Anonymous-Frog's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[EOFS - To Use Glasses is a Patience Sign (Unie cover)]

I wouldn't call it a cover

That term more so applies to music than animation. This is actually a 'remake' of Unie's video, with new 'animation', a masculine sounding voice dub, and English subtitles, but otherwise follows the same structure, except this is a little bit shorter.

There's minimal animation and only character torsos are drawn. It's obvious that Unie did it better. This feels more stiff and obviously rushed. Watch that version instead.
There's also no lip-syncing, but Unie's doesn't have that either.

One thing this version has that Unie's doesn't is an image of a girl with a hook shaking up and down with the caption 'Amputee Fuck'

In addition, I feel using 'Enchanted Ones' in the title rather than the 'EOFS' acronym' is a whole lot more descriptive for someone who hasn't clicked on the video yet, who would've otherwise had even less of an idea on what they're getting into.

Graphics: 5 | Style: 6 | Sound: 7 | Accuracy: 8 | Time Spent on Animation: 3

Overall Score: 6

TheMiamiDeSantos responds:

Thanks for the review! I'm calling it cover because I love music (specially metal music), this one i did like when Gut covered Blasphemy - Atomic Nuclear Desolation. It's a little shorter because I didn't make the part where she says things like "sub to my channel, my instagram and lalalalalalalala took some time to release new animation because of lalalalalalalalala", and yes it was rushed, because i did speedrun it (there is at least 2 errors on the animation). Also, my dub on this one was sick, i sounded like Alice Cooper

[Pokemon: World of Chaos 14]

A week already?

I'm not going to comment on the story + writing of this episode. That's not within my expertise. The story, writing, and voices are things I feel don't need any changes or improvement. The plot here is that a Pokemon has poisoned the main water supply and it's up to Teejay to resolve the issue

However, most of the technical issues that I pointed out in the previous episode, notably the blurry backgrounds (this wasn't an issue in older versions that had SWF versions.), inconsistencies with assets from multiple Pokémon generations, and battles that blend Gen 7-8 with the Gen 4-ish style used (they're very slow-paced and also try to imitate the original games way too hard, which can compromise the viewer's experience). However there's only two padded-for-time battles as opposed to three in the previous episode.

Being released so close to episode 13, I'm guessing this was already in production before I wrote my review, but if you're using sprites, especially if you're going for the Gen 4 style, stick to sprites.

In addition, maybe you should consider exporting to 1080p, but please do fix the blurring issue. If you're still using Flash / Animate, there may be some settings you can toggle.

Graphics: 3 | Style: 5 | Sound: 9 | Writing: 9
Overall Score: 6

teejay-number13 responds:

I'll go over the stuff this time. About the backgrounds, I do agree sometimes they're blurry. This is sometimes my fault, but there are other reason too. Since I use ripped assets I find online, sometimes I'm at the mercy of whatever quality I can find, so as long as its not too horrible, I'm okay with it. Sometimes the backgrounds cause lag with the video conversion, so I reduce their quality to fix that. (I'm working on learning better ways around that.)
About the battles, they're not "padded for time". In fact, I noticed the battles in older eps dragged on so I added jump cuts in the newer eps during the battle to quicken their pace. I can't cut them out completely, that wouldn't make any sense. Not too mention, they are fun for me to make.
About blending the different gen styles, thats just a small price to pay to get access to using more assets. For example, if I only used gen 5 animations, I would lose hundreds of possible pokemon I could use.
Anyway, I have adopted a sort of "assembly line" method of making the episodes now. This is too keep me from getting bogged down and losing my motivation. Not to mention the production has run over 10 years now, and I'm ready to finish it. So I think I will keep this style up for the rest of the series, even if quality takes a slight hit.

[Elmo & Kermit Start a Podcast]

No animation.

It's a pretty entertaining podcast, or rather it's interesting to see them talk about US presidents' middle names, reusing the characters' iconic quotes in the different context.
Also the 'I'm 42' is pretty much historically accurate. The Elmo muppet was introduced to Sesame Street in 1980, but wasn't fleshed out as much until 1984 and didn't gain popularity until the 90s. This video was released in 2022, so you do the math.

However, actual puppets were used with barely any animation, with one being the letter F and the letter U at the very end.

Graphics: 2 | Style: 5 | Sound: 9 | Writing: 9 | Entertainment: 6 | Humor: 8
Overall Score: 5

[Loop animation, Cheemy. Support my art on patreon.]

There's three titles. You know there's a description. When you submit an animation, there's a "Short Description" and "Author Comments". "Author Comments" is your description, where you can put text (which includes bold and italics), images, and of course links, where you could link your Patreon and also the source for the music you used.

As for the loop, it's a bit choppy, but otherwise it's alright. It uses frame by frame, but the same loop is sped up to do running. Doing a 1 second loop is a whole lot quicker than doing even a 30 second animated short with writing, voice acting, etc, of the same quality. And to save even more time, there's very minimal shading and a patterned background.

Also a bit of irony, hypocrisy, or whatever people want to interpret this as. This animation uses the Cheemy / Bonk / Go to Horny Jail meme, yet you also post NSFW stuff.

[iHATEegg episode1]

I Have Mixed Feelings About Egg!

