Anonymous-Frog's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Powerpuff Girls (real)]

== CHEMICAL ==
Score: 8 | Critic Review

This is a very good addition to the Toonami Collab. The joke here is that rather than creating three Powerpuff Girls, Professor Utonium accidentally turns himself into a Powerpuff Boy.

It's supposed to mimic the style of the original PPG show, but it does end up looking very rough in a few spots, some of them intentional to give the line wiggle effect, and some where it's not needed (such as static backgrounds). This ends with some explosion + car crash + whatever stock footage used in a meme-ish way, which I have to reduce points for.

In addition, Corey did a good impression of the character and it's always nice to let someone else help you out with some VFX (I couldn't figure out which effects Extream ended up doing).

RE: RGP: If the Sydney Morning Herald already reported on it, then it ain't spoilers pal!
RE: Corey: No problem dude!
Graphics: 9 | Sound: 9 | Accuracy to Show: 9 | Colours: 10 | Style: 10 | Writing: 7

VoicesByCorey responds:

Appreciate the compliment AF!

[2 girls 1 tank]

== It's barely even August! ==
Score: 8 | Critic Review by Anonymous-Frog

It's not even Halloween yet. I guess Sr. Pelo's not the only one posting Halloween movies too late (or too early). I'm also surprised this wasn't a 2 Girls 1 Cup parody, despite the title.

This movie has fairly good visuals, although various assets are digitally altered rather than redrawn, ie. modifying its width, height, rotation, etc. This is a very decent way to avoid drawing too many frames, a trick I myself often use. Here, it's used alongside cel-shaded, realistically proportioned characters, but in some areas, they only use one frame for certain actions, for example, in 0:37 when the two girls run away from 'scary armor guy' (I'm not familiar with LoL enough to know this guy's name, and thus I can't comment on how accurate this is to the source material)

Only thing bugging me is that the girls keep moaning all the goddamn time, which may be annoying.

Graphics: 9 | Sound: 5 | Recycling: 7 | Boobs: 4 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 8

teemovsall responds:

boobs 4?? I'm sad now :(
The title is "2 girls 1 tank"! Because tthe armored guy is a Tank type, this is the joke :P
Thanks for your review

[I Wonder What's Happening on the Internet Today.]

== Gay?? ==
Score: 4 | Critic Review by Anonymous-Frog

This movie is incredibly low-effort, which usually isn't a big deal for your typical run-of-the-mill n00b, but not when you have 1.2K followers and 1.5 years of Flash experience under your belt. Professionals have standards.

To count, Gray only has 6 frames drawn TOTAL. 5 in the first scene (the last 2 of those are just mouth changes), and one frame from the side/behind. And he ain't even colored in or lip-synced! It's just 7 seconds! A 2 panel comic can achieve exactly the same effect without much compromise.

Quick tip: I personally recommend 30 second shorts MINIMUM (on Newgrounds). If the joke (ie. Gray = Gay) can't work in that time, try to integrate it into an overall bigger joke / story.

Graphics: 5 | Sound: 6 | Length: 2 | Homosexuality: 10 | Style: 7 | Humor: 5

Gray responds:

funniest shit lol. I agree with this whole thing

[A TRICKY ENCOUNTER]

== OMFG CLOWN!1! ==
Score: 9

The most recent incarnation of Tricky, or at least the most monstrous half at least, as seen in the recently released Madness Combat 9.5 Part 2. This one's sort of a precursor to the one in Madness 11 and still has a bit of flesh to him, whereas in 11 he's completely skeletal.
Here, we get to see the newest Tricky in 3D and in a FPS environment like Doom Eternal (and that's not because you have 'doom', 'doom2016' and 'doom-eternal' in the tags)

However, despite the 33 second runtime, I still feel this is more of a demonstration if anything. Hank (or I think that's Hank) walks through two rooms, gets attacked, then takes a stab at the demon.

There's no denying that this looks really great, especially when Krinkels himself called the model (which you posted to the Art Portal 2 weeks prior), "DOPE AF".

The only real negative I could find about this is that you kind of skimped on the blood. Rather than animate actual blobs of blood pouring out of the stab wound and utilizing some liquid physics, a looping texture animation made to resemble blood kind of magically fades into existence. (yes, blood in Madness does fade away sometimes, but this could've been blended a little more seamlessly and/or make some 'stains' around the wound)

Lights: 10 | Camera: 10 | Action: 8 | Graphics: 9 | Style: 10 | Sound: 10

jumpbreak96 responds:

Yes is just an overworked intro presentation for the model (wich is reference for the first demon scene in Doom 2016, where slayer walks in a corridor and finds the Imp for the first time in the new generation of doom games). also really lazied out the procedural blood, i just wanted the action to look good and the model to show off and that was kind of it

[1.Creative Eye and after New]

= A pool noodle's harder than this! =
Score: 0

It appears you have three versions, one uncoloured, one partially coloured in, and the final one being digitally coloured.

