Anonymous-Frog's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[CARDBOARD DOOM]

== Cardboard's easy to rip and tear ==
Score: 7 | Informative Review

Some things to note:

1. This video blends live action with 'gameplay' consisting of actual cardboard cutout drawn to resemble the graphics of Doom.
Enemies and weapons are either puppeteered by hand or moved digitally. The latter are sometimes animated using different sprites (such as the lost souls). A considerable amount of effort has been made to craft this video, even though a good amount of NG users (myself included) may prefer traditional animation or even stop-motion.

2. This video was released on YouTube on Sep 6, 2018 and has 10K views as of today.
This is the 15th video to be brought over to Newgrounds over a 2 week span by an already established creator (12k+ subscribers).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8RGaKyaJPc
The creator has since made other cardboard Doom videos, with one in 2020 covering the PC version (and also using 3D sets rather than 2D backgrounds), and a 2021 video about Doom 2 with John Romero himself cameoing as a severed head.

3. The video was initially published without a title as "untitled #1936309". I recommend putting the title in before hitting "Publish".

4. The actual SNES version of Doom was released in 1995 and lacks textures on the floors and ceilings, but it's acknowledged that these are ignored.

5. The video's tagged with 'doom', 'doom-2', 'doom-3', and 'doom-eternal' even though the video only covers the original Doom.

GAMESMADEOFCARDBOARD responds:

Thanks for covering all this!!

[gorbido vs woke mob]

== this short enough?? ==
Score: 8 | Short Review

judging from first-hand experience, this looks very tame.

animation: 7 | audio: 8 | cringe: 8 | humor (in general): 7 | humor (ironic): 10

migmoog responds:

Sorry anonymous frog we had too many pronouns and were pandering and virtue signalling

[Hello Hagrid!]

== This ain't Shorts ==
Score: 5 = Critic Review

This 8 second has some fairly decent animation. It's in colour, it has some interesting background work, it's mildly amusing seeing Hagrid sent flying by Harry's spells, but that's about it.

Big elephant in the room: Quantity over quality. You've already posted 5-6 cartoons under 30 seconds (sometimes under 15 seconds) in the past 2 months. Pace yourself. It's not uncommon for a NG creator to go months without a single upload

Graphics: 8 | Sound: 6 | Length: 3 | Spam Threshold: 2 | Style: 9 | Humor: 5

Gray responds:

Just looked at this again. Ye. Honestly you have a point. I do need to pace myself tbf

[Slap animation.]

Can't find an icon? Use a screenshot from the animation itself!

GachaD responds:

Okay, that's actually a good idea. How come didn't I think of it?!

[Castle Crashers OVA-The Necromancer's Revenge-{VHSAnime}-(sub)]

== Impressive work, but still overall unpolished ==
Score: 9 | Critic Review

This is a 12-minute-long Castle Crashers video in the style of an old anime VHS. It stars 9 of the many playable knights as the protagonists and the Necromancer as the sole antagonist.
The voices are all in Japanese, but English subtitles are provided. Some of the music in this animation comes from the original game, but it also uses music from other anime shows, which might be very iffy copyright-wise.

The fact that you animated an entire 12-minute story in only 2 weeks would've been impressive by itself, however, I can tell that it would've been very quick to animate.

1. Lip-syncing is rarely used. Anime tends to use fewer mouth frames compared to western animation. Sort of justified as the knights all wear helmets covering their faces.

2. Backgrounds are very simple. Even the stars in the 'flying circle' scene (5:41) only cycle between 2-3 frames and looks extremely unpolished.

3. The characters have simplistic proportions and lack shading, which would cut down on animation time by an astronomical amount. They also use very few keyframes (for example, a lot of non-action scenes use only 1 keyframe and only animate the eyes)

Graphics: 7 | Sound: 9 | Cliche Anime Tropes: 8 | Length: 10 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

KokoroHatsaru responds:

I will keep it in mind, tnx for da advice fren, also, im glad u liked it ^^

[Puru Puru Puruaether]

== Get your baseball bats ready! cuz you're goin' to Horny Jail ==

Score: 6 | Critic Review

I'm surprised there weren't any other reviews until 30 minutes before I submitted mine, despite being out for well over a day, and amassing a total of 1.3K views and 167 votes.

Let's analyze what's going on here. We have a nice hot blue-haired anime chick in some sort of maid outfit holding some dish, next to an ass shot (same animation) exposing her panties. The final 4 seconds instead has another girl dress her up in a pink dress to take photos and is less horny and more fast-paced and meme-ish, if I have to describe it.

She almost looks like cel-shaded 3D, but what I think is being done is some slightly convincing 2D rigging. The way that the folds of that skirt distorts as it accelerates upwards away from the ass is a dead giveaway.

Either way, still a great gift to give to the guy who has R34'd everything. I'm sure he'll appreciate it!

Graphics: 8 | Sound: 9 | Length: 3 | Horny bait: 7 | Style: 9 | Humor: 7

RE: That’s an irrelevant question.

lewdishsnail responds:

Do you have autism?

RE: Thank you for not taking the joke badly. I also just don't like these kinds of reviews because I'm not a fan of the "horny jail" jokes. It's just annoying. I am welcome to actual critiques, I'll just ignore the intro.

[JUMALAUTA]

== SOMEONE SET US UP THE DRINK AND DRIVE ==
Score: 9 | Critic Review.

This is an incredibly surreal cartoon with a kickass soundtrack and the perfect mix of gore, trippiness, and eyeballs, ie. not to everyone's tastes, but if you're into this sort of shit, you're in luck! A ton of work has definitely went into drawing all that.

Although there was some looping, and the movement doesn't really seem to follow any specific set of rules (though that could be its own thing), there were a lot of scenes that use movements animated on ones via frame by frame. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

- Whenever Rape moves, he always exaggerates in a different way, such as behaving like slime as he slides out his car or into the alcohol store, his face coming on when inside said store, and his leg wiggles when he steps on a cat and his face exits his skull to look at the bus timetable

- 0:33: The smoke that comes out of Rape's car and the tires on the subsequent scene
- 0:41: His hand as the beer bottle rotates, and the froth that comes out when he slices it open with a knife.
- 1:07: The blood coming out of granny's head as she hits a rock, although her brain is surprisingly smooth.
- 1:53: The bus 'walking' with its wheels, though that could be clipped by 2 seconds.

Some things to mind is that there's a few bits of text that aren't in English, though captions are provided and there's no 'voiced' dialogue. Also 'Rape' isn't exactly the most common or acceptable names out there.
Either way, incredible job!

Graphics: 10 | Sound: 10 | Seriousness: 3 | Violence: 10 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

Catoblepas responds:

Thanks for the thorough review. Yeah I like to over-animate the little details sometimes.

[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