It's a great subversion to the cutesy family friendly I Love Egg series, complete with gory bloody violence!
The whole premise is there's this grey, evil egg that ends up murdering the rest of the eggs.
However, I will note that the framerate was lower than the original.

Graphics: 8 | Style: 10 |Sound: 6 | Entertainment: 9
Overall Score:

[Ollie & Scoops: Vinnie Video - Cleanup]

Just watch the episode!

This is a compilation of the cleanup shots you did of a 12 minute long Ollie and Scoops episode. Although your work on the show is great, given that it has a huge team of animators and artists and so and so, I really don't recommend posting incomplete packages or demo stuff like this to Newgrounds.

Also I don't know why you aren't coauthored on the episode itself.

EDIT: Newgrounds is more for completed/finished submissions that can stand out on their own.
I've seen some people submit clips from collabs they've worked on, which is fine, but they're all broken up into different segments where one person completes each part from start to finish, backgrounds, characters, and all. They may use external audio, but I won't touch on this, but each part could stand out on its own.

For example, the Half Life Collab from early 2021. Each bit could stand out on its own as a separate submission. This is actually a better example, as each part have a decent run-time and have their own audio + writing. Other collabs may only last for 5-10 seconds and are derived from existing audio, usually the source material if it's a 'reanimated' collab
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/779802

Here, the process is completely different. Many different people work on many different bits at a time, with 11 other cleanup artists, which is pretty much drawing over someone else's rough animation to use in the final product, so I'd hardly call this a finished work.

It's not disallowed, although I would rather you submit your own stuff.

Graphics: 10 | Style: N/A | Sound: N/A | Writing: N/A | Entertainment: N/A | Humor: N/A
Overall Score: 5

MimiScappini responds:

I thought Newgrounds was a place where people can share their work as long as it is animation related.

And, unless someone from the Newgrounds staff itself tells me to stop, I will keep posting my cleanup-freelance work here.

[The Mandela Magazine]

SPOOPY!

This is a parody of 'Mandela Catalogue', specifically volume 1 of an ongoing series,
running at over 7 minutes in length, and subverted for humorous effect (The original is 15 minutes), complete with the big ol' screams you all know Pelo for, of which millions of people across the world will find hilarious.
These screams can be difficult to recreate due to it involving screaming so loud that it hurts. He explains it on his interview with the Newgrounds Podcast. (at 25 minutes in)
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1005176

With some animated bits in between, the first four minutes involve a dialogue between two people, depicted as two images with captions above them. These bits have barely any animation, and although this was based on an audio conversation from the original Mandela Catalogue, it takes up half the movie, about 4 minutes, and then the real fun begins. But that still means a significant amount of effort was put into the movie overall.

There's a guy blowing in the camera at 5:20 and also in 6:20 and also in the outro, a nice recurring little gag and the one gag I remember best out of the whole lot.

Audio's also of high quality throughout the entire video, especially the screams.
~frog~

Graphics: 6 | Style: 10 | Writing: 9 | Sound: 10 | Humor: 8
Overall Score: 8

[Pokemon: World of Chaos 13]

FILLER!

Some of the sprite work, especially backgrounds look blurry and contrast from the sprites, notably the cave where Gym Leader Ryu is fought. Not even Dorkly makes that mistake.

The battles use the Gen 6-7 (and some Gen 8) 3D Pokemon models, pixelated and bilinear filtered, while the UI just looks plain, which contrasts from the Gen 3 style used in the rest of the movie.
In addition, most Trainer battles themselves don't add much to the plot / story or add any humor, such as the battle with Ryu, which goes on for 2 and a half minutes without at least a single dialogue in between (aside from the start and end).
Same deal with Propel, which lasts 2 minutes as well.

There's also two Rocket Grunt battles, though it looks like it's shortened, it still feels too long.
it's best to just skip parts of these battles just to see the outcome and move along.

Overall, it's a total mishmash of styles that don't really blend well, even for sprite movie standards. I'm not asking for something on the same level as Super Mario Bros Z, but at least keep things clean, consistent and keep the viewer engaged.
Aside from that, 20 minutes is impressive for an individual animator, even for a sprite movie, and you've got a good team of voice actors. Just needs ironing out

Graphics: 3 | Style: 5 | Sound: 9 | Writing: 9
Overall Score: 6

teejay-number13 responds:

Thanks for the feedback.

[Scooby Roo & the Ham Sandwich]

I'll write a new review if you post a new cartoon.

The formula is exactly the same, and like I said in 'Scooby Roo', it's been done a dozen times already with little variation. It's gotten stale and easily predictable.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/847803

Here's how you spice things up. Instead of doing ten 20-second Scooby Doo parodies, you do 1 parody that imitates a full Scooby Doo episode with your kangaroo counterpart in place.
That is the following:

1. Mystery Inc drives to a specific location
2. Bad guy shows up
3. Chaos ensues
4. The gang try to stop the threat
5. They set up traps
6. Bad guy falls into trap after some climax
7. Bad guy is unmasked
8. The end

Maybe if you followed through all the way with, this then you can do something creative with the concept. It doesn't have to be super long, around 2-3 minutes will do. You could probably reuse one of the older Scooby Roos and shove that in if it works.

Animation: 9 | Style: 4 | Humor: 6 | Writing: 5
Overall Score: 6.