You call this hard work? I redrew the eye here in MS Paint (with reference) and I timed it. 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
https://imgur.com/a/DdU2MXc

As a piece of art, it could be better, although it is very very VERY simple and easy to do, but as a 'movie' on the 'Movie Portal', this is beyond shit.

~frog~
Graphics: 2 | Sound: 6 | Qualifies as video: 0

HydeMadArtist responds:

For your information, if you notice at all I’m trying to improve presenting my work and doing it step-by-step I’ve been re-taking pictures of my oldest work and putting them in a good angle to present them better than the original pictures that were in a bad angle

[Cloud's Question]

== Overrated! ==
Overall Score: 6

Main points
> This is 15 seconds long
> No background, only white void.
> Flash version does not contain a preloader or the 'Newgrounds.com' intro. It also loops repeatedly.

If you wanted to find out what Egoraptor (circa 2008) fused with Doobus Goobus (circa 2021) looks like, you found the right movie. Otherwise there's very little variety in this movie and I don't see why this would need 4 stars out of 5.
~frog~

Graphics: 7 | Sound: 6 | (Natural speaking voice) |
Interactivity: 1 out of a possible 2
Style: 6 (Copies Egoraptor, which isn't really that hard to do)
Length: 3 (14-18 seconds) | Ego: 10 (Your name is tagged a total of 4 times, you're trying to make yourself look bigger than you really are)
Humor: 6 (Easily predictable, which you usually claim is due to targeting a younger audience, but older viewers like me might not see the appeal. It is possible to make something that appeals to all ages, try to aim for that.)

RE: I'm rating this on interactivity because there is a Flash version here, but it lacks the Newgrounds.com intro and watermark from the video version and there's absolutely no Actionscript visible, no preloader, no end, it just loops back to the beginning, ie. the bare minimum for a Flash movie.

Postboy also asked me why I rated his movie on 'Interactivity', of which I was trying to emulate the format of a review from 2005.
Example: https://imgur.com/a/sOFFMiF

When I reviewed his movie, I played all the categories straight, but over time I replaced them with more custom categories / subversions depending on the movie.

Gray responds:

why are you rating this on interactivity lmfao. I agree with some of ur critiques, but also, i'm still finding my voice when it comes to this stuff. I'll find it soon enough. thanks for the review.

[STEPFORD DANCE!]

== What's the music? ==
Overall Score: 5
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It's a pretty neat dance. That is, the three characters are barely drawn and barely tweened.
Stepford's dance is just one drawing, up, down, mirror, up, down, mirror. 4 positions, same drawing
The other two characters below also have two frames to sing the lyrics, one with mouth open, and one without. It's not even properly lip-synced, they're movie clips that switch every frame at points and it can just be turned on and off when needed.
You might want to learn how to shade. Gradients don't count, it's cheap and lazy and it's the reason why older Flashes don't age well. Who knows? Maybe that's on purpose.

Tom Fulp's mouth animates like a Canadian from South Park and moves at different points.

I'd imagine the Flash timeline in this would be very barebones with very few layers and keyframes and even fewer tweens, ie. low effort

I also want to ask two questions. 1. What's the music in this? and 2. Do you have permission to use it?

Graphics: 6 | Sound: 8 | Style: 5 | Humor: 7

NevaZ0r responds:

Thank you for your deep analysis of this crude flash animation mr.AnonFrog, the song is called www.blonde girl by momo. The gradient is on purpose:3

[eggs!!!]

== This is cringe! ==

UPDATE: Yes this is a remake, but it's still cringe.

It almost looks like you remade an older animation, and also switched software, but even then there's minimal improvement

BAD QUALITIES / THINGS TO FIX
- The same egg on eye then on cube animation is repeated several times for a minute
- That weird laser thing she shoots out with her hands looks like crap.
- Outlines are very messy. I can excuse the right eye over her hair as a stylistic choice, but there are spots where outlines bleed through other outlines. In addition the cube also has rough corners.
- No background
- Bland + forgettable character design
- Motions are very stiff and non-expressive
- Typos, notably 'perpouse' instead of 'purpose'

GOOD QUALITIES
+ Intro was pretty nice, but could use thinner or no outlines and further refinements.

Graphics: 3 | Style: 2 | Cringe: 10 | Improvement: 4 | Sound: 5 | Entertainment: 2
Overall Score: 4

RosieUV responds:

This was a remake of an animation I made back when I was 12 so I was trying to replicate original in my current style

[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.