Twisted4000's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Not so Happy Ending]

I thought the animation was pretty unique and it looks like a decent amount of time went into it, it beats motion tweens any day. Also I like how this video isn't a parody, which is a bonus to me.

But I didn't find it really super laugh-out-loud funny to be honest. The humor was very drawn-out. Voice acting was pretty good, but the lack of background noises or music or really any atmosphere sorta killed it for me... FightingSeraph pretty much hit the nail on the head with his review, I have to agree with a lot of stuff he said. Had some potential but not the greatest execution in the world.

Overall I liked the visuals, the line-work was pretty unique, and the colors were nice and vibrant. Lots of pictures I see. But some of the motions don't really look right, I dunno, the characters sorta get deformed and it transforms into a bit of a mess.

But yeah it had potential, and I thought it was unique, but I didn't think it was really anything super satisfactory.

Jae responds:

Thanks?

[Skyrim : Dovahbear]

Your animation is just amazing. You understand how physics works, it's very fluent. I'm a huge fan of how you did the colors, it's all in more of a duller-shade, but it all adds to the Skyrim-sorta style, since it mostly consists of wintery valleys, lots of grey. You also shaded and shined in all of the objects and characters, which can be a tedious job, but you did it, and did it well.

Your drawings are great, it has somewhat of a sketchy style, which is just awesome to look at. This thing kept making me laugh so hard, that bear just riding on the horse... I don't know what it was, but it worked. All that serious, epic music behind it all just topped it off.

I KNEW one day we would see the bear's adventure continue. Awesome job. You're a pro.

Bowz responds:

Thank you sir, your too kind. And shading everything is part of the reason this took longer than usual to make. I started this cartoon with the intent of keeping it simple. Things always get out of hand :D

[Side of Minecraft 3]

I kinda liked the drawings, colors were nice and flourescent. Script was good, but voice acting was kinda sub-part to my tastes, as well with the overall audio. There were very little amounts of sound effects and ambient noises, it seemed so lifeless. It also failed to make me laugh, generally.

However, some parts of the animation were pretty smooth, and they went a lot of places and it had a decent running-time. Not the worst ever, but I don't think it's anything really amazing either.

[Dinosaur Animation]

There were some things I liked and some things I didn't. I didn't feel to strongly about this cartoon negatively or positively, I think it was just okay.

For one thing, the visuals. Overall they are well-done, simplistic and clean. Very basic, but I see that is the style you are going for. It looks good in itself. I kinda like the color scheme, everything's in sort of a duller shade. As far as animation and coloring goes, it looks like you understand what you're doing.

Script is good, I like the screenplay and dialogue you have here, but a lot of the time I kinda found it tedious and slow-moving. Also, the actual concept and plot I didn't particularly like, I mean he's annoying the other dinosaur, but nothing really adds up to anything, he gets annoyed, and then they both just sorta die... I dunno, didn't do it for me. But I like how it has a decent running-time, it's not overly short, or TOO long. Though I kinda thought it was just a little tedious is all.

Voice acting is great, I loved it. Especially the t-rex.

Overall, it looks like you know what you're doing when it comes to making a cartoon, with the script, getting good-quality audio, and being able to handle the style of art and animation you are attempting to accomplish, though that quality may be a little sub-par, to me, anyway. It wasn't my favorite but I in no way hated it. I'd like to see more from you, I'll just leave it at that, pretty nice job.

[Beaches and Shores]

Oh wow I LOVE this animation style so much. It's not that sorta buttery-smooth thing, but it has that film-type frame-rate that I am a HUGE fan of. It was extremely artistic and stylistic to me, considering the part when you can tell she yelled but it has no sound effect for it, however the audio for other things is present. I liked it a ton, it just added to the mood. The artwork itself along with the animation was extremely nice, it wasn't the cleanest and smoothest but it was just well-drawn, it just somehow showed that you are a fantastic artist.

