Anonymous-Frog's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Easter]

Music pans from right ear to left. Keep it consistent or it's going to get annoying.

DuendeInexistente responds:

Ah! I didn't think sound would do that with a source set to infinite range. Lesson for the next one, then.

[EOFS - Beach City (Promo)]

I can see a lot of corners were cut in order to achieve even 50 minutes of animation. Characters are usually only shown from the waist up, barely move aside from their eyes and mouth. They're also never use any additional poses. This results in you being able to push this out quicker, but it comes at the cost of quality. About 60-70% of this animation is just talking heads and the rest still don't even animate that well, such as in 16:57, to give an example. Look at how the protagonist jumps. Does it look very janky to you?

I can't comment much on the writing + dialogue, since it's in Portuguese, but thankfully there's subtitles.

SUGGESTIONS:
- 10 minutes is more time than you'll ever need here, so aim for that.
- Try to actually make your characters move.
- Don't reuse the same pose in 20 different scenes.
- I've also noticed an inconsistent outline thickness. If I had to guess it's because the smoothness is set too high. Set it to 40-45

~frog~

TheMiamiDeSantos responds:

thanks homie, really appreciate it

[The Legend of Amber Turd]

You know what's weird, Johnny and Amber both don't lip-sync, but the judge does.
Is this intentional or just inconsistent?

PeePopStudios responds:

It's intentional. They're listening to one of their crazy recorded fights.
I tried to make it more obvious with the subtitles and messing with the audio to sound like it was on the telephone 🤷‍♂️

[Blue Devil // la fiesta]

You know this cartoon is very similar to Killer Bean. Maybe a bit too similar.

Damiazul responds:

Si, de hecho es una copia jaja

[Kero Kero Groove - License to DIE!]

There has been some improvements between this and the last Kero Kero Groove. The girl's voice is still a little annoying, and doesn't match the original, but at least it doesn't sound 'spliced'.

I also saw the version with commercials, which was over 2 minutes longer, and the rest of the animation is 3 minutes, I can see why they were cut, but maybe you could've spared room for just two and it wouldn't cause any pacing issues.

SUGGESTED IDEAS:
Hire @vurb for future episodes. (for music)

~frog~

tofokyo responds:

haha, i'm sorry that you found the girl's voice annoying, the last time I gave her one it was just tts (⌒_⌒;) I don't plan on hiring anyone to help, as I'd much rather just keep to my vision, but I appreciate the suggestion!

[Madness Day 2008]

Last edited October 24th 2022.

This is a collab with 11 parts to it and seven coauthors, (including Bug, who's deleted, and Spinister, who is an alt of Sinitron).

Each part are represented by objects you click on, which thankfully the menu insultingly tells you to. The head from the 'Madness Day 2008' preloader is modified to resemble some creepy pig-nosed man, while the menu music contains the intro of 'Sonne' by Rammstein instead saying "Hitler, Himmler, Auschwitz, etc."

Most of these parts are very low-quality, especially considering the authors' histories, (W-P-S and ZekeySpaceyLizard have plenty of talent, but have also gone down the shitpost route at times, while Sinitron also knows a thing or two about Flash, but primarily uses it to make spam.)

None of the parts are individually credited, so it's difficult to figure out which part specifically was made by which author.

Individual reviews of each part:

TOP LEFT HEAD: (most likely Zekey)
Twelve spinning heads set to creepy music. The heads are animated very well, but it's still practically a 1 second loop and unrelated to Madness

TOP RIGHT HEAD: A FMV zombie explodes to a grunt's gun. Everything is drawn very simplistic, yet still crudely.

BOTTOM LEFT HEAD: A ship lands on some guy and explodes. Predates the typical Flipaclip animation. The text at the start goes away too quickly.

BOTTOM RIGHT HEAD: (most likely W-P-S)
"Go ahead. Make my day" says a weird lobster thing in stop motion, reusing about 4 frames for lip syncing.

