JazLyte's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Easy Way Out]

DAMN GOOD STORY. Yeah, a cleanup team'd be nice.

I loved the story here, the atmosphere, the colors the music, everything flowed perfectly. I like the subtle moral, and it can be percieved in many ways. Unfortunately, the art on a lot of parts was very sloppy, and that's no refection on your artistic abilities, probably just the time frame. I can see you scrambling to get it finished by Clock Day. But honestly, I think the movie would have done just as well if not better, if you had done human characters instead of clocks and gave it another week of touch-up. The clocks didn't ruin the great storytelling as much as I would have thought, but still would have much preferred people.

Munglai responds:

I've got my whole life to make films with people in them!

[Angry Dog - Blood Shower]

So you're making a series out of Angry Dog...

Great move man, I loved the original and this one's great too. The character drawings were good, the animation was solid, and the humor was incredibly dry but it has this charm about it that I love. It's a usual thing for your movies. Keep up the great work.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks, hope you like the next six as much!

[Asaroki 02- Encouter]

Not bad, kept my attention

I've seen worse, also seen better. The graphics have potential, but the animation is incredibly annoying because of the over-use of tweening. There was little to no frame-by-frame here. I'll watch the series though because I'm interested in the story. Good job, good luck =)

ArtistGamerGal responds:

yeah i totally agree. I need to do work on making a happy combination of frame by frame AND tweens.

BTW- i looked at some of your stuff, VERY COOL! :3

[Sonic "4,000 Pageviews"]

Wasn't horrible, but could've used some clean-up

I hate seeing cartoons with this problem, because it's so simple to fix. I know you see the fact that the backgrounds don't cover the whole screen, why didn't you just enlarge the backgrounds, man? Simple select and free transform, what the heck? Also, there was a lack of frame-by-frame that resulted in the characters moving like marionette puppets, and fan art never warrants anyone to call it their own creation, because the character is still stolen from somebody else.

Leviathan-Ran responds:

Not what I meant, it's just my take on the design of metal sonic.

[Xenorealms Intro]

You're aware that you took the easy way out

So I guess there's no point in re-iterating that. I think the presentation was really good. The music fit the whole neo-mystic feel, the animation was solid and it was good overall. Needs a little anatomy work on some parts.
But you really didn't have to sell out like that and use other people's characters, no offense, but that's not testing your potential as a creator, it's just an easy way out. Requires no character molding and gets attention with hardly any work, plus familiarity points. Maybe you'll get the hint eventually, your stuff's good, but that really took it down a notch because with those stolen characters, I know nothing about you (I should be able to in your characters), and there's no piece of your soul in them.

Grey-Matter responds:

I like that. You came at me correct. So, I can talk to you like a fellow animator. Thanks, I appreciate the advice. I really like your work too and in the short time I have been here on Newgrounds, you're one of the people who I have noticed have advance so quickly,besides Chakra-X. You're probably right about the effort part with the designing of the characters. See, the reason why I under went this project is because I feel you're going to take someone's character and use it in a story, at least "try" to tell a story with them and not reduced it to a simple gay or fart joke. Think of it like Marvel's story "Civil War" for example. All of those characters are owned by Marvel.Inc, but it was Mark Millar's writing that brought that brilliant story to life. True, I'm not get paid to do it, but just being able express my thoughts for these characters and animate something for myself,plus learning more about how to animate,is pay enough. In the industry, you don't get a lot of opportunity to express a cool idea, because you're hard at work busy bring someone else's dream to life. Besides, this is just another outlet for me.As artists, you know we all wear different hats. My hat for this project is anime. I'm currently working both this series and my original series "The Hive", and thanks to the advancements I learned while undergoing this project, I have learned much to improve both. Again, thanks for the advice and good luck to you on your projects. I looking forward to seeing your stuff.

Later.

[Crows' Life Episode 3]

Now This is what I come to Newgrounds for

You did a sick job on this, man! The character designs were good, the animation was eerily clean and smooth, the sound was well mixed, and you mixed tweening and frame-by-frame so seemlessly, one of my eyes still thinks you didn't use any tweening at all. Keep up the good work man! You've inspired me.

Toonimated responds:

thnx! but I think I need to tween more stuff, it is just insane to frame by frame so much, drains so much time!

[Bowser's Kingdom: Eps 10]

We all love it when the turtles & mushrooms swear.

The humor was lame. There was no originality whatsoever, it was boring and you weren't even trying. It's a soul-less, hollow movie that's not funny and has no real piece of yourself. You don't love animation or art, you're just throwing stuff together for kicks. I don't think I really have to say much more than that, it's a bunch of 8 bit turtles and mushrooms talking with 2 frames for each animation.

Two ways to become a Newgrounds superstar, so little time. Either (a) Develop a deep love for animation and practice your craft religiously, or (b) Whore yourself out, bend over for the crowd and skip the work. Just fart out a poorly drawn and/or sprite flick and use bland sitcom humor with enough FUCKs to make it seem "edgy". Tough to see which one you chose.

And don't worry, I know that not everybody really likes animating or is really even funny in real life, but what does what I say matter, it'll have a 4.78 by the end of the day, 4,000,000 Perfect 10 reviews. You'll never read this review and don't care anyway. Just saying my 2 cents. Peace.

pthouse responds:

Believe me, sir, I love animation more than many people but I'm just simply tired of doing sprite based cartoons. For that, Raskin should be taking over BK animation and I'll do other projects, like Doodelquest, for example. Thanks for watching.

[Tsunami Prequel 1 Pt.2]

Highly Unique, Grossly Underrated

You've really got something good here, man. The style is highly unique and cool, and honestly I enjoyed every second of it. I LOVE the art style, it makes the flick seem truly artistic, and I'm enjoying the story so far, the story of Atlantis has always intrigued me. The mechanical animations from part 1 look great, and make me think about the mech animations of Samurai Jack, one of my favorite cartoons of all time. Even the voice acting is good here.

I have one complaint: The screensize. the screensize is so tiny, I have to practically put my forehead to the screen. Also, you don't have an SWF version of this, man? If you had used the original SWF instead of video, you could have doubled the size, got my perfect 10 and probably a better score. I see some haters already. Ignore 'em. It's going to be a sick series.

glenbw responds:

HI YungJazz,

Thanks for your great remarks on the prequel trailer! Too bad I'm not used to Flash too often, though other factors cause this one to suffer a lot: 1) Trying to compress its already massive file size is a real headache (even when it's split into three) and 2) Newgrounds doesn't allow files which are larger than 10 MB, so there are some noticeable flaws that can't be avoided. Anyway, I never expect to create such a fancy show with flashy SFX for the moment; my only purpose here is to tell a good story, that's what matters.

- Glen

[Eternal clash: episode 1]

Hate to do this, but...

If you're starting out in flash, PLEASE, PLEASE practice coming up with your own characters and drawings. I can tell from this flash that you're still wet behind the ears, just invest time in becoming better at drawing your own stuff. People aren't going to want to watch sprite movies on TV or in movie theaters. In the time it'll take you to master sprite animation, you could have come up with your own original material, you're creating the story yourself anyway, at least give it a try, don't take the easy way out. It's not worth it, I don't care how much people like Alvin Earthworm's stuff on here, you'll never see it anywhere else but the net.

eternalclash responds:

Im sorry. It was me first time using that program but im really rusty. thanks for the tips, but for now i think i'll stick with sprites...