Anonymous-Frog's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[happy birthday johnny utah]

Fuck you too.

In all seriousness, that bit was to me, the funniest part of the animation. Nice little nod to when I criticised the previous 'Rigno Star Productions' video for being very rushed and unfunny compared to previous submissions. Shame I can't say the same thing for this video, the cycle's just gonna continue.

Wandaboy responds:

junya watanabe on my wri

[AI RENEGADE]

EXCELLENT (4.5 / 5)

POSITIVES:
- Great animation + pacing
- Amazing use of music + sound effects to set the mood.
- Well-written and choreographed.

NEGATIVES:
- The lack of a human voice actor might be the only negative thing about this movie, but text to speech works very well for the robotic Nerions.

INFO:
- The obvious candiate for winning the Animation War, if not guaranteed to enter the Top 10.

[Pokémon Animated Short : Gym Leader Bea's Routine]

Again, like in your Skyla video, the lack of sound is the biggest thing weighing you down. In your response to my last review, you said it's due to you having 2 jobs and not having the time and money to study sound design or buy expensive sound programs. For that, I have some solutions you should consider:

1: Try Audacity. It's a free sound editing program.
2: Download some royalty-free sound effects. They should be everywhere, including YouTubs itself. Some are free, some require attribution, but it shouldn't be that difficult to acquire.
3: For adding music, which may ot may not be too important, but maybe consider getting something from the Newgrounds Audio Portal if you can. A good amount of music there is free for you to use, just give credit.
4: Open up a Patreon and let your fans show some support? That way your fans can give you enough money for you to quit one of your jobs, if not help you cover some expenses so you aren't too dependent on YouTube ad revenue, which isn't really the best because YouTube is not a good platform.

As for the animation itself, carry on with the good work. At this point I'd still recommend this to the deaf!
~frog~

[The Sheriff Bean Kickstarter FAIL video!]

GOOD (3.5 / 5)
Ah dang, the Kickstarter failed, that sucks. I don't know if there were any intentions for the Kickstarter to succeed. I don't think you COULD raise $77,777 with an audience of your size, nor that you'd need the Kickstarter because you already created 25% of what you set out to make during the funding period.

POSITIVES:
- You've already released six Sheriff Bean videos without the funding. They may be short, but they're still provide enough backstory. I cannot believe that you already had approx: $20,000 set aside just to make those.

NEGATIVES:
- The Kickstarter failed.
- Not taking Kickstarter seriously enough. Even the FNF Full Ass Game had very good reasons for making the Kickstarter. "Rattlesnakes, toxic sludge, booze induced violence, and dysentery" may be risks and challenges for a real cowboy, but not to animators sitting at home drawing beans go shoot shoot haha.

INFO:
- Actual amount raised: $2,134 from 16 backers

~frog~

[Swivel]

Turn it up. TURN IT UP!

[Grenade]

Could really use a link to the original comic on your website.

[Lego Santa Assaults a Couple in their Home]

The animation and production quality is great in terms of stop-motion, as expected when you've been doing it for 15 years. If only you had posted here back in 2007, you could've given Knox a run for his money.

[The drive thru]

GOOD (3.5 / 5)

POSITIVES:
- Animation was good, if not very quickly made from all the simplicity.
- True to the source material.

NEGATIVES:
- Original clip source was originally not found in the description, but since been added because of this review

INFO:
- Sourced from a Jschlatt video instead of the usual OneyPlays.
- Any humor made in this video is dependent on how funny the original clip was, which means your mileage may vary. It may be less funny for someone who had never watched Schlatt before, compared to someone who was watching him at least once every week for the past six weeks, or have watched the clip before.
- He swears a lot here (several uses of the F word at the end + references to fellatio near the beginning)
~frog~

[Close Encounters of the 2D Kind]

NOT MUCH (2.5 / 5)

NEGATIVES:
- Read the description: The author is doing the job for me.

POSITIVES:
- The 3D models look OK
- Pretty creative. Seeing 3D Nerions up against 2d trees and Rodites would otherwise be off-putting if not for the fact that this was part of the joke.

INFO:
- In black and white
- 48 seconds
- 4:3 aspect ratio
~frog~

[Entertainment is what I seek...]

MEDIOCRE (2 / 5)

NEGATIVES:
- Extremely rough + rushed animation without colour.
- Very few sounds, aside from Chronos's (the man in the top hat) voice. All dialogue aside from him come from text
- Basic ovals and rectangles that makes 1 week look like 1 day.
- No music.

POSITIVES:
- Chronos is drawn a little better than everyone else, although he still seems a little off.
- Has the potential to be a good story if the above negatives were fixed.

INFO:
- 2 minutes long
- No colour, only black and white / couldn't be bothered to use the fill tool

ChronosTimeOverlord responds:

Nearly 7 moths have gone by, but that does not matter. It wasn't made in a week as far as I remember. I storyboarded it for 5-6 days and then made in 1.5 days straight without sleep, so I definitely wasn't thinking straight when animating, but that's kind of an excuse. Happy to infrom that I now animate much better and faster :)