CENTER HEAD: (Sinitron)
Grunts from 'Madness' with blue skin and 'NGR' on their shirts get on trucks and walk around. They're animated very well for 2008 Flash animation. And the music used fits very well. Still a bit shit-posty, given that it's animated with motion tweens and that animation is copy pasted everywhere (and the truck isn't as good), but otherwise well made.
RE: Damn right!

BEETLE (possibly StagBeetle, with audio from W-P-S)
All the sound effects are done with the author's mouth, aside from that one from Law and Order. This is a poorly drawn representation of Madness, followed by a person calling Tom to put it on the front page, and ending with the message 'fuck krinkels'. I guess the voices are funny in an ironic way, and the message it's trying to say is that Madness is an overhyped piece of shit, but that's about it.

KNIFE: (FatBadger)
This is unrelated to Madness. Both FatBadger and a grunt are wearing gas masks, but it then switches to FatBadger dancing with three ladies.

TORSO: Turns out that cross on the Madness grunt's face is actually supposed to represent Christianity. He shoots another grunt with the Star of David on his face, representing Judaism. Linework's alright, but isn't really animated, more like switching between panels.

GUN (most likely likely Bug):
Grunt face morphs into Rayman, that's the joke! I counted 11 frames in that morph, which was drawn frame by frame on top of a blue-tinted upside down picture of a girl on a car.

RIGHT FOOT (Knife side) Two images, a skeleton and a pelican biting a cat. That is all this part is.

LEFT FOOT (Gun side) (most likely Zekey)
WARNING: Earrape. A bird screams loudly. The bird is animated decently, but does flash colors.

IN GENERAL: I personally enjoyed the 'center head' scene the most and found the 'beetle', 'knife', and 'torso' scenes to be funny, while I can appreciate the style of the 'top left head' scene. Since these are shitposts, and the overall collab appears to be negative in tone, I don't expect everyone to like every single part.

Spinister responds:

my anatomically correct truck is a fruiting masterpiece of its time, motherfruiter

[frog and the fly remasterd]

The one thing that probably needs the most improvement are the backgrounds, even though the character animations are fairly decent (if not a little rushed)
They don't seem to fit in with the rest of the animation.

casandrachen92 responds:

I'll think about changing the backgrounds to something a little appropriate

[Pallid Fingers]

NOTES:
1: The outro is not present in the video version, but still exists in the SWF. Add '/format/flash' to the URL to get access to it.
The reason why the outro's missing is this, and I quote:
'when they were automatically converted to video the credits got cut off for some reason'
Why they didn't re-convert it again to fix the missing outro is anyone's guess.

2: The screen glitches out four times, where multiple references can be found if you pause.

List of glitches (Frames 2808-2812)
New Red Robin Chipotle Madess promotion | A crude stickman appearing to shoot bullets.
A-ha | Green stickman behind red background

(3119-3122)
Piconjo <3s j00 | Black + white scribbles on red background | Red spiral | Blob sketch saying "hi."

(3724-3732)
Square character thing with eyes out (4 frames)
Grey dots + squiggles | Black squiggle | Vinyl record | SNOOP DOGG

Some more black + red scribbles on frames 3756-3757

(4509-4512)
Two creepy smiley faces | Eye scribble | The faces again, except the left is bigger
Dancing bananas (as seen in the Peanut Butter Jelly Time meme) with trails of red and circles above their heads (one has a square and one has a triangle instead. No Rtil didn't predict Squid Game)

RE: I downloaded the SWF and used Swivel to convert it to video, and I managed to keep the outro intact.

rtil responds:

RE: outro - A similar issue happened with the sequel. Probably has something to do with my bad actionscript.

Did not know about the URL trick. Thanks

[April tomfoolery]

You're about 3 days early.

Noobliss120 responds:

Yeah,accidentally uploaded

[Arsøn Ørphanage]

Sirtom93, this 'animation' is very jittery and low-effort and goes by seconds per frame.

Alanvsthewrld responds:

thats the point

what does sirtom93 have to do with this