I kinda wish it lasted longer, I thought it would sorta be one of those longer, battle-type videos, but I thought it was still funny at that abrupt ending, lol. Excellent work overall.

[Swelter]

Pretty incredible. The color scheme was just stunning, animation was fluent, patterns and texturing were very neat, awesome effects as well. Audio was very high-quality.

Amazing job.

[Days Of Yore 2]

There was just something I really loved about this.

Art and animation were both very simple, but the colors were REALLY nice and popped out, animation had a very nice fluent effect and it had this sort of rhythm and pace that was kinda hard to describe... but I loved it. It never got boring, everything's constantly moving, it just kept me interested. You seem to understand motion and the way physics works, but you over-exaggerate it without making it just go off and stop making sense, it's just fun to watch. THIS THING IS ACTUALLY PLEASANT TO LOOK AT. All the cartoony sound effects you put in it matched so well.

Voice-acting was great, very over-the-top and just well-done. Mic quality could've been better, I mean if anything, but other than that I really enjoyed it.

This whole thing is basically just a good, well-paced and well-thought-out cartoon that is fun to watch and not just an ugly, failed attempt at copying someone else's style. You actually have your OWN style of drawing and animating, and I think it is great. One of the few videos on here that I actually want to watch more than once.

Well-done, I want to see more.

molkman responds:

Thanks alot, dog.

[Opium Cop]

Your line-work, shading, and overall animation is very clean and well-crafted, which is what I love about all your stuff, but this one in particular wasn't really funny to me, and like what nikkz said, nothing really built up to anything. I also have to say it was pretty vague as well. Will always look forward to your future videos, but this one was kinda just a speed-bump in the road to me.

[The Hungah Gayums]

Well some parts were animated decently, but most of the time, I dunno, the physics were just off. I mean yeah it doesn't need to be 100% realistic, that's fine, but it just wasn't pleasing to look at. The motions, especially the close-ups of their faces moving around... the force behind the movements just didn't add up with them. It was very disrupting to the animation flow.

The colors had very little harmony, but I can see you were going for that sort of limited-spectrum look, which is cool-looking IF it is done right. I can't begin to explain how many people go for that coloring style and just fail at it (it's what most people call the "Egoraptor Style", but I don't choose to call it that because he wasn't really the one who like INVENTED it or anything, he just happens to use it). When it showed that old guy it looked okay on his face, the shade of pink you used worked decently with the color of his skin, but other characters just looked wrong. Like they had this brown-pink color with a brown purple to shade it, and both colors were on the same general brightness level. Shading needs to be DARKER than the original color, not just a different color. At one time the shading was actually BRIGHTER, it was just wrong to me.

At some parts I see there were lots of details and wrinkles in the faces, which, again, is funny if it's done correctly. But most of the time it just looked like a bunch of random thin lines with no real set facial pattern. Again, this is another issue I see a lot of people have in their animations.

In conclusion for the visuals, they were okay, I mean they weren't super BASIC, I'll give you that, but it kinda just seems like you can't yet handle the style you're attempting to jump after. Do something that is in your grasp and that you are knowledgeable of. It's almost like trying to cook some fancy dish, but you haven't yet perfected how to actually make it, but you make it anyway, then you end up with something... kinda like it, but tastes half as good? I would rather have a more SIMPLE meal that at least TASTES good and like it's supposed to because it was prepared correctly. I dunno, that's sort of just an analogy that popped into my head, hope you understand.

As far as humor and writing, it didn't even really make me chuckle. Too many memes, very forced.

If you really want to animate in that style, please at least PRACTICE before hopping right on it and ATTEMPTING to do it. I hope this is helpful.

ZenithQuinn responds:

It's no masterpiece! :) I could have put more time into the art, but I just wanted to get rid of it and start something new.

[Dunsparce]

I wanna make a little snarky, witty joke so I can get marked as helpful!!!!!!!

But seriously, really nice animation, it's very fluent and there's a soft ease effect after movements, which is very pleasing to look at. Your voice is very sexy as well omg