since the days of Xombie and XIN. I love the character style, the whole giant beefy animal thing was a sick choice. The action was quality too, those were what stand out the most to me. Also, it looks like you've been working on cleaning up the drawings, the holes in the characters was an annoying quirk from previous episodes.
It's not without its issues though, your animation is still kind of sloppy as far as movements. Some of the keyframing looks a bit strange and the movements don't look natural at all. I think a little bit more thought about the speed, amount of keyframes, and timing would really take these movies up a notch. Also, some of the colors don't make any sense, like the perpetual over-saturated blue on the panther, or how the cast still glowed orange even after the sky went blue, when watching your movies sometimes it's almost as if the environments have no effect on the characters at all color-wise.
Great movie, though! Giant, brutal animal barbarians here=sweet. Giant brutal animal barbarians with smooth animation and perfect color sync with their surrounds in 'part 19'= SICK.

[The eye of Ladybird.]

More of a deviantart thing...

Sorry man, you can't just come to a site that's made for cinematic flashes with looping art then say "if you dont like loops don't watch it", because people are going to watch it regardless then give it bad scores. Your eye loops look great, but don't expect any daily awards. I want to see you animate a full length flash, not just eyes.

waloumi responds:

understood ;)